Batman, Prison Break, and Star Trek Online News

You're tuned in to Steve Megatron on Altered

Geek. And welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host,

Steve Megatron. I am back. And so in this Wednesday

edition of the show, although it's not coming

out around the time that I originally planned,

but I have a better idea for it. This is going

to be a basically news -based system. And then

I'm going to turn my later in the week show into

my kind of topical. So in this particular episode,

I have quite a few things broken down. I've recently...

Gotten back in the fold of some superhero news,

some tech news, just some stuff I've rambled

across, as it were. So remember last week when

I talked about the Batman and Harley Quinn film?

Well, it turns out that this particular film...

is going to star Kevin Conroy as Batman, which

I almost figured it would because the animation

style that's put to it. It's very quasi the original

animated series of it and then the new adventures

kind of mixed together. And then it's got Nightwing,

which the nice part about that is they have Lauren

Lester back to play the role. It's kind of a

nice melding of sorts to get what the fans kind

of expect out of it. And the awesome part about

it is that you get to see them work together.

And I guess they're trying to do this one as

more of a comedy because they decided to do,

like I said, Harley Quinn. And so in doing that,

they wanted to make it more fun. And of course,

because it's an adult -ish film, it's not really

an animated series per se. It's like an offshoot

of it or an adventure later on. So Nightwing

and Batman are attempting to stop Poison Ivy

and this other villain that's plant -based. And

the only one that they can track Poison Ivy with

is one of her old associates, Harley Quinn. They

have Melissa Rauch from Big Bang Theory, Bernadette,

playing Harley Quinn this time. And she actually

doesn't sound that bad. And I've seen the nine

-minute behind -the -scenes video, which is kind

of interesting to watch. But for the Batman and

Nightwing characters, it seems like Conrad never

really stepped out of the role. But Lester hasn't

been back in it since The New Adventures. So

it's actually kind of nice to see him returning

to the fold after almost 20 years. But it's like

they never left. They sound exactly the same.

This is one of my anticipated films this summer

that I didn't know was coming out. Really hope

Warner Brothers sends me this one for review.

I really am interested in this. But Roush doesn't

sound bad as Harley Quinn. She actually has the

accent down. It's a little bit more high -pitched

and a little bit different than what we're used

to with Sorkin or Strong. But it's likable, surprisingly.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this animated

film. So, I know I talked reboot and the whole

turning live action thing. I'm not going to touch

that anymore. I don't... I'm going to leave that

alone. I want to like it, but... Yeah, I'm going

to leave it. So, I saw this fun... type of thing

that apparently the real Ghostbusters is just

hitting Netflix streaming. And that's kind of

kind of cool because I haven't seen this series

in years. I don't even remember the last time

I saw it. It must have been like late 90s. Maybe

early 2000s. If that. I don't know. I'm going

to have to check it out, though. So, Deadline

Hollywood talked about Prison Break's revival.

This Dominic Patton guy, I don't agree with anything

he said. He says the show should have stayed

on lockdown. He says, with the success of the

24 and X -Files, and he says, I thought Prison

Break would be good. Well, it's the first episode,

and you've also had to, you know, seven years

where time is very important and the characters

are very important in the series. And for what

they did in the first episode of the show, I

would say that they got the ball rolling so that

the next episode they can kind of get right into

it because there's already another conspiracy

theory for those that haven't seen it surrounding

Michael Schofield where they're trying to cover

up his identity with somebody else for some reason.

And Lincoln... And is approached by T -Bag, who

comes from prison with a paper with a picture

of him. And you get to see Sarah and you get

to see, you know, Michael Jr. And you get to

see C -Note. So it's very much already hit the

ground running. And you get to see Sue Curry

as well. They kind of play it differently towards

the end. He's kind of lost all semblance of who

he was, and the fact that he's alive is alarming

to them. I would say it got off to a little bit

of a rocky start on the first episode, but I

wouldn't say that it didn't deserve to come back.

Heroes Reborn was kind of more the one that shouldn't

have come back, even though it was really good

compared to the past three seasons of that show.

But Prison Break, I feel like the writing is

strong enough to hold it and to fix the gaps

that were left in it. So I give it a pass. I

don't really care what this guy says. Plus, this

guy is the same one that knocked Lethal Weapons

television series. And I happen to find that

the series, although it's not like the films,

is actually really well done and very fun. I

find that if he's saying that about that show,

and he's doing the same kind of crap shoot on

Prison Break, I really can't believe him. And

I watched it, and I have to disagree with him.

That's his opinion, and this is mine. Getting

into a fun little what -if scenario, Joe Blow

Movie Trailers posted, it was like March 22nd,

a what -if Aunt Logan ending had a post -credit

scene featuring Deadpool. And it's fan -made,

but it's so well fan -made that I almost couldn't

tell unless the fact that it says fan -made.

And the fact that there's little bits of nuances

in the... um in in the video that kind of tell

you that it's not real anyway like parts of the

suit and parts of you know this vocal pattern

although the guy hits it really spot on um they're

from banana -dragonprod .com um banana dragon

productions uh on youtube as well um and they

And have him, you know, it's the same breaking

the fourth wall and the same type of humor that

would be in a Deadpool type thing. And then they

joke that he's got that green serum and he's

going to revive Logan. And he starts to go down

towards it and he goes, wait a minute. He says,

I can't bring you back like this. And he's like.

He's like, this isn't how I want us to be together.

And then he gets up and leaves the picture of

him reviving Wolverine on the ground. And he

says, maybe I should revive Francis. It'd be

fun to kill him again. And he just kind of walks

off. It was really fun and well done. And I've

heard a lot of things about Mass Effect Andromeda,

kind of jumping over to that boat, about the

character designs. The face patterns and certain

aspects regarding that. And I have to say, people

are getting a little, I don't know, almost borderline

annoying with their thing. But at the same time,

EA is notorious for putting out products that

are not finished. I think they did fairly well

with Battlefield 1, but Mass Effect Andromeda,

from everything I've seen... While it may be

a good story graphically, it's not so hot. So

myself, personally, I'm not going to be picking

this up, at least until I find it on the maybe

$9 bargain bin on EA Access or Origin. But yeah,

I won't be getting that. Speaking of games, though,

I saw something from Star Trek Online, and I

haven't... touched on this in, like, probably

two years, which is kind of different for me,

anyway. I quit playing it because the game was

so blasted difficult, and there was, like, it

was difficult to get ships and whatnot, and since

then they've upgraded a lot of the, like, a lot

of the ships you could get in the beginning you

can't get anymore, and a lot of the ones that

you couldn't get you can get, and then they have

different reformatted versions and different

colorations and different modifications. But

what caused me to notice this is they came out

with an Andromeda class, which looks like an

enhanced Galaxy class Starship with more flattened

nacelles and a different deflector dish section.

And it's supposed to be along the lines of the

Galaxy class, but it's not the Galaxy class.

But I liked the images, and so I started exploring

back into the game and discovered that they have

a lot of stuff in the game now. So I restarted

my character, the one I was playing, and it was

more so because I was stuck. I'm floating in

space in my... I don't even know what class starship.

I think it's like an Akira class. And it's...

You're just blowing up Borg ships. And I'm trying

to figure out how to get out of that. And I have

no idea what I'm doing there. So it's just literally

floating around blowing up Borg ships. And I

was bored out of my mind within the first 30

minutes of playing. So I restarted to play as

new characters. And in this instance, they didn't

have the Borg invading the ship like they did

when I first started playing. They have Klingons.

When you create your characters. And take them

through. And instead of driving the Akira class

ship. You have a Miranda class ship. And. So

I've restarted. And I'm playing that now. And

it's turning out pretty well. I don't know if

I'm going to get in the same gridlock. Or stuck.

I don't really know what the point is yet. But

I guess I'll figure it out. If I have anything

else. I mean I'm going to update this. And once

I get going a little bit. Get out of this slump

and figure out if I'm actually going to play

it. I might start doing a Twitch live stream

of it. Not really sure yet. But that may be in

the cards. So Blizzard is making the original

StarCraft free. They're revisiting the original

StarCraft and Brood War. And they're remastering

it in an ultra 4K to high definition. So they're

giving the original game some love and making

it free. I'm actually kind of excited about because

I liked the game, but they were selling it for

$14 .99 prior to this announcement. And they've

since pulled it from their online store. I'm

not sure when it's saying that they're supposed

to do this, but it's supposed to work on modern

operating systems like 7, 8 .1, and 10. But I'll

be very excited to be able to play the original

StarCraft again. I never really got into the

second one, but the first one I found to be very

fun. When I used to play it. I know the ins and

outs of the game. I didn't care much for Brood

War. Like the original. But still. Yeah. So.

I got notice of this. On Twitter. An English

dub. A Deke Entertainment story. Somebody sent

me a Kickstarter. Which has 30 days to go. There's

only pledged. 889. out of the $18 ,910 goal that

it has. And they're hoping to reach their goal

by Saturday, May 6th. And it's based in Melbourne,

Australia. They have John Chalapin, who basically

ran Deke Entertainment. So, like, for instance,

the shows like Inspector Gadget, Care Bears,

Dennis the Menace, Mysterious Cities of Gold,

and a plethora of other things. You know, there's

been a Sonic show. There's been, you know, the

Ghostbusters, or the real Ghostbusters. And then

there's another series, the Sherlock Holmes in

the 22nd Century. So, anyways. They're doing

a documentary of sorts on this man who's a native

of France where he's basically the Walt Disney

of that area at the time. And I never knew what

Deke stood for. I mean, I'm sure I did when I've

done research for one of our podcasts in the

past, but it's one of those things you forget

when you don't look it up. So it's called Diffusion

Information Commercial. Which, yeah. So anyways,

they're hoping to bring this documentary to life

in a year, maybe two, and yeah. I'd be interested

in seeing it. I don't know anything else about

it, but if I guess things pop up, I'll let you

guys know. So, Obi -Wan Kenobi movie, so the

movie, could get announced. I'm not sure when

Star Wars Celebration actually takes place. Okay,

it starts next week. But they're anticipating

a Obi -Wan Kenobi movie getting announced. Wow,

they're going to have the original Chewbacca.

They're going to have Lando. They're going to

have Hayden Christensen, Anakin. Luke, the Emperor,

and C -3PO there. That's pretty cool. One of

these years I'd like to go. But, yeah, I don't

know if that's going to happen. Oh, and it looks

like they've got Kanan and Freddie Prinze Jr.

and Sarah Michelle Gellar going. Sam Witwer,

Darth Maul. Interesting. So, yeah, I'm kind of

excited for the news that may get announced next

week. Especially when it's pertaining to the

animated stuff or the films or the figures, just

stuff in general. I would love to see Kenobi

movies, whereas a lot of the other origin films

I don't really feel need a place in the Star

Wars universe. But I feel like Kenobi, with the

gap between Revenge of the Sith and... A new

hope. There's plenty of space for that character.

To be fleshed out with missions. So. I would

be very interested in seeing that. Jumping into

the Star Trek. Bucket. They cast. Ran Wilson

as Harry Mudd. From the original series. I have

so many problems with this series. I'm still

going to try and watch it. I really am not looking

forward to it. So, yeah, they're looking at a

late summer, early fall launch now. It's like

in production hell, and I don't understand why.

The one thing that drives me bonkers about this

series, though, is the fact that it takes place

like a couple years before the original series,

and they're trying to make it gritty looking.

The original series was anything but gritty.

If they were going for that, they should have

done post -Star Trek Generations, pre -The Next

Generation. Because there's that whole time span

between when the Enterprise B is floating out

there and the Enterprise C and the Stargazer

that they could have filled in with really anything

they wanted because nothing... I mean, there's

pieces of that time span, but not enough to really

go off of. I still think that that would have

been the best avenue, but again, people smarter

than me have decided that this is the best route.

I guess we'll find out if it flops or not. Probably

won't, but it's still, I'm not holding my breath.

I'm not excited about this. At least Star Wars

doesn't let me down, whereas, you know, they're

planning a fourth Star Wars trilogy after episode

nine. So I don't know what that's going to pertain

to. Oh, man. Yeah, I just there's so much going

on with. I don't even like the Star Trek universe

right now with with what they've done. It's it's

killing me. So the Flash gets an updated costume

in the Once and Future Flash. I'm wondering if

Savitar is Future Barry. Only because Past Barry

wears red all the time. And Future Barry wears

blue. And that's usually a connotation of what

their suits look like when they wear certain

types of clothes. Um, I know there's been times

where he wears like black and stuff like that,

but generally like he's wearing like some kind

of a red outfit. Um, or like Wally wears like

something with yellow or, you know, it's just,

there's something usually defining that they

wear that it kind of almost Power Ranger -esque

is kind of implanted in our heads. But, um, but

I love the new, the new Barry suit from the future

is more defined, more red, the belt, uh, and

the bigger lightning bolts on the sleeves. Um,

it just, it looks cooler. For the 2024 version.

But I think that Savitar is going to be Barry.

But we'll see. So, yeah. Apparently, Val Kilmer

had an idea with Batman. With Michael Keaton,

Christian Bale, and George Clooney to... He wanted

to have them all, all five Batman, return. Or

all four Batman return. and uh batman return

um and be villains uh basically people in jail

in the modern batman movie like um like they're

they're locked in arkham asylum um where batman

faces a lot of enemies and then some of those

bad guys in the movie could be the four of them

was kilmer's idea And somebody else thought,

the writer of this article on Cosmic Book News

said that he actually has another idea that might

be cooler. Have all the Batman actors appear

together in a Crisis on Infinite Earths movie.

Which, surprisingly, that would actually be really

cool to see every Batman revive themselves in

it. Kilmer has blown out like a balloon. I don't

think he'd pass a believable unless he had like

a bigger version of his Batman. And then Keaton,

he would have to play like an old man Batman.

But it's funny because Kilmer puts on line, it's

important to be yourself. If you can't be it

yourself, be Batman. And it says, best Batman.

And it's got, you know, the Batman smacking Robin.

And it says, West. Keaton Clooney Bale um and

and it's missing Kilmer and and Affleck but uh

the batman smacks him and it says Kilmer um which

it was funny and then Keaton replies uh to Val

Kilmer um with the scene from the first uh the

first 1989 Batman movie where he's got the guy

um held up that he he's got him tied by his ankle

and it says where he says I'm Batman um so yeah

Kilmer puts that down but yeah anyways it was

an interesting concept to say the least um and

then kind of in the Bat universe Joss Whedon

Batgirl said to be Barbara Gordon, which I couldn't

understand why it would be anybody else when

that has been the primary Batgirl. And it's also

going to follow the New 52 lineup of the version

of Batgirl. And they're basically teasing that

it'll probably have J .K. Simmons as Commissioner

Gordon in it because obviously it'll connect

with the other films. So it's going to follow

more so the Gail Simone Batgirl, which... I'm

fine with. But what do you guys think on all

that? In other superhero news, Spider -Man's

suit has its own Jarvis. His emblem in it flies

and stuff on the new suit on the movie that they

show. Kind of interesting concept. And then they

have a non -tech suit that doesn't have AI that

Spider -Man's going to have too. And I think

almost wrapping up with superhero stuff, Super

Hero Beatdown had Batman Beyond vs. Spider -Man

2099. I thought it would be kind of cooler if

they'd had... I mean, I see where they did it.

It's the futuristic versions, the next generation

of those characters. But if they would have had

the Spider -Man Unlimited... uh where he's got

the max suit and it's still Peter Parker but

they would have had to have Bruce Wayne fight

him then and then uh that probably wouldn't have

worked but uh but yeah they they did it it was

all animated um and yeah it's uh it's it's very

fun to watch and it's got the um the sprites

of the characters from their uh appearances in

in one of their latest video games like the uh

the batman beyond one is from the arkham uh and

then the uh spider -man one is from uh the recent

game he was in i won't tell you the ending to

it but it's very fun and finally for superhero

stuff um legends of tomorrow had their season

finale yesterday and spoiler alert for anyone

that's looking into this they have the legends

go back in time and meet with their former selves

and some of their future versions of themselves

the main versions of themselves that we've followed

thus far disappear or killed off little by little.

So you're left with the previous, their version

before everything was screwed up. And they get

the Spear of Destiny. Sarah activates it. And

depowers the thing. And Eobard Thawne has gone

and created time. basically time specters of

himself to help him battle the other legends.

And it works to an extent until Black Flash Zoom

comes in and impales Eobard. and it in turn causes

everything to set in that. And they end the series

with Rip going off in his own direction again,

not on the Waverider, and having them heading

to Aruba in 2017, and there's a time storm. and

they land and well more so crash land and there's

dinosaurs everywhere and there's twisted buildings

and it just looks weird so i'm not sure what

universe they're pulling from here or what they're

doing but um yeah it's it's it's gonna be interesting

to say the least um i'm wondering what they're

gonna do and how that's gonna affect uh arrow

on the flash but i guess we'll see but they may

be a pretty um ba going out and uh having black

flash um finally catches prey makes sense because

he's like i would almost like see black flash

go after savitar but which that would be another

interesting twist is if um by taking out thawne

it revitalized him into savitar in a sense so

I'd be interested to see how that plays out.

But again, that's pretty much all the news I

have this week. I have some topical stuff that

I'm probably going to cover, and I'll probably

get more into the Star Trek Online when I'm chatting

with Birdman on our next meet on the podcast.

There's quite a few things I'm working on in

the background between... Keycast Radio and Alter

Geek. I am planning on starting live streaming

the show when I hit episode 200. That should

give me enough time to work out all the kinks

and get the bugs worked out on the websites and

things I'm trying to plan out and get working.

I would like to do it sooner, but realistically,

there's just no way that it's going to happen

for me right now. I'm just going to say episode

200. And if I'm doing two of these a week, it

only means like seven weeks. So I should be doing

this by like June or end of May. So I'll probably

start on the anniversary of Geekcast Radio. And

yeah. So thank you for listening. The next episode

will be more topical based. There won't be any

news. I'll probably have a plethora of topics.

And I do plan on having a couple of interesting...

pieces in the show for you to listen to so until

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