Star Wars The Force Awakens Anticipation and Trailer Reactions

You're tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek Unlimited Hello and welcome to Altered Geek

Unleashed I'm your host Steve Megatron Phillips,

and I'm not joined by anybody today And you might

be asking yourself, why? Well, the real reason,

and to be honest, it's because, well, I didn't

have time this week to, the night we normally

record is Thursdays. The issue is my family is

sick. So I haven't been able to sit down in the

basement all week, which is where I record. I

have an actual office, but it's downstairs. That

being said, it's also my wife's birthday this

week, which is the same day that Star Wars Episode

VII comes out. So... Unfortunately, I'm not gonna

be able to watch Star Wars on the big screen

this weekend. And if I could get away from, like,

have somebody babysit my kids, I would go see

it. But unfortunately, I'm not going to strand

my wife like that either. So it's really killing

me. I wish there was an online source that I

could watch it legally, like actually pay for

the rental type thing. Even if it was like 10,

12 bucks, you know, like a Comcast thing on demand

or like, you know, an iTunes thing or, you know,

something like that. I would, I would legitimately

pay for this film because I don't want to see

it grainy and kind of crap quality. And it's

hard not to go into this this episode and not

think about Star Wars based on the fact that

This is gonna be the biggest movie of the year

I mean to be honest like there's nobody in their

right mind that would not be enthused about this

movie unless you're Like Pierce Morgan who's

a douchebag? You want reference on that go look

on Twitter and stuff like that. He's like oh

this movie's terrible, and he hasn't even watched

it so Anyways, that aside, um, when I had TFG1

Mike, however, his monitor blew out, so I had

to order him a monitor and have that sent to

him. Uh, it's, yeah, it's, it's kind of one of

those, those fun weeks. Um, probably won't have

an episode next week being that it's going to

be Christmas and kind of, you know, everybody's

going to be in the festivities and kind of kind

of be busy. If you'd like an episode. Be sure

to leave a comment in the episode post for this

episode, which is 119. And let me know, because

I will record an episode if the interest is there,

if people are looking for something to listen

to, to kind of get away from family during the

weekend or something or whatever. But I kind

of think that most people are going to be preoccupied

with what's going on in Christmas, being that

it's a Friday and people have the weekend and

whatnot. So again that being said I'm really

enthused for Star Wars. I will preface this with

I have been looking violently for Star Wars leaks

You might be asking why well? The way my mind

works is when I read a book I'll start the first

few chapters. I'll read the end and then I'll

continue Sounds really stupid the only reason

I'm doing I do this is because It makes more

sense to me once I start and watch back earlier.

And it prevents me from having to watch the film

again a second time, at least right away. I have

found out not going to do any spoilers because

that's kind of a douchebag thing to do. This

is the day that it comes out. I'm not going to

ruin the movie for people because this is such

an iconic series. It's just not right. If you

want to seek that kind of stuff out you can you

can go to reddit .com slash r slash Star Wars

leaks slash And that's where you can get all

these Star Wars spoilers and leaks that you want

There is footage on there that periodically gets

taken down, but it's like on vid .me .com or

something or vid .me That the footage keeps popping

up It explains a lot of the backstory of certain

people. It explains what happens. It shows video

of certain elements of the movie. Not going to

say any of what it is. But it made things a lot

clearer and then to me it kind of brought up

some of the rumors that were floating about for

the last year or two and either cemented them

or sidestepped them. So take that for what you

will. Moving on because I really don't want to

spoil this movie at all. I've been having fun

watching week the like how it should have ended

and the Cinema sins of the like the prequels

of the other Star Wars movies are the honest

trailers of the other movies It's been really

fun watching this lead up to every week of all

the Star Wars content kind of showing you the

way things in the film You know kind of leading

up to the the awesomeness that is the force awakens

and everything I've read about this film and

everything I've seen footage wise It is very

amped up in the action department. The quality

of the picture is better than the original stuff

and it is better than the prequel trilogy. It

does kind of keep with that kind of... It kind

of mixes the aesthetics of the prequel trilogy

that of the the newer You know kind of look and

shinier and all that kind of stuff and it kind

of mixes it with the prequel or the original

trilogy So you get that kind of nice amalgamation

of stuff. So I think JJ did a really good job

in that department There wasn't like an abundance

of lens flare or any of that kind of stuff You

could really tell Ian he enjoyed what he did

as far as what I've seen so far and what I've

heard But uh, yeah, so I've been having fun watching

all those little videos floating around this

week It's been been really cool kind of referring

back to everything So getting into some of the

things that I've kind of watched over the past

week Floating about well, they have you know

Zack Snyder dropped the some new promo posters

for Batman v Superman Like they have that armored

Batman with the bat logo in red with the date

It looks really cool. And then they've got Superman

with the red logo of Superman over top of them.

And then Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman with her logo

over top. And it's really great art. I really

enjoyed seeing that. So that's really cool. So

also, jumping into the other realm of moviedom,

there's been Ghostbusters. posters that have

popped up with the new Ghostbusters in it with

kind of a green background and kind of a it almost

In the picture. It's almost like a callback To

like all of them are dressed in their uniforms

all of them have their proton packs and they're

they're they're Proton cannons looks very reminiscent

of something you'd see in the original They've

got kind of a theater looking thing behind them

and it kind of looks like the building that the

alien or like the ghosts possessed or the demons

possessed in the first Ghostbusters film and

the tower in the background behind them. So it

really looks really neat. I'm really kind of

stoked to see what they do as far as that's concerned.

Also, in other geekly related news, we have Sorry

my brain is so scattered. I'm so I'm so excited

for the Star Wars stuff. It's hard to like concentrate

Realistically the Star Trek Beyond trailer came

out now. I want to say I want to say I like it,

but I don't and The Star Wars trailers I have

to say had a lot more going for them whereas

the Star Trek one. I feel like I'm watching Like

I'm feeling like they gave away a lot of the

big plot points right in the first trailer If

you haven't watched it yet, you should see it

It got leaked and then they revealed it online

shortly thereafter like legitimately They have

the enterprise getting blown to smithereens by

some new alien race, which I I give them props

They did something different. They had a new

alien race. They had the enterprise getting blown

apart Okay, I get that like I'm a little peeved

that the enterprise got blown away this early

But you know, there's you know, they're gonna

do an enterprise a And then they show the crew

stranded on a planet. Okay, they got little slightly

altered uniforms So they changed them up a hair

from the original series kind of an aesthetic

look It's more of that smoother look of the actual

original series, but they added more of like

a TNG Type collar to it But there's still all

one color. So that's in that I liked it It was

kind of interesting a lot of the humor is there

a lot of the actual Star Trek isms are there

The only thing I didn't like is it feels like

I'm watching us fast in the furious movie because

Justin Lin directed it and It's got like Beastie

Boys who are huge fans, which I get it I you

know they used it the first film and I don't

have a problem with the the music in the trailer

I feel like it overshadows some of the conversation

that's brought up at points in the trailer So

it kind of bothers me a little bit But only in

that aesthetic way, I don't I don't mind it overall

I just feel like I'm watching a Fast and the

Furious movie with the trailer. And I hope that

I'm wrong. I hope that this is fleshed out a

lot differently than what the trailer's portraying.

And again, it's the first trailer and it comes

out in July. So it's hard to say what it's actually

going to look like until the next trailer. Kind

of like The Force Awakens, how the first trailer

kind of didn't really... I mean, it gave you

a little bit, but I respect The Force Awakens

because it hasn't really given you anything in

the trailers. It's giving you a little bit. It's

giving you a taste enough to like really make

you rabid about it But it really doesn't give

you anything the Star Trek one. I feel like it's

giving you too much Much like a lot of the other

films that are you know doing that like Batman

v Superman and so on It's just too much going

on in there. I would have liked to have seen

a little bit something different I'm not sure

what this is coming from a die -hard Trekkie.

So like I hate the entire rebooted universe for

the most part I enjoy it, but I feel like I'm

not watching a Star Trek movie, which is partially

a problem, partially not, because we were stuck

in this rut of being the same old same old, but

I don't feel like there's any essence of Trek

other than characters there, which I feel is

diminishing to the franchise for getting 50 years.

I'm not saying there should be a callback to

something that's already there, I'm saying there

should be more... intelligence -scientisms that

have been in track over the past 50 years, and

not just like watching a Fast and Furious meets

Star Wars movie. And that's what I feel like

I'm watching here. And again, I get that the

demographics changed massively in the last, you

know, 10, 15 years, and that's why it's looking

the way it does, but I just, I can't get past

it. In other kind of movie news, we have The

Twelve Days of Deadpool, which Ryan Reynolds

kind of released. And it says, you know, each

image is something different every day. It's

going to release something leading up to a new

trailer on December 26th. Super stoked for this

because the marketing on this thing is genius.

Like, you know, they've got a thing of the Deadpool

belt, you know, belt, way do you get a load of

me? And then there's other, there's other Deadpoolisms,

you know, they got one of them, you know, about

his ass and everything else. It's, it's just

been kind of brilliant as far as that stuff's

concerned. So that being said I'm kind of moving

on a little bit to something a little little

different I wanted to say that I know I brought

it up last week the board game of Based on the

the you know pitch your own movie kind of thing

did get funded it Almost made it stretch goal,

which meant it would have had the 80s movies

cards in there, which I would have been like

massively enthusiastic for but it Sadly didn't

make that goal so I was kind of sad a little

bit, but you know I'll end up buying it when

it comes out So it's you know it is what it is

But I'm super stoked for it Epic rap battles

this week also wanted to get in on the Star Trek

stuff or not Star Wars Star Wars not Star Trek.

Why do we oh yeah? I just talked about it Deadpool

is taking on Boba Fett in an epic rap battle

and it's like two minutes and thirty some odd

seconds. Pretty funny. It's a nice play on both

characters and kind of attacking each other so

it's fun. I showed it to everybody in my class

today so it was kind of humorous having everybody

watching it behind me. So, yeah, there's that.

This is finals week for me so I'm a little fried

too. I'm not sick like the rest of my family

so that's at least a bonus but we just finished

our presentation today on the aesthetics class

and we did Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows and

we had to do 18 aesthetics of the film and break

it up between the two of us and write a 1200

word paper which isn't much when you get two

people. I wrote like 800 words by myself so it

wasn't really a big deal. The PowerPoint... And

I purposely chose today to really to do it instead

of last week because last week he was more Drilling

into all the the the power points and all the

presentations and not He was focusing more this

week. He was preoccupied because it's the last

day of class and so he skipped the questions

He just has blitzed through it. We actually got

a hundred out of a hundred because of you know

a multitude of things it was a really good PowerPoint

put together and video and audio and It was really

fun. My partner and I did a really good job on

it. So we got 100 out of 100, and a couple other

groups were like, well, we got 70 out of 100,

and their PowerPoints weren't that great, and

I'm not dissing people on that. Usually when

I'm in a group, I do the PowerPoint because I've

always done the PowerPoints as far back as middle

school, and it usually serves me greatly to do

so. Then my other class is almost done. Thank

God next semester. I have screenwriting So that's

gonna be a totally different beast thankfully

no books are needed to be purchased so that's

again my Happiness with that So Hasbro Kind of

I know it's kind of flip -flopping all over the

place I'm not sure how long this episode is gonna

be and I'm sorry if the little jarring I am trying

to like kind of converse on it at the same time

And some of it I have the notes pulled up and

some of it I'm remembering by something I see

on my screen we had Hasbro decided to do they're

wanting to bring mask GI Joe and like transformers

and in various other properties like that into

a like 80s cinematic universe which Actually

isn't really that bad of an idea if you mix them

all you know kind of have them all separate films

kind of join together like an Avengers type thing

Really wouldn't be that bad because they're all

80s properties and 80s stuff today is pretty

big because again We're the ones with the money

now spending the money So and I understand that

none of it's gonna be like the original I've

gotten over that ship years ago like even with

the the Ninja Turtle stuff the last movie was

jarring and shocking to me and then I still don't

like it, but I get why they redid it totally

different than the other ones in the 90s because

they really were a product of the 90s. And this

is today. So the TMNT 2, I'm really stoked for.

So that's, you know, I think they're going to

hit it out of the park for the second one. I

think the first one was like them discovering

how they were going to pull this off. And then

it's totally changed since then. So. This is

fun I'm watching people find entering Star Wars

right now, which is beautiful. I wish I was one

of those lucky bastards Damn you people No have

fun. I seriously that's that's awesome No, I'm

reading an article says Simon Pegg is disappointed

by the Star Trek Beyond trailer It is different

than Into Darkness, so I gotta give it that,

and I will give it a shot. I mean, I'm, you know,

pissing on the Froot Loops right now about it,

but it doesn't mean it's gonna be bad. I think

Into Darkness was like the bastard child of the

new reboot, because this is something totally

different. And they're kind of beating Lin a

little bit, because he said that he's doing the,

you know, he isn't from the harder, more intellectual

sci -fi crowd, he's from the jumping cars out

of airplanes crowd, so. When the first trailer

was debuted and I'm reading this verbatim from

screen crush It says a lot of truckies felt like

their worst fears for the franchise were confirmed

gone was any high -minded philosophy relax relation

All that was left was action action action But

Simon Pegg who stars in the film as Scotty also

co -wrote the Beyond Screenplay says that's not

true speaking with the website Hey you guys at

the premiere of the Star Force Awakens Pegg spoke

frankly about his reaction to the Star Trek Beyond

trailer His thoughts? It's not great. Says, I

found the trailer to be the marketing people

sort of saying, everybody come and see this film.

It's full of action and fun when there's a lot

more to it than that. I didn't love it because

I know there's a lot more to the film. There's

a lot more story, a lot more character stuff,

and a lot more what I would call Star Trek stuff.

That definitely kind of uses me a little bit,

so I guess I can get off my soapbox. I'll wait

till the next trailer before I actually make

up. You know, kind of an actual decision on it.

I do have some theories on Star Wars, episode

seven. This is not from the spoiler realm. This

is, I'm completely, this is left field stuff,

has nothing to do with any of the Reddit pages,

has nothing to do with anything. This is just

my personal opinion coming out to play. I have

a feeling that Supreme Leader Snoke is going

to be Darth Plagueis. Palpatine's mentor and

that he figured out a way to resurrect himself

after Palpatine killed him and is going to resurface

Well, he is resurfaced but I Think that he's

gonna be the kind of the guy pulling the machinations

behind the scenes kind of like Palpatine but

like a little less in your face and kind of like

hidden from the Jedi and I think that eventually

there will be a duke out between him and Luke

in episode 9 In addition to whoever else happens

to be in the films, either that or it might be

Luke dies at the hands of him and Rey destroys

him or something, I don't know. But I think that

it's going to be Plagueis, I really do. Unless

it's one of the Inquisitors from Star Wars Rebels,

I really don't see any other connection. Which

it could be that first Inquisitor that showed

up in Star Wars Rebels, I don't know. It kind

of... The imagery I've saw of the character reminds

me of either one So it's kind of hard for me

to really tell either way and the visuals I've

seen aren't really that clear. So again, it's

not I don't have a clue I'm just spitballing

it here. I think I think Anakin still gonna come

back in episode 8 If nothing more than as a force

ghost. I have I'm pretty sure that he's gonna

be used in Rogue Squadron Think he'll make an

appearance as Vader in that but I don't think

it'll be much more in that than what's been already

said And I think that's part of what the misdirection

was with Vader returning for episode 8 And So

yeah, that's that's that's my one spitball I

had on that it'd be nice if they revealed if

some other Jedi's are still alive like Kanan

or Ezra but Who knows? I don't know. I think

it would be nice to see them kind of appear more

or less. The trailer dropped for Fuller House

on Netflix, which will be out in February. I

have to say that I'm a little interested, I should

say. They redid the house. kind of did almost

a shot for shot like of how the original show

opened and there's no music behind it and uh

it goes to the house does like a panning of the

house and this is on February 26th the entire

series will be on there it's i believe it's a

13 episode thing it says life is full again you

see a golden retriever walking around the house

it looks spotless no traces of any of the the

uncles there um it definitely looks like a female

touch on it And you hear all the characters talking,

minus the Olsen twins, obviously. On the other

side of the door is the dogs kind of dragging

at it. It says Fuller House, the Netflix original

series. I'm a little pumped for it only because

I'm hoping that the writing's a lot better and

not throw away as the old show, if that makes

any sense. So I'm optimistic for it. I'll give

it a shot. It's been a wild week for for geek

news. I'm just super pumped on all that Disney

You know Is doing something wonderful for Star

Wars fans and It wouldn't be Disney if they weren't

trying to make money off fans Are going to release

The unaltered cut of the Star Wars trilogy to

be released on Blu -ray, the original unaltered

cut of Star Wars, like the original VHS tapes

that we all had before Lucas decided to retouch

them, the CGI bullshit in the front. So that'll

be really interesting to see when that comes

out, who all partakes in that. I'm kind of of

that opinion that I... I do love the unaltered

stuff, don't get me wrong. I like the up -to

-date graphics, like the remastering of some

of the stuff, and some of the background music

and stuff like that. I'm not a fan of him throwing

the CGI Jabba or some of those random creatures

all over the place that never leave a footprint

wherever they walk. So I'm not a fan of any of

that. Or the Guido shot first bullshit. The,

oh, he's like John Wayne, he can't shoot first,

he's supposed to be the number one. No, he's

a scoundrel, he knows that Guido's gonna shoot

him, so he kills him first. You know, point taken

there. So I mean, I would rather see that. But,

you know, it's not that bad. So if you're a fan

of the original stuff before Luke is screwed

with it, that would be the way to go. The guys

on the Warp Zone. Yeah, I'm sorry this is a huge

Star Wars episode, but... As much as I clamored

to be a Star Trek fan, I love Star Wars just

as much it's just it's It depends for me on some

of that and I've recently got really heavy into

rubble So it's kind of also helped indoctrinate

this be stuck in my head and all the random stuff

that's come out from all these Publishers throughout

the last few months including our own site We've

done numerous podcasts on it in the past plus

the stuff that optimus solo has been doing lately

on Geekcast Radio, around the top 100, which

is now done. So check that out as well. The Warp

Zone did a Star Wars recap song, basically catching

you up before you see episode seven, and it goes

through the original trilogy, it skips the prequel

stuff. But it tells you basically all you need

to know on it, and it's like five minutes long.

But if you don't know it I mean most of us have

watched it recently enough, so it's not a huge

deal So I Want to talk about now that I have

the chance There's We had our film festival this

week, which was fun They displayed all of our

films in the auditorium of the college was really

neat They were a hell of a lot better than I

thought they were gonna be. Even the one that

I thought was gonna be cursed turned out to be

really, really well done. After we added sound

effects, like all these groups added more sound

effects, added the custom scores that the music

class did for them. It's really made them all

that much stronger. And our teacher even said

that this was the best that has come out of the

program so far. I believe he wasn't just saying

that because I've watched some of the other ones

They weren't as good as the ones that came out

this time And I'm not just trying to toot my

own horn saying that my groups was great because

they were all they were all great The stories

were good. The the visuals were good the stuff

that that we heard and saw was great All five

films. I'll link those in the episode post as

well So there's that Yeah, and I'm writing a

book Based on the quasi -comics and comic book

characters I created for my EDX Smithsonian pop

culture and superheroes class, the first and

second one, I kind of fleshed out, started fleshing

out a universe between the two of them. And it's

been turning out pretty well. I was kind of surprised.

Some of the stuff that I had fleshed out, some

of it, again, needs work. But you know I'm still

working my way through it. I got the prequel

pretty much done. I or the not the prequel the

prologue done and It's more or less going to

start out before like at the beginning of time

type of thing And then it's going to kind of

go In that that whole prologue is going to be

at that time table, and then chapter one. I'm

already writing and I might tweak the prologue

a little bit still to expand on it, but the prologue

is there's going to be a lot of time jumping

for the first couple chapters, setting up the

connections between elements that are happening

at different times. This is a very time travel

centric novel that I'm writing. I'm not sure

how many chapters it's going to be. I'm just

going to wait and see when it ends, how far I

get. I'm hoping to have a lot of it done by June,

but it's it's hard to say depending on what I

get done. I'm hoping screenwriting I get to write

some of it, or at least like a chapter of it

or something. But it's going to take place like

in that far distant past and then go way into

the future and then it's going to go into modern

day or quasi -modern day. So and then that's

where it's gonna hang for predominantly a lot

of the the novel And and that's I've got a lot

of the characters fleshed out some of them may

or may not appear right away Some of them may

or may not have future versions some of them

may or may not you know I've been plotting this

for a while, so it's I just got to flesh it out

a little bit more But I do have a few the few

characters. I do have fleshed out. I'm already

writing about So I've been having fun with that

lately. I will say for those that are looking

forward to more different content on the website,

I am going to revive the video Altered Geek with

the new year and try and keep consistency with

it every week. In addition to the podcast so

that maybe I can talk about some different things

and have more actual interactions and maybe some

like... I've been playing Battlefield 4 and really

enjoying it so I might do some stuff like that

and have people watch me play really badly. I'm

kind of an asshole when I play the game so it's

kind of fun. And I say that in the nicest term

possible because I'm terrible for my team at

certain points but I'm great for my team at certain

points because when I'm terrible it means I get

killed quite a bit. I'm not very good. More so

because I expect the run -up shoot kill blah

blah blah like Unreal Tournament or like a Call

of Duty type of thing like I've seen now but

the Battlefield is a lot more kind of watch think

it out You know strategically and I like to run

in guns blazing a lot of the time So that's usually

why I die or I stand in the same spot shooting

something and somebody gets me from behind. So

it's it's usually that but anyways They usually

like me because I'm a good spawn point. I'm usually

the last line of defense and then usually I I'm

a pretty good ammo Holder so they like to keep

me around in certain instances And sometimes

I get lucky and I managed to mow down a bunch

of guys before I go out or I have a lot of Claymores

or or I have contingency plans for when I die

so that other people go with me so So yeah, that's

what's been going on I'm like I said, I'm gonna

skip the week of Christmas unless you guys want

me to do an episode There's not Really all that

much. I think that's gonna come out. I'm hoping

I can see Star Wars this next week because I'd

really like to talk about it But I don't really

have anybody else that's going that I can go

with In the meantime so There will be one episode

You know after Christmas obviously for the end

of the year there will be an end -of -the -year

podcast for geek cast radio kind of doing a year

-end review Top lists and you know like top tens

of you know movies top five TV shows so on and

so on And then we're gonna do The start of and

we'll kind of announce it in that episode too,

but I'm gonna kind of blatantly bring it here

the GCRN awards third annual It's going to be

like a three -week voting gonna have that Set

up so everybody will be able to submit their

submissions because All the backlash we've had

over the TV show top 100 just kind of get you

a little bit of that Getting to pick your own

realm I don't touch it whatsoever I put it all

together in one big form and then I see how many

times the shows pop up In that category so Yeah,

that's gonna be fun do three weeks of that and

then there's gonna be just to make sure everybody

gets time to input their selection And if I notice

that it starts to trickle off, I'll cut it off

early and then we'll actually have the top fives

of each category voting again and then a follow

-up podcast. Following that, I'm really excited

because we're going to do our first top 50 countdown.

And I kind of thought this up during the top

100 because we're trying to do something different

this year as far as keeping it consistent with

a lot of events and fun stuff going on. for you,

the listeners, and to kind of keep us interested

as well. And the top 50, because it was going

to be a top 100, but we wanted to narrow the

spectrum down because there's more in this category

than most of us can actually think of. I think

it even dwarfs TV to some degree because there's

so many of them. And there's different iterations

of them too, so it depends on what you're playing

on But uh yeah, it's going to be and Only people

that know this will be the ones that listen to

the show it's going to be the top 50 video game

franchises and How that's going to play out.

I was going to do top 100 video games and the

thing with the video games is If I did it in

that way, there would have been a lot of... You

would have had probably two Call of Duty, three

Battlefields, three Arkham games, two Halos,

and it would have been a lot of the same stuff

showing up because people have different preferences.

Or you would have had this rock band, this guitar

hero, this whatever. There would have been a

lot of the same crap showing up. Just a different

number next to it. I wanted to avoid that and

we were kind of bringing that up when we were

discussing it and we figured if we did franchises

then we could weigh them as a whole and I've

at least experimented with a lot of different

video games even if I don't like them that I

see a lot of the merit in them I'm a lot less

biased in my video game playing than I am in

my TV shows So I'm a lot more open to like if

we're weighing stuff as a franchise like I would

have to weigh everything that's in that even

if there's like say there's 12 Halo games or

you know like You know 14 Call of Duty, and then

you got for Batman And then you know so on and

so forth and it would only you know like Arkham

verse would be one you know and like the other

Batman games are sprinkled differently, so It's

you know if you're doing Batman movie games or

something or animated games or something they

would still be something different wouldn't be

the same franchise. So that'll be kind of fun

to kind of do because it's going to be included

with you, the listeners as well, and not just

us from GeekCast Radio. There will be a two -tier

system set up though, and that's how it's going

to be different from the top 100. We're going

to have a... Pardon me, I had to get a drink.

We're going to have a set up. So that all of

our same contributors Do You know our own like

our staff top 50 Franchises and there will be

a listener top 50 franchises and we're gonna

experiment with this top 50 and kind of see how

it goes and If it translates well, we may actually

be able to do something different with the top

100 in the future with it But for right now,

that's how we're doing the top 50 and I figured

this would give us kind of the best of both worlds.

I would have three different ratings and it would

go by the ultimate listener vote. It's just when

it shows up in a certain place we would say where

the staff ranked it or where it would have been

overall if we would have mixed the numbers between

the two. So it's something I've been playing

around with in my head for a while because I

was watching the battle of how myself and others

were either intentionally trying to play shows

in the top 100 to make sure that they made the

list, even if like my putting Flash at number

four on my top 100 No, it doesn't deserve to

be number four of all time. There's no way in

hell. I totally agree with that. I put it there

because I wanted to make sure it hit the list.

And the way the tally works is... Yeah, that's

why. And I wasn't the only one guilty of it.

A lot of people did it on the list. So in that

sense, it skewed it a little bit. But at the

same time, with the amount of contributors we

had, it balanced out easily. And I think that

the top, you know, 15 -20 easily were what should

have been there anyway. So, that being said,

we're also going to tweak the top 100 next year.

It's going to be a little bit different too,

so don't worry about the writing system affecting

things. There's going to be a new system set

up. A lot of behind the scenes stuff. I know

a lot of people don't care for the technical

jargon. I'm sorry if I'm boring the hell out

of you people. I'm just enthusiastic about it

because I feel like it's a welcome change. That

that we've been needing Same token I want kind

of people's opinions on on the whole process

of of any of those like that I've described already

Because I'm kind of curious to see what you guys

think or like suggestions before they actually

come into play Because there will be a top 100

this year not telling what it is There will be

the top 50 this year and there will be the awards

and there are some other GCRN tournaments and

in things sprinkled in there will be two GCRN

tournaments This year One of them is I'll reveal

that later There's gonna be two of them anyway,

but that aside We're gonna have a lot of fun

this year. There's gonna be a lot of stuff going

on I also want comments on the website Like are

there things that bother you guys as far as the

website because I know that we change the website

design during the top 100 We were having issues

with something with the old layout, there were

some problems with it. So we switched to this

new layout and I feel like it organized things

better in some ways and then not in others. So

I'm just kind of curious to hear what you guys

think about it. So yeah, I'm gonna leave the

episode right there. I'm gonna cut it off right

here. I know I've rambled a little bit, jumped

all over the place, and I know it's a little

jarring. I'm sorry, this week was a little bit

different. I'm probably gonna do a couple of

random solo shows here or there. Just kind of

depends on the week. I'll have my thoughts a

little bit better organized at times, but I really

want more feedback as far as you guys are concerned

because I Really want to open back up the communication

lines. I really want you know I I really want

to have more interaction with you guys because

I feel like I have more fun, and I feel like

you guys have more fun when there's something

that we're all enthusiastic about and Like last

week I I put it in the comments and I keep forgetting

to say it in the show like the question of the

week or the night or whatever. Last week I put

what did you think of the TMNT 2 trailer and

I didn't actually bring it up in the show but

I put it in the episode post. Doesn't really

help anybody which that's kind of that's on me.

I am still curious about that don't get me wrong

but after you see Star Wars I'm really looking

forward to seeing what you guys have to say about

it. You know no spoilers or anything but just

you know overall what you thought without getting

too in -depth. we can always talk spoilers like

after the new year after everybody's seen it

you know because most everybody's gonna see it

before the new year let's get for real i'll probably

still see it before the new year so and those

and and commenting on last week's episode with

jedi disaster i totally get why buying tickets

in advance is not stupid especially just star

wars because people are just gonna be lined up

down the street to get into that film that i

would never argue about um i did go You know,

see some of the other Star Wars movies and had

them pre -ordered beforehand and went and saw

the films like they were pre -ordered a month

ago, like for some of the other movies that we

saw for the prequels. They didn't deserve it

in my opinion for the prequels, but well, you

know, that's neither here nor there. This one

I would have if I know I could have gone and

seen it, but I had two kids so it makes it very

difficult to get one of the grandparents to watch

them temporarily so we can leave. We haven't

seen a decent movie in the theater in months.

Last movie I saw in the theater was Avengers

Age of Ultron. Every other movie I see after

that it's been at home, and I've had to wait

for it to come out so it really sucks So yeah

So anyways Just let me know in the episode post

you get a hold of me on the Twitter's at SCP

21 or at altered geek I am Steve Megatron Phillips

and until next time, unleash the geek in you

and get altered get geeky with the Altered Geeks.

See you next time. If you've forgotten anything,

we'll remind you now in a very detailed recap

of how it all went down. Escape pod to Tatooine

Jawa sentient machines Young Skywalker's sunset

scene Our two ants and people scream Obi -Wan

in long dark robes Must repair C -3PO Obi -Wan,

you're my only hope! Uncle Owen and - Ooh, nope!

Ma size Lee, lots of weirdos Not the droids as

far as we know Han shoots first, bye bye Greedo

Chewie, jump up, two light speed, go! Alderaan

to smithereens That's no moon, tractor beam Dress

up as the other team To save the captured future

queen Dodging blast Trash compactor, quote off

between dueling actors Wayward student slays

his master, must escape but must go faster TIE

fighters hop pursuit, don't get cocky, kid just

shoot Yavin IV, prep the troops, they'll force

be with you Luke Plus red 10 -3 -6 at all, torpedoes

miss, computers fault Use the force, now Luke

don't stall, Vader, Falcon, whoo close call Death

Star goes kabooey, everyone get out there Zoomy,

medals for their royal duty Han and Luke, but

if not Chewie Star War Star Wars He sees everything

that happens here Star Wars, Star Wars Ice planet,

Wampa Cave Obi -Wan beyond the grave Solo in

the blizzard, brave Tauntaun guts, Lucas saved

Back to base of frozen water Nerf herder, kiss

that's awkward Star destroyers, giant walkers

Lots and lots of Rebels slaughtered Asteroids,

take a breather Roaring armies Creatures, Vagabond,

Luke, where you'll meet your ancient Muppet Jedi

teacher. Physical and mental training, theater

vision, Yoda's phrasing, do or do not, X -wing

raising, whoop, gotta go, friends need saving.

Cloud City weariness, once more three PO's a

mess. Dark teams up with Boba Fett, as the world's

worst dinner guest. Luke is on his way, although

Carbon -9 for poor Han Solo, Walter Deal. Dear

Atlanta, awesome kiss, I love you! Luke and Vader,

this is it Epic battle, trading hits Sabres clash,

poppin' fizz Nothing is as cool as this Vader

cuts them out the rest High above an endless

pit Dark side pitches, Luke resists I am your

father Holy shit! Captured plan develops Leia's

bounty Hunter get up unfreeze Han but it's a

setup Luke shows up in Tatooine Leia's super

hot bikini Rank or fight that bikini Sarlacc

bit that bikini Walk the plank but the plan is

set Green lightsaber catch no sweat Java grossly

choked to death The same is true for Boba Fett

Master Yoda dies in peace Kenobi paints a family

tree Remember that one kissing scene? Death Star

almost good to go The Emperor now joins the show

Endor is more frightening though With teddy bears,

with bows and arrows Luke gets caught, confronts

his dad Come with me, you're not all bad Rebels

move in to attack the Death Star But whoops,

it's our trap! One more saber, fight's a given

Vader's hand cut, symbolism Lightning fingers,

indecision Vader tossing, all's forgiven Bonding

quick before it blows Remove the helmet, that's

gross End or dancing, happy ghosts And that is

how the story goes Star Wars, Star Wars That

was everything that happened in Star Wars, Star

Wars There were only three in Starman's hub Star

Wars, Star Wars Don't look any further into it

Star Wars