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Search for culture gabfests 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.400 wherever you get your podcasts worrying. This podcast contains spoilers 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.680 for the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise in the MCU, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:55.640 including volumes one, two, add three. Hello, my name is 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.720 Jasonconcepcion and I'm Meersday Night, and welcome to x ray 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.120 Vision in the Crooked Media podcast where we dive deep. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.160 It's your favorite shows, movies, comics, and pop culture. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.480 On this week's episode, we're going into space. It's Guardians 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.760 of the Galaxy, Baby im previously on, we're gonna be 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.080 recapping and reflecting on the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.280 thus far and getting you up to speed on where 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.959 all your favorite characters are in the airlock. We're gonna 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.280 be talking Guardians of the Galaxy volume three, So if 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.360 you haven't seen it spoiler alah, go and see it 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.600 and then listen to this episode and in nerd out 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.840 there's gonna be a relevantly spacey theory about Star Wars 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.000 from listener Tony I love. 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:42.480 It coming up previously on. First up in the previously on, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.800 we will be looking back at the first two installments 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.400 in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and the MCU 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.920 to get you up to speed for Guardians of the 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.920 Galaxy three, and also check in on where the characters 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.360 from the Guardians team ended up after the very tie 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.000 ins at They appear in mostly two Yeah, mostly end Game, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.360 Some thor Love and Thunder, and also of course the 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:07.440 Christmas special. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.120 Special Let's Do It. Let's Do It. God Is the 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.600 Galaxy Volume one introduced US two that at the time 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.519 extremely deep cut titular team. It was a bombastic space adventure. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.720 There was as music listened to by the hero star Lord, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.640 who was kidnapped as a child by space pirates known 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.639 as the Ravengers and was raised by their leader Yondu. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.280 You may remember him as an adult. He's a quick 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.640 talking thief with quips for days, and on a routine 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.000 mission to steal a valuable artifact known as the Orb, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.920 he becomes entangled with Gomora, the daughter of the tyrant Thanos. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.680 Remember him remember him important in the MCU when she 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.600 is sent after him by a violent Cree alien known 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.360 as Ronan the Accuser. Lee Pace in the MCU. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.120 Still great, doing fantastic things. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.079 Sleep espioning, He's Thespianing. Gamura and Quilla soon waylaid by 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:06.080 bounty hunters Groot a talking tree and Rocket Raccoon, a 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.040 gun toting raccoon. But then in the end they have 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:14.360 to come together to save Gomora from another strange alien 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.680 known as Drags the Destroyer, who wants to kill her 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.400 because his family was killed by Ronan the Accuser. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.760 There's some interesting, some interesting interesting context for our for 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.280 uh Our Ronan the Accuser. On the es SO. Ronan 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:35.480 is a member of the Cree race. As an accuser 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.760 and important figure in the judicial process, but has broken 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.120 off from the Cree because they signed a pea Street 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.720 he isn't like, and so he's decided he's taken this 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:54.000 job to get a certain orb that contains a certain 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.360 gem for one Thanos, because Thanos has been colleckeding those 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.840 things big time collector. He wants all the gems. As 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.240 we all remember, the Infinity Stones's tasked, Ronan was doing it, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.800 but Ronan has taken the gig. But also he wants 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.240 to keep the stone so that he can blow up 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:18.599 the treaty and decimate Zandar, the planet with which the 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.120 Cree have signed a treaty with. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.640 Yeah, and he wants to put the stone on his 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.960 super cool hammer and make a super powered hammer. Jason, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.200 do you remember the first time watching this movie? Because 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.200 I feel like I feel like, as MCU fans, the 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.720 first time watching God into the Galaxy was just kind 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.280 of a mind blowing experience. It was it was. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.920 That that stage in the evolution of the MCU where 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.080 I'm like, I can't believe they're doing this, you know, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:51.440 there was the real Obviously, putting all the Avengers together 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.000 in a team was a pretty big swing, creating a 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.920 shared universe as a big swing. But this is the 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.400 real heat check movie, where you know, the big criticism 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.840 of the MCU at launch was like, nobody cares about 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.159 Captain America, nobody cares about Iron Man, nobody cares about 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.000 the Hulk, and that was true. And let me tell you, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.240 nobody really, really, really nobody gave a shit about the 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.160 Guardians of the Galaxy and this is I mean, they're 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:22.320 fun if you are a true like Marvel Comics, Marvel 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:27.680 Cosmic Comics, NERD digging in the back issue, and that 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.560 is not even the original team. This is like the 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:35.920 team that emerges after Annihilation, Yeah, after a bunch of 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:42.440 Cosmic Marvel crossovers. And it really felt like, God, I 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.440 don't know if people will like this. It'll be crazy 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.760 if people like this, and they and it was fun, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.760 really super fun movie. Obviously, I think the music has 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:54.240 become a hallmark of the series and continues with Guardians 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.760 of the Galaxy three, and really they've expanded past the 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.720 eighties they were there into the nineties and the two 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.680 thousands now in Guardians three. That's a little bit of 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.400 a spoiler, but just super fun. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:05.400 I really enjoyed it. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.840 What was do you what your thoughts were. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.080 I saw it at like a midnight screening I think, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.560 or very late night screening at the Imax in London, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.120 which at the time I think was one of the 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.320 biggest screens in the world. And I remember that opening 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.280 so well with you know, Pias, He's going through space 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.800 and he's listening to his headphones and he's kind of 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.480 like kicking little lizards. I really came out of it like, Wow, 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.760 they star Wars the MCU, and like what I felt, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.080 it was a very enjoyable way. And this was pre 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.880 sequel trilogy, right, so it felt very different. I mean, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.559 it's wild to think this was only the fourth film 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.720 in phase two of the MCU. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.080 So you say it was just. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:51.160 A total tone shift. I think obviously like exploded James 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.200 Gunn into the stratosphere and yet made the music and 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.839 needle drops such a huge part of the MCU, which 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.760 hadn't really been a thing before because it was such 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:06.560 a score based, cinematic, operatic, serious take on the franchise, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.760 whereas this was much more pop culture reference heavy. You 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.280 had Peter who grew up in the eighties, so he 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.880 had these memories of an Earth that had never been updated, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.440 which allowed for a lot of fun nostalgia. It was 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.600 just a totally different vibe for the MCU. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.560 Let me ask you this. So watching rewatching this, it 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.960 struck me that we don't know how a lot of 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.800 the Gems ended up where they are, Like, you know, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.720 we just Peter is tasked by the broker, who was 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:43.680 just just a guy with a storefront shop, literally just 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.200 a guy with a jewelry store. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.680 He's like, it would be called to have an ORB. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.800 Will you go get the ORB for me? And we 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.960 never really find out how it got there. It would 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.480 be so cool to find out at at some point 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.280 in the future how all the Infinity Gems got to 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.960 the places where they eventually got picked up at. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.600 I would love that. I think that could actually be 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.400 something really cool to do in the animated stuff because 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.640 they do it. There is a great bit of exposition 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.280 we get in this movie that kind of is the 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.400 next part the team. They team up together sort of unexpectedly, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.800 this ragtag alliance of convenience, and then another one of 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.360 my favorite big swing weird moments from this movie. We 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.560 head to Nowhere, which is a floating outpost of kind 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.960 of like ravagers and bad guys and anti heroes and 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.160 space pirates. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.320 Just kind of an open city in space inside the 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.040 head of a celestial. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:43.959 Casually, just a floating celestial head. So note that eternals 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.800 lovers because you're hearing the word celestial for the first 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.960 time here. And Celestials actually end up playing a large 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.360 part in the ongoing Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, and 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.480 they end up going to the Collector played by Benicio 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.199 del Toro, who's so great in this movie. It's so 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.760 weird and he's so weird, and he's so over the 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.440 top and he is even more of a fan of 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.760 collecting things than Thanos, and he does that great one 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.240 of my favorite MCU exposition dumps where he explains the 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.600 histories of the Infinity Gems and how they were created. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.840 But that's it. You get the millenniare year old history 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.160 and then they're just here. I feel like, let's explore that. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.960 I would absolutely love to know what if they've been 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.920 up to. Who had him before? We know it wasn't 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.200 Adam Warlock like in the comics. Yeah, how did it 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.560 end up on moregg mm hm? Who had it? What 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.400 were they doing with it? Who put it in this 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.200 nice little orb? So Yeah, they go and see the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.640 Collector and we get a very good info dump. We 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.320 learn about the Power Gem. It's very powerful, give you 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.640 almost infinite powers, and if you have them all then 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.319 of course we know you can snap out half of 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.920 the universe. Spoiler alert. That happened. They got a battle Ronan. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.360 Ronan wants the Power Gem for himself, but he's also 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.480 consistently snitching to Thanos about the Guardians, so Thanos kind 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.320 of has a good idea of what's going going on. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.320 They ultimately head back to Zander, as you mentioned, where 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.000 a lot of people thought they were gonna see Nathan 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.240 Fillion as Nova. It didn't happen, but we did get 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.160 to see the Nova Corps in one of the epic 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.080 things falling out of the sky third act battles in 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:20.559 Marvel History. It's still one of the most impressive ones. Uh. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.920 Yeah, I have a I have a note for all 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:31.559 super villains, obviously pointedly Ronan the Accuser in Guardian the 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.440 Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy Volume one, but also General 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:39.360 Zod in Man of Steel. If you're gonna destroy a planet, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:45.520 go anywhere and destroy it. You don't don't go to 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:50.280 like the Capital City where all the military forces are. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.280 Like make it, do it? 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.240 I understand like this was an act of humorist by Ronan. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.440 He wanted to like make a big speech before he 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.840 did all the shit. But like, go to some go 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.400 to the middle of the sucking ocean and. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.920 Destroy take some notes from the Death Star, destroy it 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.640 from far away. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.120 You can do something you don't need to get on the. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.040 On the planet and then ultimately anywhere, you know, get 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.920 beaten in a dance battle with Peter Quill a very 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.360 famous EMCU moment. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.840 And this is honestly a mistake that a lot of 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.240 super villains make. Mephisto has done this, you know, name 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.680 War has done it. They always invade like New York City. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.160 It's like the Avengers, the x Men. Everybody lives here, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:37.560 live there, like please, it's somewhere's the middle of nowhere destroyed. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.600 Physical it's definitely the physical version of monologuing. It's like, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.679 don't tell somebody your plan before you've enacted it, and 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.120 don't go to the central city, especially here where as 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.600 we see there are like thousands of Nova court ships. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:56.280 Like this is like a heavily defended place. Yes, and 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.320 of course you know spoiler alert, but it is an 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:04.280 empty movie and it's not Infinity War. The Guardians come 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.480 out on top and as little dance battle. We got 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.400 a little dance dance battle, which is one of Again 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:15.920 these are those hallmarks. It's interesting because it's so sincerely 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.319 its stylized that I don't know if it's full camp, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.480 but there are definitely campier elements to this movie than 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.120 a lot of the MCU movies. Having a dance battle, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.240 this kind of ongoing joke about the headphones, the tapes, 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.160 the music, Peter's nostalgia. His ship is called the Milano, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.640 though I will say on merchandise, including the recent Lego release, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.960 they call it the Guardian Ship. So I wonder if 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.839 Alyssa Milano sent them a little letter. 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.080 Well, I will say that Ronan, I mean Lee paces 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.440 straight out camp in this movie. Oh yeah, he knows 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:54.640 every every line reading is just so insan. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.480 What are you doing when he's chewing every piece of scenery? 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.880 God with his full six and a half foot stature 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.040 and his thespian training. Lovely pace still blows my mind 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.280 every day when I think that he was in the 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.120 MCU and this is. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:15.480 Just such a you stead accused your rich in peace 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.240 treaty will not save you. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:22.200 It would be the tinder on which you burn. And 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.560 he's wearing like a dramatic glamorous hood and he's got 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.880 a giant hammer. He's really doing the most in a 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.559 delightful fashion. And as the movie comes to an end, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.600 we learn an important plot point for Guardians of the 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:42.480 Galaxy volume two that Yondu didn't just kidnap Peter for 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.120 no reason. It was not random, It was not a 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.520 mistaken identity, which I think was kind of the vibe 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.880 that Peter had been told. In fact, the night Peter's 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.880 mother died of a brain tumor and Peter ran out 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.959 and was so upset he was kidnapped by Yondu because 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.840 to have been hired by Pizza's mysterious father who happened 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.640 to be a powerful deity. And Pizza now learns this 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:12.360 shocking fact and we head into the wilds of Gudians 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.040 of the Galaxy volume two. I mean, this movie made 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.240 so much money for the movie, an incredible seven hundred 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.080 and seventy three million dollars worldwide. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.840 And you know the moment when Groot creates the group 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.960 ball to save everybody, It still gets me it's and 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.160 it's so beautiful in there with the little flowers and 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.000 his I think they've made him like meaner ever since 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.320 he got reduced to a twig. Like he had this 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:44.480 very placid and gentle look in his eyes in the 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.440 first movie. And it's you know, when they're sitting there 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.160 inside the group, Ball and Rocket his leg but you'll die, 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.240 you know, and don't do this, and it's like and 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.240 you just look at Grout's face and he's so at 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:56.440 peace with it. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.960 It really is just like a wonderful moment, you know what. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.560 I think. I'm so glad you brought that up, because 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.080 that actually is such a vital part of why I 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.000 think these films have become so popular. It is this bombastic, silly, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.840 camp colorful adventure much like the old space adventure serial 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.600 kind of stuff. But it has a very effective emotional heart, 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.040 and that is a lot of that comes from Group, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.200 from Rocket, from the relationships of this found family, from Drax, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.320 who lost his family and then comes in and tries 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.360 to rebuild even though all he really wants to do 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.360 is kill the man who killed his family. And I 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.800 love that, yeah, because that's the line I think when 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.960 when Group says we are group. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.120 And by the way, setting the stage for something that 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.080 happens in Guardians and twist letting you know that, yes, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:54.800 if he wants to. Groot does have a somewhat larger vocabulary, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.000 which is sort of cannon in the comics. I mean 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.000 when he appears in I believe it's Annihilation conquest, right? 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.960 Or is an annihilation? Yeah, it's Annihilation conquest right, right? 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:10.360 He is like saying full sentences and stuff before the 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.720 movie came out, and then all of a sudden it's 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.480 just iron grout. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:18.440 Yes, it's a very interesting evolution of the character. And 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.560 the version that we know as the Gardens of the 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.600 Guardians of the Galaxy is the Annihilation Conquest version. Though. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.880 It's very interesting because that's two thousand and eight and 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.880 their original team was nineteen sixty nine, you know, created 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.320 by some legends in comics like Gene Colan and you 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.680 know Roy Thomas was in there. Arnold Drake was the 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.120 one who wrote the first issue, and then obviously I 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.400 just we always have to shout him out. It was 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.960 Bill Mantlow, who who was a co creator of Rocket Raccoon, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.440 who sadly was in a hit and run accident many 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.480 years ago and is still in care at the moment 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.440 of his brother, and you can go to the Hero 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.440 Initiative and find out ways to support him and other 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.720 comic book creators, because these movies do not exist without them, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.560 and ol Mantlow is like a huge part of the 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.480 Guardian's legacy, especially when it comes to Volume three because 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.399 of the importance of Rocket Raccoon. But before then, it 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.200 was twenty seventeen. It was three years after Guardians of 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.119 the Galaxy Volume one, which was originally just called The 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.960 Guardians of the Galaxy but is now retroactively called Volume one, 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.359 as we are now with Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:26.600 two mixtape relevant now right Rewatching this movie, yeah, and 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.720 writing a recap for it is like one of the 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.200 funniest things I've ever done. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.280 And you're gonna understand nuts movie. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:33.920 It is absolutely bonkers. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.080 It's fucking insane. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.879 I love Kurt Russell so much, so I'm just so 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.520 happy to always watch a Cut Russell movie. But I 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.959 will begin with this sentence that sums up the energy 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.320 of this movie specifically, and also quite a lot of 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.840 the energy of Volume three. While protecting some magical batteries 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.440 for the Golden Aliens known as the Sovereign, in order 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.399 to free Nebula from the aliens crutches. The Guardians are 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.200 saved from a battle with their supposed Sovereign allies by 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.679 an unknown Batton. It is led by the celestial Ego 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.480 known in the comics as Ego the Living Planet, who 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.359 is literally a planet in the comics, who soon reveals 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.480 himself to be Peter's biological father. As they head to 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:17.840 Ego's homeworld, Aisha, the Golden Skinned Lady played by Elizabeth 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.199 de Becky, who is the leader of the Sovereign the 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.840 High Priestess and is very relevant for Gardians of the 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:27.000 Galaxy volume three, she hires Yon Dou and his Ravagers 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.600 turned down the Guardians. Important to note here something Jason 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.399 has pointed out to me that I had forgotten. The 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.280 reason she can hire Yon Do is because Yonder and 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.880 his Ravagers have been thrown out of the Ravager community. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.800 Why for trafficking children. For trafficking children, and not only 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.320 trafficking them, but trafficking them to their deaths. You ain't 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.200 dressed like us, but you'll never hear the Lords of Freedom. 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:52.000 Would you die? 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:52.480 Yon? 0:18:53.440 --> 0:19:00.280 The cord will never flesh over your greed. I guess 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:00.640 you didn't. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.679 And that and that is the car a Gourd played 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:12.480 by Sylvester Stallone who summarily ejects Yandu from the Ravager 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:17.680 community for being a serial trafficker of. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:22.560 Children to any chilanet who end up dead? 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:23.920 How many children? 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.480 I mean at the end of this movie and this 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.119 in the final third of this movie, you will see 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:33.960 a pile of bones. Who are the children who, unlike Peter, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.040 did not survive being trafficked. Well, he never delivered Peter 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.720 to Ego, but you know you delivered the rest of them. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.000 And this pile of bones, folks, you've heard me talk 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:44.760 about this before. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.440 The pile of bones. It's immens It's like forty. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.920 Feet high, maybe maybe ninety one hundred feet wide. It's 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:58.080 like a pile like it's got to contain certainly thousands 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.600 now you might say thousands. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.760 Now Ego said it at least thousands, right. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.159 And now now many have said to me, well, you know, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:12.440 in an attempt to you know, to absolve Yandu quite 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.560 long theologists. I get it, and I get it because 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.000 like listen, they make Yandu is the father figure this 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:23.280 movie and he's he's he's actually a good guy. Throughout 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:29.080 the rest of this series, they point out that surely 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.560 Ego had other traffickers, which is probably true, right, Like, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.840 if you just do the math, it seems like unless he, 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.119 unless YANDU was rounding up like one hundred at a time, 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.160 it probably would have taken too long. So maybe Yandu 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.200 is only responsible for like twenty twenty percent of the pile, 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.560 but that is still so many. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:50.760 And by the. 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.600 Way, I would then counter with what is the minimum 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:59.000 number of child children that you could deliver exactly death? 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.320 Oh you are enough, You're fine. I will also say, 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:08.040 as proven by the existence continued existence of Peter Quill, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.639 it was very easy for Yondu to actually save one 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:12.919 of those children and not deliver them to Ego. It 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.200 took you like thirty years to find this guy. Yonder 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.960 really could have been not delivering. 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:23.000 The to say apparently he was getting them too old, 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.000 because you know, the implication is, but he kept Peter 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.520 alive because Peter was small enough to like wriggle through 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:30.760 like ducts and different things. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:32.120 He was used as a thief. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.159 So I guess what they're implying there is that the 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.760 other kids that Yondu delivered the ego were maybe a 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.879 little bit older, like, oh yeah, young adults side not 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:44.400 quite so. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.440 Acceptable trafficking age, you. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:52.520 Know, legally, Yeah, yeah, if you're killed by your father, 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.439 who is an omnipotent celestial being, when you're an adult, 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:57.120 it's not as bad. 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:58.399 I'll just say as if. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.159 It was a kid, Yandu might be redeemed in the 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.080 course of Guardian's Galaxy two and three. That may have happened, 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:09.960 but he'll never hear the horns of freedom when he dies, 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:14.199 and the colors of a gourd, the colors of a 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.480 gourd will never flash over his grave. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.840 They will never flash over his grave. And that's all 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:20.359 I have to say about that. But that's what we 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.680 have to say about that. This is a movie that's 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.119 all about daddy issues. You've got Themura Nebula who are 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:28.840 kind of battling each other. Nebula wants to kill Thanos 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.160 and they end up in this fight that ends luckily 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:35.359 for everyone in a sisterly reunion of some kind. You 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:39.840