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22: Ironheart Episodes 4-6 with Ryan
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Welcome back true believers! Join us as we review and recap, with brutal honesty, episodes 4-6 of Ironheart with guest hot nerd Ryan.
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Introduction and Episode Discussion
00:00:30
Ryan
Welcome to Real Hot Nerd Shit, a pop culture podcast where real hot nerds talk about real nerd shit. I'm your host, Ryan.
00:00:38
Shauna (she/her)
And I'm your host, Shauna.
00:00:40
Ryan
And on this episode of Real Hot Nerd Shit, we'll be talking about Ironheart episodes four through six, the second half of the show, which is now complete, and we've got lots to say.
00:00:54
Shauna (she/her)
He's back, just like we thought. I called it from way back when. I knew WandaVision happened. I was like, it would lead little did we know several years later, this would be when it would finally happen.
00:01:04
Ryan
Here we are, which is not the person that you're introing. That's just a reference to the other conversation because it does sound like.
00:01:09
Shauna (she/her)
Oh, yeah, no, that's just our, that's the Ironheart, actually.
00:01:11
Ryan W
but
00:01:12
Shauna (she/her)
And no, no, no, actually, this was, this, our guest for today was actually written
Personal Stories and Nerdy Interests
00:01:16
Shauna (she/her)
in the book from Agatha all along.
00:01:16
Ryan W
yeah
00:01:19
Ryan
Exactly.
00:01:19
Shauna (she/her)
So, you know, yeah.
00:01:20
Ryan W
I'm part of the Darkhold, actually.
00:01:21
Ryan
ah The secret third Ryan is with us ah today. Welcome to the podcast. Wait.
00:01:34
Shauna (she/her)
Little jazz hands.
00:01:35
Ryan W
Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.
00:01:36
Ryan
Yeah. Welcome. um So ah you are a nerd.
00:01:43
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:01:43
Ryan
I know that. um Which was why I was so excited to be able to um bring you on and, um you know, like hear your take and and also to just bring my two worlds together because um ryan is the stand-in for other ryan who is still you know for the second ryan um but like in a totally different and great way which includes and i'm so sorry before i ask you this first intro question um i have to tell you that uh unsurprisingly i got
00:02:16
Shauna (she/her)
That's it.
00:02:20
Ryan
a little drunk at the beach on Saturday. And I was walking around holding the fucking boom box playing Cynthia Erivo's Defying Gravity in the lake.
00:02:30
Shauna (she/her)
ah
00:02:32
Ryan
And then,
00:02:32
Ryan W
leading Leading the charge, leading the sing-along.
00:02:38
Ryan W
With about, i don't know, five, six other people in the water.
00:02:39
Ryan
and then, yeah, it was just like, it was just the little tiny circle of us. And I was having such a good time. And, uh, I don't know, man.
00:02:49
Ryan
i was... have I have started getting more comfortable with some of the people that we hang out, and so that is what's come...
00:02:54
Ryan W
sure have.
00:02:57
Ryan
Which, okay, so the thing that I was going to tell you... I've been meaning to tell um you and Uxie and Ryan this, Shauna, but... um You know, sometimes when I talk, I get really into it, and I love a captive audience.
00:03:12
Shauna (she/her)
Really? on, I've never heard this before about you.
00:03:17
Ryan
So...
00:03:17
Shauna (she/her)
Tell me more, please.
00:03:18
Ryan
So it was me talking to like three or four like of um my new friends that Ryan has introduced me to. And Ryan was not there. he was just, he was in the water and he comes up as I'm mid spiel and he goes, oh God, what are you lore dumping about now?
00:03:37
Ryan W
I just like caught the general vibe and like I've known Ryan long enough to like understand like what certain mannerisms mean.
00:03:41
Ryan
Didn't hear a word I was saying.
00:03:44
Ryan W
I'm like, oh, oh okay, they are they were locked in. Let's let's see see see what's going on here.
00:03:48
Ryan
clocked locked in clocked in yep
00:03:52
Shauna (she/her)
like Look, I've absolutely followed through on the conversation options in many in RPG. You know what? I understand how this goes.
00:03:59
Ryan W
Yes, of course.
00:03:59
Shauna (she/her)
Some of them are like, I do keep clicking forward. I want to know.
00:04:03
Ryan W
Big, big match effect.
00:04:03
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. Where does this where does this conversation tree lead to?
00:04:06
Ryan W
Right, exactly.
00:04:06
Shauna (she/her)
Please.
00:04:09
Ryan
what great um what a great segue into my question to Ryan. So um I got introduced to introduce to a lot of these homosexuals ah via homosexual activities, um which does include Marvel Rivals.
00:04:25
Ryan
So um I was added to this big group chat of Rivals gamers. um So Ryan, what are you a If a nerd is ah someone who is weirdly knowledgeable and passionate about something, but people kind of think it's uncool or, you know, it takes its time for people to see how cool it is, um what are you a nerd about?
00:04:51
Ryan W
kind of a big question. um So I think my first fandom ah had to have been ah X-Men from the 97 TV show, the original one.
00:05:01
Ryan W
Of course, like you know it's it's it's it's a big time for the Mewties.
00:05:02
Ryan
Yes.
00:05:07
Ryan W
you know There's a resurgence of 97. We're talking about X-Men and coming in the the MCU. We're talking about ah certain certain cosmic forces being in rivals now. like I mean, i don't think i don't think the hype train has ever stopped for X-Men.
00:05:25
Ryan W
And like I wear this Krakoan X shirt in Pride today.
00:05:29
Ryan
Yes, yes.
00:05:30
Ryan W
So that was my first one. But you know my I think my my nerddom also like comes from my parents. My dad was more sci-fi. My mom was more like horror. um And so like I have kind of like blended into two of those.
00:05:46
Ryan
I didn't know you were a horror
00:05:48
Ryan W
Yeah, I mean, like, my mom was really into Buffy. think Hellraiser is one of her favorite movies. Like, my mom is very unassuming, but, like, she likes, like, the gore.
00:05:58
Ryan
Shauna.
00:05:58
Ryan W
It's very interesting.
00:06:00
Ryan
Shauna's making her kid a ah stone cold, like dyed in the wool nerd. Like their house has enough representation from nearly every nerd genre and flavor that
00:06:06
Shauna (she/her)
Absolutely.
Gaming and Character Strategies
00:06:14
Ryan
that kid's going to be
00:06:16
Ryan
That kid's going cool.
00:06:17
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:06:18
Shauna (she/her)
oh yeah, like we we want to make sure he's very well-rounded. Everything from musicals to superheroes. We actually, oh my gosh, all like all sports thrown in. Just a little bit of everything.
00:06:29
Ryan W
Right, yeah.
00:06:29
Ryan
Yeah.
00:06:29
Shauna (she/her)
want to make sure.
00:06:31
Ryan
And they um yourre your kiddo just ah beat Breath of the Wild. And they're under 10.
00:06:36
Shauna (she/her)
He did.
00:06:38
Ryan W
That's further than I have.
00:06:38
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, well, like, right? That's like is very impressed. Like the one day, like, you know, he tends to get he got up early and was like playing and was like, i beat three of the bosses this morning.
00:06:51
Shauna (she/her)
i was like, oh, my God, I love this. Like he was.
00:06:52
Ryan
this morning
00:06:54
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah, like because he had gotten through all of the dungeons and left the bosses for the end.
00:06:59
Ryan W
Interesting.
00:07:00
Shauna (she/her)
And like just like, yeah, it was it was a very like, there's like, all right, I've done the puzzle part.
00:07:00
Ryan
ah
00:07:03
Ryan W
I'm savoring it. thank
00:07:04
Shauna (she/her)
Now I'm going to go get stronger to fight the fight.
00:07:06
Ryan W
Interesting. Huh.
00:07:07
Ryan
What a smart, smart kid.
00:07:09
Ryan W
That's unique approach.
00:07:10
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:07:10
Ryan W
Oh,
00:07:12
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. so that was a big he's been really into video games like loves like um I love passing on my love of Zelda to him. It makes me so happy.
00:07:21
Ryan
Yeah. um Which reminds me, so you're also a gamer, Ryan.
00:07:26
Ryan W
so yeah.
00:07:27
Ryan
What's been your experience with... gaming so we play rivals but
00:07:32
Ryan W
We play Rivals. Right now I'm currently playing, like, i don't know, I'll get into like some weird like depressive funks and I'm like, you know what would fix me? and a Japanese RPG.
00:07:43
Ryan W
And then like I never end up finish finishing it because like I will come out of my depression and I'll just be like, oh, this is more, that i committed to I committed to a lot more than I was willing to actually do.
00:07:50
Ryan
i'm gonna leave the house now right
00:07:54
Ryan W
And I'm better now. so So right now um I'm playing Triangle Strategy for the Switch. It's like a tactics game. I am not strategic at all, but like I'm fumbling my way through it.
00:08:01
Shauna (she/her)
Mm-hmm.
00:08:05
Ryan W
um ah Playing Rivals, of course. I'm playing i'm still playing Claire Obscure, the sad French game that everybody's gagging about.
00:08:15
Ryan W
Definitely going to Game of the Year. I'm very excited. um Yeah, I'm trying to play less video games in the summer because like I live in like a really nice place by the beach, and like I didn't move to Chicago to like stay inside and play video games all day.
00:08:15
Ryan
yeah yes
00:08:28
Ryan
play video games yeah yeah that's for that's for um that's for winter and depressive episodes don't forget about the depressive episodes
00:08:30
Ryan W
So that's for the winter.
00:08:31
Shauna (she/her)
That's fair.
00:08:37
Ryan W
And depressive episodes, correct? Yes, yes.
00:08:40
Ryan
um so are there any things um well guess before we move on to uh if there's anything else that you are nerdy about that's not like nerd content so like you know uh our friend our other Ryan is like super nerdy about um Billboard Top 100 like he loves that stuff and my other question is who are your rivals mains
00:08:57
Ryan W
no
00:09:03
Ryan W
Rivals mains, I probably have the most hours on Magneto and Emma. um
00:09:09
Shauna (she/her)
Hmm.
00:09:09
Ryan
Divas. Sure.
00:09:10
Ryan W
So definitely keeping with my ex motif. um I think Cloak and Dagger are a close third. um And in terms of like other nerd stuff,
00:09:23
Ryan W
i don't know i um I really like comic books, which i I guess is like the source material of what we're talking about. um i was I was a lot more into comics when I was right was in a working position where I was like able to read them a lot of the day.
00:09:38
Ryan
sir
00:09:39
Shauna (she/her)
Okay.
00:09:39
Ryan W
but like now, i you know, I want to be up and about and do my thing. But like there it's the thing about comics is that like it's kind of like TV, right? Like you can always come back to it. Like there's ah there's a huge deposit of that information that's rarely accessible.
00:09:48
Ryan
Yeah.
00:09:52
Ryan W
Like And there's that cute comic shop in Andersonville that we've, have you been to that one?
00:09:58
Ryan
The black owned one? Wait, no, not that one.
00:09:59
Ryan W
Ah, no, that one.
00:10:00
Ryan
ah The black owned one was where I went on my birthday. I don't remember the name of it, but it's near, it's in Rogers Park.
00:10:07
Ryan W
Okay. Okay, okay, we'll shop around.
00:10:09
Ryan
I think I might've gone to the one in Andersonville.
00:10:12
Ryan W
It's like golden stuff.
00:10:12
Ryan
Um,
00:10:14
Ryan
ah So just to catch the world up because I don't think we've talked about our mains in a while. Who are your mains, Shauna?
00:10:21
Shauna (she/her)
So my means right now, I've been really, like, if I'm playing damage, it's Storm.
00:10:27
Ryan
She fucks it up.
00:10:27
Shauna (she/her)
She's been my go-to, like, I love it.
00:10:28
Ryan
She's so good at Storm.
00:10:31
Shauna (she/her)
It's absolutely my favorite, and again, with the X-Men theme.
00:10:34
Ryan W
of support and...
00:10:34
Shauna (she/her)
And same, also with Magic.
00:10:35
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:10:36
Shauna (she/her)
She's my, like, dive character. love, like, going in with the sword, disrupting. For Tank, it's definitely, Emma's by far been, like, ever since she debuted, she's been my go-to. Like, I'm already at Centurion with her.
00:10:49
Shauna (she/her)
I'm, like, Oh yeah, like I'm like, well, I really like playing with She's so much fun.
00:10:56
Ryan
Yeah, right, right.
00:10:57
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:10:58
Ryan W
I'm struggling to get to like, out of Captain.
00:10:58
Shauna (she/her)
And then...
00:11:01
Shauna (she/her)
See, that, and then Cloak and Dagger has been, like, by far my go-to main, because I played a lot of Overwatch back in the day, and so that was where, ah so I feel like she feels very, like they feel like more Moira, and so I feel like the switch between damage and heals was, like, a very easy, like, I'm like, oh, I got this.
00:11:07
Ryan W
Me too, yeah.
00:11:12
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:11:17
Ryan W
Yes.
00:11:19
Shauna (she/her)
Like, once I figured it out, I got very good at it, and so, yeah.
00:11:22
Ryan W
I get this concept, yes.
00:11:25
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:11:25
Ryan
I definitely, um I am also a cloak and dagger main. um But that's because I'm just, I'm one of the people that people make fun of that. Like, you just do it because it's a hitscan and like, you don't have to try. Yeah, I know.
00:11:38
Ryan
That's, it's the only way I'll still have fun. Otherwise I'll just get frustrated.
00:11:41
Ryan W
Right. Yeah, exactly.
00:11:42
Ryan
I try hard characters and I get, I'm bad at them.
00:11:44
Ryan W
Right.
00:11:44
Ryan
um But yeah.
00:11:45
Ryan W
I'm not in this to be good. I'm in this to have fun.
00:11:47
Ryan
Exactly. I want us to win. I did um put in a little solo time in practice versus AI as Storm. I'm trying to, like, I can't talk shit about her being my favorite and then not be good at her. Why am I not fucking Lord on Storm?
00:12:01
Ryan
Like, because then when Phoenix comes out and her, her kit. Okay. So perfect segue into the banter.
00:12:08
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah, I am.
00:12:09
Ryan
um Phoenix is coming to rivals as well as ah um Blade. And um I'm so fucking hyped for Phoenix. i love that she's distance. I love that she seems like she's got an escape mechanism.
00:12:29
Ryan
um She's not a flyer, which it would have made a lot of sense to make her a flyer because she's she literally floats pretty much everywhere she goes. um But I want to get really good at her and I can't just be good at her. I have to be good at Storm 2.
00:12:42
Ryan
Like it's not right.
00:12:43
Shauna (she/her)
Emma.
00:12:44
Ryan
It's just not right. So I'm Sean or Ryan, what are your thoughts on on Phoenix coming? Not that they're not any different than mine.
00:12:51
Ryan W
um I like, um first I want to talk about the design. I love how like all of the the Rivals ladies are like significantly thicker than like their resource material.
00:12:56
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:13:04
Ryan
Yeah.
00:13:05
Ryan W
Like Emma is just like, like she's built like a tank. Yeah.
00:13:09
Shauna (she/her)
have a
00:13:09
Ryan
Like, ah everyone loves Thick Emma. Just universally, everyone was like, upgrade.
00:13:14
Ryan W
yeah
00:13:16
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah, it's going to be one of those decisions that you look back 10 years from now and you'll be like, oh my gosh, why Emma has always been this way.
00:13:16
Ryan
Upgrade.
00:13:24
Shauna (she/her)
this is
00:13:24
Ryan W
Yeah.
WNBA News and Cultural Commentary
00:13:25
Shauna (she/her)
This is just now her design from here on out.
00:13:25
Ryan
Right.
00:13:27
Ryan
When they cast um Megan Thee Stallion as em Emma Frost in the upcoming X-Men movies, which I fully feel like she would take, that would be...
00:13:28
Shauna (she/her)
That is absolutely my belief.
00:13:33
Shauna (she/her)
Right.
00:13:37
Ryan
Because she has that um alter alter ego Tina Snow, who has this like platinum blonde bob.
00:13:42
Shauna (she/her)
o
00:13:43
Ryan
She's remarkable. um Yeah, Thought, sorry, and we were talking about Phoenix.
00:13:51
Ryan W
um
00:13:51
Ryan
She's cunty.
00:13:52
Ryan W
Yeah, like i love the i love the design of her outfit. I think it's curious that she has like the like floating embodiment of the phoenix right next to her. Yes, yes, Ryan.
00:14:03
Ryan
Shauna, have you put Thought into this yet?
00:14:06
Shauna (she/her)
So I don't love it. Like, it's the only thing I don't like is the floating behind.
00:14:09
Ryan
Okay.
00:14:12
Shauna (she/her)
Like, I think it's a little distracting.
00:14:12
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:14:14
Shauna (she/her)
Like, it's just, it it's not, it feels like it's, it's like a look like a pet and not like a, like cosmic entity, like aura attached to her.
00:14:20
Ryan W
right.
00:14:24
Shauna (she/her)
And so that's where I'm like, it's not my favorite, but like, I'm sure I'll get used to it. And like, that's just like my first thought, like,
00:14:29
Ryan W
like Yeah, because Cloak and Dagger, who are like actually like attached to each other, like you don't see like the opposite one like floating around the other one.
00:14:36
Ryan
right great point great point um yeah i low-key i didn't care either way um until i was thinking about it earlier and um it's only been today what am i talking about it's been like four hours since i saw this like i had some deep revelation but perhaps i just had the headspace to be able to think about it for real i think it's some nerds that were in fucking dev that were like well technically she's not the phoenix but now but like also now she is the phoenix like it has been confirmed that the phoenix is just part and like it is part of her she is phoenix phoenix is her um
00:15:09
Ryan W
Right.
00:15:20
Ryan W
Right. She's had the name in the comics.
00:15:23
Ryan
Yes, like it's it's it's legit now.
00:15:24
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:15:25
Ryan
It's not what it used to be. So it's no longer this cosmic entity that took over her. It is a part of her.
00:15:30
Ryan W
in
00:15:32
Ryan
i feel like there's probably a cooler way to show that. Like what if her skin was just constantly burning? like
00:15:37
Ryan W
Sure.
00:15:38
Ryan
eat ah But you know i'm i so i didn't have a negative response to it. I'm just really excited to see her kit like in action. I want to play it.
00:15:48
Shauna (she/her)
and
00:15:48
Ryan
We have like nine more days, which is annoying, but...
00:15:50
Ryan W
Yeah, it looks like she's good to dam like at at crowd control, there's a lot of like AOE, she's got that, like I love a good laser, so that's like definitely an anti-flyer thing.
00:15:56
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:16:00
Shauna (she/her)
Mm-hmm.
00:16:02
Ryan
Yeah.
00:16:02
Ryan W
And then she just, like I don't know, headbutts you as the Phoenix for her ult, and I think that's really cool.
00:16:06
Ryan
Right. I do not, like, all you see is just fire take up the screen. Was that, that like,
00:16:12
Ryan W
It's like, I think it's like a POV. Like she just like turns to the Phoenix.
00:16:15
Ryan
yeah.
00:16:16
Ryan W
You can see her like beak, I don't know. And then like, she just like dive bombs.
00:16:19
Ryan
Right, right. right All I know is, um, I need to know that some homosexuals were involved in the writing of the voice lines because i need to hear sisterhood between Jean and Storm and I need to hear Emma and Jean just like fucking...
00:16:38
Ryan W
A verbal telekinetic slap down.
00:16:40
Shauna (she/her)
Look, all I'm saying is if the line between um suus so Sue and Emma that like, oh, I love that we're both mothers and you're like, we both may be moms, but you are not mother.
00:16:41
Ryan
the
00:16:55
Shauna (she/her)
And I'm like, if that line exists, then I have a feeling that there's at least one homosexual with the voice.
00:16:55
Ryan
Yeah.
00:16:55
Ryan W
ah
00:16:57
Ryan
Correct.
00:16:58
Ryan W
I never heard that one. oh wow.
00:17:01
Shauna (she/her)
Oh, yeah.
00:17:01
Ryan
Yes.
00:17:02
Shauna (she/her)
It's like, it's one of my absolute favorites.
00:17:02
Ryan
Have you not heard that voice line yet?
00:17:06
Ryan
Oh, it's so funny. She calls it. She but she just calls herself mother.
00:17:07
Shauna (she/her)
Like,
00:17:09
Ryan W
Wow, okay.
00:17:09
Shauna (she/her)
Oh yeah, like, Sue's like being like all like, oh my gosh, we're the same. And then Emma is just like, yes, but no. Thank you for seeing me, however.
00:17:16
Ryan W
Oh, yeah.
00:17:16
Ryan
Right.
00:17:18
Ryan
Right, right. um Yeah, I want to hear. I want to hear what she says when either of them KO each other. Like I want, I want it.
00:17:27
Ryan W
oh yeah
00:17:30
Ryan
And it needs to be messy. There can, I know they're like cool now or whatever. um But like, you know, I want Wolverine to be, I want comic accurate voice lines.
00:17:41
Ryan
Like Wolverine needs to be fucking super horny for Jean Grey. And she needs to be just kind of whatever about him.
00:17:47
Ryan W
Right.
00:17:47
Ryan W
There needs to be, like, a longing.
00:17:48
Ryan
um Very, they do.
00:17:48
Shauna (she/her)
Well, they have a team up.
00:17:49
Ryan W
and
00:17:50
Ryan
Yeah.
00:17:51
Ryan W
They do. Wolverine just gets hot.
00:17:54
Ryan
Right, exactly. He just walks around with like a fucking giant heart on. they gave They gave Venom twerking. Why can't he get a little chub?
00:18:02
Ryan W
yeah
00:18:02
Ryan
Why can't Wolverine get a little chub when he talks to Gene?
00:18:03
Ryan W
Right. Be brave, devs.
00:18:05
Shauna (she/her)
Overing kind of is a little... anyways.
00:18:08
Ryan W
yeah
00:18:08
Ryan
Yeah, it's true. One of those memes that's like someone just trying to go about their day and then it's like the person screaming like, Wolverine could technically never be circumcised.
00:18:19
Ryan W
Yeah, of course.
00:18:22
Shauna (she/her)
his canonic ass, like...
00:18:22
Ryan
Intrusive thoughts. Yeah, right, right. um So other exciting news. Sarah Michelle Gellar is getting, was inducted into the hall Hollywood Walk of fame
00:18:37
Ryan W
mother.
00:18:37
Ryan
ah She, speaking of mother, exactly. um so well deserved. i you know, Buffy did not get its appropriate recognition when it was on the air. But like, yeah, give give this girl her flowers for her hard fucking work, man.
00:18:54
Shauna (she/her)
And like Buffy, the show died she got her flowers, and now she's coming back again.
00:19:00
Ryan
right t we love it
00:19:00
Ryan W
Very excited for that. i actually I actually watched like Buffy in its entirety for the first time in preparation for this. I think I watched like the finale.
00:19:09
Shauna (she/her)
this For being on our podcast?
00:19:09
Ryan W
like
00:19:10
Shauna (she/her)
Oh my gosh, you didn't have to.
00:19:10
Ryan W
Well, that and in preparation for the reboot.
00:19:12
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:19:13
Ryan
no for my move to chicago
00:19:15
Ryan W
um And you know it's i even i was I was even introducing Ryan to somebody who I had connected with like the day before about but Buffy. I like literally like like put them together and i was just like,
00:19:27
Ryan W
okay what's your favorite book episode? Then I ran away. so
00:19:31
Ryan
Yeah, it was so fucking...
00:19:31
Ryan W
ah Like I dropped a bomb.
00:19:33
Ryan
canno yeah And it worked. We had a nice little conversation for a minute.
00:19:36
Ryan W
Yeah. I mean, like that show like holds up but still so well. I mean, it's, I love a mystical child soldier coming of age story.
00:19:42
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:19:47
Ryan
Yes.
00:19:47
Ryan W
It's pretty much like my favorite medium.
00:19:48
Ryan
Yes.
00:19:50
Ryan
Agree. which you know is sort of related to, ah so SMG's getting her flowers, Cleveland is getting a WNBA team. Shauna, take it away.
00:20:03
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah, so it was just announced this Monday that Cleveland is one of three upcoming expansion teams, and the first that's going to get one in 2028, along with Detroit and Philadelphia.
00:20:13
Shauna (she/her)
And so if you know, Cleveland actually previously had a WNBA team called the Rockers.
00:20:15
Ryan W
OK.
00:20:19
Shauna (she/her)
They were one of the inaugural franchises, as was the Detroit Shock.
00:20:19
Ryan
good.
00:20:22
Shauna (she/her)
which I didn't realize until like literally this week that the shock was a car reference, not unlike Pistons. And I was like, oh, of course it is. But I just did not put it together in any way, shape or form.
00:20:31
Ryan
Detroit.
00:20:34
Shauna (she/her)
So just fun fact.
00:20:35
Ryan
That's Motor City, right?
00:20:37
Shauna (she/her)
That is the one in the same. Yeah.
00:20:38
Ryan
Got right, right,
00:20:39
Ryan W
okay
00:20:40
Shauna (she/her)
yeah And so, but yeah, Cleveland's getting a team in 2028, which is really exciting. Like is a little far, but not that far. Like it's just far enough that like it feels imminent.
00:20:48
Ryan
right. Right.
00:20:50
Ryan
Yeah.
00:20:50
Shauna (she/her)
So we're very excited here.
00:20:52
Ryan W
The height can appropriately build.
00:20:54
Shauna (she/her)
Oh yeah, like we we just got a...
00:20:54
Ryan
Yes.
00:20:56
Shauna (she/her)
um The first women's sports bar just opened here in Cleveland. So like like where're like it's everything's building really like great on that front.
00:21:05
Ryan
Yeah.
00:21:05
Shauna (she/her)
And we even drew the ire of one of, I think, the league villains at the moment, Sophie Cunningham.
00:21:10
Ryan
Yeah.
00:21:12
Shauna (she/her)
So if you're not aware, Sophie Cunningham plays for the Indiana Fever alongside Caitlin Clark. And ah she is this like white blonde lady in just...
00:21:24
Shauna (she/her)
Every way.
00:21:25
Ryan
yeah
00:21:25
Shauna (she/her)
And like she is like that white blonde lady. And like literally wore a shirt that said Trey Leshes on it. for With like her and two other white women on the team. Like yes that's the one.
00:21:35
Ryan
Oh, tres leches. Yeah, three milks what is what that translates to.
00:21:38
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah whatever.
00:21:39
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:21:41
Shauna (she/her)
Yes.
00:21:41
Ryan W
It's OK.
00:21:41
Shauna (she/her)
Yes.
00:21:43
Ryan
That's funny.
00:21:43
Shauna (she/her)
I was like yes. Yeah. And so I was like but like literally she got a sponsorship deal with Ring. After like protecting Caitlin Clark. Yeah, like, no, she is like, she is absolutely courting very specific kind of fan, as Kaitlin Clark has if for the Indiana Fever.
00:21:54
Ryan W
Uh.
00:22:00
Ryan
Gross.
00:22:00
Ryan W
Mm.
00:22:03
Ryan W
oh
00:22:04
Shauna (she/her)
And with that being said, when it was announced that these were the teams, she went on this, like, i don't know why, nobody's going to want to go to Detroit or, and she said Cincinnati, but she meant to say Cleveland, she just couldn't even get her insult right.
00:22:14
Ryan
Yeah.
00:22:16
Shauna (she/her)
So she's like, nobody goes to Detroit or Cleveland, or no, who'd want to go there?
00:22:16
Ryan
Right.
00:22:20
Shauna (she/her)
right People would want to go to Nashville or Kansas City. or Miami. And I was like, Hey, you play for Indiana. And the look, I get that Cleveland is not Chicago, but Indiana is not Cleveland, Indianapolis.
00:22:35
Ryan
Correct. Correct.
00:22:36
Shauna (she/her)
Like, let's not, let's not ignore that.
00:22:38
Ryan
don yeah Don't, yeah, don't kid yourself, girl.
00:22:39
Shauna (she/her)
But also like, she knows who our target audience is here because I'm, so I'm sorry, like saying that, you know, two cities where
00:22:44
Ryan
Yes.
00:22:47
Ryan
That's so, it's racist as fuck. Like, out loud.
00:22:49
Shauna (she/her)
It's so... It's just not even, like, trying to hide it. But again, that's her whole thing, again, with the...
00:22:54
Ryan
Right.
00:22:57
Shauna (she/her)
the With, like, the the white the milk ladies.
00:22:58
Ryan
The three whites.
00:22:59
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah, the milk ladies.
00:23:00
Ryan
Yeah, right.
00:23:01
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:23:01
Ryan
What a weird, also, what a weird thing to, like, want yourself to be branded as.
00:23:07
Shauna (she/her)
It's very weird. It's all weird. But again, that's the whole thing.
00:23:09
Ryan W
There an appropriation there too.
00:23:09
Shauna (she/her)
is That is what... Yeah. Right, and especially, again, pointing out that in a predominantly, ah league with predominantly black women in it is, again, also a choice.
00:23:21
Ryan
Yes.
00:23:21
Shauna (she/her)
And just, I cannot, it's too much coincidence. I think that Caitlin, there's a lot of coincidence around Caitlin Clark that I don't think she necessarily means to incur what happens.
00:23:27
Ryan
Yes.
00:23:35
Shauna (she/her)
She's just As you know my partner put today, she's kind of the Elvis of the WNBA, that she just doesn't do anything to stand up against it. And was like, oh, i guess it did and I guess I did invent basketball.
00:23:44
Ryan
Yeah.
00:23:44
Ryan W
Thank you.
00:23:47
Ryan
me
00:23:47
Shauna (she/her)
Isn't this wonderful? like yeah and like it was such a great I thought that was a really great analogy. for where but like
00:23:54
Ryan
That is a perfect analogy.
00:23:56
Shauna (she/her)
yeah But I don't think it's intentional. It feels intentional as Sophie Cunningham, in my opinion.
00:24:00
Ryan
Sure, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, I don't even really care and ah about I mean, ah let me rephrase that. I have no, I have no and investment in the the drama of the WNBA.
00:24:12
Ryan
um But like, even just in cursory, like, you know, passing kind of being connected to it. Of course, my feed is very excited about the WNBA.
00:24:24
Ryan
Caitlin Clark just seems like she sucks. Like, I get it. And she doesn't seem like she's the like a mean person. But to your point, she definitely doesn't. How do you have that many black co-workers and people who are like on your team that you don't feel a different sense of awareness? Like there are other white women who have done that and like stood up for themselves, but you know.
Entertainment Highlights and Legacy
00:24:51
Ryan
caitlin clark much like here we go full circle soapbox um when we were talking about chapel roan being sort of the uh a sabrina carpenter um offset like they they they rose to notoriety at the same time like this caitlin clark and i know i should know this because she's a um dope as fuck um the black woman that
00:25:16
Shauna (she/her)
Paige Beckers. Oh, Asia Wilson.
00:25:18
Ryan
Maybe is they, were they on like a ah similar team or it was like,
00:25:19
Shauna (she/her)
Or...
00:25:23
Ryan
i
00:25:24
Shauna (she/her)
ah The one that she had a rivalry with is Angel Reese.
00:25:26
Ryan
yes. Okay.
00:25:27
Shauna (she/her)
Yes.
00:25:27
Ryan
Angel Reese.
00:25:28
Shauna (she/her)
Okay.
00:25:28
Ryan
Yes. That is the rivalry.
00:25:29
Shauna (she/her)
Yep.
00:25:30
Ryan
um
00:25:30
Shauna (she/her)
Got it there.
00:25:30
Ryan
You know, they, they had to have, they had to have this thing that like, they are a response to each other and they came up in the um college, college ball. Right.
00:25:41
Ryan
And then they both went to the WNBA. We're both highly revered or whatever. Is that, is that correct?
00:25:46
Shauna (she/her)
You're so butch right now.
00:25:47
Ryan
Yeah.
00:25:47
Shauna (she/her)
You're nailing it.
00:25:47
Ryan
I know.
00:25:49
Shauna (she/her)
ah
00:25:50
Ryan
Give it to them, girlies. I am. I'm wearing a Chicago Bulls jersey. ah Well, cut off.
00:25:54
Shauna (she/her)
safe
00:25:55
Ryan
um I do definitely, i need some um rocke Rockers gear and I need some, it's the Chicago Sky.
00:26:00
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:26:03
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:26:05
Ryan
Yes.
00:26:05
Shauna (she/her)
And like, and again, you're in the home of Angel Reese. And so like getting some good, like, like the, my aforementioned partner has an Angel Reese Jersey.
00:26:08
Ryan
Yeah.
00:26:12
Shauna (she/her)
And so like, we definitely like, That's what she wore to like celebrate the WNBA coming to Cleveland.
00:26:13
Ryan
Yeah.
00:26:17
Shauna (she/her)
So we're like.
00:26:18
Ryan
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. um So Eyes on Cleveland, also Eyes of Wakanda. I tried.
00:26:26
Ryan W
Wow, wow.
00:26:27
Ryan
I tried.
Ironheart Episode Recaps and Analysis
00:26:28
Ryan W
Yes, he is.
00:26:28
Ryan
We got a first...
00:26:29
Shauna (she/her)
Our best segue, but not our worst either.
00:26:31
Ryan
Not our worst, for sure. um we We got a first little 15-second teaser trailer into Eyes of Wakanda, new animated show.
00:26:42
Ryan
um Ryan Kubler going for the three-peat in one year of just...
00:26:46
Ryan W
yes he is
00:26:47
Ryan
incredible black programming. um But yeah, what do we think of first the first look?
00:26:54
Ryan W
The animation looks crisp. It looks funky.
00:26:57
Ryan
Yes.
00:26:58
Ryan W
It looks, I think I'm going to do some hallucinogens and watch it.
00:27:04
Ryan
Yes, genius.
00:27:06
Ryan W
I'm just going to vibe really hard to it. I'm really interested just like because it it looks like an anthology, right? So it's like maybe like just a bunch of different stories about Wakanda flavored things.
00:27:12
Ryan
Yeah.
00:27:18
Ryan W
um yeah I'm excited to see like what kind of ah what kind of stories come out of it.
00:27:24
Ryan
John, what'd think?
00:27:26
Shauna (she/her)
No, honestly, the same. like I think it just looks really good, and I'm very interested. especially I love a good anthology, and like I think it'll be a really seeing...
00:27:31
Ryan W
Yes.
00:27:31
Ryan
Yeah.
00:27:33
Shauna (she/her)
you know like i always think of like The Animatrix was like one that was back in the day.
00:27:37
Ryan W
Yes.
00:27:38
Shauna (she/her)
like i always I really love that as a compendium to like the main movies, and so I think this could do something very similar.
00:27:40
Ryan W
The pizza?
00:27:45
Shauna (she/her)
Very excited for it.
00:27:47
Ryan
segwaying into today's topic, which is the final three episodes Ironheart. But before we do that, um you you talked a little bit about it earlier um with your relationship to X-Men.
00:28:01
Ryan
um But what's your origin story with with Marvel? like what you know You said your dad was interested in sci-fi. um how did How did Marvel come about? And did you have any knowledge about Ironheart before the show?
00:28:14
Ryan W
um I was blessed enough to have been a child during the great run of like the first round of Marvel TV shows. We're talking we're talking X-Men, we're talking Spider-Man, we're talking Fantastic Four, maybe to lesser extent.
00:28:27
Ryan
Spider-Man. Yeah.
00:28:30
Ryan W
But like, i like it was just it was just a great time to be a child and just absorbed into all these stories.
00:28:31
Ryan
Sure.
00:28:38
Ryan W
And Wouldn't you know it, I really latched on to the the story about the the really heavy-handed allegory about like oppression and you know like rising up above that and finding community. Wow.
00:28:50
Ryan W
Amazing.
00:28:50
Ryan
Wow. Yeah, it checks out.
00:28:52
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. Yup.
00:28:54
Ryan W
I had a...
00:28:55
Shauna (she/her)
Same. And also Batman the Animated Series too. In that same era.
00:28:58
Ryan
Yes.
00:28:58
Shauna (she/her)
like Just such a great...
00:28:59
Ryan W
Oh, that's right.
00:29:00
Shauna (she/her)
So good. so good
00:29:03
Ryan W
I had action figures, I had um the like the Blackbird, the the toy.
00:29:03
Ryan
Yeah.
00:29:08
Ryan W
ah
00:29:08
Ryan
Wow.
00:29:09
Ryan W
Wherever that thing is now, I hope it's being well taken care of because I love that thing.
00:29:14
Ryan
um Speaking of childhood action figures, I do have... um I can't wait to set up my display for you to see, Ryan. um I do have some of my action figures from when I was a child, including like two of the original Flipmorph Power Rangers action figures.
00:29:32
Ryan
um I have some from the X-Men movie, but as a going away present, Shauna gifted me one of her childhood X-Men figures for my Storm collection.
00:29:42
Ryan W
Oh my gosh. ah Love that.
00:29:45
Ryan
yeah Yeah, super, super.
00:29:47
Shauna (she/her)
It was like one the one that had the light up chest. yeah.
00:29:50
Ryan
Yes.
00:29:51
Shauna (she/her)
yeah
00:29:53
Ryan
Pretty scoped.
00:29:53
Shauna (she/her)
that like That era. Yeah. I do. i I might have found my Blackbird from that era. like When you said that, I was like, it's downstairs in my basement currently.
00:30:03
Ryan W
Yes.
00:30:04
Shauna (she/her)
like Oh, yeah. like we're like It's like, ah here's you take out likeke at the top so they can all sit in it, and it's like, here is the seat.
00:30:09
Ryan W
Yes.
00:30:10
Ryan
Yeah.
00:30:12
Shauna (she/her)
Because like the figures take up all the room, but like it's fine.
00:30:13
Ryan W
or
00:30:14
Ryan
Right. right
00:30:17
Ryan
And what so was Ironheart part of your um you know picking up comics? did Did you ever get into her solo stuff?
00:30:26
Ryan W
i I don't know if I like ever heard about the source material for Ironheart.
00:30:26
Shauna (she/her)
Thank
00:30:26
Ryan
Sure. Yes.
00:30:30
Ryan W
I don't know much about like the comic run of that. But I think it's interesting that like you know how the MCU has kind of incorporated her in I think, like putting her in Wakanda Forever and kind of having her be, but the the plot point was really interesting.
00:30:35
Ryan
sir
00:30:46
Ryan
yeah
00:30:48
Ryan W
and like i mean if you if if you don't know who is, then like tough shit, because Wakanda Forever was incredible.
00:30:56
Ryan
Yeah.
00:30:59
Ryan
We definitely um were talking about how Shauna still needs to see Wakanda forever.
00:31:05
Ryan W
the
00:31:06
Shauna (she/her)
out um i was like, all of that, I was just like, oh and I'm going to.
00:31:07
Ryan
It's sad.
00:31:07
Ryan W
It's good.
00:31:07
Ryan
It's sad.
00:31:08
Ryan W
It's really good. it's I mean, like the the movie is sad.
00:31:09
Ryan
and yeah, yeah, there's there's mom stuff. Like, it's sad. So I i totally understand the apprehension.
00:31:14
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:31:17
Ryan W
Sure. I think it's totally valid for you to avoid that.
00:31:22
Shauna (she/her)
i just, like, it's like, I just have to, like,
00:31:23
Ryan W
I watched it with my mom in the theater, so but yeah.
00:31:25
Shauna (she/her)
Oh.
00:31:28
Shauna (she/her)
oh
00:31:29
Ryan
No, I would be a wreck.
00:31:31
Ryan W
Yeah, it was.
00:31:31
Ryan
I was a wreck.
00:31:32
Shauna (she/her)
like when i so when Oh my gosh, when we watched in the first Inside Out movie with my partner and their parents, like and like the four of us were just like yeah like afterwards sitting at the restaurant just bawling.
00:31:32
Ryan W
I'm
00:31:37
Ryan
Oh, God.
00:31:46
Shauna (she/her)
very good. yeah, yeah.
00:31:48
Ryan W
see second movie.
00:31:48
Shauna (she/her)
it was very good but
00:31:48
Ryan
And it's all beautiful.
00:31:50
Shauna (she/her)
oh yeah
00:31:52
Ryan
Yeah, um we'll we'll watch it together because I think I do have enough memory of when the super tough parts come out and and we'll just fast forward through it. so And I'll just summarize it for you.
00:32:03
Ryan
i'll say I'll take one for the team.
00:32:05
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:32:07
Ryan
um Okay, so ah yeah, so Ironheart not in your bag. this was This was first, other than Wakanda Forever, this was first connection to her.
00:32:17
Ryan W
yeah
00:32:21
Ryan
Okay, we episode four starts with a flashback of John and Parker robbing someone. We don't really get a sense of who it is, but we have this moment where you know Parker is kind of stopped mid-heist by a security guard and we see a gunshot and then um, John shows up and they have this moment where John is like, ah you you find me after, like, we have to split up.
00:32:46
Ryan
Um, and Parker says, you know, how am I going find you? And he says, I'm always near. And they really make it this whole point that like, John was really important to Parker. And it flashes forward to, um, the gang and the funeral or whatever it was. Like they just pick up at the, the pizza shop. That's the front for their,
00:33:05
Ryan
um hideout and it becomes uh pretty clear that uh parker knows that riri did it so that picks us up from episode three last week um no no
00:33:20
Shauna (she/her)
And she didn't really do a big job of trying to hide it, let's be honest here. She was very, like, she didn't even, like, try and fake it, like...
00:33:27
Ryan W
I mean, she shook, right?
00:33:27
Ryan
yeah wait say it again
00:33:28
Shauna (she/her)
She... Yeah. She was...
00:33:32
Ryan W
Oh, I'm just saying, though, like, she was shook about the whole thing, right? Like, she she didn't she didn't want to she didn't want to fight that man.
00:33:35
Ryan
Totally.
00:33:35
Shauna (she/her)
Oh, yeah.
00:33:38
Ryan W
She didn't want to leave him behind, but, like...
00:33:42
Ryan
Shit happens.
00:33:43
Ryan W
And, I mean...
00:33:43
Ryan
That's what happens when you do crime.
00:33:45
Ryan W
Right, and he was going to like like, you know, blow up her spot about taking the the piece of the the the cloak, the hood.
00:33:52
Shauna (she/her)
it was going to kill her.
00:33:52
Ryan
Exactly. Totally.
00:33:53
Shauna (she/her)
Like, if like all of those things, like she is, she didn't do anything wrong.
00:33:53
Ryan W
Yeah, exactly, yeah
00:33:59
Ryan W
Right.
00:33:59
Shauna (she/her)
Like, but also absolutely.
00:34:01
Shauna (she/her)
I could see where you're feeling guilty, but also, I was like, also, yeah, maybe pick along some acting skills.
00:34:03
Ryan W
Hey girl, I mean, welcome to the Avengers.
00:34:06
Ryan
Right, girl.
00:34:09
Shauna (she/her)
Like she would have failed the acting challenge for this week because look and lip sync for her life.
00:34:09
Ryan W
some
00:34:12
Ryan
Yeah. Okay.
00:34:16
Ryan
So, Ryan, just so you know, Shauna just got into Drag Race with season...
00:34:20
Ryan W
I hear you've been blasting through this.
00:34:20
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. Like,
00:34:23
Ryan W
You're season 10 now.
00:34:23
Ryan
Yes.
00:34:24
Shauna (she/her)
this Blowing right.
00:34:24
Ryan W
Cool.
00:34:24
Ryan
Yes. It's because Anya was on this past season. So,
00:34:29
Ryan W
Okay.
00:34:29
Ryan
um
00:34:29
Ryan W
sir
00:34:30
Ryan
we um we go to the lab where Natalie and Riri are trying to study the cloak um and she can't figure out where it comes from. We get references to Wakanda and the Kree and to Stark and to Pym.
00:34:46
Ryan
And so she's like, I can't figure this shit out. And it's trying to get ahold of Joe, of course, who is not, why would he pick up for you, girl? You know, that he, like, you left his bio mesh in the fucking bio dome.
00:35:03
Ryan
And so she goes over to Joe's house and we see that it is a crime scene. And we learned that he has been arrested. His super annoying white neighbor, who they really stylized as a super annoying white lady neighbor.
00:35:18
Ryan
she would She's definite.
00:35:18
Ryan W
I think it was interesting that she is the only white woman in the cast. I'm pretty sure.
00:35:23
Ryan
Oh my God, that's true. ah She really is.
00:35:26
Shauna (she/her)
hilarious
00:35:27
Ryan
And what's, what's the, she's definitely rooting for, um, Trace LeChase in the WNBA, if she even knows of the best.
00:35:34
Shauna (she/her)
yes she absolutely is she's a big big galen clart fan big fan
00:35:37
Ryan
Big Caitlin, big Caitlin Clark fan. And that would be the first thing she brings up to a black person. She'd be like, Oh, you know, I love the WNBA.
00:35:44
Ryan W
I love that. di
00:35:44
Ryan
I'm huge Caitlin Clark fan. Um, so, uh, it kind of starts to bubble up the crew starts to put together ah that it's super weird that the bio mesh was where found where john died and then riri shows back up to the spot and parker pretty much flat out tells her that he knows she outsourced help um so he doesn't say i know you killed john but he says i know you you
00:36:15
Ryan
like we're working with someone to to accomplish the shit that you were supposed to and it's on it's pretty much on from there between the two of them
00:36:26
Ryan W
right because like i mean i think i think that was definitely like a way to like like make her feel even worse just to be like oh yeah i know that you were connected and like you know this dude's arrested now and it's your fault
00:36:32
Ryan
yes yeah yeah um and we do They kind of drag Ezekiel Stane. Joe McGillicuddy is no more publicly. He cannot exist anymore, um which is something that will come up later because ah Joe McGillicuddy went to prison and then everyone finds out that Ezekiel Stane is alive.
00:36:56
Ryan
And again, I don't really remember the Iron Man movies, but apparently Obadiah Stane in the public eye was well revered, um even though we know he was a jackass.
00:37:00
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:37:04
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:37:07
Ryan W
Yeah, because I mean, like, I think in the original Iron Man, like, Tony had to, like, kill him, or he, I think he died in, like, the arc reactor accident, but he was like, ugh, rather than, like, this tank might stock, like, let's just say he died a hero.
00:37:13
Ryan
Right.
00:37:21
Ryan
Yeah. Right. Oh, so i see, I would not have remembered that. I don't remember the Iron Man movies.
00:37:25
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:37:28
Ryan
So after that, um Riri goes to visit John in prison and he is not super stoked about um the fact that he is in prison.
00:37:43
Ryan
He is really super pissed. He has no compassion for her and he reads her for filth.
00:37:50
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:37:50
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:37:50
Ryan
He like, he's like, Zeke Stain really sells it.
00:37:54
Ryan
He is absolutely um going for it. And ah he's definitely, it's clear they are setting up that he's coming up, he's going to come for her.
00:38:05
Ryan
Like, it kind of sets us up for what happens later.
00:38:10
Ryan
um So Riri starts to freak out, ah realizing that Parker definitely knows that she killed John and Zeke is ah very, very upset with her.
00:38:24
Ryan
So she gives her mom and x Xavier these like little watches um that we do get to see activate at a later point in the episode.
00:38:36
Ryan
um And it basically like bubbles the the person like Hulk's um gamma bubble, gamma shield.
00:38:37
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:38:45
Ryan
um in rivals where you know you're just like temporarily encased in it um and like riri wasn't sleeping she was sleeping in her suit and so when she hears her mom get bubbled because it was activated by what the sound of gunfire yes on tv um she like breaks down the door and her mom was like yo what the fuck is going on and so um eventually
00:38:46
Ryan W
TV. Yeah.
00:39:01
Ryan W
but tv yeah
00:39:12
Ryan
um she starts to let it all out to her mom, um, that she's, she needs help. Um, what are, know we're kind of ran through that little bit, but, um, any thoughts or notes from, from that chunk of it?
00:39:30
Ryan W
I think it was just really interesting how Riri's mental state throughout like this and this entire show. I think it was very kind. I think it was very understanding of like, of course she's paranoid, right? like Her best friend was gunned down. like her her Her best friend and and her stepdad were gunned down in front of her, right? So like I think...
00:39:52
Ryan W
In some ways, it's very kind of Tony Stark-esque, right? Like, I want to put a suit of armor around the world, right?
00:39:55
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
00:39:57
Ryan W
Like, I need to protect, it's very anime, need to protect everybody, right? um And so, you know, she she wants to, like, that's ultimately why she she's building the suit, right?
00:40:10
Ryan W
She says throughout throughout, like, I do it because I can, but it's like, I i have this all this regret and this survivor's guilt that I need to, like, mitigate.
00:40:19
Ryan
Yeah. Great point.
00:40:23
Shauna (she/her)
And like she has a lot of PTSD, like she's constantly having anxiety attacks and panic attacks.
00:40:25
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:40:29
Shauna (she/her)
She literally gave her ai panic attacks because they're such a part of her.
00:40:32
Ryan W
but Right.
00:40:33
Ryan
Right.
00:40:35
Shauna (she/her)
Like, I think that says something about where she's not in a great headspace in the best of times, let alone as everything's unraveling and she's struggling.
00:40:35
Ryan
Right. Yeah,
00:40:42
Ryan
it's
00:40:45
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:40:46
Shauna (she/her)
She's hurting people around her that she's not meaning to.
00:40:49
Shauna (she/her)
She's trying to do, like you said, protect everyone, you know, look out for all of her family and is just not doing a great job of it Her balance is just poor and she's only pushing away the people that love her.
00:40:57
Ryan W
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:41:03
Ryan
Yeah, and as we're talking through the episodes, it actually is kind of changing how I'm feeling about the end. um Because I do, like, we have to contextualize.
00:41:16
Ryan
This is, like, over the course of a few days, maybe. Like, she's, like, having these suit upgrades, like, done in a day. So what, to me, I'm always like, what the fuck? How long has she been working on this?
00:41:26
Shauna (she/her)
So...
00:41:27
Ryan
Oh, one day? She's been working on it for one day? um but it makes some of the things that happen later where it's like very impulsive um where it's like okay i actually can kind of understand as a person who has like gone through you know a series of events where you're just like fucking hell i can't take this shit like it's just one kick in the nuts after the next and then you see ah possible
00:41:59
Ryan
end of the tunnel and so you're just like fuck it i gotta go i'm just gonna try to so i'm this is i need to do this thing i have to take care of it only for it to definitely be a train and not the end of the tunnel which influences i think which you know is is later um but i really ah liked that riri finally opens up to her mom um One of the other things, we haven't talked much about how endearing Natalie is just like throughout the episode.
00:42:28
Ryan
ah But when her and Riri are on the porch installing security cameras, because again, Riri is losing her mind. um Natalie, like virtual Natalie, AI Natalie is shaking ass.
00:42:41
Ryan
She is throwing ass.
00:42:41
Ryan W
Right.
00:42:43
Ryan
Like it is incredible. yeah. so um We do also learn that Riri hasn't had her first kiss. um When she tells Natalie that she went to go give Xavier that watch, um we learned that she hasn't had her first kiss.
00:43:01
Ryan
She's like in her mid twenties. Like that's, you know, I think that says a lot about her.
00:43:05
Shauna (she/her)
No, no, she's only, she's like late teens, like she's like 18, 19, like to I thought.
00:43:10
Ryan
oh right. I think, I think they were showing her.
00:43:12
Ryan W
college age.
00:43:14
Ryan
Yeah, definitely. Like mid twenties, I should like early twenties at most. Like, I think they definitely showed her
00:43:18
Shauna (she/her)
yeah like
00:43:18
Ryan W
Well, yeah, because, OK, because, right, because they because they said in the first episode that like she's been at MIT for longer than she was supposed to.
00:43:26
Ryan
for five years. Yeah.
00:43:29
Ryan W
So I think that gives you some kind of idea.
00:43:30
Ryan
Yeah.
00:43:32
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:43:32
Ryan
So she went at 15 and she was there 15.
00:43:33
Shauna (she/her)
and because She joined, she went at like 1415.
00:43:36
Ryan
Yeah. Um, and then they, I think they showed her drinking alcohol at some point.
00:43:41
Ryan W
yeah
00:43:42
Ryan
Like, I can't remember. I feel like they do show her like at a bar or something, wherever they go to that club. um and i feel like that was to establish that she is of drinking age, but, um, there's this endearing moment where,
00:43:56
Ryan
Riri admits that she needs help. She thinks she needs to fight magic with magic. And her mom says, mom has got the plug. And I was so, I just love when like actual black slang works its way into black media.
00:44:04
Ryan W
things but
00:44:11
Ryan
Like, yes.
00:44:11
Ryan W
There was a lot of it here. and it was it was it like None of it felt forced. It like felt very authentic.
00:44:15
Ryan
Yes.
00:44:16
Ryan W
It felt like a conversation that people actually have.
00:44:17
Shauna (she/her)
Mm-hmm.
00:44:20
Ryan
which to our next ah to the next scene, which I think is probably the highlight of the entire fucking series. They go... ah So it turns out the plug is Miss Stanton's mystic shop.
00:44:34
Ryan
So ah they go to ah Miss Stanton, who is played by Cree Summer. They go to her candy shop and...
00:44:40
Ryan W
The goddess, Kree Summer.
00:44:42
Ryan
a
00:44:43
Ryan W
Love her.
00:44:44
Ryan
thank you i was like losing it at the last episode and we were trying to remember all the things that she were in but she was in but other than abbott the only thing i could think of was suzy carmichael and like that was it yes but she's done so much she is one of she's got to be one of the most well-known recognizable voices in animated content um
00:44:49
Shauna (she/her)
So.
00:44:53
Ryan W
Road Rats. Yeah.
00:45:00
Ryan W
She's prolific.
00:45:05
Shauna (she/her)
so
00:45:06
Ryan
But we meet the cashier or like the attend the person working behind the counter who is her daughter named Zelma.
00:45:15
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:45:15
Ryan
And quite quickly, we are transported to um this alternate dimension by way of Zelma's witchcraft um because she clocks that the help that ah Riri is coming for, like they're pretty straightforward of saying they need magical help.
00:45:35
Ryan
Uh, but they're not like, no, I don't need crystals or whatever. Like you have something from the dark dimension in your pocket. And I can totally tell because I probably have awards all up and through this bitch. And so they transport to, um, the magic shop. I didn't even really take notes about what was happening in there. Like in terms of the scene, because all of my notes are just different, all caps, uh, uh, sentences. So like, um,
00:46:02
Ryan
Well, first reactions to this immediate transportation into the magical world, Shauna, how did you it in? Yes.
00:46:11
Shauna (she/her)
I thought it was such a cool scene. like I love that they immediately went right into like Marvel magic lore. like i like I especially pointed the line where when someone was like, yeah, Kamar Taj is my reach school.
00:46:25
Shauna (she/her)
And know again, it was just such a like great way of like talking about it as a like and a way that someone who is also that like you know late teen, early 20s would talk about the magical school of
00:46:25
Ryan
yeah
00:46:30
Ryan
yeah
00:46:39
Shauna (she/her)
mysticism like of course like you know your shit like it's so cool
00:46:43
Ryan
Yeah. Yeah, Ryan.
00:46:46
Ryan W
um i So I remember Zelma from... I think it was when I was reading Doctor Strange for a while. like She's like a part of the comics. she In the comics, she has like a similar role. She's actually Strange's assistant, wannabe apprentice.
00:47:04
Ryan W
She kind of gets like roped into all of this magical fuckery because like you know she has extrasensory abilities. But I'm really interested because they're doing I think they're doing like Strange Academy.
00:47:13
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:47:15
Ryan W
like That's what she's going to tie into.
00:47:16
Ryan
Allegedly. Yes.
00:47:18
Ryan W
So I'm really excited. The actor was fantastic. um She was bubbly. I love even like the even like the the little attention to detail. like When they're looking at the ah at the the piece of hood and she like slaps her glasses and the binoculars come up.
00:47:37
Ryan
Yes.
00:47:37
Ryan W
Incredible. So cute.
00:47:39
Ryan
Yeah.
00:47:41
Ryan W
um She also had like a gay shirt on at some point.
00:47:41
Ryan
I? yeah
00:47:43
Ryan W
Love it.
00:47:45
Shauna (she/her)
She does.
00:47:45
Ryan
i
00:47:46
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:47:46
Ryan
I feel like, yeah, it was the I love whatever and the, the, yeah, the heart was rainbow.
00:47:49
Ryan W
BX, yeah.
00:47:52
Ryan
Um, she reminds me of, um, Darcy, uh, like black Darcy Lewis from Wanda, the WandaVision, uh, uh, universe.
00:48:04
Ryan
Like the way that she styled is that sort of like all, uh, angsty, but still like smarter than everyone around her type shit.
00:48:08
Ryan W
Yes.
00:48:12
Ryan W
Right.
00:48:14
Ryan
Um, So some of, she's wearing a shirt that says you're too good for him and immediate, immediately fell in love.
00:48:19
Ryan W
Yes.
00:48:22
Ryan
And it also reminds me of um my sweatshirt from the read that says break up with him.
00:48:23
Ryan W
yeah
00:48:27
Ryan W
Yes.
00:48:28
Ryan
um Same vein. um So my notes start with work, magic, transportation, diva, zelma in all caps.
00:48:36
Ryan W
then That's all you need to know, really.
00:48:38
Ryan
Exactly. yeah, and
00:48:41
Shauna (she/her)
Thank
00:48:42
Ryan
I think her mom's name is Ronnie. Her reaction to what happens is perfect. It is absolutely perfect. They are explaining it. And, um, someone says parallel plane and she is just like narrating behind everyone else, having a regular conversation.
00:48:58
Ryan
she says, oh y'all just going to casually throw around the term parallel plane.
00:49:00
Ryan W
they worked
00:49:03
Ryan
Like she is the voice of the viewer in real time.
00:49:05
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:49:06
Ryan
It's, it's great. Um, We see them, Ryan, you'd mentioned the binoculars, microscope thingy, and we learned that it is likely from one of the darkest dimensions, because they're studying the hood.
00:49:20
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:49:22
Ryan
And Cree, Miss Stanton, is um really freaking out about it. ah She says, you know, because they share about Parker and seeing the scars on him and stuff, and She says, you know, the entity that's like associated with that thing, it does not possess you. It influences you.
00:49:42
Ryan
And so we really start to like get the the reality of how bad this, the connection is, whatever. um And essentially um she actually is so freaked out by it. She says like, you all have to leave now. Like I i get this out of my shop.
00:50:01
Ryan
You shouldn't even have it. um and it takes us onto the street where i was just like i i thought it was maybe kind of you it wasn't my favorite scene where she was like talking to her mom like she's one of the avengers she's like well we tried this and like girl do you think your mom just like suddenly ah started understanding everything that's going around you and then they get into an argument and um
00:50:20
Ryan W
What
00:50:26
Ryan
Her mom says, you better not get in that suit.
00:50:28
Ryan W
took
00:50:28
Ryan
And Riri says, or what? And then gets in the suit and flies away, leaving us in conflict. um Yeah. So we have this great, cool reintroduction of magic at, um oh, and we even get a backstory about Miss Stanton being a witch, which is that she was studying at Carmetage, but then got pregnant, which also, who gets pregnant at Carmetage?
00:50:56
Ryan W
Hey, it's magic.
00:50:57
Ryan
She's fucking other wizards. That's a magic-ass baby.
00:51:00
Shauna (she/her)
Oh my gosh, is the dad...
00:51:00
Ryan
It's magic.
00:51:01
Shauna (she/her)
um What's his name?
00:51:03
Ryan W
Wong.
00:51:03
Ryan
Paisilius.
00:51:05
Ryan W
Wong.
00:51:06
Ryan
Oh, no, the, um, not Wong? No, um, or...
00:51:09
Shauna (she/her)
Maybe... It's not strange. So like I was like, Wong is a like wonder...
00:51:14
Ryan
What about Baron Mordo?
00:51:15
Ryan W
a man of Karmatage.
00:51:17
Shauna (she/her)
oo or Baron Mordo. Those are the two guys that I immediately... You're right.
00:51:20
Ryan W
oh
00:51:20
Shauna (she/her)
Ooh, I actually...
00:51:20
Ryan W
Oh, Baron Warner.
00:51:21
Ryan
And Baron Mordo is black.
00:51:22
Shauna (she/her)
hope That's true, that's true, he is.
00:51:25
Ryan W
Hmm, interesting.
00:51:26
Ryan
So with really bad, a really bad locks wig in that, in Multiverse of Madness.
00:51:26
Ryan W
saying
00:51:33
Ryan
cut um So Riri really starts to feel the pressure of Needing to destroy this thing. So she takes it back to her lab and she starts working on all the different ways that she can destroy it and she can't and she realizes she just can't do it.
00:51:50
Ryan
um Which sends her into a whole nother panic attack. um So she jumps in the suit and flies away.
00:51:54
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
00:51:56
Ryan
and you know natalie is like trying to get her to calm down but she can't calm down until she eventually has like a full-blown panic attack and has to basically eject from the suit and uh riri is not listening to her so she says oh i know what's the perfect idea here i'm gonna go fly off and get my brother i'm gonna get him to jump in this suit and bring him back here, which she does.
00:52:24
Ryan
And he immediately starts to freak out that his sister is an AI.
00:52:32
Shauna (she/her)
Which fair?
00:52:32
Ryan W
Understandable.
00:52:32
Ryan
Thoughts?
00:52:33
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:52:33
Ryan W
Yeah, totally.
00:52:34
Ryan
Yeah.
00:52:34
Shauna (she/her)
yeah
00:52:35
Ryan W
you know i really liked the whole Natalie subplot. you know I'm coming up in July on a lost anniversary myself.
00:52:44
Ryan
Hmm.
00:52:44
Ryan W
And I think like the idea of having that person, but not that person, right? It's a projection. It's like a, you know, a series of ideas and memories like around you.
00:52:53
Ryan
Right. Yeah.
00:52:56
Ryan W
Right. I think that like, that really resonated with me. But then like, of course, I'm thinking, i' but I'm also thinking about like, okay, like her mom was cool with it, but like, probably probably not her brother, right?
00:53:06
Ryan
yeah
00:53:09
Ryan
yeah
00:53:10
Shauna (she/her)
Well, and I think also, like, because they had had the conversation of, like, Natalie being like, so when are you going to tell him about me? And she's like, don't know, it's not now, though. And, like, and I'm like, all right, but, like, they were both wrong because both, like,
00:53:20
Ryan W
you
00:53:26
Shauna (she/her)
And Riri was correct to be wary of telling him that, like hey, this is like a deal. But also, Natalie was right. He needed to know. Because finding out in that kind of way is never going to lead to like the right reaction that you're looking for.
00:53:35
Ryan
Yes.
00:53:39
Ryan
Anything good.
00:53:41
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. And I was like, ugh.
00:53:41
Ryan
Yeah.
00:53:43
Shauna (she/her)
And I feel like that's where like, in such a like this three episodes, like you had to get the drama in real quick.
00:53:43
Ryan
Yeah.
00:53:48
Shauna (she/her)
And so that's where like you just saw like the conflict with the mom and you just saw the conflict now here with like the three of them kind of where that doesn't go well.
00:53:53
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:53:58
Ryan
Yeah, Riri is getting just like roundhouse kicked in the fucking boobs over and over again.
00:54:03
Shauna (she/her)
It sucks.
00:54:04
Ryan
And like, so now not only she has finally kind of come to terms with her Natalie potentially just being her AI, she has accepted Natalie staying and literally...
00:54:21
Ryan
immediately then is made to feel bad about it by um by Xavier. And so she like contemplates like, okay, well maybe I should fucking destroy it because her brother said so.
00:54:31
Ryan
And like, I don't know, it kind of feels like that's her her blood kin. I assume that they probably see each other as sisters, but like, you know, Riri's whole issue, i think the ethical use of Natalie, like, is it fair to be reportraying this person that did not agree to be
00:54:48
Ryan W
Sure. Right.
00:54:50
Ryan
you know, recreated like that.
00:54:53
Ryan W
right
00:54:54
Ryan
um And then the episode wraps up with Hood breaking Zeke out of prison explicitly to get revenge on Riri. And they go back to the lab. And one of the last things we see is him getting some upgrades in this crazy ass machine.
00:55:12
Ryan
um and Shea Coulee gives him a wooden spoon and says bite, which was like super hot.
00:55:19
Ryan W
And then she says, good boy.
00:55:23
Ryan
It was so good.
00:55:27
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:55:28
Ryan
She...
00:55:28
Shauna (she/her)
Break out, Star.
00:55:30
Ryan W
Yeah, oh yeah.
00:55:30
Shauna (she/her)
Like...
00:55:30
Ryan
Breakout star, really. the the scene The fight scene later when Shay looks and is like, honestly, never mind, and walks away, so fucking real. um
00:55:41
Shauna (she/her)
so And I think I love the like detail of like and change administrator from it being to you to, oh, I guess it is to the hood.
00:55:46
Ryan
Yes.
00:55:50
Ryan
Yep. Yep. So... um It ends with the hood putting out this hit on Riri to his gang. And ah it also ends with the Anthony Ramos song, which I don't know if um you all had subtitles on, but it is an Anthony Ramos song called villains.
00:56:06
Shauna (she/her)
i did, and I did notice that from that.
00:56:08
Ryan W
and didn't realize that Anthony Abramas was a musician.
00:56:09
Ryan
Yeah.
00:56:13
Ryan
Yeah. Well, he's, I know, we know he's a singer cause he was in West side story.
00:56:17
Ryan W
Oh, that's the guy.
00:56:18
Shauna (she/her)
And Hamilton.
00:56:20
Ryan
Oh, and Hamilton, duh.
00:56:21
Ryan W
oh okay, okay.
00:56:22
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
00:56:23
Ryan
He's Usnavi.
00:56:24
Ryan W
Well, I mean, like he beefed the fuck up for this role, so.
00:56:27
Ryan
Totally.
00:56:28
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:56:28
Shauna (she/her)
Oh, Yeah.
00:56:28
Ryan
Totally.
00:56:29
Ryan W
and did not I did not see that. Okay. Okay.
00:56:33
Ryan
So, episode five. um Episode five, really quick, there was quite a bit of buildup. Uxie texted me in all caps saying, like, have you watched, ah like, are you watching?
00:56:45
Ryan W
Hmm.
00:56:47
Ryan
Let me know when you get to episode five. And then Shauna also got a message from someone being like, let me know when you get to episode five. So I'm like, all right, here we go. Episode five.
00:57:00
Ryan
So um Parker has the let the team know that Riri killed John. And we start with Slug capturing Ironheart's suit, which does not have Riri in it ah because Natalie had flown away from the junkyard in the suit after her brother freaked out.
00:57:14
Ryan
um And so we kind of cut over to Riri and Zelma at White Castle, where we learn the hood is connected to Dormammu's dark dimension, and they are interrupted by the blood siblings.
00:57:16
Shauna (she/her)
Thank
00:57:27
Ryan
And we get a massive fight scene between the blood siblings, Riri, and Clown, where a lot of things happen. The twins, the the siblings get bubbled,
00:57:41
Ryan
Riri fucks them up with her science, with her environment.
00:57:44
Ryan W
Yeah, she's for science hell out of that, yeah.
00:57:47
Ryan
She's science the fuck out of them hoes.
00:57:48
Ryan W
She made a she made she made a fire hydrant cannon.
00:57:53
Ryan
Absolutely wild. But like also...
00:57:55
Shauna (she/her)
Well, the most impressive thing to me was gave everyone watching it an incredible desire to go to White Castle, because I wanted White Castle so much after that scene.
00:58:03
Ryan W
yeah, no, it's...
00:58:03
Ryan
Yeah.
00:58:05
Ryan W
Also, there was... like like In the kitchen, there was that...
00:58:06
Shauna (she/her)
I was like, ugh.
00:58:08
Ryan W
like There were those like robotic arms that were like flipping burgers.
00:58:11
Ryan
Yes. Yes.
00:58:13
Ryan W
I was hoping that something was going incorporated with those. but
00:58:15
Ryan W
So... Right.
00:58:15
Shauna (she/her)
The White Castle of the future.
00:58:15
Ryan
Same.
00:58:17
Ryan W
So this this scene was... i don't know. like The whole...
00:58:17
Shauna (she/her)
yeah
00:58:23
Ryan W
Like the crew being like this ragtag group of like, you know, miscreants who were like doing heists or whatever. And then like them like flipping into like, i don't know, contract murder. It just didn't really like land for me.
00:58:35
Ryan W
And then like, right.
00:58:35
Ryan
And they were cool with it.
00:58:37
Ryan W
And then like Slug is trying to like run her over and then, you know, gets out when they're just like, oh, no, truck flip, bye.
00:58:38
Shauna (she/her)
Oh.
00:58:45
Ryan W
like Like Clown was like trying to bomb this like child.
00:58:45
Ryan
like it
00:58:49
Ryan W
Like it's it was weird. Yeah.
00:58:51
Ryan
trying to take out a whole white castle.
00:58:53
Ryan W
Right.
00:58:53
Ryan
Um, yeah, it, that definitely bothered me because like the whole premise is that they are motivated to kill her because they cared so deeply about John. But like, so we definitely got the sense that they fucked with Riri, but like, I can't imagine they'd be like, yep, time to kill her.
00:59:06
Ryan W
But.
00:59:12
Ryan W
Right, exactly.
00:59:12
Ryan
Like,
00:59:13
Ryan W
it said so.
00:59:13
Ryan
the fuck that but it It just did it didn't make sense to me. I was not wild about that.
00:59:16
Ryan W
yeah
00:59:17
Shauna (she/her)
Again, another one of those things where it just felt like kind of rushed in its six episodes-ness.
00:59:23
Ryan
Yes.
00:59:23
Shauna (she/her)
Like, they had to go from, oh, everything's cool to, yeah, I guess we should probably kill her.
00:59:24
Ryan
Yes.
00:59:29
Shauna (she/her)
That's a great point. Guy we've been sketched about.
00:59:30
Ryan
Right.
00:59:31
Ryan W
Everybody should try to kill her.
00:59:32
Shauna (she/her)
fire Yeah.
00:59:33
Ryan
Yes.
00:59:34
Shauna (she/her)
we're Perfect. Let's do it.
00:59:36
Ryan W
Yeah.
00:59:37
Ryan
So there's this big fight and... ah Riri gives Shay the finger, which is actually a really cute moment that will definitely be a ah gif used in the future of the Ironheart middle finger.
00:59:45
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:59:48
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
00:59:50
Ryan
um But then we are, the the fight is kind of like, interrupted slash ended when Zeke stain ah ah electrified Zeke stain, who is low key kind of a fucking hottie with that, but with that haircut, um, shows up and tries to kill her and is unsuccessful. And like, we, we get a soliloquy from him about how he didn't want to turn into his father, but here he is trying to destroy an iron freak and
01:00:20
Ryan W
Yeah, i think I think this was a little rushed, too. I think like all of the like antagonist development other than Hood were like really rushed, right?
01:00:26
Ryan
yeah.
01:00:27
Ryan W
like you know i could I could tell that like Joe was kind of like beginning to break bad when he like cut his arm open, like even even when he and Riri were cool.
01:00:34
Ryan
Yes. Yes.
01:00:38
Ryan W
And I'm just like, I thought you were keeping this all under wraps, but um it'll be an interesting...
01:00:43
Ryan
Right.
01:00:45
Ryan W
you know if Honestly, I don't think that it's going to get a season two.
01:00:49
Ryan
Nope.
01:00:50
Ryan W
It got review bombs up terribly. But it'll be interesting to see like if his character comes back in some kind of like anti-hero context.
01:00:57
Ryan
Yeah.
01:00:58
Ryan W
We'll see.
01:01:00
Ryan
um Well, the apparently um Rotten Tomatoes took down all the negative reviews, so it is currently scored at an 86.
01:01:07
Ryan W
What? That's amazing.
01:01:08
Ryan
Yeah.
01:01:08
Ryan W
I was just looking up but like the cast on IMDb and I was just like, i don't want to read that one.
01:01:09
Ryan
Yeah.
01:01:13
Ryan W
I don't want to read that one.
01:01:13
Ryan
Yep.
01:01:14
Ryan W
don't want to read that one.
01:01:14
Ryan
Yep.
01:01:15
Shauna (she/her)
God.
01:01:15
Ryan
Yep. So Zeke does not kill her and says, like, you got to get out of Chicago and you take some of her armor or whatever. So she like pries herself out and goes back home to her mom. And they have this emotional conversation where she does reveal that you creating the suit was not just because she could, but it was to protect her mom after losing Gary and Natalie.
01:01:41
Ryan
um And her mom takes her back to the garage where we have this beautiful holographic flashback um of Gary and Riri,
01:01:53
Ryan
um which ultimately sets us up for the reconstruction of the suit. But um this was ah this was a good emotional beat. Like her coming clean to her mom, admitting she needs help.
01:02:04
Ryan
And then like we get to see like this moment and I, there is a specificness of, of the father daughter relationship.
01:02:17
Ryan
There is a specificity of showing a present black father figure who is like not even her father.
01:02:18
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
01:02:26
Ryan
he is her stepfather and that is still her dad.
01:02:26
Ryan W
He's the dad who stepped up.
01:02:29
Ryan
He's the dad who stepped up. um And, you know, they were in, they were inseparable. Like they spent all their time together um, That really was... i think they did a great job of, like, that is actually where grief comes from.
01:02:49
Ryan
Fuck, here we go. Want some WandaVision-esque shit. What is grief but love persevering? Like... Of course you're losing your mind, girl. This person who is literally so imprinted in you that you accidentally made her an AI and made her perfectly to the fact that she remembers tiny memories about o three Bonnie and Clyde and shit.
01:03:13
Ryan
And this man who helped you become the little... genius that who helped you know fulfill this genius potential like oh of course you are fucking spiraling girl
01:03:30
Shauna (she/her)
Hmm.
01:03:31
Ryan W
Yeah, I
Series Reflection and Future Speculation
01:03:32
Ryan W
definitely shed some tears at, like, Little Flashback. um so And, you know, like, Riri is like still kind of like very resistant to it.
01:03:41
Ryan W
She's like, why did you show me this? It's like...
01:03:43
Ryan
yes
01:03:44
Ryan W
Like, you know, with you trying to put on this suit of armor, ooh, it's a metaphor, um with you like you are blocking out, you were
01:03:49
Ryan
Oh shit, I totally did not get that. That just landed for the first time with me.
01:03:53
Ryan W
you you are blocking out, like, all of the good stuff, too. A
01:03:58
Ryan
Yeah.
01:03:58
Shauna (she/her)
o
01:03:59
Ryan
I'm not even joking. I hadn't thought about it as like a suit of armor. I thought of it as like a ah way of protecting, like on the defense.
01:04:04
Ryan W
robot. Yeah.
01:04:05
Ryan
Yeah. Damn. I mean, what is grief but love persevering?
01:04:09
Shauna (she/her)
Thank
01:04:10
Ryan
It's the same fucking message. Like, oh, I think I actually wrote wrote it down. um um
01:04:20
Ryan
when you try to forget the memories that made you sad you also forget the ones worth remembering um so some of my notes um gary's fine as hell uh not to not to hyper sexualize him for nothing but he was quite fine um
01:04:24
Ryan W
That
01:04:30
Ryan W
part.
01:04:37
Ryan
older sorry i just read one of my notes i don't know if this will
01:04:41
Ryan W
another
01:04:43
Ryan
i don't I don't know if this will land as much with Shauna as it will with Ryan, but Dominique Thorne low-key went to the Kerry Washington school of mouth acting.
01:04:52
Ryan W
Dominique Thorne. Oh, that's Riri, right?
01:04:55
Ryan
That's really, yeah. yeah
01:04:56
Shauna (she/her)
yeah
01:04:56
Ryan W
The Kerry Washington school.
01:04:56
Ryan
The way that she carries her emotions in her mouth to convey that, like, it's giving Kerry Washington.
01:05:01
Ryan W
Oh, I didn't notice that.
01:05:02
Shauna (she/her)
o
01:05:06
Ryan W
I loved it.
01:05:06
Ryan W
Apparently Scandal is coming back to Netflix.
01:05:06
Shauna (she/her)
I see it.
01:05:10
Ryan
Oh, not...
01:05:10
Ryan W
no new No new episodes, but it's just like, I i might be i might be due for another watch, honestly.
01:05:12
Ryan
Oh, got it.
01:05:14
Shauna (she/her)
Well,
01:05:16
Ryan
Yeah.
01:05:17
Shauna (she/her)
So like, I love them like the montage scene that follows all of this, like, then like, I love a good montage scene.
01:05:21
Ryan
Yes.
01:05:24
Shauna (she/her)
i love like that, like, you know, like she's at her low point and now like her little her family, her neighborhood, ever her circle is stepping up for her in a really cool way, showing that even as she's felt her most lonely, she's not actually all that alone.
01:05:24
Ryan
Same.
01:05:32
Ryan W
Oh,
01:05:32
Ryan
Totally.
01:05:38
Ryan W
yeah.
01:05:38
Shauna (she/her)
And feels most connected.
01:05:38
Ryan
See.
01:05:40
Shauna (she/her)
And i think my favorite part though, is when there's the coughing scene and it's just because Zelma's smudging.
01:05:48
Ryan W
Oh, yeah.
01:05:48
Shauna (she/her)
And i but I was like, I'll be honest, that whole time I'm like, there's no way there isn't in a whiff of marijuana smoke in that like garage at this scene.
01:05:59
Shauna (she/her)
Someone there absolutely is. like And I feel like there's like a director's cult where Natalie like regrets that she can't.
01:06:03
Ryan
Yes.
01:06:06
Shauna (she/her)
like She like goes to like grab it and gets frustrated.
01:06:07
Ryan
Right, right.
01:06:09
Shauna (she/her)
like ah.
01:06:11
Ryan
I must have, I must have like looked down or something at the coughing thing because I totally did not. I don't remember seeing that, but that is hysterical. Um, and there was a moment that Landon ran out to go get something.
01:06:20
Ryan W
this is like.
01:06:24
Ryan
So like stoners know when you got to seize the moment when you can.
01:06:28
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:06:28
Shauna (she/her)
Mm-hmm.
01:06:28
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:06:28
Ryan
um
01:06:30
Ryan
Yeah, it is really beautiful to see her people come around her and she makes, um she starts on the construction of her new car or on on her new suit. Whoa.
01:06:39
Ryan W
Mom was like, ah can you make a robot robot out of this? And she's like, sure.
01:06:44
Ryan
Sure, I sure can.
01:06:45
Ryan W
well
01:06:48
Ryan
Yeah. um I also, during that whole, like, emotional beat, her mom was like, no, you have to fight. Like, she was, it's it wasn't, like, turn and face your problems.
01:06:58
Ryan
It wasn't, like, don't run away from your problems.
01:06:58
Ryan W
Right. She's like, QQ lasers.
01:07:01
Ryan
She's like, you need to beat this motherfucker up. And, yeah, here for it. um So, yeah, simultaneously,
01:07:12
Ryan
ah the criminal gang is kind of falling apart. Zeke lies to the hood about killing Riri and then clown covers for him, but eventually calls out Parker for killing rampage. And he admits that he did it.
01:07:26
Ryan
They get into a big fight and he fires all of them because of course he's losing his, any connection he has to his humanity and is slowly losing himself to the,
01:07:41
Ryan
the succumbing to the hood um which we still we have we know that it's dormammu but we don't know anything about like where it came from or even i don't think we never really learned like where it came from but um so what oh um
01:07:56
Shauna (she/her)
Well, when two cases love each other, right look
01:08:03
Ryan W
ah sorry They don't really have to love each other, honestly.
01:08:05
Ryan
um yeah so we get the reveal of um the new suit what do we think of the new suit gorge
01:08:13
Ryan W
Loved it. Loved how it wasn't like
01:08:15
Shauna (she/her)
It was pretty hot. 100%.
01:08:16
Ryan W
it wasn't it wasn't overly Iron Man-y. It was like you know her own flair. loved the finish on it.
01:08:22
Ryan
yeah yeah a toot yeah this the new iron heart suit is a toot um and
01:08:23
Ryan W
like it was It was a toot for me.
01:08:27
Shauna (she/her)
and percent
01:08:28
Ryan W
It was a toot. This look is a toot.
01:08:36
Ryan
Yeah, I too...
01:08:37
Shauna (she/her)
The cape, though, not a two.
01:08:38
Ryan
I...
01:08:40
Ryan W
The cape was a boot.
01:08:40
Shauna (she/her)
not a two
01:08:40
Ryan
No, it's a boot.
01:08:41
Ryan W
my god like
01:08:42
Ryan
It's a boot.
01:08:42
Ryan W
i think I think the first scene with Parker, he looks like it's like bad Ren Faire.
01:08:49
Ryan W
He's also wearing this frilly shirt.
01:08:49
Ryan
What did I say?
01:08:51
Ryan
Yes. He said he looks like a little kid doing a magic show for his parents. Like, sit there.
01:08:56
Ryan W
yeah Yeah.
01:08:58
Ryan
Don't look at that. No, that's for later.
01:08:59
Ryan W
Right. It would have been cool if it were like i don't know more ethereal, like if he could have just summoned it at any point.
01:09:00
Ryan
Yes.
01:09:04
Ryan
Yes.
01:09:05
Ryan W
and
01:09:06
Ryan
Yes, definitely.
01:09:06
Ryan W
yeah It was just like...
01:09:08
Ryan
and I'm sorry, his hair looked much better when it was pulled back with the cape. He looked silly with his little, perfect little curls.
01:09:12
Ryan W
Yeah. Sure. yeah
01:09:15
Ryan
um
01:09:15
Shauna (she/her)
The ringlets.
01:09:17
Ryan
His perfect little ringlets. Parker returns to the house that he robbed at the beginning of episode four, where of course we learn that it is the home of his father, who is like the head of the arts organization, like so some organization that is also like funding these startups that they're robbing.
01:09:40
Ryan W
sure
01:09:42
Ryan
Like it's very convoluted.
01:09:43
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
01:09:44
Ryan
um and, uh, at the same time, Parker's going back to the house from the last episode, which we learn of course is actually the house of his father who kicked him out at age 12, basically for being bad.
01:09:56
Ryan
Parker has been fully taken over by the hood and gets control of the company by threatening his father and then kicks his dad out of the house in revenge for you know him kicking him out.
01:10:08
Ryan
Nice little turn.
01:10:10
Ryan W
so So the thing about like all of these scenes with Parker and like the the tech heads, I think it's really interesting kind of like a nod to like the big bad here is that he's like making them sign contracts, right?
01:10:22
Ryan
Oh, shit.
01:10:22
Ryan W
Right.
01:10:23
Ryan W
Like he's like, he's doing the let's make a deal thing, right?
01:10:23
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
01:10:28
Ryan
Damn. um
01:10:29
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:10:30
Ryan
Clocked. Good catch.
01:10:30
Shauna (she/her)
i
01:10:30
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:10:31
Shauna (she/her)
yeah
01:10:33
Ryan W
If it's not a handshake, it's it's it's it's a signature, right?
01:10:33
Ryan
Good catch.
01:10:35
Ryan W
Like
01:10:35
Ryan
Yes. And he just hands them like a folded piece of paper and they sign it like you're giving me majority.
01:10:40
Ryan W
right And he's like, legally blinding. Thank you.
01:10:45
Ryan
Yeah. So, um you know, he is achieving his ultimate goal of like all this power and shit. He gets control, revenge from his father.
01:10:56
Ryan
um And we jump over to Riri's garage gang as they're all freaking out about how great the suit is. And Zelma starts this ritual to infuse this mystical energy source.
01:11:09
Ryan
And just as she warned her a hundred fucking times, like including ah right up to the moment before she does the spell, she says magic comes at a cost.
01:11:14
Ryan W
It comes at a price.
01:11:21
Ryan
And what cost is it Natalie, somehow the energy, and science and magic
01:11:30
Ryan W
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:11:31
Ryan
can't exist simultaneously or something and it boots it gets rid of um natalie natalie disappears just as shauna clocked um uh in our last episode like she doesn't say i can't lose you again But it is very clear that it's a I can't lose you again moment.
01:11:52
Ryan
And thusly, Natalie departs this incredible, incredible role. Probably my favorite character in the entire series.
01:11:59
Ryan W
Oh yeah. Way of India, right?
01:12:02
Ryan
Fucking hate it.
01:12:05
Ryan
And from there, it's kind of downhill, if I'm being honest. Not like...
01:12:08
Ryan W
Honestly, yeah. That...
01:12:09
Ryan
not to not to like
01:12:11
Ryan W
that
01:12:11
Shauna (she/her)
No.
01:12:13
Ryan W
That's a really good, I think that's a really good like focal point of it.
01:12:13
Ryan
the
01:12:16
Ryan W
It's like after that, everything is just kind of like formulaic.
01:12:20
Shauna (she/her)
Well, she was the Iron Heart.
01:12:22
Ryan W
She was the Ironheart.
01:12:23
Shauna (she/her)
Like, literally.
01:12:23
Ryan
Oh, shit, yeah.
01:12:23
Shauna (she/her)
Like, like when, like, like the removes the chess piece where she's stored even when the suit gets destroyed.
01:12:26
Ryan
Shit, yeah.
01:12:32
Shauna (she/her)
Like, it's the...
01:12:33
Ryan
Yes.
01:12:33
Shauna (she/her)
Mm-hmm,
01:12:34
Ryan W
She's the core.
01:12:37
Shauna (she/her)
mm-hmm.
01:12:41
Ryan
Episode six, ah we start the episode. We finally get to meet Mephisto. It is the most anti-fucking-climactic introduction of someone that we have been waiting for for literally five years.
01:12:56
Ryan
I mean, i didn't expect him. i wanted him to be like him from Powerpuff Girls, like just so like over the top.
01:13:06
Ryan W
That was Sasha Baron
01:13:09
Ryan
cunty they do give it this like weight they take a moment and really emphasize when he says Mephisto um but like it was literally like fucking coitus interruptus like it was like oh that's it
01:13:24
Ryan W
Cohen?
01:13:24
Shauna (she/her)
how do you How do you have Sacha Baron Cohen be Mephisto and have him play it so straight?
01:13:31
Ryan
yes yes that was sasha baron cohen yeah it
01:13:31
Ryan W
sao baron go
01:13:32
Shauna (she/her)
I don't get it. Yeah.
01:13:34
Ryan W
Oh, he's thinking up too. Wow, okay
01:13:37
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
01:13:38
Ryan
It also kind of low-key...
01:13:39
Ryan W
okay. MCU just beefing up these boys. Okay, yes.
01:13:42
Ryan
Yeah. um There is actually a lot of um think pieces about how superhero got like the origin of superheroes getting like Steve Rogers, basically um like, and the impact of body dysmorphia, how it like has affected a lot of us into seeing this body because that's like, these standards were set of like the superhero body. They stopped just relying on the fact that they were kind of in good shape.
01:14:10
Ryan W
Right.
01:14:10
Ryan
And we're like, you need to look like a fucking superhero.
01:14:12
Ryan W
Right.
01:14:13
Ryan
um But that is a whole other conversation. But boo Sasha fucking Baron Cohen too. He's a goddamn Zionist. And yeah, I mean, it's been a minute since his like the like he was public about it.
01:14:19
Ryan W
Oh. Oh.
01:14:21
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
01:14:25
Ryan
But I also stopped paying attention to Sasha Baron Cohen.
01:14:27
Shauna (she/her)
That's for the best.
01:14:27
Ryan
But like, yeah. what a bummer. What a fucking bummer. Like I could give Sasha Baron Cohen some grace if he was playing this over the top character that admittedly.
01:14:39
Ryan W
If Mephisto was also a Zionist, I'd be like, okay, that makes sense.
01:14:42
Ryan
ha
01:14:42
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
01:14:44
Ryan
And honestly take that as um a marker of Zionists. Like you're in good company, literally the devil, the devil agrees with your politics.
01:14:53
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
01:14:53
Ryan
um But ah you know, it, If he were playing a caricature, because like for better or worse, Borat, the voice is funny.
01:15:03
Ryan
like The voice, if you are a millennial, you laugh. I mean, I don't know. I still laugh when someone does the Borat voice, even though I don't want to. But like the the expression, my wife, can never be uttered again without a millennial just kind of quietly repeating, my wife.
01:15:12
Shauna (she/her)
stop
01:15:22
Ryan
It's just, he's a great character actor. And you just made him be kind of fucking...
01:15:27
Ryan W
It was like very one note.
01:15:28
Ryan
whatever. One note.
01:15:29
Shauna (she/her)
The character was an American? Okay, cool.
01:15:33
Ryan W
Sure.
01:15:33
Ryan
Sure.
01:15:33
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:15:33
Shauna (she/her)
like
01:15:34
Ryan
But then British.
01:15:35
Shauna (she/her)
But also British then.
01:15:35
Ryan W
Yeah, but... yeah And then Parker was like, when did you get an accent?
01:15:36
Shauna (she/her)
But also then switched British for no reason. like
01:15:39
Ryan
Yeah.
01:15:39
Shauna (she/her)
Okay.
01:15:41
Ryan
It's giving Madonna embrace yours.
01:15:41
Shauna (she/her)
I was like, yeah, seriously.
01:15:43
Ryan W
Like, I... like
01:15:44
Shauna (she/her)
like It's very strange.
01:15:44
Ryan W
i I think about like this like this archetype and like how it's been done so much better and and so many other...
01:15:51
Ryan W
like i'm I'm talking like Devil's Advocate. I'm talking Raphael from Baldur's Gate. right like
01:15:51
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
01:15:57
Ryan
Mm-hmm.
01:15:57
Ryan W
I'm talking about like all of these like very sinister but like also charming and like disarming kind of roles. But like...
01:16:10
Ryan W
there This guy's just eating pizza and he's just like, i don't know. I know what you want.
01:16:14
Shauna (she/her)
Joao lays with his pizza. I'll send it back for you.
01:16:15
Ryan W
ah Yeah, exactly right.
01:16:17
Shauna (she/her)
know?
01:16:17
Ryan W
i would be
01:16:17
Shauna (she/her)
All right. I'll do it, though.
01:16:19
Ryan W
Right.
01:16:23
Ryan
yeah
01:16:23
Ryan W
i'm I'm hopeful that she he kind of, he he he pivots to something more, don't know, entertaining. Yeah.
01:16:33
Ryan
Yeah. so sinster Like, Mr. Sinister is a great example of the same sort of, like...
01:16:38
Ryan W
Oh, they better queer him the fuck up.
01:16:40
Ryan
I want...
01:16:41
Ryan W
Better wear every inch of that cape.
01:16:41
Ryan
i mean, he's so fucking...
01:16:45
Ryan
He's so flouncy in X-Men 97, though. Like, he is appropriately faggy in X-Men 97.
01:16:47
Ryan W
Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
01:16:50
Shauna (she/her)
That's true.
01:16:51
Ryan
That's what I wanted for Mephisto. I want Mephisto to literally have a lilt. I want him to be light in the loafers.
01:16:55
Ryan W
Right.
01:16:57
Ryan W
Right. did you ah the The one thing that I did like about the Mephisto scene, did you see his reflection in the spoon?
01:16:57
Ryan
Like, honey...
01:17:05
Ryan
No, I didn't clock that.
01:17:06
Ryan W
Oh yeah, no, it was like it was very brief.
01:17:07
Shauna (she/her)
I read about it and like,
01:17:08
Ryan W
It was very brief, but it was cute.
01:17:11
Ryan W
It's like, o what do it's like him, like devil horns and red and
01:17:11
Ryan
What was it?
01:17:16
Ryan
Got it. So...
01:17:16
Ryan W
yeah
01:17:19
Ryan
so We see how it is how easy it is for Mephisto to get Parker to give up his soul. And then we flash forward to Parker at the table eating this massive feast with Zeke who hates him because he has taken control of his body.
01:17:34
Ryan
We learned that ah Parker now has control over Zeke's energy that's running through him um and that sucks and he has lost uh control he basically has does not have control he has control over his body but Parker also has control over it um and so like he tries to get out of his situation by stabbing Parker with a fork and he stops him like we learn that he is he cannot let harm happen to Parker. So he must stop any harm coming from him, even from
01:18:10
Ryan
um
01:18:12
Ryan W
himself
01:18:12
Ryan
Zeke himself.
01:18:13
Ryan W
yeah
01:18:14
Ryan
Yeah. um So back at the garage, Riri is desperate desperate to try to figure out how to get Natalie back and decides now is the time to take on the hood, like right now. So like Natalie disappears and then she's like, time to fight.
01:18:28
Ryan
Like, I don't know what the overlap is, but it is brief because they're still talking about
01:18:32
Shauna (she/her)
Again, very rushed. Like...
01:18:34
Ryan W
Right, exactly.
01:18:34
Ryan
Very rushed.
01:18:35
Ryan W
I'm grieving.
01:18:36
Ryan
Very rushed.
01:18:36
Ryan W
I guess I better do this. Right.
01:18:39
Ryan
And her...
01:18:39
Shauna (she/her)
We don't have another scene. this is a...
01:18:41
Ryan W
right
01:18:42
Ryan
Yeah.
01:18:43
Ryan
Her family is like, um we haven't even tested like if the magic works. like We don't know what's going She's like, gotta go. Bye. So she flies to... um She flies away to Hood's headquarter where Zeke shows up to stop her.
01:19:01
Ryan
um They have a little fight. It's kind of boring. um And apparently Zeke has lost his his zeal. And Riri tells him that she's able to override Parker's control by kicking him in the nuts.
01:19:15
Ryan
um
01:19:16
Shauna (she/her)
Which...
01:19:17
Ryan
Wild. I guess it did make sense when she was like, I assume there's no bionics there.
01:19:23
Ryan W
She's like, you didn't cut your junk, did you?
01:19:27
Ryan
you didn't You didn't add anything to your junk, did you? Because...
01:19:30
Shauna (she/her)
or Like extending, like...
01:19:32
Ryan
Right, exactly.
01:19:33
Shauna (she/her)
no
01:19:34
Ryan
Bold of you to assume that this man has not, he's alt, you think, you think a man with unlimited resources and knowledge how to build things would improve, and daddy issues, would improve everything except his dick.
01:19:37
Ryan W
Stilt man.
01:19:43
Ryan W
And daddy issues? Oh, lord.
01:19:46
Shauna (she/her)
Steel testicles.
01:19:51
Ryan
Okay, come on, babe. you're I know you're only in your 20s, but be real here.
01:19:55
Ryan W
You never kissed a boy, but come on.
01:19:57
Ryan
yeah Like, right, right. So um she she does it, and I guess that's... Like, Zeke gets control over his body again. he does have kind of a ah cool line where he says... Oh, wow, I skipped over a bunch of those notes.
01:20:15
Ryan
I have millions of dollars of weapons inside me and no idea where to put this anger, um which I think is a great, again, analogy for a lot of things, but...
01:20:20
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
01:20:25
Ryan W
privilege
01:20:25
Ryan
um Yes, really and truly. um And then Riri takes the elevator to go confront the hood.
01:20:36
Ryan W
I thought the elevator was going to break down again.
01:20:36
Ryan
Twice...
01:20:39
Ryan W
It's just another bond or like another like but another tryout.
01:20:43
Ryan
Twice we see her in an elevator, and I don't know why that was so geekable to me. I'm like, why is this bitch with rocket jets taking the elevator?
01:20:53
Ryan W
She's not going just burst through the floor. She doesn't know where she's going.
01:20:56
Ryan
Yeah. right um so um she confronts the hood and they have a huge knockdown drag out fight like this ow yeah no it was supposed to be though it was giving very the end of um uh secret invasion where it's just like this is oh it's so bad it's so bad that
01:21:07
Ryan W
it huge?
01:21:16
Ryan W
I didn't see that. I didn't hear was very good. Yeah, good.
01:21:21
Shauna (she/her)
either.
01:21:22
Ryan
Oh, damn. I guess I thought we watched that together. But it's really bad.
01:21:26
Shauna (she/her)
Then.
01:21:26
Ryan
It's overly CGI'd. um
01:21:28
Ryan W
I like the part where she, like I guess, like decloaks him, essentially.
01:21:31
Ryan
Yes.
01:21:32
Ryan W
like he He's like, oh, you got magic.
01:21:34
Ryan
When she uses a pretty good hologram of of herself begging for her life.
01:21:39
Ryan W
That was so cheesy. That was so cheesy.
01:21:41
Ryan
That was so cheesy.
01:21:43
Ryan W
like
01:21:43
Ryan
And so predictable. i was like, she's begging for her life?
01:21:44
Ryan W
Right. Like a shadow clone, like you get duped by a shadow clone?
01:21:49
Ryan
Come on.
01:21:50
Ryan W
Come on now.
01:21:51
Ryan
What do you have your your ah your team up with Emma?
01:21:53
Shauna (she/her)
then
01:21:55
Ryan W
Oldest, old, there we go, there got claws, yeah.
01:21:56
Shauna (she/her)
Well, he did get his wig snatched, so...
01:22:00
Ryan
Quite literally. Quite literally. She rips the hood off of him. And you know we also saw that he is like literally becoming less human. like you know His face is getting scary or whatever. And he's like got claws and shit.
01:22:12
Ryan
Yeah. Okay. he's and okay completely fucks up the suit like you just got this girl the suit gets destroyed again
01:22:18
Ryan W
Mm-hmm.
01:22:22
Ryan W
I mean, that like it's it's it's either it's either the suit or her her chest.
01:22:26
Ryan
i guess that's true um so parker's turning into a demon riri tricks him with a hologram and takes the hood away from him where um you know she we we learn that it causes him pain he starts talking about how much it hurts to not have the hood on him um
01:22:43
Shauna (she/her)
Well, but didn't the suit actually not... Wasn't that all just the hologram? the so The suit didn't get destroyed?
01:22:49
Ryan W
The suit didn't explode, but he but I think he did, like, fuck it up.
01:22:53
Shauna (she/her)
still did... i mean I mean, it was made out of, like, a literal car.
01:22:57
Ryan
Yeah, right it's not like fucking...
01:22:57
Shauna (she/her)
Like... it's So, like... It was like...
01:23:00
Ryan
It's not... ah ah What is it? Vibranium. Like, it's a...
01:23:04
Ryan W
It's not vibranium, don't know.
01:23:04
Shauna (she/her)
No, no, no. It's it's car parts. And, like, I love that. Like...
01:23:09
Ryan
It's a... It's a 65 fucking Chevy or something.
01:23:12
Ryan W
got
01:23:12
Ryan
Like, it's...
01:23:13
Shauna (she/her)
Which is also magic that that thing drove, so, you know, it makes sense.
01:23:15
Ryan W
but
01:23:17
Ryan
Exactly. So, she leaves the fight, and then, again, when we say, like, it really took a a turn... she's confronted by Mephisto.
01:23:29
Ryan
Um, and she walks back into the shop. Uh, that's the front for the headquarters and who is waiting for her there, but fucking Mephisto. Um, and so we start to see him do his little pitch and, you know, twisting her around his finger.
01:23:46
Ryan
But at the same time, it's flashing to what is clearly a different time. Cause Riri has her hair out. She's taken her, uh, her braids out and her hair looks fine. stunning um i don't know if that's a wig but i think her hair looks really good um and natalie pops back up and so we're jumping back and forth between mephisto and her talking and like her showing concern and like i don't trust you to her talking to Natalie and being like, oh my God, it worked. I got i figured out the magic.
01:24:21
Ryan
And then Natalie kind of like bumps her in the head and we get this like, wait, so Natalie is there and Natalie is physical.
01:24:22
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
01:24:27
Ryan
And then she is like, she took the deal. Like they they basically tell us she took the deal because she says, how did you do that?
01:24:36
Ryan W
yeah
01:24:38
Ryan
And then they hug and we see a little scar start to form on her arm.
01:24:42
Ryan W
Oh, I didn't see that. Okay.
01:24:44
Ryan
Yes, that is the confirmation.
01:24:45
Ryan W
like So I thought it was kind of this like bait and switch where like you see Mephisto hold out his hand and you see Riri go to hold out her hand, but I thought she was just going like, slap.
01:24:56
Ryan
Yeah.
01:24:57
Ryan W
Sure.
01:24:58
Ryan
Yeah.
01:24:58
Shauna (she/her)
Well, that's kind of where I was like, I want to see the confirmation. i think that she doesn't even confirm what she's losing, which again, like, okay, you won't miss...
01:25:06
Ryan W
Right.
01:25:08
Ryan
That's the thing that really got me.
01:25:09
Shauna (she/her)
If someone says, won't miss this, i was like, well, let me...
01:25:10
Ryan W
It's not that you won't miss. Like, but you don't owe me.
01:25:13
Ryan
Is it my kidney?
01:25:14
Shauna (she/her)
let me
01:25:15
Ryan W
Right.
01:25:15
Ryan
Like, what what do you mean I'm not going to miss it?
01:25:18
Ryan
So it's something, I have to give you something of mine? Girl. that And that is where one of my notes was like, I feel like, like, where were the Black folks in that conversation?
01:25:31
Ryan
Because what, where, where would like,
01:25:32
Ryan W
Where was Kree?
01:25:35
Ryan
you were told that this guy is from the darkest dimension and you are a black girl from the South side of Chicago with a woo woo ass mom.
01:25:42
Ryan W
but
01:25:43
Ryan
You think you would just not recognize a Faustian deal. Like everyone knows selling your soul to the devil as a concept.
01:25:52
Shauna (she/her)
With literally Faust in the like...
01:25:56
Ryan
I was, I clocked it in the last, in the episode two there's like a, there, they were kind of heavy handed with it. um
01:26:03
Ryan W
They had to be.
01:26:04
Ryan W
They didn't have a whole lot of time.
01:26:04
Ryan
But at,
01:26:05
Ryan
Exactly. um I can't believe she wasn't like, I don't know. You're the devil. I see you. You're the devil.
01:26:13
Ryan W
i literally I literally just beat like you're the other dude that you made a deal with, and he doesn't look too hot.
01:26:13
Ryan
Like...
01:26:18
Ryan
like
01:26:19
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:26:20
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
01:26:20
Ryan
So what's the tea? So I hopefully will get more information about how he did it. um But that's, that's it.
01:26:31
Ryan
That's the end of Ironheart is we see that she has sold her soul to Mephisto in exchange for her best friend coming back to life.
01:26:32
Ryan W
yeah
01:26:39
Ryan
Um, we see that she is doing magic, uh, like, but on a whiteboard and shit. Like, it's, she's treating it kind of like science. She said, I've been working the magic or, like, hacking the magic or something.
01:26:50
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:26:51
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
01:26:51
Ryan
Um, and then we get our post-credit scene, which is...
01:26:56
Ryan W
Weak. Very weak.
01:26:59
Ryan
Parker walking into Miss Stanton's candy shop. He has a brief exchange with Zelma and says, I need some magic. And then she like, he's like, Oh, this kind of cute magic.
01:27:11
Ryan
And he says like Supreme level magic. I need Supreme level help. Like the Sorcerer Supreme, which I wonder if that means someone but else is the Sorcerer Supreme. I don't know.
01:27:23
Ryan
um Oh wait, Wong is the Sorcerer Supreme.
01:27:24
Shauna (she/her)
Isn't it, Walt?
01:27:25
Ryan W
um yeah
01:27:25
Ryan
Yeah. Yeah.
01:27:25
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
01:27:27
Ryan
Um, and then he says, well, like if you, if you want to take me in the back, like how about a little abracadabra? And then that's it. That's the end of the fucking series.
01:27:39
Ryan
What the fuck?
01:27:42
Ryan W
I mean, like, of course, like, like, like, yeah you have to have a post credit saying you have to like link it to whatever else is coming.
01:27:43
Ryan
What the fuck?
01:27:43
Shauna (she/her)
It is disappointing.
01:27:49
Ryan W
I have high hopes for Strange Academy if Zoma is going to be in it. I love her character.
01:27:53
Ryan
Same.
01:27:56
Ryan W
ah hopefully Parker gets some redemption here at least. like I would love to continue to see Anthony Ramos. um But like the the delivery was just it was just not there for me.
01:28:09
Ryan
Not there.
01:28:09
Shauna (she/her)
No, it it was lacking something.
01:28:09
Ryan
Right. Right.
01:28:11
Ryan W
Right.
01:28:12
Shauna (she/her)
Like, just it didn't have any, like like, they were like, ooh, look what's going to be happening next.
01:28:12
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:28:17
Shauna (she/her)
But it's just like, i would like this.
01:28:18
Ryan W
Right.
01:28:21
Shauna (she/her)
I can give this.
01:28:21
Ryan W
Yeah, exactly.
01:28:22
Shauna (she/her)
Or, like, yeah.
01:28:23
Ryan W
Like, where's like there's the emotion in any of it?
01:28:23
Ryan
right
01:28:26
Ryan W
Where's like Parker's desperation?
01:28:27
Shauna (she/her)
Like, I want revenge. Or, like, it was just like, why would Zoma help you?
01:28:28
Ryan W
Right.
01:28:31
Shauna (she/her)
Literally, like, it doesn't, none of this makes sense.
01:28:31
Ryan W
Right, exactly. Right. don't know who you are.
01:28:34
Shauna (she/her)
It's just like,
01:28:35
Ryan W
Oh, wait, you were the guy with the fucking hood? Oh, no, get the fuck out.
01:28:38
Shauna (she/her)
Oh, oh, why did you lead with it? That's what I'm saying. Like, it made no sense to me.
01:28:42
Ryan W
I'm surprised Creed didn't kick him out.
01:28:42
Ryan
b st She clocked the the tiny little piece of fabric in Riri's pocket.
01:28:47
Ryan W
Right. Right.
01:28:49
Ryan
You can't see all that bad shit floating around him.
01:28:53
Ryan W
Sure.
01:28:54
Ryan
you You didn't, like, your wards didn't go off or something, girl. That is the devil. he he doesn't have a soul. he doesn't have a soul. He gave it up already. it
01:29:04
Ryan W
have some awesome tats.
01:29:06
Ryan
Just some... And what was the tattooing thing? What was the tattooing thing?
01:29:10
Ryan W
I think it was like a vanity thing. I think it was like supposed to cover up the this the the scarring, the weird vein shit. Yeah, that was that was weird.
01:29:19
Ryan
So the the idea was that the the tattoos on his back that were just like regular tattoos were to cover up
01:29:25
Ryan W
We're supposed to cover up, like, the... Yeah.
01:29:29
Ryan
the scarification of your body.
01:29:30
Ryan W
Yeah, I think I...
01:29:32
Shauna (she/her)
I guess kind of not really though.
01:29:34
Ryan W
Well, because John was like, I can't keep doing this.
01:29:37
Ryan W
And at first I thought it was, like, some kind of war, right? I think, ah like, I thought it was, like, trying to...
01:29:37
Ryan
Yes.
01:29:42
Ryan
Same.
01:29:42
Ryan W
Slowing the process of, like, whatever corruption, like, spreading through his body.
01:29:44
Ryan
Same.
01:29:45
Ryan W
But no, I think it, that like, he had, like, a Puerto Rican flag on his chest. Like...
01:29:50
Ryan
yeah I think Anthony Ramos had some uncoverable tattoos and they're like, you know, let's just work with what we got.
01:29:56
Ryan W
Right, right, right.
01:29:58
Ryan
um But actually, I do think the Wards thing, that still kind of might make sense though, because he does try to do it himself and he's just so kind of is like, fuck it.
01:30:06
Ryan W
Well, yeah, and like he's doing it on his face now. And he's like, oh, well, it spread to my cheek.
01:30:09
Ryan
Because they're like spreading up his, yeah, better rouge my cheeks and...
01:30:10
Ryan W
So like, oh, no, i I thought people would think I'm cool.
01:30:14
Ryan
Right, right. i I'll just wear my hair down forever. um
01:30:18
Ryan W
Right.
01:30:19
Shauna (she/her)
That's why he's going out those little curly boys like Hmm
01:30:19
Ryan
oh
01:30:21
Ryan W
Yeah, there you go.
01:30:21
Ryan
Yeah, his perfect little adorable ringlets.
01:30:22
Ryan W
Look the crows. Don't look at this. Yeah.
01:30:25
Ryan
um So yeah, I mean, disappointing ending. um I hate when they give the fucking incels like bait or like fuel because this is it was bad.
01:30:43
Ryan
It's kind of, you know, it's like it's it's not the show was good until the end. Like I would have kept watching if there was more actual magic involved.
01:30:52
Ryan W
I
01:30:57
Ryan
They just kept talking about there's being this like magic and tech, magic and tech. We got some cute magic, but like what, what and how?
01:31:01
Shauna (she/her)
They didn't explain it.
01:31:05
Ryan W
i mean, like I think like that's when like you just have to crank up the suspension of disbelief, right?
01:31:06
Shauna (she/her)
Like.
01:31:11
Ryan W
Like, okay, like she made this this this car robot in an afternoon with her friends, and now it's magic too, right?
01:31:17
Ryan
In an afternoon, right, right.
01:31:19
Ryan W
Like, okay. Let's do
01:31:21
Shauna (she/her)
How is it made? Is it literally po like as part of that little little cloak in like the reactor core? like
01:31:29
Ryan W
At the queue, at the county.
01:31:30
Shauna (she/her)
They didn't show that, I didn't feel...
01:31:33
Ryan
No, and they showed the coolest... they we so I hate when they put really cool moments that take you... That are like, oh shit. like They showed in the trailers um the moment where reality flips upside down.
01:31:48
Ryan
They showed in the trailer when she activates the sigils. like Those were moments that I would have liked because it's the first moment we see the sigils be activated. like I would have liked to have seen that. like It just, there were no stakes at the end. Natalie's already gone. So what is she actually fighting for?
01:32:06
Ryan
Like, i I can make sense of it.
01:32:08
Shauna (she/her)
yeah
01:32:10
Ryan
You know, so earlier when we were talking, I said, you know, I wish my my feelings were starting to change around the the ending of it. Because I was trying, like, that is how people react in grief.
01:32:23
Ryan
That is how people, that is one way that people respond to grief is like, they make a lot of really shitty choices um back to back to back.
01:32:23
Shauna (she/her)
Thank
01:32:31
Ryan
And then they have to live with it when reality kind of comes back. But that's not how they portray it. And they're not direct enough about it. So I do now kind of, i'm I'm back to just not being satisfied.
01:32:45
Ryan
I'm really disappointed.
01:32:46
Ryan W
I mean, i think I think the stakes were still there because like Natalie or not, like she knows that like Parker has a grudge and like he's willing to do whatever to settle the score.
01:32:54
Ryan
Right, true.
01:32:56
Ryan W
So, sure, like it was plausible that like he was still going to come after them, like Natalie or not. But, I don't know.
01:33:01
Ryan
Sure.
01:33:04
Ryan W
Callie Vendors. Yeah.
01:33:06
Ryan
Hello.
01:33:06
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. But like, it just felt like eight episodes crammed into six and and i get it, but it just left me wanting more.
01:33:17
Ryan
Same.
01:33:18
Ryan W
and
01:33:18
Shauna (she/her)
And I don't know, like it's no, cause I assume Ironheart is going to be a part of the young Avengers that they're are building with, you know, Wiccan and with Kate Bishop.
01:33:18
Ryan
on
01:33:24
Ryan W
Sure.
01:33:27
Ryan W
You got Hawkeye, you got Marvel. Yeah.
01:33:30
Ryan
Hawkeye and yeah.
01:33:32
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah. Kate Bishop. Yeah. Yeah.
01:33:34
Ryan W
You need to be a short one.
01:33:34
Ryan
Kate Bishop.
01:33:36
Shauna (she/her)
Kate Bishop.
01:33:36
Ryan
um
01:33:37
Shauna (she/her)
It's very good.
01:33:39
Ryan W
What's he saying?
01:33:40
Ryan
I remember seeing something with um that like, and Uxie said it was a rumor, but that this was supposed to lead directly into Secret Wars.
01:33:51
Ryan
But I thought that that was someone like at Marvel saying that. like So if if I'm misremembering, But like, what if this is actually, no, it can't be an alternate universe.
01:34:03
Ryan
Like, what if it's an alterun alternate universe where Riri sells her soul to the devil and becomes evil or something, and then we actually get a better version of Riri that didn't sell her soul?
01:34:10
Shauna (she/her)
Thank you.
01:34:14
Ryan
Like, very what if almost? But like, maybe that could be a what if episode. What if Riri didn't sell her soul to the devil? You know? um
01:34:23
Ryan W
I hope that she gets some demon powers, least.
01:34:23
Ryan
But yeah, so...
01:34:25
Ryan W
Right. Sure.
01:34:27
Ryan
make make good use of it please maybe that's what strange academy will be about like so we didn't get a second season to wandavision but we did get agatha all along so maybe we won't get a second season season of of ironheart but maybe strange academy will
01:34:29
Ryan W
right
Riri's Role in the MCU
01:34:42
Ryan
scratch that edge
01:34:43
Shauna (she/her)
It feels that way.
01:34:43
Ryan W
sure
01:34:45
Shauna (she/her)
like that that's kind of you know And again, if now Riva Williams goes to the Strange Academy because she has to learn how to control her iron suit and...
01:34:46
Ryan W
More Zelma, more Kri.
01:34:50
Ryan
yes yes yep
01:34:52
Ryan W
More of the Stealthans.
01:34:56
Shauna (she/her)
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
01:34:56
Ryan
Yeah, so yeah, we definitely need more Cree Summer. We need her to be a teacher at Strange Academy. so you know, any other things that we feel like would, I feel we have lots of ways that we could have made the finale better, but um any final thoughts on on the the show before we get to our ultimate question?
01:35:18
Ryan W
I like Riri as a character, i like her kind of development here, you know I hope that she sticks around, i would like to see more of her.
01:35:27
Ryan
Same, same, same, same.
01:35:29
Shauna (she/her)
Yeah.
01:35:30
Ryan
I think she's a great addition to the MCU. um And I think she's completely separate from Iron Man. Like, you know, it's a, I don't want her to be seen as like the successor to Iron Man.
01:35:37
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:35:43
Ryan
Like this is not Captain America.
01:35:45
Ryan W
Like, that's Spider-Man. Spider-Man is the successor to Iron Man.
01:35:47
Ryan
Exactly. Great point. Great point.
01:35:49
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:35:50
Ryan
And like Captain America.
01:35:51
Ryan W
They had a relationship. They had, you know, a whole thing.
01:35:53
Ryan
Yeah,
01:35:54
Ryan W
the like, if if if anything, i think Ironheart is the successor to Shuri, or at least, like, the the analog.
01:35:55
Ryan
exactly.
01:36:01
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:36:01
Ryan
Sure, sure.
01:36:03
Ryan
I like that. So um the final question for this.
01:36:14
Ryan
How's I don't like a good show, good show, bad ending, Kate Bishop.
01:36:20
Ryan W
interpret
01:36:21
Ryan
um If OK, so what what piece of memorabilia would you steal from Ironheart?
01:36:29
Ryan W
any of any of slugs outfits any of slugs outfits yes
01:36:33
Ryan
Any of Slug's outfits, specifically Slug's nails.
01:36:34
Shauna (she/her)
o
01:36:36
Ryan
Yeah.
01:36:38
Shauna (she/her)
That's a good one.
01:36:38
Ryan
Slug's lip collar.
01:36:38
Shauna (she/her)
oh
01:36:39
Ryan
Yeah.
01:36:40
Shauna (she/her)
does I think if I could get like the ringlet wig, i think that's the one.
01:36:44
Ryan
I was going to say, yeah.
01:36:45
Shauna (she/her)
That's
01:36:46
Ryan
cre Cree Summer's hat. Miss Stanton's hat.
01:36:49
Shauna (she/her)
the one.
01:36:50
Ryan W
Oh, and also Zola's glasses.
01:36:50
Shauna (she/her)
That's the one. 100%. Also the helmet.
01:36:52
Ryan
Yeah. Zulma's glasses.
01:36:53
Shauna (she/her)
and so the helmet
01:36:54
Ryan
That would be dope. Yep.
01:36:56
Shauna (she/her)
I think the helmet is a very cool.
01:36:56
Ryan
Yep.
01:36:59
Ryan
Yes. Or the Iron Heart. That would be cool to have.
01:37:02
Shauna (she/her)
Mhm.
01:37:03
Ryan
Um, final question. Who is the hottest character in Ironheart now that we've seen all six episodes?
01:37:14
Ryan
Uh, Ryan, what do you think?
01:37:16
Ryan W
Kree looks great. She looked great. ah She was in Swarm. Have you seen Swarm? Swarm's incredible.
01:37:20
Ryan
Oh no, I never watched it. The, um, the show that's making fun of the beehive.
01:37:22
Ryan W
Oh, would love Yes, you love it.
01:37:25
Ryan
Yes.
01:37:26
Ryan W
It's so good.
01:37:26
Ryan
I know. I've never watched it though. I need to.
01:37:28
Ryan W
Oh my god, it's so good. Kree.
01:37:30
Ryan
Okay. so
01:37:30
Ryan W
Kree's mother.
01:37:31
Ryan
Cree summer.
01:37:32
Ryan W
Yeah.
01:37:32
Ryan
Yeah. T. Shauna.
01:37:37
Shauna (she/her)
Look, Zelma fits an archetype of a type of person I'm attracted to.
01:37:39
Ryan W
It just getting really does.
01:37:40
Ryan
Yeah,
01:37:40
Ryan W
It really does. you
01:37:42
Shauna (she/her)
Absolutely the answer.
01:37:45
Ryan
yeah, yeah, yeah. um I'm going with x Xavier.
01:37:48
Shauna (she/her)
A dorkable girl...
01:37:50
Ryan
Yeah, yeah. i'm I'm going with Xavier. um He has one of my favorite names and he's super hot. And I think they, one of the tiniest little details that I forgot to mention was when um Natalie kidnaps him and brings him to the junkyard.
01:38:06
Ryan
He's fully just wearing slos socks and slides. And like the socks and slides is very like, okay, we, and we, we see who you are. His apartment was cute.
01:38:14
Shauna (she/her)
you
01:38:15
Ryan
I would absolutely fall in love with him when I walked in there and saw his apartment.
01:38:15
Ryan W
To the suit,
01:38:19
Ryan
Um, And the way he says, boy, to the um to the suit and, like, flexes on it, Zay is my my breakout character as the hottie.
01:38:24
Ryan W
it the of a sin yeah. yeah
01:38:33
Ryan
um That is going to wrap it up for this episode of Real Hot Nerd Shit. Thank you for joining us, Secret Third Ryan. um
01:38:43
Ryan W
Thank you for having me.
01:38:44
Shauna (she/her)
Secret Ryan!
01:38:44
Ryan
but
01:38:44
Ryan W
This is the one. Secret Ryan! Yes, I love that.
01:38:48
Ryan
It has been, Shauna, you will also be happy to know that my rebrand from mother to baby is working.
01:38:58
Ryan W
We discussed it last night.
01:38:58
Ryan
I have...
01:38:58
Shauna (she/her)
Alright, work, Arietti.
01:38:59
Ryan W
Yeah, it's a...
01:38:59
Shauna (she/her)
Alright, you got this.
01:39:03
Ryan
Ariadne! I love when Shauna fucking gives us the fact that she retained a lot of knowledge about Drag Race.
01:39:06
Shauna (she/her)
who but
01:39:11
Ryan W
really did.
01:39:11
Ryan
That was beautiful.
01:39:12
Shauna (she/her)
I am. who i am
01:39:13
Ryan
You, she is who she is. ah Thanks for watching. Follow RealHotNerdPod on Instagram, at Helen Pastels, on Blue Sky, at Intuitive Blurred on Blue Sky.
01:39:26
Ryan
you want to drop your social, Ray?
01:39:27
Ryan W
don't Don't follow me.
01:39:29
Ryan
Yeah, don't follow him.
01:39:29
Ryan W
do not Do not perceive me on the internet. Thank you.
01:39:32
Ryan
Yeah,
01:39:34
Ryan W
this This was pushing it.
01:39:36
Ryan
yeah I know. Yeah, thanks thanks so much for being willing to to be perceived for a little bit.
01:39:41
Ryan W
Thank you very much for having me.
01:39:41
Ryan
um
01:39:42
Ryan W
Oh,
01:39:43
Ryan
Of course. Can't wait to have you back. ah Check us out next time.
01:39:45
Ryan W
yeah.
01:39:48
Ryan
you then. Bye.
01:39:49
Ryan W
Toodles.
01:39:50
Ryan
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