Geek Culture Roundup: Ghost in the Shell, Avatar Sequels, Spider-Man Homecoming, and Star Trek

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Geek Unlimited Hello and welcome to Altered Geek

Unlimited I'm your host Steve Megatron Phillips

and joining me this week is somebody who's not

a complete bitch Mike the Birdman Dodd The other

mic is the weakest link. Yes, because evidently

someone doesn't know how to take a friggin benadryl

or Doesn't know how to use the shower function

to steam a room You know, I I use benadryl that's

why they invented it I actually took one before

the show. Oh my god I know something that would

clear him out, but it might kill him ghost peppers

He'll never taste anything again, but he'll never

worry about sinus problems again either I'm just

saying it'll burn those nose hairs. Oh my god.

I'll burn his ass hairs coming out man. I've

had a ghost pepper once I Stuck my head and okay.

I was at a friend's restaurant and like he like

obviously like ran the place. Um So hey Mike

try this Me being an idiot and being so trusting

why sure so i walk over take bite death i stick

my head inside his freezer and immediately start

licking the nearest thing of ice cream so i had

a whole i had a whole big giant tub of ice cream

to myself just licking it thinking that is a

hell of a man and uh he's like mike you're gonna

pay for that like no i'm not because you're an

asshole um i never did end up having to pay for

it But goddamn, that was a lot of ice cream that

went to waste. It really hurt. But anyway. So

yes, what has been new with you? Let me see.

Not a whole hell of a lot, actually. Well, I

guess that's not entirely true. I went to the

doctor's this week. Finally getting a new doctor.

And I'm going to be making some pretty significant

changes to my life in the next year. and change

so hopefully this means I'll be around on good

old planet earth a lot longer so taking my health

a lot more seriously now and kind of looking

forward to it not looking forward to some of

the big dietary changes coming up but I guess

I'm gonna have to learn to live without pop in

my near future soda anyway um let me see what

else other than that um I'm still doing stuff

for video game sophistry, which you can hear

on Toronto's AM 640 Sundays at 7 p .m. Actually,

as of this recording, I'm actually working on

my next article for the website. I'm writing

about video game collector's editions, and I'm

writing about Aliens Colonial Marine. That game

was shit. But it had a really good collector's

edition. You can find it relatively cheap, too,

if you look around at, like, EBE games and GameStop.

I think I've seen it as cheap as, like, $10 before.

And it's worth it for the statue alone, so...

Um, yeah, that's pretty much what i've been doing

just a lot of writing doing more stuff for the

uh, terrible warriors video game or not video

game, uh role play podcast i'm gonna be doing

raven loft for dnd fifth edition because the

curse of strahd came out last month, uh from

wizard of the coast and um Also, trying to write

the game for the month like we always do, one

long form campaign, one short form campaign.

I'm currently writing Sailor Moon Dragon Ball

Z and trying not to make it stupid. You know,

back when I was in middle school we wrote Dragon

Ball Z Mega Man X. I can't even fathom how that

would work. My buddy wrote most of it and then

I had to finish off the saga, but it actually

works really well. I've got some ideas and my

one buddy Derek, who's one of the other Game

Masters on the podcast, he's a huge Sentai fan.

I think he's talked me into having Kamen Rider

into this universe as well. So I'm like, okay,

whatever. Um, so yeah, we're gonna have Sailor

Jupiter, Kamen Rider fighting Vegeta at some

point. So this will be interesting if I could

pull it off. I'll have to send you the the the

fan fix of the Dragon Ball Z Mega Man X stuff.

It's actually pretty interesting. And had I thought

about had my game not been full up, I should

have asked you to commit on this. I was like

a Dragon Ball character. Damn. Next time. Next

time. Next time on Dragon Ball Z. It's gonna

be so good, Steve. So good. Actually, I need

to talk to Kyle Ebert, see if he'll do some of

my kind of voiceover for it. I think that'd be

great. That'd be fun. Anyway, so yeah, that's

what I've been up to. As for myself, we had to

write a log line and a step out line for our

TV pilot that we have to write for our screenwriting

class. We're down to the kind of last few weeks.

We have to write character bios next, which I'm

almost done with, and then the actual 60 page

pilot, which should be fun. And then I got to

get it kind of copywritten after that so that

I can actually send it out as a sample of what

I can do. So yeah, I did that. Currently have

the GCRN... Top 50 video game franchise thing

going on. Which the fact that I'm not involved

in this blows my mind. Well, it's not that you

aren't involved. It's it. Well, it it's in the

nomination stages right now. Oh, OK. It's not

actually being recorded. Oh, OK. Good. Good.

Good. Say how the hell do you have this without

me? So. it's it's gonna be the the top 50 and

how how it works and I I'm kind of breaking it

down every week on the show to kind of explain

it but it's uh instead of having you know the

show you know these video games show up like

five six times in a top 100 you know like you

might have three halos show up four battlefields

three archums you know and so on for whatever

franchise it might be it's a lot easier to do

them by franchise entirely instead of because

then you have to rate them based on all of their

aspects instead of having an abundance of some

individual games of those that people like more

than others. I was trying to avoid those pitfalls.

So yeah, that's in the nomination stages right

now. We don't have that many nominees in there

yet, but as I posted on there, we're at least

requiring at least 10. Franchises to go in there

because I understand that everybody knows 50

franchise games I myself did like 43 so So yeah,

that's that's what Partially what's been going

on the other part of the issue is I've been having

server problems on Geekcast radio So if you're

noticing any issues on the website, it is not

my fault the current web host is Claiming originally

that it was something on our end As far as the

the plugins and as far as some of the features

on the site To which I responded I've had no

problems up until now and come to find out they

upgraded their server from a 32 -bit to a 64

-bit system and Something along the way got screwed

up because I'm not the only one with the issue

and I've gained some new friends on Twitter through

this because We've all been having the same issues

going back and forth because either it comes

back with a database connection issue or a memory

issue or something else entirely where it just

doesn't work. And the only reason it was bothering

me was because I was in the middle of posting

press releases that I'd gotten and one of my

top 25 lists and this whole site went down. And

it was out for predominantly most of yesterday

and then most of today and then... So yeah, it

came back, but thankfully I'm working on a new

version of the site on another host Actually

the same one you guys use It's a new new version

of the site it's totally new theme new new everything

I actually have been slowly importing things

over a little by little I have yet to finish

that and then I can Destroy the old site and

go from there, but yeah, so that's been that's

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we'll be back with after a quick break And we're

back so getting into the alter geek news network

We will be talking about the latest Hollywood

whitewashing. I mean goes to the show. I mean

Where do I start with this now? I like Scarlett

Johansson. I think I do too. I think she's a

brilliant actress. She's obviously proven her

chops in the action movie genre but she should

not be playing major matoko kusanagi now if you

saw the the uh pictures from the japanese uh

theater production like the live action stage

show of ghosts in the shell they nailed that

casting perfectly this i don't know like um like

who the hell are you gonna have as um Bato fucking

like Jeremy Renner or something like no this

This is not good. You could have adapted any

million other cyberpunk properties No, I will

I will preface this with and you're not gonna

be surprised when you hear this It's it's okay.

It's got Scarlett Johansson playing it, which

you know, she did Lucy, which was a similar type

of you know Kind of sci -fi, hi -tech. So, they

got Rupert Sanders, the director from Snow White

and Huntsman directing this. Okay, so it's...

The producers is where it's going to kill you.

It's produced by Abby Arad, the guy that did

The Amazing Spider -Man 1 and 2, and Iron Man.

The only thing that's good on his record there

is Iron Man. He's got Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance

on his record, too. And then they've got Stephen

Paul, also a producer, who did Ghost Rider Spirit

of Vengeance. And then they got a producer from

Prometheus and one from Tekken. How do you screw

this up? Like, literally, it sucks, though. But

I also cannot think of anybody. Actually, no,

that's not true. I'm trying to think who you

could cast as the major who's a leading Asian

female woman who would work, who looks like her.

I would probably cast an unknown, because I think

Ming Na is a little too old to play the major,

but then it depends on when you set this in the

Ghost Michelle universe, but I presume she'd

be pretty young. But still, this... They could

have almost gotten... Quaker Daisy from agents

of shield to play that Because she's already

proven she can play an action role and it would

kind of give her a breakout like film role and

She would fit the the look more. Yeah, like start

your hands and she's very obviously Caucasian

whereas Chloe I can't remember what the hell

the rest of her name is Bennett Bennett. Um,

she could probably pull it off but Yeah. I mean,

I'm not saying that's a perfect choice, but that

would be a one up from where we're at right now.

Yeah. It's like Emma Stone playing someone Hawaiian.

Like who the hell sat on this cash machine? Like,

jeez. That was pretty bad. And I'm just wondering

how the hell they're going to go through the

rest of the cash from Ghost in the Shell because

these names aren't exactly Jimmy, John, and James.

They're talking Saito, Batto. See, and I know

nothing about this franchise, but I know enough

to know that... I mean, I've seen images enough

to know that this isn't really the way it should

have gone. And by the fan outrage, I can tell

also, too. If you want to check out Ghost in

the Shell, check out the original 1995 movie.

It's really cool. And watch the Ghost in the

Shell standalone complex series, not the new

series, which I can't remember what it's called,

but it kind of sucks. But the okay, but the standalone

complex series is phenomenally well done. It's

so cool But yeah, so that's that's our Latest

Hollywood casting complaint. It's like making

Goku white it make no sense. Yeah, that was pretty

stupid, too I don't know why they do that like

and then and then you get to the instance where

like, you know the Who's the who's the guy from

the new Marvel show that everybody was throwing

a fit about? That they were saying should have

been diversified. Oh It was clearly caucasian

Yeah from game of thrones the guy plays sir loris

or something Yeah And the character is supposed

to be caucasian because of his character arc

and people were complaining that he couldn't

be something else And and then those are probably

the same people complaining about this Being

the opposite. Yeah, i'm trying to remember whether

daniel rand was asian or whether he was white.

I'm not sure. I'm not familiar. Well, they were

saying that he was Caucasian because he was supposed

to be from a rich, well -off family. Yeah. I

mean, and I've got no problem with roles being

diversified because I really liked having Michael

B. Jordan as Johnny Storm. I thought that was

one of the pluses of... I think that was the

only plus of that film. I like the movie. And

then you had, you know, Sam Jackson as Nick Fury.

So, I mean... again yeah it can work in the right

situation exactly just in this case i don't know

i'm gonna hold judgment until i see at least

a first look trailer but ah so i think going

on with more complaining we could go to james

cameron yes in the realm of why um yeah he's

got avatars 2 slated for 2018 and then in another

one in 2020, 2022 and 2023, which why announce

this when what the last movie came out in 2012?

Not even like 2009. I'm really sure I saw this

when I was in college. You're probably right.

Yes, I I honestly like I saw the movie. I didn't

see it in IMAX, but I really didn't care to.

I saw it. It did come out in 2009, but I have

no ambition to watch this series. I saw it once

or twice. I saw it. once in 3d saw it once in

IMAX and Then I bought the home video version,

which is really weird for a long time You couldn't

buy the home 3d version unless you got it exclusively

through like a furniture retailer Like you had

to buy it if you had like one of these ultra

3d TVs That's the only way you could get it now.

You can just get it at like friggin Best Buy

but The world of avatar It doesn't seem that

interesting like it doesn't like I don't Feel

the need to revisit that fictional universe.

I mean, yes, we're in space looking for Unobtainium

I I hate saying that word. I hate that word.

I I hate it too. It's lazy, but like the blue

thundercat smurf people Whatever the navi or

whatever the navi. Yeah, like I don't feel the

need to go back. And randomly, they're going

to resurrect Sigourney Weaver, and they're going

to give Sam Worthington his career back, I guess.

You know what? I'm pretty sure they put him in

cryogenic storage, and they only pull him out

for, like, Avatar sequels, or like, hey, Sam,

do you want to come out and play something cool?

OK. And then when they're done, they just put

him back in the freezer. Yeah. Honestly, James

Cameron, you want to impress me? You really want

to make your mark on Hollywood again? make a

new terminator movie that actually is worth a

day do another terminator that makes goddamn

sense and direct another aliens movie give me

the true sequel to aliens make let's wipe out

that crap stand that is aliens colonial marines

because according to fox and james cameron himself

that's canonical so no let's give me a true sequel

let's Bring the story forward 20 years with Hicks

and Ripley and all them, and let's figure something

out. Lance Henderson is still alive. We can make

this work. But no. Blue, Thunder Smurf, people,

I don't care. And that sucks because James Cameron

should be a director when he speaks. You should

care. When he announces Avatar sequels, nobody

cares. I think it's because it's too little too

late if you would have hit the ground running

and had You know been shooting the other ones

back then well It's just I don't think the franchise

has that has that much depth to it I mean I can

appreciate him trying to create the Navi language

and trying to create a world that we want to

get invested in the problem is There wasn't a

lot there like basically avatar is dances with

wolves but with mech suits. And no Kevin Costner.

But still, I don't know. I feel no need to go

back to wherever the hell their planet is. Speaking

of another place we don't need to go back to,

Indiana Jones 5. They they want to continue from

and it wants to be a continuation of the kingdom

of the crystal skull story So would they bring

them into the 60s then? They're talking about

70s. Okay, so Harrison Furrow will be in his

90s of the time this gets off the ground. Um

Yeah, they're gonna start shooting it soon. I

guess I'm trying to figure what they could do.

Okay, so he's fought Nazis. He's fought Indian

cultists Nazis again um aliens and Russians who's

left Cubans More communists like like where do

you go from here like Vietnamese? Oh my god,

okay in my perfect world Steve Indiana Jones

and the call of Cthulhu You put dr. Jones into

Relay and I am there day one if you can have

him fight Cthulhu monsters. I'm so there otherwise

don't care I Guess Spielberg is gonna be directing

it. So they're saying it's gonna be for a March

2018 release. Yeah, right Yeah, right But then

again, it's not like he has any more Star Wars

commitments anymore that uh, uh, no They're saying

won't start until 2018 at the earliest for shooting

Which by that time here said four to be 77. Oh

my god. He'll break a hip long before that Yeah,

cuz he might be back in the Falcon again, oh

Well, I hear they're talking about casting a

new Han Solo There's been some some buzz around

and I've seen the picture of the guy. He looks

all right Well, they're talking about that. They

might have him in rogue one. I'd be okay with

that For like a like towards the end not really

a significant part of the film. Yeah, I'd be

okay with that. I just now would it be digital

Han Solo or live -action Han Solo? I think it's

gonna be live -action. I can hear my wife in

the other room just repeating odd words that

I say just went Han Solo. It's really weird.

It's gonna weird me out. Ham solo that's what

someone called me once he meant to call me Hannah.

He called me ham I'm thinking that's great. I'm

pizza the hut and ham solo It's the hut committed

suicide when he ate himself is the fat joke that

writes itself Oh, and she also made another slip

this week. I decided at some point. I'm gonna

release an album of Stand -up comedy, right?

I know what my album is gonna be called Cautionary

whale Because I'm a fat guy, right? I'm like

Wow, you're a bitch. Oh, by the way, I like your

Facebook image that you posted earlier By like

15 minutes I Do try we're somebody's getting

punched by the hole. Oh Donald Trump you stupid

bastard He's opening his mouth and then Hulk

just leans over and just bashes him off the screen

like he did to Thor in the first Avengers. Everybody's

like, I could watch this GIF forever. Oh, wow.

So moving on to something else. Dr. Strange.

This looks weird, but amazing. It's got me interested.

I've never cared for this character though like

before this and I actually like this is one role

I think Benedict Cumberbatch will actually be

good at. This is a character I don't know a whole

lot about I know the basic gist of it but I'm

wondering like who's the bad guy and I know they're

talking about like Baron Mordo and I got the

guy from like Bates Motel or Hannibal or something

something Nicholson or something he plays in

it now I'm hoping it's DORAMAMOO or something.

But if this is Marvel's weird movie, if this

is their horror movie, this could be really awesome.

And I like the fact that in the show they're

talking about bending reality. So it almost reminds

me of like an Inception meets Matrix. Yeah. Yeah.

That's kind of the vibe I was going to get in

front of it too. Which means when this movie

ties into the Infinity War storyline, This movie

is clearly the reality gem, which will be the

heart of whatever Thanos wants to get his hands

on. So I'm really curious to see where they're

going to take this, because I know in Winter

Soldier, they did name drop Dr. Stephen Strange.

So this will be his origin story somewhat. But

it'll take place before. Yeah. So I'm curious

to know. What's gonna happen in this movie and

the fact that we only we have to wait less than

like eight months So that's pretty exciting Yeah,

I'm I watched this when it came out the other

day I'm actually pretty Pretty excited about

it, and I'm not really and as I've mentioned

before I'm more of a DC fanboy than a Marvel

Well, I still enjoyed aspects of it. I still

say that Batman, Alfred, and Wonder Woman were

the best parts of that film. I like the jar of

pee. You like the exploding room. I mean, what

was I talking about? I also loved it when Superman

killed people with an AK -47. I could make fun

of that movie for frigging hours. But anyway,

which if you want to see us do that, thisweekgeek

.net, that's our topic show for this month. But

yeah, I mean, Marvel, they're going to continue

the win streak. Actually, as of this recording,

they're doing fan screenings for Civil War. I

want to be a part of that. Which means. They

clearly know they've got a winner on their hands.

Now, there were fan screens for Batman v Superman,

and they were incredibly positive. And then the

critics got a hold of it, and it was throwing,

you know, a rat into a friggin' lion cage. Um,

but critics love Civil War. The fans are gonna

love it. You're gonna see hell. In fact, wouldn't

surprise me if you see spoilers on Reddit tonight.

Um... about it like i'm really looking forward

to seeing what marvel pulls out with us i'm curious

to know what the post credit sequences are for

civil war how it ties into dr strange like man

it's a good time to be a comic book nerd yeah

and then next month we have x -men apocalypse

too so yeah i don't care as much about but i

don't know man i'm getting Psylocke i've been

wanting to see that character on screen since

i was a kid Olivia Munn is my she's my second

wife you know just saying yeah that's because

you watched her on uh attack of the show yeah

for many many years g4 i miss those days i'm

like i miss tech tv we still have it in canada

though it's called g4 yet all it shows Is our

reruns of really unusual shows like cops cheaters

and Man tracker, which is a show where they have

some dude on a horse track people for like 36

hours And if you win, you just get you just get

bragging rights. Otherwise Yay, I caught you

the end whatever But uh, but yeah Definitely

looking forward to Dr. Strange. But keeping with

the Marvel vibe, what is your thoughts on the

new Spider -Man homecoming? I don't know if you've

seen the graphic, but the title homecoming. I

like the idea. It kind of reminds me of a throwback

to the 1960s to early 70s vibe from it. And when

you look at the new costume we saw with Civil

War, it's got that sort of Steve Ditko inspired

look. I'm happy. Like, I think it looks cool.

I know they're talking about potentially having

Michael Keaton, aka Batman slash Birdman, play

potentially the vulture, which is great. I'm

always keen to see different iconic Spider -Man

villains, ones that aren't friggin' Harry Osborn.

So this is gonna be cool. And I can totally see

how Keaton would play into that i mean i'm i'm

trying to think of what the vulture's real name

is something tunes i want to see you jean but

i'm pretty sure that's the no it's not it's um

but yeah i mean it's gonna be great and i hear

Here Tom Holland does a really good job in Civil

War with spider -man like he's in it He's 10

minutes as Parker 20 minutes as Spidey and you

really get a sense for what he can do with the

character So I'm looking forward to this and

this is gonna be shooting fairly soon, isn't

it? Yeah, and by the way to answer your question

about the vulture. His name is Adrian Toombs,

which I was ready to do it started the name They're

talking that they're going to have some of the

Avengers show up. I wouldn't surprise me as Iron

Man's one of them. See, I kind of wonder if he'll

give him the like Iron Spider suit or maybe some

kind of an upgrade. I think you're going to see

that in Civil War. That would be kind of cool.

Which is why we have the mechanized eyes. Yeah,

I could see that. I could see that. I'm not sure

who I'd want to see show up. Actually, you know

what? If I could have a cameo in Spider -Man

Homecoming, I would love to see Punisher and

Daredevil. Even if it was only for a scene. They

said that they're not going to connect. I know.

It makes me so sad. Or at least if they can throw

them a bone somehow. That's what I want, because

I think Daredevil and Spider -Man would make

a great team up. Oh my god. hell if you could

even have help if the next movie was like the

publisher hunt hunting spider -man i'd be down

for that john bernthold badass man i got a band

hardcore yeah i i'm kind of interested to see

how the movies in it turn out with and who's

who else gonna be cast as what i'm just waiting

to see uncle ben die for the fifth time i heard

that they aren't gonna do that this time my they're

gonna have to doing they're gonna have to during

the during the like opening credits somehow it'll

be like a montage obviously like they did with

bbs yeah exactly i mean that's how it's gonna

happen because you know what yeah everybody knows

the spider -man story but they still have to

do it for the one random person who doesn't So

moving on to the next thing that is going to

be the meat and potatoes of the show, the new

Star Trek TV show, which will be set before the

next generation. And it's not the JJ Abrams reboot

verse. Thank God for that. Abrams, you got Star

Wars now. You can just go. This is going to be

great. This could be potentially really cool.

Like we're really gonna see the Federation in

its real prime We're gonna see like just so many

interesting things. We're gonna see like how

The cooperation with the Klingons works out during

right we're gonna see I want to say there was

like a Tholian war at some point like in just

before TNG started No, there was a It was a Klingon,

it was none of Klingon, it was the Romulans.

That's why the Enterprise C was destroyed. Because

it had something to do with that. But it also

means that you could see like, well one, they've

got all those red military suits, which to me

were the best suits in Star Trek history. From

like the Undiscovered Country, the TOS films.

It is going to take place after generations,

but before the next generation. So it leaves

a lot of stuff in there. I hope they don't do

like young Picard or any of those those people

in the show. I hope they go for an entirely new

cast or new, you know, new crew, a new ship.

The rumor is it's going to be anthology. So each

season is going to be a new story and potentially

a new crew, even new, new timeline. See I could

see that working really well because if they

did that then it would allow the gaps in the

prime universe to be filled. Yeah, I mean that

weren't weren't taken care of like you could

do uh you could you could do this this era so

you could do you know post -voyager if you wanted

to yeah you could do a post -voyager you could

do a a pre -TOS, but post -Enterprise, like something

in there with like Captain Robert April, you

know, on the Enterprise before Pike had it. Yeah,

like there's so many possibilities. I mean, basically,

it's American Horror Story, but with Star Trek.

And see, I could see that working really well

because it seems like the shows... That seem

that people like right now are the ones that

kind of get a fresh start every season Yeah,

kind of like true detective American Horror Story,

etc, etc Yeah, like I think there's gonna be

some real real real real kind of legs on this

and You and I called it Steve two years ago We

said on future imperfect if they did this it

would work Me yeah, maybe they listened to us

with happy weird That would be awesome. They'd

be like, yeah, we heard this random podcast.

That was us. But yeah, and one of the things

I hope they don't do is randomly cram cameos

in there for the sake of cameos. Yeah, and I

think that would be one of the beautiful things

about if they did the anthology. If they're starting

with the post undiscovered country and pre next

generation. Theoretically, they could get some

of the actors that are still alive, but there

would be no reason for it. Or another thing that

they could do if they wanted to, if they don't

think it's strong enough for a full series, you

could literally, okay, okay, Michael Dorn, you

wanted your Captain Worf, here's a season, go

nuts. Yeah, that would be actually cool too,

but I mean. You could have a time period where

it's after all good things, as if they didn't

fix the timeline. Oh, yeah. Man, you could set

a season in the mirror universe. Because, well,

I mean, not even the mirror universe. You could

have it in the TNG, where they had the triple

nacelle enterprise. Yeah. And then you could

have old man Ryker, old man Picard, old man.

And they would fit perfectly, because their ages

are about where they would be. So they could

still come back and reprise their roles for another

season I would love to see something along the

same lines as Star Trek renegades Give me a section

31 season See and this this would allow them

to switch it up every season and not do the same

thing twice Yeah, I mean like you can even have

like way I I know you and I talked about this

before we can have like that Star Trek medical

drama I mean, you could have like a frontier

doctor going out to the gamma quadrant. Hell,

you can find out what happens to people like,

um, Odo and stuff like that. Like there's so

many possibilities for them to open this up and

really welcome people back into the Trek universe

who felt spurned by the Abrams verse and welcome

people who may be don't want to catch up on 20

years of history, or sorry, on like 50 years

of history. Now, one thing that they could still

do, they could have John Delancey show up. Man,

yeah, he should almost be a reoccurring person

throughout each season. Hell, because he could

play Q, and then you could have, technically,

you could have Data show up too. Yeah, I mean,

that'd be frigging great. I mean, there's so

many possibilities for them to do. If they did

the, sorry for cutting you off, but if they did

the post undiscovered country, they could have

Commodore Wharf, which was Wharf's great grandfather.

Yep. They could have him show up still because

it could be the same actor that played both.

So they could have him show up and be a prominent

part. Like it. If they don't screw this up, it'll

be quite good. I don't like the fact that it's

going to be exclusive to online. Which I still

think is really really gonna hurt it But my teacher

like cuz I had a conversation with him about

this when we were talking about it originally

when he was talking about channels having exclusivity

apps and streaming services and I said You know,

I'm a huge Star Trek fan, but I just can't see

myself paying for CBS all access a monthly charge

when I'm already paying for like Netflix and

then You know a partial cable bill, so I mean

it's I Just as much as I want to see it. I just

don't see myself spending it and And I think

that that could hurt it because it's gonna cost

people extra to see it that may want to see it

on television and He was saying but if you're

a die -hard truckie, you're gonna pay for it

And I said, that may be true. I said, but I just

can't see myself paying for it, which means that

there might be other geeks out there like me

that will not do that as well. But at the same

time, I don't want to see Star Trek falter because

it hasn't been on television in 11 years. I think

that... I'm trying to think. I lost my train

of thought there. I think with the way things

are moving now... A lot of people are cutting

the cord anyway. I still think they should partner

up with a server -side Netflix or Hulu, because

I don't think the Star Trek fan base is large

enough for them to fully prop up. But CBS is

the biggest network that isn't a part of any

of those. Yeah, I don't know. I think it'd be

interesting to see what their subscriber numbers

are afterwards. I mean... I border hopped with

my with my like the with my vpn So i'm gonna

watch this and i'll find some way To pay for

although netflix has finally caught up to me.

So now I no longer have access to american netflix.

Yeah, hulu still works um fuck and Tangent i'm

really mad because the day my vpn stopped working

is the day they added animaniacs to netflix Oh,

that sucks, dude. But now I have... There's a

website Blanchard showed me. It's called... Yep,

he showed it to me the other day. I was like,

oh, my God. And the cool thing about this is

I found out it works on Xbox One. I can stream

all my stuff and just watch it. Oh, my God. Literally,

I don't have to leave the house anymore. I can

watch the Police Academy cartoon. Life fleet

anyway, you know, they have such a huge archive

on that site, too. My god may they live for May

they rain for a thousand years. I'm surprised

it's still online. Honestly If anybody screws

with these people just they're never gonna find

the body That that's all I'm saying. Um, not

that I said, you know what? No, fuck. Yes I support

this illegal crap because they don't have it

available on DVD or blu -ray Some of them some

of them some of them clearly I can watch I'm

the best buy and get this but still whatever.

Um But if you're wanting to watch some to figure

out if you like it or not, yeah like But then

legitimately buy them. Yeah, exactly To jump

back to like Star Trek. I mean, I want to see

what those numbers are are gonna be like and

I hope they're strong enough to support a second

season I hope they're strong enough to support

a second season on broadcast or available via

a more accessible service sort of thing. Because

if you want to stream this on CBS Now, that means

you have to use like your Apple TV or your Roku

or whatever. I want to have as many eyes on this

thing as possible. That's what I want. And as

long as that can happen, then great. I don't

want this thing to be a one -and -done experiment,

and that's it, because it's Trek's 50th anniversary.

I want this to be enough to relaunch the franchise

into relevancy again, because Abrams has done

an up -and -down job so far. Trek 2009 was good.

Into Darkness was shit. This one... Beastie Boy

Sabotage. Well, Beastie Boys has been a staple

of the series. Well, yeah, I mean, clearly, you

know, ill communication and TMG, like, no. But

I think it's Simon Pegg directing this one or

he wrote it. No, he wrote it. Justin Lin is doing.

So I'm directing. It's Fast and the Furious in

space. So I'm OK with Simon Pegg writing it.

I trust him. Justin Lin? Well, it's going to

come down to the writing. Yeah. I mean, we'll

have to wait and see what happens. cautiously

optimistic but we'll wait and see yeah but I

am I am looking forward to this new Star Trek

show so there's there's a lot of possibilities

they could run with this you know they could

do a post -Dominion wars this article says too

so I mean it's you could still have Benjamin

crazy Cisco show up at some point and old lady

Janeway you know So, I mean, there's a lot of

room to play in the Star Trek universe, especially

in the Prime universe. The only thing I wonder

is if they're going to take into consideration

the fact that the Star Trek Online is canon.

Probably not. Because, I mean, even if they did,

there's still plenty of room to play because

most of our familiar crew fades out during the

Star Trek Online timeline. You know, Spock disappears

so that he would be in the alternate universe.

You know, you have Data that's the head of the

Enterprise F. At least initially or the E and

then he goes to then there's the F and then somebody

else is captain So they could actually jump to

the enterprise F If they went past that point

and have you know data show up, you know as a

consultant So I think it becomes head of Starfleet.

I'm not sure But yeah, there's there's a lot

of wiggle room in the Star Trek universe that

this would easily make it much more Fun plus

if they did 13 episode seasons we could get a

lot more for the buck that they're spending.

So any other thoughts you'd like to bring up

soon? I'm trying to think if there's anything

else really this week that kind of grabbed my

attention. Oh, evidently Sony Pictures has officially

announced Men in Black and 21 Jump Street. You

know that that was a credits gag on the second

film, right? Oh yeah, but the fact that it's

legit now. I am so excited for this. This could

be really, really goddamn funny. Well, the thing

that's funny about the 21 Jump Street series

is it's poking fun of itself the entire step

of the way. Yeah, and ultimately, I mean... It's

a giant inside joke. Like, the 21 Jump Street

movies should not have worked. And they did.

I mean, Channing Tatum is one of my favorite...

because he's really damn funny. And Jonah Hill,

when you give him the right script, that guy

is mad. Hell, he's been nominated for Academy

Awards. So clearly, there's gonna be something

good here if the script's good. Now, I hope Tommy

Lee Jones and Will Smith will find a way to cameo

because they'd be stupid not to. Well, I have

a feeling that they'll get them to cameo, at

least one of them. just like they did in the

previous 2021 and 22 Jump Street films where

they've had, you know, somebody from the original

Jump Street show show up. Yeah. I mean, I can't

see them not having Tommy Lee Jones show up for

at least one scene. And Will Smith seems like

the kind of guy. Well, then again, he did say

no to Independence Day, too. So I don't know.

Oh, my God. Please don't have your son, Jayden,

in this. Well, I think it would be funny as if

at the end they see Tommy Lee Jones, you know,

Agent K, sitting in the diner eating a piece

of pie or something like that. And then he says,

you're blocking my view, slick. That would work.

Or maybe if they could. What happened to the

woman? Oh, that's right. She went back to the

doctor's office or whatever, Laura, whatever

the hell her name was. Yeah. Which Men in Black,

that's a franchise I really wish it kept going,

but the third one kind of ran out of steam. Well,

the third one, I think, ramped it up really nice

for those two actors. Yeah. The second one was

points. Yeah. I mean, the third was really good,

though. Yeah. You know what? I remember seeing

Men in Black in theaters. I wasn't saw that in

theaters like four or five times. I actually

remember falling asleep in it once. I just come

back from camping and I was so utterly exhausted.

I was like, what a god of a movie! You want to

know the only movies I've ever seen in the theater

more than once? In the past, like, 15 years?

What? The Pirates of the Caribbean films. Really?

two and three yep i saw them in the theater more

than once i think i saw them two or three times

it's the only time i've ever been to the theater

two or three times but i think at that time when

those came out i had nothing better to do with

my time and there were no other good movies of

that that particular time frame wow steve that's

a new level of sad yeah every other movie i wanted

to see i've seen at least once in the theater

i mean i watch it up teen times between you know

theater and in disc release and then by the time

it's on disc like I watch the crap out of the

disc so like I've already seen Star Wars The

Force Awakens like six times um let me see when

I I know I've seen I I see most of the Marvel

movies in theaters at least twice I remember

seeing The Dark Knight probably about four times

in theater because my friend Pierce was so ridiculously

into it him and my former roommate Dave um But

in the last couple years, the only movie I've

seen in the last year more than once was Star

Wars. Because I saw it once in 3D, then once

in 2D. Much better in 2D. But yeah, that's probably

about the only other thing I kind of wanted to

bring up was that. So looking forward, oh, well,

I guess as a minor note. Ben Affleck has been

confirmed to direct and star in the standalone

Batman movie, which is a really smart move. We

talked about this on Twig. Evidently, for Batman

v. Superman to be considered profitable, anything

less than a billion is catastrophic, considering

how much they've spent on it via marketing and

everything else. Yeah, they haven't even made

their money back yet. Yeah, like I think currently

they're sitting at just under 800 million, 300

million domestically. And that's in over, it's

gonna be a month in like a week and a half. Like

the movie came out on like the 25th. So it hasn't,

it's been out a while now. When you think about

how quickly Star Wars reaches or the Avengers.

Like it's obviously lost its steam and it had

like I think last week it had like 68 drop off

if not higher. Yeah the boss beat it. Yeah and

that's definitely telling. Although it's really

funny though just to watch people defend this

movie like it's their religion. Like I will say

I did enjoy it overall as a whole and like I

said I defend just those three aspects of those

characters like all the stuff that they had in

them except for Martha. But uh, yeah, I I'm not

denying that it's not a good film. It wasn't

entertaining. Yes. Did it make any sense? Not

really, but it was still fun I mean one of the

things and this is my biggest Criticism of it

is the two arguably largest pop culture icons

in history Superman and Batman these names you

can show this you can show these to tribesmen

in the middle of nowhere jungle. And I'm pretty

sure they're gonna recognize the Superman symbol

or the Batman symbol. You show this anywhere

around the world, people know. This movie should

be making well over $2 billion when you really

break it down. My problem with it was it doesn't

inspire hope. When I think of Superman, I expect

that the illegal immigrant Who accepts everybody

wants to save everyone Batman knowing what happened

to his parents is wrong yet going out there every

single night To do the right thing so it never

happens to anybody else Zack Schneider's world

is a needlessly depressing misery slog Not what

I expected of the world's finest That's my main

problem with it and with the Ben Affleck Solo

film If they were to adapt any story, you're

not going to see him do the killing joke because

of the DC animated movie, which is coming out.

Which looks amazing. But if he did Hush, I would

be so on board with that. You know what I want

to see? I want to see villains we haven't seen

yet. You know, Hush would work great. I'd love

to see Clayface. Yeah, I mean, just imagine the

possibilities that opens up. Or give me... I

mean, ultimately, I mean, you'd have to jiggle

it around. But give me an adaptation of the video

game Arkham Knight. Have him fight Red Hood.

Or the Arkham Knight himself. I don't care. I

just think that costume design looks cool. But

the possibility is there for this to be really

awesome. So Ben Affleck, he's obviously proved

it with The Town and Argo. He's knocked it out

of the park with the Batman role. So I don't

think we have a whole hell of a lot to worry

about there in terms of what he'll bring to the

DCU. But in terms of the other movies, I hear,

despite what people are saying, the Suicide Squad

reshoots are not going well. I actually have

an inside track on that. And the Wonder Woman

movie, which is well into probably editing by

now, it's supposedly not a very fun film either.

I think DC backed the wrong horse by making their

movies so grim and dark. I mean, that's, I mean,

grim and dark works for a character like the

Punisher works for a character to a certain extent,

Batman. Grim and dark does not scream Superman

to me. Well, they're trying to reinvent him too

much. Yeah, and that's what I want the DCU to

recognize. It's not everything has to be depressing.

I mean, I would love to see an action pack, not

necessarily dark and grim, Aquaman. Aquaman is

the movie I'm the most looking forward to outside

of Wonder Woman. Because everybody realizes he

was kind of crap before and now they're gonna

beef him up and well the fact that everybody

looked at him and saw fucking super friends and

Now you look at that's Jason. Um Mamoa that's

Cal Drago from Game of Thrones man. That's that

guy's a boss He should be wicked in this week

if the scripts good and just to have him fight

say like Black Manta or tiger shark or something

could be really, really, really awesome or have

the battle for Atlanta storyline be the big thing.

So there's some really, really awesome chances

for DC to bounce back. I think Suicide Squad

will be really telling of how the public's gonna

react to the DCU because... If Civil War, Marvel

hits it out of the park like they're expect -

Oh, they're going to. Like, DC, they're going

to get backed into a corner sooner than they

think. And I think even the fanboys are going

to have to take off the blinders and say, hey,

man, maybe we shouldn't have trusted this Zack

Snyder kid to run our universe. Now, admittedly,

I'd like 300. I really liked Watchmen. But how

do you screw up adaptations, right? They were

already written, he brought his style to it,

and it worked. When you give him his own stuff,

you get sucker punch. So, I'm worried, and I

don't like that. I really want something good

to come out of this, and at least Ben Affleck

will deliver something good, providing they don't

interfere with him too much. Mike, bro. Yep.

No, I'm totally in agreement with you. I'm a

huge DC fanboy, but I can't defend it. And that

sucks, too, because one of the things that broke

my heart about BVS, a friend of mine, a very

big YouTuber by the name of Angry Joe, he reviewed

it. And I've hung out with this guy in person.

I've talked to Superman with him once or twice.

And to see a guy look so defeated. about a movie

he should be so excited for. That breaks my heart.

And there's a meme on Facebook that sums it up

perfectly. It shows the Richard Donner Superman.

It shows Clark talking to Pa Kenton, like, son,

you have great power. You can help these people.

You can bring hope to the world. Then it shows

John Schneider and Tom Welling from Smallville

having a very similar conversation. Zack Schneider,

Kevin Costner, Henry Cavill. Should I just let

those people die? Maybe. You see the problem

here? That perfectly sums up DC's problems right

now. Reinventing the wheel is cool when it works.

Reinventing the wheel and now it's on fire is

very, very bad. Yeah, one of the topics we'll

talk about in the coming weeks is the rebirth.

I'm still digging into research on it. I got

that free book, the 96 page free book today.

Yeah. I went and picked it up because I want

legitimately to see some of what they're trying

to do. So, yeah, I'm trying to figure out what

they're changing, what's happening. You know,

some of the characters are, you know, they're

canceling comics, they're rebooting, they're...

It's a reboot within a reboot. So it's getting

really weird now, but But yeah, so Anything you

want to bring up before we close out? Oh And

I go to my next segment say well Hoping to get

back in the studio this weekend as I've mentioned

before I've now turned nerd news Into going from

Fridays on to just generally on the weekend.

So I'm not so rushed anymore. I'm hoping to get

back into the vibe of recording botched role

I Admittedly had a bit of a depression about

it. I think I've kind of come to a revelation

with it So I'm hoping to share maybe how role

-playing saved my life might potentially be a

topic for the weekend But also like I said these

words are terrible or terrible warriors calm.

I'm always doing stuff with them so you can right

now I'm playing in the Star Wars game and I think

the next game, like I said, the two games I'm

planning are Dungeon Dragons Ravenloft, which

will be for something we're announcing, hopefully

in the next couple of weeks, and the Dragon Ball

Z Sailor Moon, potentially with Kamen Rider in

it. So we'll see what happens with that. So that's

pretty much what I'm doing. This week in Geek

.net, of course, you can hear... Me over on AM

640 in Toronto on video game sophistry Sundays

at 7 p .m. If not, you can go to AM 640's website.

Think of 640toronto .com slash VGS. My reviews

are over there. The last game I reviewed was

Quantum Break for the Xbox One and Windows 10.

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of things to come. In the coming weeks. I will

be having two topics that I want to cover one

of them being the DC Comics previews which debuted

some of the new designs for the DC Universe rebirth

the life death and the threat no one saw coming

You know it goes with their character designs

the new storylines the new character bios all

that fun stuff and how the Justice League has

been kind of shaken up a little bit. I'm kind

of interested to see what they do with this story

arc, but obviously I'm not all the way through

the previews issue yet, the 96 page free thing

for DC Comics. I'm wanting to kind of delve into

it a little bit more before I actually make any

comments about it though. I just find it funny

though that we've had three different DC Comics

universes in the last like six years because

in 2010 they ended well actually 2011 they ended

the standard continuity and then rebooted to

the new 52 and Or maybe was 2010, but either

way they rebooted and then now they're rebooting

again so Will say that I enjoyed new 52 when

it first started because it was a new starting

off point However when it progressed and it got

closer to where it's at now. I just I haven't

cared Not saying that the stories haven't had

a few good ones here or there But I just I don't

see that many of them being that actually that

great that I've read However, I'm hoping that

that trend changes with the rebirth saga So I'm

gonna be picking up the issue ones again. Just

like I did when new 52 came out Back in 2011

so yeah look for that I'll have that little bit

soon coming up also There's there's another bit

that I've been wanting to kind of tackle and

There there's that that thing with the Content

creators or people you know in general just It

has to do with like so what are your thoughts

on on people using like patreon go fund me and

like all this stuff to do Like I kind of want

to hear both sides of it like the good and the

bad about it because I kind of want to talk about

it But I want a little bit more discussion points

and counterpoints on either side of it So if

you have any thoughts just kind of drop those

in the episode post in addition to that I thought

I'd let everybody know I just pre -ordered the

transformers masterpiece optimus primal and With

shipping, it costs like 130 bucks, which is kind

of a bit much, but I definitely am looking forward

to this figure. I really want it because it's

Beast Wars. I was going to get the Titan's Return

Scourge, which is like 30 bucks, but unfortunately

with shipping, because the website I was buying

it from, Because I had the in -store credit from

the previous figures I traded in I was two cents

short of getting free shipping And I really didn't

want to spend over the 150 Because I already

had a hundred dollar credit, so I didn't really

want to put any more money in there and So unfortunately

Maybe the scourge was like 20 bucks Something

like that. Maybe it was I don't know anyways

it I still had Was still two cents short and

there was nothing that was like a couple bucks

that I can just tack on To get it over the the

free shipping allotment. So Yeah, it kind of

sucked on that end but I am looking forward to

that and when I get it I'm gonna do an unboxing

of the figure and do a review of it On the video

altered geek which I will embed on the podcast

web post version Maybe I'll do an Altered Geek

Live coming up soon. I'm kind of really wanting

to try out Blogtalk Radio's Altered Geek, or

not Altered Geek Live, their kind of live call

-in type setup. So if anybody's interested in

that kind of a setup, I could try doing that,

or maybe a Google Hangouts again. I'm really

wanting to toy with coming back to having some...

some fun, some community stuff and maybe show

off some of the figures that I've got and maybe

if you guys want to join in we can do that as

well. Kind of swap stories and show our collection

and or aspects of our collection. It'd be something

fun to try. I'm probably going to be having a

guest next week maybe for a short segment. It

just kind of depends. So yeah, we'll be back

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