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something else? Who should they cast? Please you and Rosie vamp on the Good Doctor Rosie. This is an interesting question.

meet the Fantastic Four. He's one of Marvel's most incredible villains, and Marvel Studios has never been able to make a movie with him in because of the licensing to Fox. So I think that's a character they can't get wrong and that they know could be their kind of next level fanos, this kind of overarching god Emperor Doom. He can be the ally who turns into a villain. He can be your average kind of sort of small level villain that you don't see coming that becomes this huge,

omnipotent kind of foe. So I think I think we're going to see him. I would love to see him in Quantumania. Do I think he's going to be that soon? I don't know, what do you think.

different multiversal threats from threatening his power. And I would imagine that, like if he was telling Scott the story of how he came to be, he might mention some of these threats and we could see like an image of doctor Doom's mask, like in a computer screen somewhere. Yeah, I think I would be I would not I would not be totally shocked if that happened. And I think

that's the way they do it. I think it's kind of quick because obviously casting like we don't know, I don't know how like, and I feel like, who knows, They're so good at keeping this shit quiet. But I also feel like if they had cast Doom by now, there would be something more than the kind of you know, Genior Carlo Esposido rumors and the Adam Driver rumors that are kind of out there, like we probably hear some

pretty loud whispers. So in lieu of having like an actual cameo guest spot where you see him and don't hear his voice or hear somebody's voice that they've cast but we haven't had the news yet, I think that you'll just get a very very very small clue to the existence of Doom in the form of like a picture of his armor in the context of like all these other versions of Kang that that have existed throughout the multiverse and throughout time.

a mistake, even though I love Josh Berlin. But you know, it would be easy for them to do a mosque you don't see who's behind it, you can get an implication, and then you can reveal this actually does lead to one of So they also wanted to know who it had cost. Right. This leads to one of my favorite things that I've been thinking about a lot.

one nerdict was them older. It was like Keanu Reeves and and all these different kinds of people as older versions, because I like that story. But I think it's this is their next generation of heroes. I think they're gonna go young. So I think William Jackson Harper's gonna play Nathaniel, who obviously then you've got Kang being the descendant, and that sets up Black Read, which we kind of all

thought was gonna be the route that they go. And I think that could be so cool because then you get to see these different generations of the Richards and.

He finds a time machine. He goes back to ancient Egypt and becomes, you know, the predecessor of the person who then becomes Kang, starting the king journey basically, so if that is correct, do they cheat kind of? And do Jonathan Major's Read Richards? Is that a cheat?

could do a great John David Washington Doom. And I like that. I like the idea of having this Fantastic four and Kang kind of storyline become this unexpected space for all these incredible black actors in the MCU, especially because you know, Kang is not I love Kang, but he's not particularly like well known character. And Jonathan Major's has already brought so much gravitas and kind of texture and weirdness to that role, so I'm expecting them to

kind of follow on and do unexpected casting. But yeah, I love I love thinking about who they're going to cast as doctor Doo. My original fan cast that I did was Keanu is an older read Richards who'd been stuck in the negative zone. And then young doctor Doom, who is going to be Adam Driver, who now isn't really that young. But I do think Doom Adam Driver is like, that's a really interesting casting just because of

how great he was as Kylo Wren. He bought so much weird, strange emotion to that that I think Doom has obviously Mage Michelson. That's like the iconic Doom casting that I think a lot of people kind of immediately jump to their heads.

What I've been wondering about the relationship between Kang and Doom, like, is does care you know, we know understand that Kang has been, at least the Kang that we met in Loki existed to kind of keep the multiverse pruned and kind of streamlined in order to keep the rise of various versions, more warlike versions of himself from coming to

the fore. I've been wondering if along those lines, Kang is not like in this kind of multiversal struggle against Doom as well, like he's trying, like, yeah, I not trying to keep Doom from showing up.

it's we don't know what's going to happen. But I think I think that the nature of Kang being someone who is so many different people, so many different versions of a person, so many different iterations, that leans into the empathetic That means there are versions of him who want to do the right thing. And so I think pitting him against Doom and they'm almost being kind of equals in power is very interesting and I think quite likely. So, you know, I think that the way they do the

quantum realm in the MCU is very similar. We've talked about this before, you know, to the negative zone. So I think that there's a big chance that there's already been some kind of If Kang has lived every life and every multiverse possible, he's probably already met doom.

Higman's version of the Secret Wars Crossover event. And man, I think it would be I think it's too much of all this didn't happen.

see like galaxies, this image of galaxy and these incursions. Yeah, the actual usage of the term incursions, which sets up the time runs out storyline, I mean that is that is kind of there. I do wonder if I wonder if we're gonna get incursions before we get Doom, or if they're gonna set up if we're gonna see Doom before we actually get incursions. I'm not sure they even know, but like that, there's a lot of pathways to get to Doom. And there's also the like to your point,

let's say they go young with the fantastic forecasting. Do we see them? Do we see like a more down to earth just kind of not run of the mill, but a more standard comic book Baddie Doom in his early evolution, you know, post the scarring, post read Richards, you know, from Doom's perspective, reads Meddling in his experiment, He's got this. Maybe they're both like tech bro guys, and that.

actually was like kind of even felt dated then. But I think that that idea, that is the thing that gives me the biggest hope for them being slightly aged up is because we've already seen the young Fantastic Four done and it didn't necessarily coalesce in the way people would have wanted, even though obviously like Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm is like icon level casting. Yeah, but yeah, I'm very interested to see the route that they go.

And I think that's the biggest question when it comes to casting, is are we seeing are the Fantastic Four going to be aged up? They already exist, they've you know, a long time. This is what I was saying. I used to say it when I worked in the comic shop. I'm still saying it now. I had always wanted a you know, back then it was like Taika way Titi and he's directing a sixties Fantastic Four movie where they get thrown into the future and it's a fish out

of water story. Those rumors are now going around that that might be what happens, in which case they already have to be established, and we do have the X Men as the young heroes potentially coming into the MCU. But I still think, why wouldn't they want twenty year olds so they can still be doing it in twenty years? You know, that is really how long these franchises go on for. So I'm intrigueded to see which way.

actually concrete kind of you know. The tagline for the new post do they released for the quantumanea post do they released today said, uh, I think it's like welcome to a dynasty. Obviously that makes us think of the Kang dynasty, but it could also be talking about the Richards. It could be many things, so it's very exciting times.

gonna be too busy? It certainly makes sense that I think that there's a way to do it, and I think they gestured at it with you know, when Loki, uh, you know, steps out into whatever reality he's currently in, he sees this huge statue of Kang. I think there's a way to do it in which Kang is this shadow that is like falling over the entire season without actually seeing him. And I kind of think that that's what they're gonna do, and they will save Jonathan Majors for the movie What are your.

really well, people loved it. So maybe there's a potential that we get this kind of reflection of that where we get the shadow of Kang the whole time and then the one episode. And it might be in the middle because you're learning about this universe's version of Kang where he is Kang the Conqueror, or it might be at the end again. But I think there's there's potential for maybe an episode, but I don't think he's going to be our villain of the week, sadly because I would love to see it.

would believe. So it could be wrong, it could be bucky. I'm gonna go with I'm going to say that no scrolls ever got into Wakanda. That was the rule in the comics, which was like you know, see Wakanda and die that like great three three issue run by Jason Aarron. Like, so I'm going to say scrolls never made it to Wakanda. But that doesn't mean they couldn't have taken someone over outside of Wakanda and had them be a on out

in the world, you know. So yeah, I think who is a scroll was a big question that we got, and I think that's gonna be very interesting to see how much we find out in secret Invasion because honestly, that's a TV show, but Marvel has not been afraid to draw big, shocking things within the world of TV.

directly to TV. You know she's already worked. I would shot.

in Secret Invasion? Will three D Man be involved in the comics Three D Man, who is just the weirdest, weirdest classic like seventies Marvel character first appeared in Marvel Premiere thirty five, created by Roy Thomas, who truly must be raking in the cash right now because they are going through his back Cat and Jim Craig, and he has three D glasses, right, magical three D glasses, but the way that they're used in especially Secret Invasion, but

throughout the history of his comics with the scrolls, he can see who scrolls are. And one of the coolest parts of Secret Invasion is like he just walks into this room of heroes and he's like, oh my god, what are you talking about? And he's like, they're scrolls, They're literally scrolls. I would love to see him come into this Scroll storyline at some point because it's just

such a fun character. But it will be interesting to see because I feel like Secret Invasion was so huge in the comics, and fig he keeps saying, this is like an intimate spy thriller, So I don't we don't know how much impact it's gonna have. But yeah, I think I think those are great best And I think you're that mocking You're always great with these scroll predictions. The Mockingbird. That's my new favorite, even above Maria Hale. I think I think that's a great one.

this icon once again. But he's actually a scroll that's incredibly bleak and amazing and would be very interesting because you could have some great storylines with the characters within the MCU, like Peter, who would just know for some reason he just knows, or Pepper just knows, and you kind of have this war between wanting to imagine that he's back and not, and I'm sure that Robert is dreaming of a way to find his self back in that.

like the dream. So they're saying at the moment I spoke to that kid, I interviewed him once five GN and he was just that was his dream, was that he could get to play Iron Lad and kind of go through that role. That seems unlikely now because you know, Kang is iron Lad is Kang. So it's like, would they cast a white person would hardly be the right choice. But what if that kid is the scroll and the scroll, who was at the funeral? Who gets the suit? Now

that's what I'm talking about. Bring that kid back. Fake us out. People thought that iron the whole point of that original Young Avengers brilliant, you know, Jim Chung stuff is. You thought that they were all analogues for established characters, but they were actually secretly kind of nothing to do with them. And Iron Lad was was, you know, revealed to be Kang. But I love this idea that they could fake us out by being like, oh, he's gonna be Iron Lad, He's going to be this young new

hero with this suit on. But really he's a scroll. So I'm like, that's my one. Bring bring back the kids from Iron Man three, and he can be a scroll. He was at Tony's funeral? Why was he there? Nobody's seen him for a long time.

kind of like different superhero concerns. He can go take a meeting with the Avengers, he can go take a meeting with Doctor Strange, he can go take a meeting with with whatever, you know, with a government, and he would be in it, would have access to a lot of information. If the idea is like, you know, I can and also have idea with the Marvel Underworld. Yeah, so like there'd be that opportunity to kind of like he'd be perfectly positioned in a kind of spy role

if he indeed was a s girl. I don't think that's the good.

Gene Gray, slow play Wolverine, et cetera. I feel like everyone is always speculating how they'll introduce the X Men instead of a slow, methodical universe building, maybe after a Secret Wars reset question Mark, Well, guess what, Ryan, this is our number one favorite topic.

I think that slow play is happening. We're already getting familiar with the idea that people are just born with power for whatever reason, and it's a mute and it's due to mutation. And I think when we when it does come time for the X Men, I think it'll happen all at once. I think we'll get him all at once. I do think the one outlier, and we've said this, we both talked about this a million times, the one possible outlier being Wolverine, who you can see

existing in MCU continuity right now. And since like the nineteen twenties or whatever, you know, like they it's the original Super Soldier program was involved. This guy named Logan, who is like a Canadian mutant who they experimented on. This became Weapon X and it was like an offshoot of Super Soldier. And he's been like in either in cryostasis or they wiped his mind, and he's been running

all kinds of secret missions. And I think when they do introduce the X Men in a non interdimensional way, much like the Eternals, it's going to be and Wakan and nay more and talkon, it's gonna be all at once. They've been hiding in plain sight. There's a school upstate. It's a school for gifted youngsters, but actually it's a school for superhero superpowered beings. They haven't gotten involved in the various fights going on because they don't trust humanity.

They can kind of see where this is going. They might have any number of characters who can actually see the future and are saying, listen, we're going towards a bad place. If you reveal yourself, We're already going towards a bad place. But if you actually reveal yourself during it's going to be so much false fantus. But yeah, between when the Thanos stuff is happening, when whenever fight is happen when the battle in New York has happening.

If you reveal yourself, then we're going to get to that post apocalyptic, you know of genocidal time for the mutants a lot quicker. So don't reveal yourself. And I think I think they basically are around right now and they're just hiding your thoughts.

hundred percent right. They're seeding it now. What I think is very interesting is the timing of and look, these schedules shift, right, But what we know right now is that Phase five kind of Secret Wars phase this kind of you know, twenty twenty four onward situation. And they did it. They did they did a very interesting ad in you know, India, that was like Cassie saying, where are we in Quantumania? And it was like phase five there, right.

But I think it's very interesting that Deadpool three, which we know is going to include Logan, is coming out in twenty twenty four, which is going to be within this kind of Secret Wars phase, and I think that is very telling. We don't know what it means for Deadpool and Logan to be in the MCU. I've already positioned my theory that Deadpool's there to kill all the Fox characters and Logan's potentially helping out.

of it. And then I do believe that we would probably with that movie coming out when it is supposed to come out. I believe we will probably see that version of Logan and Depool whenever the big Secret Wars kind of battle, at least in a cameo phase. Who will the other mutants be when when we start to see you know, Storm, who I believe is kind of your nowadays, that's your primary X men that you want to introduce first. I don't know. That's the thing that

I find most interesting. My one big prediction that we've talked about before that I think is true, is I think that post you know, this kind of multiverse phase, the multiverse saga, I think it's going to be the mutant saga, if any saga multiverse saga, mutant saga. I think that is. It makes sense.

so it's a whole. It's almost I feel like the stage where these movies could step out of the MCU and it becomes an entirely different I guess.

I do think that, and we talked about this some weeks ago when we discuss AXC, the Judgment Day crossover event that just finished up in Marvel Comics, written by Kieran Galen with art by a number of artists including Valerio Shitty, that the Eternals your internal favorites, Do you kind of give us the most currently existing straight lined shot towards the X Men, because you could just say, because you know, in that crossover event, the Eternals or

a faction of the Eternals are pitted against the Mutants because it turns out that the mutation is actually a form of a deviation. They're actually deviants by another name. In fact, deviants can take the Cocohen Gates telling you that genetically they're extremely similar. So I think that there's a world in which the Eternals, the mission of the Eternals, brings them into direct conflict with this thus far hidden sect of deviants that we can then can be then

revealed to be mutants. I think that that is kind of our most direct straight line shot towards mutants in an earlier timeframe than kind of I think so too, especially that's happening now.

and feared. Now again, I think they're seeding it again, as we saw with Damage control and the UH and the prison that that we visited during Miss Marvel. I think that that's there, you know, with Sword and the kind of the way they're kind of pivoting Sword to kind of study sentient computers, potentially giving us an entrede to sentinels of the sentinel programs. I think they're seating all that stuff, But we need to hated and feared

before the mutants. Like I'm with you, it'd be they could certainly say, oh, here's Crocoa and here's all the mutants and they've been hiding here, and it's but I think that it wouldn't have the same impact unless you get the MCU writ large to a place where people with powers are feared and mutants in particular are hated, feared, despised to the point where people would be just kind of okay with somebody going to try and wipe them out.

stopped her because that was a really stupid idea. Ah, But like that, opening that space to the quantum realm, introducing different kinds of powered characters who did not get their powers from military suits or military experiments or the accepted ways in the MCU, are more cosmic empower who

are more reminiscent of, say a Thanos. I could definitely see a route where Kang comes to our universe in the role of a benefactor who wants to help but is treated as if he is a villain like Thanos, and that can stoke that fear and also create a conflict between Kang and his hopeful ally Paul Rod, who, by the way, I saw walking down the street in Sampedo this week filmingo reshoots, happy cheeky additional photography in that same comic shop.

they thank him and they get his name right. That seemed like something that would make.

that's kind of it, called the Jay Tranny's. I saw them shooting outside, so I'm very interested to see what that would be because I don't believe we've seen anything in or around there. So yeah, and it was again they were shooting. They were shooting San Francis. I'm pro for San Francisco, so it's set, it's still there. It could have also just been easier to shoot here than going back to SF. But yeah, additional photography a month before the movie.

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Deadpool two. Deadpool travels back in time with the attempt to kill a baby Hitler at the end of Avengers endgame. Cap is you know, famous for socking Hitler and the Jaw, travels back in time to restore the Infinity Stones and learn to dance. If Cap gets wind of Deadpool's plans, does he jump back in time to help Deadpools or does he stop him? Do the ensuing hijinks cause the Fox Universe and the MCU to full inner on with

each other. A asks a similar question, just asking basically how the Fox movie characters and the MCU characters and the MCU in general could interrelate your thoughts.

But I I do not believe that Cap going back for that dance will be what causes the universes to fold, though I do think there is a very very very very very good argument that that is the easiest way to explain it, because that whole thing is just the timeline is so messy, and the idea that he could go back and not change anything is it doesn't make sense with the interior logic of the movies.

One of my asked a really fun thing, which was like, how do what's your dream team up of a Fox character and an MCU character. What's yours?

he died. Maybe they ran some maybe they were you know, when when the US Military Command realized the kind of impact that Captain America had, maybe they pull him out for a weekend and pair him with this shadowy agent named Logan who's maybe from Canada, maybe from somewhere else. They send them, they send them on some secret mission love doy whatever. But I think those two together, there's just there's just a lot of there's a lot of

possibilities there along those similar veins. You know, at this point, nay War is the oldest, you know, the oldest character in the MCU and ends. We know that Logan is like one hundred Oh gosh, he would be like what one forty Yeah, at least hundred and forty five years old something like that, right. I think there's a world in which those two could have could have crossed paths. What about you?

the character is of age. You know, I would like to see that Ryan Reynolds Tom Holland, Deadpool Spider Man. There's like such a fun and flirty, weird, cheeky dynamic. But on a if I was gonna pick one thing, just because this is kind of a cheat, because I really just want these characters to be in the MCU.

I would want to se Kamala go to the school up state, and for all of Laura Kinney and the new Mutants that they basically established, like Richter and everyone from that brilliant kind of phase of Logan, I'd love to just see them there. I felt like that group of kids was one of the most exciting kind of possibilities that we never got to explore. So that would be my real one. But I think the other two are a little bit more likely.

Class actually happened. But then Charles Xavier was like, you know what, this is too much fucking trouble. I just want to raise my kids, my child soldiers in peace. I am gonna hook myself up to Threebro and just because I am so fucking powerful, I'm gonna make everybody for he's evil and he does.

Cable as well, but like grizzled him up. But seeing as we have you know, Josh Brolin Cable, I would love to see that version of Scott come back and they do something along the lines of that, like psychic Romance with Emma that they did in New X Men. You know, I would love to see a kind of aged up down a Scott, because I think that's the most interesting Scott. But you know how they will introduce

the Fox characters or or get rid of them. We are probably the only people who are talking about it more than the Marvel studios, because they are talking about it every day. I swear to God that this must be the conversation.

of a spell. We've got so much history with him and Strange Dead Evil, the Fantastic Four, Fury Sam as Cap Miles. You know, we hope he shows up soon, which I think we can also addam. I was gonna say, let's let's add that on to the end of this question, because we've got a lot of people like Gloria asking about Miles, and I will say, I think the most important thing to remember about the spell, which is easy to forget because there was a lot going on in

that movie. Yeah, people know who Spider Man is. They know that Spider Man exists. They just do not know that Peter Parker is Spider Man, and they basically essentially wiped the memory of Peter Parker out kind of cosmically of everyone who is in that universe. They're will likely, as we have talked about before, be an exception. There will be someone who is off planet, there will be someone who remembers him potentially, so Spider Man is going

to be there. The big question is how does Spider Man have personal interactions with these characters when so many of their relationships were based on the fact that he was this young hero who wasn't afraid to show them his face, who was sweet, who had this hot on all these personal things. That was what made him beloved in the Avengers. That was how he you know, with his little pajama suit, like those were the memories people have.

So the question is, does Spider Man now become this kind of almost like a lone wolf hero who people are like, oh, he's so enigmatic, none of us know who he is, and when does that get broken? And I do think that I've spoken about this before, like we've chatted about on the pod, but I do think that his role right now actually helps us seed Miles because it essentially makes him a figurehead instead of a person, and it'll buy a miles.

Tom Holland and the MCU. I think what they're gonna do is go to the kind of in air quotes, kind of classic mid eighties and nineties Spider Man's stories working at the beauty, you know, the version of the Bugle. He's gonna he's gonna be get an adult job.

that movie. But or do you think they'll do something different where we would see Flash get it and you get that different version of venom, or you would see you know, maybe they go straight to a more planet, you know, planet Symbia, kind of like multiple different symbios existing in the MSU. Maybe they want to venomize everyone

they love to do that in the comics. What do you think because the Symbia being there and Peter not being Peter and kind of publicly known as Peter I think is that's leading somewhere.

Norman and he's like, wherever is my son? You know, and there's decided that Norman doesn't exist in that universe, Norman, but does he like? Those are the characters I think we could see and that kind of eighties and nineties more classical Spider Man as we imagine him from that era. I think those are the big questions. Which villains are now going to appear in the MCU, Who has suddenly have been there the whole time? Or who he meets at college, you know, his little friends.

of being voted around. I mean, I got an email from Nicko Low, who's the head editor for the Spider Offices, just like sort of getting he wanted to get like my take on on the suit update, and it is I think, I wrote back, It's like, this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. The version that eventually they they ended up landing almost a little bit more simplified than the one that I originally saw but

and gave notes on. But if you go to Chase Conley's Twitter or Instagram, uh, they've had They've they've posted their original designs for it. You can see it's got these really cool like straps like techwar tech worl like straps and stuff on the suit. That didn't really make it to the wards, the final version, because I believe they were concerned that it'd be too complicated for artists to keep drawing that every time it's like a huge

action scene, which I get. But also, you know, part of me, if you know anything about me, I'm a huge streetwear fan, So I was a bit bummed about that. But yeah, that was that's the that was like the practical reason. But I think from like a story standpoint or like a narrow standpoint. You know, a lot of this arc that I'm going to be writing is about sort of starting a new status quo and starting things over and Miles going back to his roots. So I

think thematically it it, it makes sense. But you know, maybe there's a way I can weasel my way into getting have that's that his his his last suit pop up again and some future stories because I am a big fan of it and a big fan of Chase to begin with. So Stott, I hope that answers your question, and thanks for reading, and I hope you continue to enjoy, enjoy the Miles story.

Thus the search for people with Valerian lineage is launched, and one of the people they find is Adam of Hull, who is one of the so called dragon seeds, a bastard fathered by some member of the Valerian lineage who has just been running around Driftmark. You know how much they love brothels and stuff. And then he becomes a dragon writer, also writing c Smoke of course Lenor's former dragon. He becomes a quite an important figure in the middle of this world. I think it would be how would

you hide it from people? I think that lane Or is too notable a person for it to work. But I think that there, man, if you could really crack the code on how it could work, it would be pretty fucking amazing. But I don't. It just feels like it's just the fact that there was never even a whisper in the histories.

There was never even a rumor that. Hey, and there are lots of examples throughout Westrss's history of people pretending to be other people coming back as other people saying, hey, I'm actually this person, but they're not. You know, in Dance of Dragons, there's currently a egon targarian running around who everybody is calling Fagon because pretty bunch people are pretty convinced that he's not actually a targarian. This happens

a lot in that world. And the fact that nobody the facts not mentioned that text tells me that nobody, even you know, had a hint of it, which kind of suggests to me that Lenor is not Adam of hult Adam Vlais.

and fled. So if they did do it, he would have to hide his identity from certainly his parents and everyone but Nira, like he would just it would just have to be and and damon, it would just have to be the most tightly guarded secret. That's the only way to do it.

populated club. Any encouragement you can give me would be appreciated. Ha ha ha. Do you want to start off with any encouragement on why should continue? You know what?

let's just take him at his word. He's put this world together he spent decades creating it.

is involved in the most notable of these. There are moments in A Dance of Dragons that had me at the edge of my seat because I could finally feel like the story was turning towards something of a resolution. And there is an incredible Wyman Manderly's speech in that book that to this day I will break out and

reread because I think it's so good. There's like just some really really wonderful moments and it listen, it is disheartening to realize that like it's like basically stuck at like season five of Gave It Throws, like that's where we've been stuck for like twelve years. But I think there's some incredible, incredible like sun breaking through the clouds, moments in a dance of dragons that if you've come this far, are absolutely worth seeing through and listen again.

I remain hopeful. I remain hopeful, hope we'll find a way. I also believe that you know that they're in a cynical sense. There is no kind of media entity currently in existence that is going to leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table. Those books will come out. Will George write them, that is the question. How will they be created is the question. But those books are going to come out one way or another. I know George has said that he doesn't want that to happen.

I guess cynically, I feel like that's just one of those things that is going to happen. Those books will come out, they will be and if George doesn't write them, which I think he will again, I remain hopeful they'll be based off his notes something like that. And I certainly think I remain I know that I'm gonna be roasted for this. I remain ninety seven percent sure that we will see Wins of Winter ninety seven percent. I believe we will see it what year? Q four twenty twenty three.

Maybe after the end of last season where Crosshair kind of split off from them, I'd love to see them maybe have to help him out some kind of reconnection there. But yeah, I'm I'm really excited, and I'm glad that our listeners love the show so much, because I do think it's a really really special show.

something to stop it? And I would be really eager to see their role in the formation of what we now call the Rebel Alliance, if that, if there is a role for them to have, because just the fact that they're debating it, you know, this is obviously a debate that's going on in this particular timeline, in this particular time in galactic history, you know, in various just

different parts of this story. And I think that the fact that they are having that conversation means that, you know, could we see we're already seeing them kind of get mixed up with their former clone compatriots in a raid and an attempted heist, you know of Count Dooku's you know, former riches that could bring them into conflict with any number of Imperial figures, early Imperial figures, including maybe you know, Tarkan maybe. I think that I would just love to

see because we don't know anything about it. I would love to see if they play any role in the formation of the Rebel Alliance and what that would look like. I think that'd be really cool.

If so, any thoughts leading into the premiere. Yeah, first of all, we're gonna be covering it, covering it. Maybe we can reveal now as we enter this phase of the X ray Vision podcast. X ray Vision will be in your years twice a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. This Friday's episode, we're going to be covering the Last of Us game. It's gonna be our first installment on the story of the Last of Us, the first Last of Us game, which is just a tremendous storytelling experienced, tremendous

game experience. We can't wait to bring that to you. And yes, we will be covering the show on a weekly basis. It's in terms of Max's question, Rosie, how much do you think they're going to cover it in this first episode in the first season.

So much of the time is taken up by you inhabiting the role, and obviously we're not going to be in that space. So I personally think you could do a brilliant limited series. But seeing as this has the potential to be the most successful video game adaptation of all time, you know, touch would, I'd assume they're going to stretch out a bit. I think, yeah, yeah, what do you think?

developed a year before The Walking Dead got onto TV. Now, the game was probably inspired at least in part by the comics, but there are a lot of differences, and you can see that it becomes this cyclical thing where the Walking Dead TV show also starts to feed off The Last of Us and the way the Last of Us tell stories one of the biggest differences that I think that I was kind of really blown away with

playing the game again. I think it's the The Last of Us is a game that is very bleak and has these immense moral choices, and is very sad and scary, but it has these unbelievable moments of beauty almost constantly throughout the game, even if you're just walking around in a broken down landscape about to kill ten people. By the way, Tessa's a psycho, Like, she really made me murder so many people when I started playing again.

of beautiful, overgrown nature of peace. And I hope that that is going to be something that they keep in the show because that will really make it stand out against that kind of grim grit and kind of constant grind of The Walking Dead.

and I just want to watch it over and over. Also, it has a banging theme song I can't help but sing every time I watch. The show is hilarious, with wildly funny characters and ridiculous shenanigans you'd expect from a kid's show, but it also has a very deeply moving story about good versus evil. A quick synopsis, Adra and Katra are orphans raised by the Hord, a military unit

similar to the Empire. One night, Adorra finds a magical sword that transforms her into the legendary warrior Princess Shira. She learns that the Horde is evil and trying to take over their world. Etherea, Adorra teams up with the Princesses of Power, but to save the world, she has to go against her best friends since childhood, Kattra, who

doesn't want to leave the Horde. Over the course of the show, Adorra searches for her origins as she fights to do the right thing without sacrificing the people she loves. Over five seasons, Shira explores themes of identity, friendship, sacrifice, and love. The stakes are high in this show. The Princess Alliance is fighting to save Etheria and the universe. I would compare this to Star Wars Rebels in the depth of character development and the epic battle of good

versus evil. But my favorite part about Shira is how unabashedly queer it is in Etherea. Queerness is just a normal part of society and life as it should be. Princes are married, people have gay parents, and we even have a very fun non binary character, Double Trouble, voiced by non binary actor Jacob Tobia. It's how the world

should be, with queerness existing the same as straitness. Also, Adra and Cattra are the best, will they won't they ship into They are also deeply heartfelt characters, as are the rest of the cast, which includes Karen Fukuhara, the actress who plays Kimiko on The Boys as Princess Glimmer. So go watch Chier on Netflix. It's five seasons of hilarious hijinks and epic battles. I hope you enjoyed as much as I did. For the honor of Gray Skull Catridora Forever.