Arrow and Flash Season Trailers, Gotham Blu-ray Review

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Geek Unlimited episode 105. I'm your host, Steve

Megatron Phillips, and joining me this week is...

JFJ on Mike. We're not sure for how long, but

he'll be here. Actually, was it episode 99 that

I was on? Because I know I missed 100. It could

have been on 101. No, I was not on, I don't remember.

Nope, that was Dodd. That was Dodd. I know I

missed 100 because I had listened to 100. And

it's one of those things where I'm in a huge

transitional point in my life, you know. My mom

passed away a few months ago and I... currently

have roommates and i'm trying to get out of that

so i found an apartment but i don't actually

go down there until next week to sign the lease

and pay the first month's rent and get the keys

and all that stuff so i'm going to be moving

soon so it's the one of the reasons why the last

four months uh... that my podcasting you know

and most most of the listeners should know i've

been doing this for in total seven almost seven

years now and i'm a machine You know, I look

at podcasting as being a fun thing But I also

am worker or workhorse at it and it pretty much

takes up Anywhere between 12 and 16 hours of

my day every day Whether it's posting stuff on

the site or whether it's doing the social media

stuff or whether it's actually recording or editing

and with roommates You kind of can't do all that

all the time, but once I live by myself the The

machine will be recharged and the content will

keep on coming Yep, so this week you got attacked

by a shark and it's not even shark week So I'm

getting the kid ready for bed in case people

don't know because they know you have two kids

Well, obviously it's not the younger. Hey, you

never know The little one can't move very far.

The younger one is is not lethal at this point

The older one on the other hand is rambunctious

all the time especially around bedtime and he

decided that it was time to Hop to attention

With with a little bit of Jackie Chan kung fu

fighting cuz this little Monster went from flat

on the ground to standing straight up in like

two seconds There was no indication. He was going

to move all of a sudden. He was up in the process.

I'm leaned over him and Because I'm putting his

pants on and getting him ready and everything

and I was getting ready to read him a book and

The top of his head smacks my eye socket Like

right on that bone that like overhangs over your

eye like that part and with the full force of

the top of his head and I thought he was going

to cry if it weren't for the fact that I was

clutching my eye going like and yelling and then

He's like it's okay. I'll kiss it making better.

I'm like you stay the hell away from my head

and You know I of course let him because it made

him feel better, but then I went down and told

my wife and I was like You got to read him a

book. I said I cannot I says I can't see out

of my eyeball and My eye was so swollen I had

to put an ice pack on it and I held it there

for about three or four hours and It's went down

enough, and it's changed various shades of colors

over the last week I'm almost back to normal

eye color Should be back to normal by like Tuesday

But the swelling went down like four days after

Managed to hide it through most of that with

my sunglasses. So that was nice. But yeah, he

He destroyed my eye for a couple days. I Ladies

and gentlemen, I don't mean to laugh at Steve's

pain, but I'm sorry He first told me this story

off air and I just could not stop laughing because

it's just so good little kids ladies never know

what the hell they're gonna do no uh... the whole

time you're telling me the story and i'm imagining

yours your oldest son's head being a giant softball

because when i was uh... thirteen or fourteen

my dad worked for a uh... charter bus company

here in louisville kentucky miller transportation

uh... they had a a softball team and my dad played

first base and somebody hit a pop -up and my

dad thought he had his glove up the next thing

you know he's on the ground clutching the whole

left side of his face this softball and as most

people should know softballs are I'm exaggerating

here but ten times the size is as a baseball

so if some batter is gonna do a pop -up with

a softball and it hits you smack dab in the left

side of your face he the the bone right under

uh his eye the the one like if you're if you

touch your nose and then trace your finger up

to the curve it's where your eye curves at the

bottom there so it's the exact opposite of what

you're talking about that bone broke his nose

broke and it was like oh my god oh but it was

just In hindsight, it's just kind of so funny

because my dad ended up laying on the ground

and he asked the boss, didn't I have my glove

up? And they're like, nope. It's just so damaging

when it comes to children and sports. And in

this case, your son wasn't even playing a sport

or neither were you. it's like hey he pulled

a t2 kind of move because you said he uh... he

he pretty much moved without having the notion

that he was going to own yeah there was no concept

he was going to fly out i i said to you one you

told me this the first time reminded me of one

of the jeff dunham specials where he's talking

about his daughters and his youngest daughter

at the time mackenna she uh... she has this really

warped mind like Jeff does and she had they had

one of those retractable leashes so they got

the leash on the on the little Chihuahua dog

she keeps you know setting the thing letting

it up setting the thing letting it up and then

she got it to extend all the way through set

it and let it go the leash then began to chase

the Chihuahua That's all I can think of and and

I the reason why I'm saying this is that I had

asked you Did you film there was this was a camera

anywhere near your vicinity because all I thought

of was Jeff. I'm saying oh My god somebody get

the video camera. We could win ten thousand bucks

watch what happens Oh poor Steve ladies and gentlemen

Yeah Yeah, I Yeah had that happen anyways on

the side just started a couple of new classes

Superhero class version two is almost done It's

been fun being a coach on that and then also

with the the college courses I've Got the most

Interesting classes they should help as far as

the podcasting and then I'll have some experiences

Well, there have been two other people in the

classes though that were in my cinematography

class So that should be nice. Plus it's the same

teacher. So I know how it works It's all The

secondary class the aesthetics class basically

we have to write 200 word uh... uh... reports

basically on things we watch anyway polo uses

so your homework is to watch tv watch movies

play video games he says and as we go through

the aesthetics each week here to write about

whatever you so choose but it has to pertain

to that aesthetic that we're talking about in

class so right right uses so that's right i'm

telling you to go watch something for for homework.

He says, no excuses. And not a lot of teachers

are going to do that to you. Go watch something

for homework. This past week, because this obviously

will be out Friday the 11th of September, I noticed

hashtags on Facebook more than I do on Twitter.

I'm the opposite of you. I still like Twitter.

I've been on Twitter since 2008 or whatever,

however long it's been, but I'm on Facebook more.

I interact more on Facebook, and I do news posts

and whatever else more on Facebook than I do

on Twitter. And one of the hashtags that I saw

this past week was Stop Suicide, and it was National

Suicide Prevention Week. And I don't mean to

bring the show down at all, and I'm probably

going to exit after I talk about this, but Yeah,

you know People think depression is some people

in general think depression is just an excuse

for Whatever the hell is going on in your life.

I can tell you right now. I had I've always suffered

from depression, but there's been two major instances

in my life where it's really hit me really hard

and it's really debilitating Was when I was 14

I was living with my dad and my then stepmother.

I actually tried committing suicide when I was

14. I'm not going to go into the details of how

I tried, because it's really stupid at this point.

But it's not an answer, folks. If you feel like

you need to end your life, talk to a friend,

talk to somebody, talk to a family member. I'll

have Steve put out the number once I get it at

the end of the show. Maybe there is a suicide

prevention hotline. You can call that and talk

to somebody. Talk to people if you're feeling

that way because it's not the answer. I mean,

I went through the whole, uh, you know, people

will know that I had brought my mom down to back

down to Kentucky in December of 2012. And I had

recorded a little podcast whether when we first

got back down here. And from 2012 and almost

up until she died, she kept saying, oh, I just

want to die. I want to commit suicide. And it

drives me crazy. It drove me crazy when she kept

saying that. I'm like, but it's not the answer.

It's not going to solve anything. Yes, my mom

has passed away. And yes, she is no longer in

the pain that she was in when she was alive.

Being suicidal is in my personal opinion has

nothing to do with this podcast or the GCR underneath

It's it's a cop -out and it it's just not the

answer So if you ever have any feelings of depression

find someone to talk to people will listen I

only wanted to bring this up on alter gate this

week And I'm not like I said not trying to bring

them down the show Because I noticed that oh,

hey this events going on. It's supposed to be

stop suicide national national suicide prevention

week You laughing at I wasn't laughing my allergies

are messing with me because the change of season

yay So I just wanted to get that message out

there folks that There are people out there that

can help you your family can help you your friends

can help you and you know Just find someone to

talk to people will listen So what geeky stuff

do you get on the agenda this time I think I

don't know probably something to do with arrow

season four or flash season two or Well, of course

you guess right because those are Yeah, so I

mean I guess we can go in that route Since you

brought them up sure Which one do you want to

tackle first? Because obviously the trailers

came out this yeah, I I just saw a link to the

new trailer for flash So I haven't seen I've

seen one trailer, but I don't know if like as

of right now as of this recording I just saw

another link from coming soon net that there's

another trailer So I'm not sure if that's a different

one or not They have one that it's it ends with

a like a blue flash raining at the end But yeah,

I saw that one haven't already seen yeah, I saw

that one there was one Oh, man, where is it?

I can't it's one where you get Jay Garrick, right

actually showing his face and I thought that

was pretty neat having him actually show up and

then Harrison Wells is you know, of course back

and everybody so I mean they said that you're

gonna see some of these people kind of show up

from alternate universes, okay as we're recording

this 30 minutes ago and extended the flash season

2 trailer has arrived from coming soon dot net

so there is a new trailer out as of 30 minutes

ago thursday night september 10th um i have i

have not i have not seen it yet well they just

it might have been they yeah well everybody just

posted it i i just noticed it now is what i'm

saying so far I don't know what to think of the

Flash Season 2. I'm excited for it. I love the

first season. I'm excited to watch the second

season because I want to see where they take

the universe. As far as Arrow goes, I think it's

fairly apparent that I have been severely negative

about Arrow when it came to Season 3. Because

season 3 was really friggin dark. I mean you

might as well have just dressed them up batsuit

really I mean come on and They promised you know

by the end of season 3 in the season finale they

said oh next year it's gonna get so much brighter

and all this and all that and everything else

and Like okay, and I've seen the new trailers

and I'm somewhat interested in Arrow again uh...

so far i would say season one season two i was

really interested season three obviously i dropped

off and i'm gonna try it for season four if arrow

season four doesn't impress me by the fifth episode

i'll probably drop it again and then catch it

you know i'll i'll marathon it when season four

eventually hits netflix or something um... but

i've kind of unless there shows that i'm really

invested invested in i've kind of stopped watching

the weekly like Because I usually because I have

a DVR, you know, I'll DVR the show but it might

be like, okay flash airs on Tuesdays If I'm not

in the mood to watch a flash episode or an arrow

episode or whatever show It doesn't have to just

be those two could be the blacklist It could

be anything if I'm not in the mood to watch it

on the night that it airs I'll just leave it

on the DVR and and watch it like four or five

sit. I may end up watching it a week later I'm

There's only a few. Oh, go ahead. We've kind

of gone to that period more so because we, you

know, I mean, having kids, you have limited time

to watch some of these shows when they're live.

So, I mean, usually we binge watch on the weekend,

but some of the shows we catch them as they air,

you know, like The Flash, we'll catch it while

it airs. There's a lot of shows that some of

them, like we'll watch separately. Like I watch

Blacklist on my own later after the fact and

I watch a couple of those other shows like that.

Yeah. So I mean between the two of us it's just

it's a balancing act of all of that you know

so I mean it I totally get it you know you you

pick and choose what you're gonna watch live

and then some of it you just have to watch Marathon

later like I'm gonna do that with heroes and

continue them. just because we're still watching

the other stuff. Because I'm somewhat lazy but

at the same time I want to watch the show as

it's live, I will wait until like 30 minutes

or 45 minutes into an hour long show so that

way I can actually fast forward the commercials

on the DVR because none of the cable companies

at this point have actually been able to invent

the technology to actually fast forward live

television. It has to be a DVR program in order

to fast -forward. Well, not necessarily. You

can do live television. The thing is, is if you

pause it at the beginning of the show, and then

you walk away. Yeah, that's the same thing as

DVRing it. I mean, yeah, you're right. You can.

But I'm saying, as the show is happening, you

cannot fast -forward. I've tried. It doesn't

work. That'll never happen. Yeah, I know. I don't

know, we live in an instantaneous world, so who

knows. But yeah, I know the Flash season 2, Arrow

season 4, Flash season 2 I'm really excited,

Arrow season 4 I'm cautiously optimistic I'll

say. I'm more excited for season 4 than I was

season 3, same thing with like Gotham season

2. I'm a lot more enthusiastic for it, not only

because I managed to watch the first season,

I did get that screener and it's really good.

More so because I don't have to see the commercials.

I can jump through everything. It's a lot nicer

overall of a package. And then all the kind of

behind the scenes stuff that I get to see on

the discs, it kind of put it in perspective so

it made it easier for me to watch it. I'm glad

Mrs. Smith is gone. I think that was one of my

biggest problems with season one of Gotham. I

didn't give a crap about Fish Mooney at all.

Well, she ain't at, you know, I wouldn't count

her as dead yet. I mean, they can always bring

her back later. Well, I've read news articles

where Pinkett Smith said she's done. Yeah, she

said she's done, but that doesn't mean anything.

Well, no, that's true. They could just figure

and have somebody else come back, I mean, and

play her, so I mean, who knows. That's true.

But you're also going to have Michael Chiklis

in there, so. That's going to be interesting.

Am really looking forward to that because anyone

that has seen Michael tickles in any television

shows Stuff like the commission or the shield

or no ordinary family for me when it comes to

Michael tickles He is Vic Mackie from the shield

and he is the only Hollywood actor who can actually

play and get and do a good good version of Ben

Graham the thing. Yeah, so Yep But that's what's

going on with me this week and my thoughts. Yay!

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to the show. Hello and welcome back to AlternGeek

Unlimited. I'm your host Steve Megatron Phillips.

You may be wondering why I'm re -introing it

after the break. Well, unfortunately, I didn't

feel like recording after TF2 and Mike got offline,

so I also had a, to kind of preface this, a new

video card. So, in doing this, I needed to test

out the video card. because everything I've read

up on it states that it's better than my old

one but it's also it's better than my old one

but it's not better if that makes any sense So

I it's my original video card is a g -force 8800

gts 640 megabyte Didn't seem like a lot My dad

actually bought that card When it was new, so

I'm sure it was like $600 or $500 or something

when it was new in any case He had that in his

system for a couple years late three four years,

and then I received it probably in 2010 And I've

had it since It's worked great and it still works

great. The only problem is is with modern gaming

like Battlefield 4 for instance I'm having issues

Playing the game because it keeps crashing. It

keeps thinking that It keeps thinking that it's

a 512 megabyte card which to me is strange being

that it's it's been It works fine, and then all

of a sudden like during the game. It'll crap

out on me So I decided to look for a new video

card and in the process I came up with For one

I can only afford to spend like 50 60 bucks on

video card I Can't afford these state -of -the

-art ones my dad's actually currently running

like a raid like crossfire type thing He's got

two video cards daisy chain together with a radiator

system to liquid cool them So, I mean, he's got

a really nice setup. Don't get me wrong, I wish

I could afford that, I just can't. The other

thing is, they gave me like an 850 or 840 or

something megabyte graphics card. I would use

it, except it doesn't fit in my case, because

I have one of those like... It's like a baby

AT type of... Micro ATX type it's a smaller tower.

It's not one of those full -size like stand up

to the top of your desk towers So I like it Because

it's small and I don't really need all that much

And also I got a memory card reader in the process

so that I can actually It's a 72 and one for

any SD card base basically and so Back to the

video card. I got a GeForce GT 7200 or not 7200

720 and it's a 2 gigabyte card, but the thing

that Because I'm not very like I'm knowledgeable

in computers like when it comes to software and

getting things to work and whatnot but some of

the hardware kind of baffles me sometimes and

The the graphics card that I picked out It has

DDR3 memory, whereas the old video card has GDDR3,

so it's graphics DDR. Also, there's a difference

in processing power, memory bandwidth, and stuff

like that. So in that sense, the older card is

actually a better card still. It actually dropped

my Windows rating from a... Now mind you my hard

drive is a 5 .9 % or Rating on the Windows rating

scale that they do when you do the properties

on my computer But uh it's because my hard drive.

I don't have a solid state So it's not going

to be you know 7 .2 or 7 .9. Which is the maximum

I find it weird that 7 .9 is the maximum but

again, I don't know so it's my video card because

of my new one it bumped it to Because it goes

by your lowest scores which your score for your

whole system is I'm 7 .2 across the board other

than the hard drive which is 5 .9 and the graphics

card which is 5 .3 which my old graphics card

I got like a six point something So I mean it's

not that much of a difference, but it's still

it kind of baffles me that that's the case And

I can run rate in my system because the motherboard

I picked out I can do two video cards of the

same kind the only problem is I got to find two

that are compatible with that I don't have that

kind of money, so I had to buy that to kind of

give myself a slight upgrade now it also The

old card was made in 2006 the the new ones made

in 2013 so it's got a lot of the newer 3d technology

and a lot of the new anti -aliasing Graphics

and whatnot so it can it can handle a lot of

the newer technologies, but at the same time

It's not as good of a card somehow But Any case

I played the game last night in place of recording

this episode And the graphics actually were pretty

crisp It was very realistic and a lot of this

stuff because I pumped up the the graphics power

a lot higher And it's I was pretty blown away

by it. It's not moving any slower I didn't crash

out like I've been doing it actually works really

nice. So I mean I'm happy with my $50 investment

in a video card. It's a EVGA brand so So yeah,

there's that and then My computer actually supports

up to 32 gigabytes of memory so at some point.

I'm gonna upgrade that from 8 to probably 12

or 16. I I have one more slot left so in any

case, I'm gonna try and do that but So yeah,

just a little upgrades to my computer. It's been

nice So that aside Should get into some of the

news All righty, so we pick up this journey into

geekdom Well, I think to start it out cuz there's

there's some Some of the articles I'm gonna cover

some of them not Just because of time and purpose

of it well Comcast is rolling out a new charge

for home internet users. Yes, that's right. If

you go over 300 megabyte, or not megabyte, that

wouldn't take very long, 300 gigabytes on your

bandwidth throughout the month. In particular

states, which that'll be in the links below,

they're rolling out this thing where if you go

over 300 gig for your high speed internet cap,

They're going to start charging you $10 per 15

gigabytes or something to that degree. It's going

to get costly is all I'm going to say. They're

going to start doing what the phone companies

have been doing for years in bandwidth capping

and charging you for more and charging you for

more for unlimited. It's 30 bucks for unlimited

on top of whatever you're paying for your bill

now. So they are giving you a three month like

three months of free overages basically. So if

you have a couple months here or there that get

free overages, they'll let you know that they

won't charge you. But if you do go over from

then on, they're going to charge you. It's going

to be kind of redonkulous, but they got to make

up the money somehow, I guess, since nobody wants

their cable service because it sucks. And then

also like kind of getting into some tech stuff.

I'm not a big Apple iPhone user. I know that

they've announced all the iPhone 6 stuff and

that it's going to be the same price as the old

phones and whatnot. I'm not a huge fan of Apple

anyway, so I'll probably wait for one of the

guys that are actually more knowledgeable in

the iPhone to actually talk about it. Pokemon

Go revealed for Nintendo's iPhone strategy. I

love how every company develops only for iPhone.

You know, there are Android users that are actually

even in the market than the iPhone. Like, Pokemon

Go was supposed to be at a major departure in

terms of gameplay. Oh, I guess they are moving

to Android 2, but it's primarily going to be

iPhone. That comes into play later in another

article, but... Pokemon Go is supposed to be

a combination of Niantic's real -world gaming

platform and one of the most obviously beloved

franchises in pop culture. It's supposed to be

played on the smartphone with an optimal wearable

Pokeball. Players are alerted to virtual Pokemon

near their actual location, leading them to four

distinct phases of play seen in the trailer,

which is also in that article that is below.

Players collect Pokémon in the world about them,

trade collected Pokémon with friends directly

on smartphones, battle other Pokémon, and finally

attend timed battle public battles in specific

locations. It goes on and on. It's not mentioned

whether it'll work with 3DS or Wii U yet. So,

yeah. Think that it'll be kind of interesting

to see how this plays out because depending on

it I mean let's put it this way Nintendo's gaming

hasn't really been all that I mean it's been

good, but it's not been all that enticing The

fact that they're jumping to smartphones to help

market some of their properties is actually kind

of brilliant because then we get to this phase

where You're gonna see a lot more actual games

come to the phones rather than all these Kind

of half pint bullshit games that we've got to

this point, and I'm saying that being nice I

don't play any of those games that are on the

phones now. I used to play a bunch of games.

I just for how Limited that all is I just don't

care That being said I played like injustice

gods on the phone and so on so I mean It's it's

fun if you find the right games, but I think

this will really lend itself Well to this plus

it gives people an excuse to actually move and

play the game, which is again another Nintendo

ism So I kind of look forward to seeing what

they're gonna do with it So anyways, there's

a video sharing startup Vivity Which basically

wants to be the next vine. I'm only linking to

this because they sent me an invite for a alpha

release of this software. The unfortunate part

is, again, it's iPhone only and I have an Android

phone because I, again, I'm not a fan of Apple.

Personal preference, I just don't like Apple.

The main point about it is it's supposed to integrate

into like Twitter, kind of like, it's an interface

much like Instagram. Just from what the article

I'm reading has about it and what I've looked

into Because obviously I get a little bit of

an insider stuff on it but not enough to actually

play with the stuff because I'd again the iPhone

thing but It has you record or import six two

-second clips or whatnot you can pull in videos

that are on your phone Pardon me I'm recording

this early in the morning. But anyways, unless

you add filters and prepackaged sets, you can

customize everything. You can give it saturation,

temperature, highlights, shadows, sharpness,

and apply a vignette to it. I think it'd be really

cool. I'm just not sure about it entirely, because

again, I can't try it out. It looks interesting

though. I would give it a shot if I actually

had an iPhone So maybe they'll come up with an

Android version and I'll get to use it Wonder

Woman is going to finally start beginning shooting

in November For Wonder Woman 75th anniversary,

so That'll be awesome. I think that it'll be

great once they get this first female superhero

Out on film considering she's had you know the

the couple of TV shows or whatever, but it's

I'm really surprised. They haven't tried to do

a female superhero sooner And I don't mean like

trying to do like that shitty Catwoman movie.

I just I'm really surprised like you think Marvel

would have at least taken advantage of the fact

they have Black Widow I know that they put her

in a lot of other films with all the other male

stars, but and I'm not partial to any of them.

I don't particularly care for a lot of the characters

in these superhero movies. I'm very narrow -sighted

on who I like, and that's about it. Not saying

I don't like the female characters because I

actually like them a lot more than I like some

of the... I would love to see a Wonder Woman

movie. I could give two S's less about an Aquaman

movie. I just don't care about Aquaman. Wonder

Woman's always kind of intriguing because she's,

you know, this tactician and brilliant, strong

woman that, you know, is basically an equal to

Superman. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to this.

I'm also looking forward to seeing what they

do. I know that they're bringing in Agent Carter.

They're going to have a Black Widow, you know,

because they were hinting at the Black Widow

program that was earlier on. so They're saying

that there's gonna be more black widow and in

Agent Carter season 2 so it's gonna be you know

I know that's kind of a weird Tangent, but I

was talking about you know the female characters

anyway, so There is that Bot con I I'm gonna

cover this again this particular part About Bot

con being that it's gonna be a transformer related

thing and I'm gonna record a show for that 2016

is going to be in Louisville, Kentucky. I was

just in the one in Chicago for 2015. Really awesome.

I still... I enjoyed TFCon more for the fact

that I knew a lot more people. I mean, granted,

I did see a lot of people at BotCon than I know,

so that was cool too. To me, both the shows were

equal, but I enjoyed the guest... Aspect of it

more at TF con because like Scott McNeil got

I mean I know he's an exception to the rule But

I got to talk to him for ten minutes You know

while I was gonna use autograph in his picture

I mean aside from those like I got to actually

talk to the guy which was awesome And then a

lot of the a lot of the Panels I actually got

to attend at TF con whereas bot con because you

know it's so large The fact that you know a lot

of stuff was going on at the same time as other

things it was hard for me to do all that So like

I said the the whole bot kind of thing I I Think

TFG one might might be able to go to that one

because it's actually in its hometown I Know

it's in April I would try to do it but I don't

know if I'm gonna get the funding to do that

plus I'd have to take my family along if I'm

gonna drive all that way so they'd have to have

stuff to do too and that transformer scene isn't

exactly my wife's forte but I I would go again

I don't think some of the pricing was that great

because I think that a lot of it was a ripoff

as far as the the pricing compared to TFCon but

You know, that being said, I still enjoyed the

fun I had at the convention, so. Likewise, TFCon.

Again, sorry for the phone. I'm sure that was

very faint in the background, but still, I'm

recording at work on my phone. I need to actually

buy a... So, yeah. Well... We've already talked

Flash. We've already talked Arrow. I mean, obviously

Mike was right. There was a Flash trailer that

came out last night that had Jay Garrick and

more footage. So that was kind of cool. I think

the Flash is like my favorite superhero television

show at this point. I really enjoy Arrow. Don't

get me wrong. I really love Arrow too. Season

three was a little murky for me there. I didn't

really care for it all that much, but I think

with season four they're gonna really pick it

up and run with it. But Flash, I find that I'm

really enjoying that show because I know enough

about the Flash to know what's going on, know

who the people are and that kind of stuff, but

I don't know enough, kind of like in the way

Arrow, the thing with Arrow that pisses me off

is the fact that a lot of it's like Batmanisms.

But, I mean, granted, he doesn't have that many

of his own, like, rogues, as far as I'm concerned.

As far as I know, I'm probably wrong. I'm not

well -versed in Green Arrow. I know more about

Flash. But, you know, it's just a really well

-done show. I really enjoy Flash. Agent's a shield.

It has me pumped just for some of the stuff that's

coming up in season... Four yeah, it's four Three

or four I don't know I can't keep track I know

that it's it's yeah I'm looking forward to see

what they do with Colson's arm in that but that's

neither here nor there and Gotham I know I panned

Gotham in and I got feedback for this in my review

of the the blu -ray set for Gotham I got kind

of panned because I bashed the crap out of the

show in remote control. And then when I got the

review done, I didn't bash it. I gave it an almost

perfect score, like a 4 .5 or, you know, 9 overall

out of 10. So the reasoning I did that is because

I wasn't basing it purely off the show. Was basing

it off of the fact that it's It's it's just the

the blu -ray itself Was really well done The

fact that it's a four disk set the fact that

the menu is interactive has slide in slide out

menus depending on the area you're trying to

investigate The fourth disk has special features

and then it tells you what disk the other like

for like deleted scenes or outtakes are on. It

tells you what disc it is, so it makes you pop

the disc out and put the other disc in at that

point in the menu. But I really enjoyed the deleted

scenes. I really enjoyed the kind of behind the

scenes kind of how, you know, the building of

Gotham and the game of Cobblepot and the gag

reel. I love gag reels. I don't know why. I think

it's just because I like seeing the goofiness

that goes on on set and the fact that, you know,

they're real people. You know, because you don't

see actors and actresses, you don't see them

as real people unless you actually see them in

a real setting or like in a talk show or in a

gag reel because, you know, they're pre -programmed

to play these characters so brilliantly that

you don't even think of them as anything other

than that character. So I love seeing that kind

of like veil into the, you know, the persona

of the actor. So I gave it really good scores

because the Blu -ray itself was actually really

nice. The special features were great, pretty

loaded up. You even had character profiles and

everything else. Menu structure is pretty good.

The cover and casing was really good. The show

itself, I gave a higher score than probably it

deserved, but... After subsequent watching because

I've had to watch it numerous times for shows

or reviews It's gotten better. There's still

aspects that drive me nuts, and I'm not saying

I don't fast forward through the show because

I do It's just It's it's gotten better in some

regards because I have the full picture to put

it together So like things are kind of coming

into focus as you you know just like with any

subsequent watching of anything You pick up on

different subtleties that are in the show, planted

in different spots that you don't think mean

anything, but they do. So it's just little things

that you pick up on it. Because we're watching,

my wife and I are watching Heroes right now,

in prep for Heroes Reborn. And we're in the carnival

section of Heroes, which I don't really like

it. It's at the beginning of it. Like, you know,

a hero discovered he can time travel again and

whatnot. Nathan's discovering he's weird and

Parkman's discovered Silas in his head so I mean

I Didn't like that season all that much but we're

getting through it so that we can watch the 15

minutes of the or 20 minutes of The YouTube videos

of heroes were born that take place between the

heroes and heroes were born so Yeah, I I'm picking

up on different subtleties throughout the show

that I never caught that lead to later and whatnot

So I mean it's all connected I'm not playing

the DC card or or a Marvel card where it's all

connected So yeah, that's why I gave the the

review of what I gave it it had nothing to do

with really I mean it didn't really have anything

to do with the story had to do with the fact

that The production and the the blu -ray were

actually really well done Know that I've bored

the hell out of you on that Engine there Surprisingly

Warner Brothers wants more Batman in Batman vs

Superman and less Superman Which doesn't really

sit well with me. I mean don't get me wrong.

I love Batman He's my number one favorite character.

I don't I don't like any other superhero more

than I like Batman. The only thing that bothers

me about this is they've set Superman as their

tent pole, their centerpiece for this new DC

universe, and they've already flip -flopped it

to Batman. And I get, Batman's been around a

long time in this universe. He's skilled, he's

gruff, he's, you know, bitter. I get what they're

doing here, but it doesn't make much sense to

set up this raw new universe that is full of

potential and then just have Batman be your catch

-all. Now it's a rumor at best right now, it's

probably true, more often than not a lot of this

stuff turns out to be that way. But they're saying

that in post -production that Ben Affleck's portrayal

of Batman Bruce Wayne is playing so much better

than Henry Cavill's Clark Kent Superman. You

also have to consider Ben Affleck's had a lot

more screen time than Cavill. He's also had a

lot more award -winning movies under his belt.

He's directed movies. He's acted in a lot of

movies. He's wrote movies. I mean, so he's very

experienced and very Well rounded in the film

industry. So yeah, he's gonna play a lot better

than Cavill And yeah, it also depends on the

movie and you know, I know this movie's gonna

be very very freakin dark because it's Zack Snyder

and that's how he is I'm not a huge fan of his

either. But the only movie I really enjoyed to

his was like Sucker Punch and that was kind of

like meh it's okay, but I'm hoping this changes

my opinion on them, but Again, I don't know why

Weiner is so scared to change their tentpole.

Because, and as this article that I've linked

here says, you know, wouldn't it make more sense

to kind of step away from Batman and the Joker

being like the centerpieces? I mean, because

Marvel even did it. They made Captain America

and Iron Man and these guys that... Yeah, they

were primary characters, but they really didn't

have the the following that they should have

had and now they really have the following so

Again, I I'm not really Certain why they're going

in this weird Direction Continuing on the superhero

boat though. There's Marvel's Jessica Jones the

trailer dropped earlier this week and It's just

a teaser. It doesn't really even show her. It

just kind of shows some weird imagery, and then

saying Marvel, and then it's got her silhouette,

and then it's just Netflix. I mean, it's different.

I'm not going to catch... I don't care about

any of the Marvel shows that are going to be

on Netflix. That's just me. I'm not going to

watch any of them. They don't interest me. They're

secondary tertiary characters. I just... There's

no reason for me to get invested. So, kind of

jumping onto the Transformers boat again. Yeah,

I know. They're saying for Transformers 5 it's

going to go one of two directions. Or one to

two directions. They're saying that the installment

of the franchise will... have two separate storylines.

The first will feel familiar to longtime fans

of the Transformers series, focusing on the return

of Cain Yeager and the struggle with humans in

Earth. The second thread, however, focuses more

on the Transformers themselves, as well as the

mythology behind their history and their struggle.

It seems the ultimate endgame for Paramount is

to take the franchise and hand it off to the

robots, rather than focus on the humans caught

in the middle, which is all we've wanted from

the frickin' beginning! Why do we have to focus

on all these craptastic characters that have

nothing to do with the transformers? I'm not

saying that we haven't had humans in in like

generation one but spike and spark plug were

really good characters and Then you look at you

know sorry and transformers anime. Yeah, she

drove me nuts But she was a good character then

you look at transformers prime you got all those

characters. They were really well written it's

Unlike the crap that's in the new robots in disguise

those characters just those humans suck They're

shallow. They're like one -dimensional. So I

mean it's None of these characters like humans

from the Transformers movies have been great

not one has been great so I'm kind of glad if

they go in the direction of the Transformers

themselves, which is what we've wanted from the

start and The fact that they've kind of killed

off every one of the good villains that we we

had Mean, yeah, I know they resurrected Megatron,

but it's Galvatron which whatever it I and I

also wish they didn't look like these weird machine

looking things but That's neither here nor there.

That's just my fanboys and bitching but I hope

that they do go to the more robots less humans.

It's I Think I could benefit this franchise a

lot if they did that And then, you know, maybe

we could end up with, like, a Unicron battle

or, you know, something like that. I don't know.

Time will tell. So, I mean, yeah, that's about

it as far as, like, the geeky news. I've got

some other stuff, but it doesn't really... It

doesn't really mesh well to go into any more.

I think I've talked that to death. I had an idea

for... a topic which despite not having any guest

hosts I'm gonna do it anyway because I think

it'd be fun for you guys to figure this out too

just as much as it was for me to figure it out

and I I like a particular set of movies and at

this point I have to figure out what the hell

they are because my Class that I'm taking for

college They made us basically like the teacher

went around yesterday and asked us all if you

were stuck on a deserted island What would your

number one favorite movie be that you could stand

to watch over and over and over and not have

you go nuts And I'm sitting here trying to think

of a movie Just nothing like I've got I'm just

drawing a blank and I have so many movies that

are in my you know I have like this top 40 list

of movies that At any given point they all rotate

and they all end up in number one at some point

So I'm having this this blank of trying to figure

out so like To make it easier. What would your

top five movies be? Because I think top one movie

just makes it too hard And if you're not putting

them in any particular order and you're doing

top five, I think that this could work out really

well for you. So I'd be really interested to

see what your guys' top five are and see if they

mesh with mine and whoever co -hosts next week.

I'm looking forward to finding out what you guys

have on your list just because I want to see

how close it is to mine or... See what kind of

tastes and movies you guys have It's one of those

interesting things because everybody's got this

particular set of films that they like That may

not necessarily mesh because we're looking at

the AFI top 100, you know of all time favorites

and About two -thirds of the movies on that list

I've either a never seen or I never care to see

and I don't have any interest in ever watching

or watching again And the other third I've seen

but it doesn't necessarily mean that they're

ones I would watch again And I know it's kind

of like blasphemous to say that because I know

a lot of movies have been around since like the

20s and 30s and 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s that

are on that list but I have this hard time going

back and watching films like pre 1980 It they

just there's something about the look to it.

I just can't get past So There's that um I'm

sorry. I apologize. I'm yawning so much. I probably

should edit it out, but it'd be like easier to

do if I was on my desktop Eventually, I'm gonna

get a real microphone from my desk here at work

and not have to use this damn phone so Yeah,

I That pretty much be my question I I have some

other stuff that I want to bring up, but I've

got to wait some for some co -hosts Just because

I think it'd be kind of a hollow conversation

if I'm talking to myself on this But I am I I

do have some good stuff coming. Unfortunately,

Mike had to bow out because of roommate. I was

just out of it last night. And then Dodd's sick

again. And yeah, it's just been a weird week.

So getting into some of the comments, Oztron

Prime says, superhero fatigue since content.

Contracts are ending etc. I wonder if Marvel

will do the unthinkable and end their production

after infinity war part to shelve their characters

and go silent for ten years By then doing so

will be pumping crap out Or DC will be pumping

crap out and fatigue will set in aim squarely

at them So yeah, I To which I I kind of said

yeah, I kind of Don't see it happening, but that

would be my thoughts too Brad Lincoln says as

far as force Friday I went to a Toys R Us force

Friday opening very disappointed I Got some of

the stuff I wanted but they had hardly any stock

literally 10 to 7 or 7 to 10 of everything dyslexia

And they never put the one of every thing for

everybody Like the rule to stop people scooping

up five of the same things because the first

through the door cleared out all the black series

figures in 30 seconds people were just scooping

multiple carts of of these The city managed to

get a black series Finn which was hiding behind

a shelf One of those Kylo rent armor up packs

and then a new hope on solo black series Jared

says as someone who has worked in retail I can

tell you it's not always the store's fault especially

with events like this You're going to get a limited

run on supplies no matter what you do, and especially

if you aren't in a high volume location. With

Disney owning Star Wars now, this will only become

more of a problem. Disney never matches supply

with demand when it comes to action figures.

The funny thing about that is all those figures

are made by Hasbro. So I'm wondering if the store

is partially responsible, if Disney is partially

responsible, or if it's Hasbro. Because Disney

doesn't make their own toys. And I'm going to

call this right now, give it a few years, but

you remember that rumor that was going around

about Disney and Hasbro? Mark my words, there

will come a day in the next couple years Hasbro

will be bought out by Disney. So Disney will

have a comic company, a muppet company, a sci

-fi company, I said a comic company, yeah, a

comic production company, and they'll also have

a toy company. All they need to do is buy a tech

company and they'll be golden. Go buy Microsoft.

That'd just be weird. Your computer brought to

you by Disney. So I'm going to end that show

on that note. Yeah, so if you guys have any question,

comments, suggestions, or if there's a special

preview that you guys saw that you're looking

forward to. Like, you know, The Flash, The Arrow,

Asians of Shield, Gotham, any, you know, really

any show. I mean, it doesn't have to be those.

I mean, I saw the Big Bang Theory with the trailer

with Leonard and Penny's wedding photos or whatever.

Yeah. So, I mean, if you're into any of those

shows or whatever, just tell me what you're looking

forward to for the fall. I... I've got quite

a few shows that I'm looking forward to. I think

Heroes is my most anticipated prior to Flash

returning. So yeah, just leave that in the comments

below and get hold of me on Twitter at scp21.

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