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Halo Season 2: Episode 3 / Visegrad
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John and Silver Team embark on an unsanctioned mission; Laera, Kwan and Kessler must escape Soren's mutinous crew; Ackerson receives troubling intelligence from Cortana; the threat of an attack forces Ackerson to make an irrevocable decision.
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Podcast Introduction
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Speaker
All right, everyone.
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Welcome back to Matt goes to the movies.
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Rob and I are here.
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We're talking about Halo season two, episode three.
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And Rob, I've done something very different for this one because I thought about the last episode that we did reviewing, you know, one and two.
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And for the first time ever, I actually in front of me have a
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a notepad.
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Well, I have my phone, which I opened my notepad and have actual notes about this episode.
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And yes, the reason why I did that is because I wanted to break down some actual segments of this show.
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And one of the reasons why I did that too, is because I,
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I found myself going through this episode before we get really into
Episode Analysis Strategy
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it.
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And my son, Brandon was sitting here watching it with me.
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And he said one thing during it.
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And he said, why the hell is this show?
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So goddamn boring.
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And that was all he's, that was all he said.
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Didn't say anything else.
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And it really made me go, yeah, this is, this is why I took notes.
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And,
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This is not, again, I'm going to state one of my things that I said was, I don't hate this episode, but it just feels like the overall feels like there's not a lot that happens.
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It's almost like you get a meal brought to the table and the presentation is amazing.
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but there's nothing really of substance there when you bite into it.
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Now I've got a lot of notes on some of the reasons why that is.
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But I'm going to, I'm going to let you say a couple of things first here.
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I don't want to just, you know, continue.
Series Progression and Criticism
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You know, it feels like we were on this slow plod towards landing on the ring world when we actually expect stuff to start happening.
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It's,
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it is this slow build.
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And when I say slow, I mean like glacially slow build towards what we're kind of hoping for, because by the time they actually get to the halo ring world, you can't imagine that they're still focused on all of this UNSC bullshit behind the scenes.
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Right?
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Like I can't imagine we're still doing that to this extent.
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Like we're not still worried about Soren at all or Quan Ha when we're on halo.
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Like I, I,
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It feels like that's not what that is going to be.
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You can't.
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Once you land on Halo, who gives a damn about anything else going on outside of it?
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That's what we want to see.
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And then if and when they show the flood, like at that point, the game completely changes at that point.
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So, yeah, it feels like we're just...
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Taking our good, sweet time to get to the thing that we're trying to get to.
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And I'm not sure what point it serves.
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You know, we kind of start off with this episode making John very emotional and he's acting, I would say, petulant at times.
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And that's a choice.
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I know there are layers of secrecy to all levels of the military.
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There's, you know, different classifications of, you know, classified and top secret and everything else.
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But what's the risk reward of keeping your war hero, the guy that's keeping everybody full of hope?
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Why not keep him in the loop?
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The enemy is alien, not a rival human military.
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We made a Last Jedi reference last week where it's like, why are you keeping your people out of the loop on what is going on?
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What is the benefit of secrecy?
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And I don't understand it.
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What are they worried?
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That he's actually a Covenant spy and is going to leak the information?
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I don't understand it.
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Yeah, it might have something to do with the fact that they're just... I mean, maybe it's just because they're just supposed to follow orders and when they need them to battle, they'll battle.
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So, you know, Jon showing emotion and things like that, maybe they're worried that he'll screw up the plan.
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Because I said last week with our review that I didn't really...
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I never understand the trope of we hide everything.
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I thought we got a little bit more with Eckerson this week that I liked.
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And those were some of the notes that, that I took.
Intro Music and Audience Engagement
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But one of the things I want to talk about first, and it was my first bullet point was if you're starting this show and again, they do like an opening scene and then they show that intro and,
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My note for that was the opening to any show should engage you.
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Halo's introductionary video feels completely boring.
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Now compare that to something like The Walking Dead and when that music hits.
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Regardless of what The Walking Dead did in later seasons, that opening theme song still triggered an emotion.
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Yeah.
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You know, you hear the music or or think about any really good score.
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We've talked about this with movie reviews or other TV shows that you can think of.
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You know, I think Game of Thrones.
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I think of the show Lucifer, you know, that I was really into Black Sails.
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I mean, if you don't get goosebumps when the Black Sails theme comes on, I think you're you will not pass that.
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I'm not a robot test because you're clearly you're a robot, right?
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And I sit here and I watch the opening, the intro to Halo.
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And besides that opening that, you know, that mostly everybody would know.
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And then it turns into, I don't even know what to call it.
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Nothing about that intro is interesting.
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To me, it doesn't bring me into the show.
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A good intro should bring you into the show.
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You should want to be the person.
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You should strive for that person to not hit skip intro just because there's something badass about it.
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And when Brandon, you know, it was one of the things that I went back to when Brandon said, why is this like show just so goddamn boring?
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Your intro, it's freaking Halo.
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We've talked about it at length.
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Your intro to me is boring, is generic.
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You do a discredit to the actual, like, the themes and the songs that have been used in Halo, in the games, with this intro.
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And it just, it continues to beg a question for me of,
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I would love to be in that room and say, okay, what is the thought process?
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What do you think a B and C are doing to bring in an audience to bring in a new audience?
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Are the people that I think they made season one for, are they still here for season two?
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Are they still invested after three episodes?
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Did they even bother to come back?
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Um,
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And I should look up ratings and for, I should do some more research and for episode four, I will, but what is this show doing?
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Are you capturing the audience that you thought you would?
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Are you capturing the audience that you should have?
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Because there are parts in this where I go, okay, anybody who might've tuned into this just to see what it was, the casual person that has Paramount Plus, are they still here and why?
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What happens that's actually emotionally gripping to keep somebody who isn't like, oh, I'm a Halo fan or, oh, well, of course I know what Halo is.
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What is happening in these episodes and in this season that gets the casual viewer to say, yes, I'm going to watch?
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you kind of blew my mind a little bit when you were talking about the opening, because when we were watching this most recent one, my son actually did hit skip intro and I said nothing about it.
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Now, if he and I would have been watching the X-Men animated series or Mandalorian, if you hit skip intro in my house, like you're like, you have to find a new home.
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You can't listen.
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Like I just, like you're just, if you skip intro on those, like, I'm sorry, like I disown you.
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Like you're just, you don't know.
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You're clearly not of my DNA.
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Um,
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And yeah, like I didn't even think about it.
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And like he just did it and I just, it didn't even register to me like that.
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That was wrong.
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Cause I didn't care.
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Um, and it's crazy because if you think about the music for halo, it is beyond iconic in, in video game history.
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So yeah, I kind of feel like you're really onto something with that.
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It's just, it's, you know, I think, uh, I took a different approach to this, this episode.
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because I wasn't really happy with my portion of the review for episodes one and two.
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I don't think I did a good enough job with actually trying to break it down and think about it because I was just like, Oh God, it's just the same vibes.
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And I'm trying to like, I was trying to think of better ways to explain my thoughts on
Scene Critiques and Emotional Depth
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this.
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And, you know, some of the other things that I wrote down is,
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You go from that opening intro, but the opening shot is, again, this show does have great set pieces.
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There's some great cinematography here.
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But then it is immediately, it's for every one step forward I felt, especially in this episode.
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Every one step forward, you take two steps back.
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And you have a really good opening shot where they're walking through the forest.
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They get in, and there's some tension there of, ooh, this place is empty.
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What's going on?
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What are they going to find?
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And then there's a little bit of a tense.
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There's there's that tense standoff with the team, you know, stand down.
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Don't fire your weapons like you're in so much trouble right now.
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And it's like, OK, like I don't expect them to kill those soldiers.
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But any of the tension is immediately, immediately gone because it's.
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Don't move, Master Chief.
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You're under orders.
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Don't do this.
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As soon as he opens that door, for 45 seconds before that, they threaten fire.
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As soon as he opens the door, don't shoot!
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Stand down!
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Okay, your tension's gone.
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You just told them not to do that.
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But there's no fight.
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There's no nothing.
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Um...
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And I was just like, okay, well, that scene felt wasted.
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You could have very easily not gone through any of that.
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And if they just went there, nobody's there, and they come back, and they skip to the scene where Keyes is yelling at Master Chief, what's different?
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What did you lose?
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What did you lose?
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Here's the other question.
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If you just tell Master Chief Cobalt team was killed in action on a mission that was vital to the success of the UNSC and the safety and continued existence of humanity, he just goes to bed.
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He doesn't question anything.
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What is the benefit of continuing to lie about it?
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And there's another big lie coming in a little bit later that we'll get into.
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And I have some thoughts on that.
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I'm going to need my soapbox here because I've got some material on this.
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I just don't understand the continued benefit of lying and keeping them in the dark.
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Or not even just lying, but telling a bad lie.
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Why not tell a more plausible lie than what you've given them?
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They clearly have the ability to deceive and they have the ability to
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manufacture things and lie.
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Yeah.
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It's the equivalent of you catching your kid with a crayon in their hand and writing all over the wall.
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And they're like, I didn't do it.
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Speaker
Yeah.
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It.
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Okay.
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Speaker
Like what, why are you lying to me?
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Like, yeah, it's going to clean up and I can just tell you like, don't do that again.
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But why, why, why are you lying to me?
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Speaker
I clearly know that like, I clearly know that something is not right here.
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Speaker
So why lie to me?
00:13:09
Speaker
It's also very similar to like when your dog eats something that he's not supposed to, and you're trying to get it out of his mouth and he immediately takes off running.
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And the more that like you catch him with it, the more he's just going to continue to just like, not let you get it out of his mouth.
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It feels a lot like both of those things at the same time.
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Speaker
Yeah.
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And you know, I,
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I'm going to go back and forth.
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Cause again, I don't, I don't hate this episode.
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Speaker
I really don't.
00:13:35
Speaker
I don't either.
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Speaker
You know, I don't hate this episode.
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I certainly, for whatever reason, even though it did feel very boring, I actually overall, and we'll talk about this more.
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Speaker
I like it better than the first two.
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Speaker
And one of the reasons is I actually, I,
00:14:00
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like some of the stuff that we get here with Eckerson.
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Speaker
I enjoy it.
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I like some of the stuff with master chief.
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Speaker
I think there's way more of a story there and there could have been more focus on chief losing or what people think is him losing his sanity and tension with the team.
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Speaker
Because it seems like we're just going to gloss over that because he's going to be right.
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It seems like by episode four, it's going to be like, oh, shit, Master Chief was right.
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We're with you, buddy.
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Let's go kill some Covenant.
00:14:36
Speaker
There did seem like there was something there that they could have explored a little bit more with the three of them, particularly Kai, who's got his back all the time.
00:14:45
Speaker
Like she is his number two.
00:14:47
Speaker
Like definitely the closest Spartan he's got.
00:14:50
Speaker
It felt like that could have been something.
00:14:52
Speaker
And then when, when we get to the end of the episode, like all that seems like kind of wasted.
00:14:57
Speaker
Yes.
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Speaker
So I think they could have tapped into more of that.
00:15:00
Speaker
I, I, I like where they were starting to maybe go with that, but I like Eckerson in this episode a lot, actually.
00:15:09
Speaker
Um, yeah,
00:15:10
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I actually thought the stuff with his dad was really good.
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Speaker
I'm sure that can probably hit home to a lot of people that you've either dealt with that yourself or know someone.
00:15:25
Speaker
You had a friend who dealt with some of the things that he was dealing with.
00:15:29
Speaker
I thought he was much better in this episode, and they gave him some better background.
00:15:34
Speaker
I really also like the fact, and they kind of flipped the script a little bit,
00:15:39
Speaker
Um, now when, uh, Dr. Haisley, uh, towards the end was telling him how, oh, I knew, like, did you think I didn't know about your sister?
00:15:52
Speaker
I'm like, oh God, I at Hall.
00:15:54
Speaker
No, it's Halsley.
00:15:55
Speaker
I mispronounced it.
00:15:56
Speaker
Yeah.
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Speaker
Yeah.
00:15:57
Speaker
Um, I absolutely hated that.
00:15:59
Speaker
Like, of course, like, uh, of course, uh,
00:16:04
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I love how they kind of flipped it because what you normally expect probably Rob is for him to be.
00:16:10
Speaker
Tell me about her.
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Speaker
Oh my God.
00:16:14
Speaker
I really like the fact that he comes back like he goes to leave the room.
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Speaker
And he's like, I just didn't want you to be alone.
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I'm not a monster.
00:16:24
Speaker
And he brings in Sauron.
00:16:28
Speaker
I like that because I felt like that was a little bit more going against the grain where normally that person would break down and somehow that's how she gets out of there because, oh, you said the magic keyword to open up the lock.
00:16:43
Speaker
I like that he seemed like, all right, you want to mess with me and try and give me some emotional terrorism?
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Speaker
You know what?
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Speaker
You're not better at this than I am.
00:16:53
Speaker
I like that part.
00:16:55
Speaker
I did enjoy kind of that back and forth a little bit because I, you know, it seemed like Halsey had taken the upper hand and I'd written down, God damn, Halsey is so bad-ass.
00:17:05
Speaker
Like there was, there was a moment where she just really just laid it on the table.
00:17:10
Speaker
And I was just like, Oh God, she is just ripping this guy to shreds.
00:17:13
Speaker
Like it was, it was awesome.
00:17:15
Speaker
And I, I in general do like her character.
00:17:18
Speaker
I think it's kind of interesting, um, kind of,
00:17:21
Speaker
how they're, they're positioning her.
00:17:23
Speaker
And she's, she's evil.
00:17:24
Speaker
Like, don't get me wrong.
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Speaker
She has done some incredibly awful stuff to kids, like awful, you know, flash clones, all that, the morality around so much of what she does is,
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you could, you could do like 17 doctoral theses on what she's done.
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Speaker
But all that being said, she's just, I, as a character, as somebody to just watch and be entertained by, oh, she's great.
00:17:53
Speaker
And then,
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Speaker
You're right.
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You know, instead of just kind of letting her have the upper hand, Akerson's like, okay, I see that.
00:18:00
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And I raise you this.
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And he drops Soren right in there.
Character Development and Storyline Connections
00:18:04
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And, you know, I'd been wondering for a while.
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Okay.
00:18:06
Speaker
So they keep showing Soren.
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Speaker
They keep, you know, throughout season one after Chief and he don't meet up again at any point.
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Speaker
It's like, how...
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Speaker
They keep telling this piece of story.
00:18:16
Speaker
How is this actually going to turn into anything that's going to eventually, and I said this last week, I think it has to tie back into the main story at some point.
00:18:25
Speaker
And now here it is.
00:18:26
Speaker
So, okay, like, fine, let's, let's see what they do with it.
00:18:31
Speaker
Um, let's, let's see how that, you know, the, those two kind of the two main stories that are really telling, which, you know, the, the,
00:18:39
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chief and everything he's doing and and the covenant attack and then they had you know kwan and soren like doing their thing on magical which they completely glass the planet and i love there's a line very early kwan says that losing the planet was her fault and i wanted to jump off my couch and just yell no shit yes it was i agree you got that one right because pushing away the unsc when they clearly needed the military help certainly didn't help her planet like
00:19:08
Speaker
Yeah, we've got like, you know, some sticks and stuff and we're doing mushrooms in the woods here.
00:19:13
Speaker
But you guys with the with the giant space suits and the guns and stuff like that, that might actually be able to fend off this alien threat.
00:19:21
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Now we don't need you.
00:19:21
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We're good.
00:19:22
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We're going to be we're going to be independent.
00:19:23
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That's that's better for us in some way.
00:19:25
Speaker
I'm like, yeah, it's your planet got glass.
00:19:28
Speaker
It's it's your fault.
00:19:29
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So I definitely agree with her on that.
00:19:31
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Yeah, I definitely agreed.
00:19:33
Speaker
And I want to stick on Eckerson for a little bit, because, again, I thought I thought he was really good in this episode with his, you know, finding out, you know, his relationship with his dad.
00:19:49
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I thought that was really well done.
00:19:51
Speaker
And even his personal it didn't feel like he was using it to manipulate her.
00:19:57
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it felt like when he said, I'm just going to like, I'm going to say this.
00:20:03
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And I, I,
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have it here.
00:20:05
Speaker
So, um, you know, sometimes people don't get better and holding on can do more damage.
00:20:12
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I like that because it didn't, it didn't feel like, again, some of the things that are typical in shows or in movies, it didn't feel like he was saying a line to manipulate.
00:20:24
Speaker
It just felt like he was actually having a real moment there for a second to somebody that is close to master chief who, like you said,
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is number two usually sticks by his side.
00:20:38
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Um, it just, it felt real.
00:20:42
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It didn't feel like a manipulation tactic.
00:20:44
Speaker
And I just, I liked him in this episode a lot.
00:20:47
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Um, because I wasn't really a fan, but I thought they did a really good job of kind of humanizing him and in a little bit of a way, um,
00:21:01
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Giving him a little bit more of a reason why there are some secrets.
00:21:07
Speaker
I don't totally agree with it, but I did get a little bit of a when, especially when he was talking to Commander Keys, I kind of got a little bit of a Thanos vibe of, you know, when he was talking to Dr. Strange, he's like, well, with all six stones, I could snap my fingers and everybody would be gone.
00:21:24
Speaker
Um, so what I'm doing is actually mercy.
00:21:27
Speaker
Cause I could just get rid of everybody.
00:21:30
Speaker
Um, his portrayal of, um,
00:21:34
Speaker
yeah, these are hard decisions, but if we, if we stand here and fight, we absolutely lose overall and we're going to lose, but we have to take losses in order to maybe consider finding a way to win.
00:21:49
Speaker
All right.
00:21:49
Speaker
So this is where we go.
00:21:52
Speaker
I can tell I've got my soapbox.
00:21:55
Speaker
I'm firmly standing on it, which I'm already pretty tall to begin with.
00:21:58
Speaker
So yeah, I, I now I'm like eight foot 37.
00:22:02
Speaker
he's has the line, you know, when, when keys realizes that, yes, the covenant are there reach is functionally lost at that point.
00:22:13
Speaker
Um, they just don't know it yet.
00:22:14
Speaker
It just hasn't happened yet.
00:22:17
Speaker
And they're talking about, you know, why not, why not evacuate or whatever.
00:22:21
Speaker
And they're talking about the chaos and the panic if you evacuate, which as opposed to literally everyone dying, explain this to me like I'm five.
Logic and Decisions in Plot
00:22:30
Speaker
The best way to save the most people is to let them all die.
00:22:35
Speaker
What am I missing?
00:22:37
Speaker
Like,
00:22:38
Speaker
You know, I'd maybe try to fight the threat and evacuate and maybe save a bunch of people, but the vibes were off.
00:22:43
Speaker
You know, it just, I wasn't feeling it.
00:22:45
Speaker
I was in my not really care about a lot of people era.
00:22:48
Speaker
Like, I just, I don't understand that.
00:22:50
Speaker
Yes, a mass evacuation would indeed cause a panic, but you know what else would cause an even greater amount of panic?
00:22:57
Speaker
A bunch of covenant elites turning everybody into pink mist and shoving their energy swords right through their sternum.
00:23:02
Speaker
That seems worse in every way than just saying, all right, here's what we know that we know they're here.
00:23:10
Speaker
We have the ability to try to,
00:23:13
Speaker
evacuate as many as we can.
00:23:14
Speaker
We're going to lose some people, but we're going to save as many as we can.
00:23:18
Speaker
We're going to put up a fight.
00:23:19
Speaker
We already are going to lose a bunch of military assets because reach seems like a very important world in terms of resources, in terms of population, in terms of UNSC personnel, in terms of UNSC equipment and millions of people.
00:23:38
Speaker
And it just seems like he's like, you know what?
00:23:40
Speaker
I'm dipping.
00:23:41
Speaker
And he just gets on his carrier.
00:23:43
Speaker
He's got a couple other people and they just, you know, piss off into space as opposed to doing literally anything to try to save reach.
00:23:52
Speaker
Explain it to me like I'm five.
00:23:54
Speaker
How is this logical?
00:23:58
Speaker
All right.
00:23:58
Speaker
So you've got your soapbox and I agree.
00:24:03
Speaker
I will only give one defense for this because I don't think you see how many, I mean, it seems like there's only a couple of people on the ship, but if I remember it correctly, it was a very tight quarter shot where you couldn't really see exactly everything.
00:24:20
Speaker
And my only defense for his reasoning of not doing a mass exodus was
00:24:29
Speaker
is when he's like, it'll set in panic, everything else.
00:24:32
Speaker
My only thought is, if they announce it, knowing that the Covenant's there, and maybe the Covenant doesn't know that Eckerson... I'm assuming, this is my assumption, the Covenant doesn't know that Eckerson knows that they're there.
00:24:47
Speaker
They're doing whatever it is they're doing, getting prepared to glass the planet.
00:24:52
Speaker
If he...
00:24:53
Speaker
signals of full-scale evacuation and there's mass panic, then the people that he needs to get off that planet could be caught in the fact that the Covenant will just immediately glass the planet.
00:25:08
Speaker
Instead of whatever they're doing, gathering resources or whatever it is they're getting, that is my only defense for why he's saying we're just going to have to accept the losses because I need these people out.
00:25:22
Speaker
That's my year.
00:25:24
Speaker
I hear what you're saying, but you can do both.
00:25:26
Speaker
Like, yeah, if you've got, say, 10 people, you have to get off of there.
00:25:31
Speaker
You get them off of there and then you put up the resistance, which also, by the way, going back to one of the other problems that I had, knowing that you're just going to allow the planet to be glassed with Silver Team and the Master Chief there.
00:25:45
Speaker
Why go through all this hassle of preventing him from finding out what actually happened to Cobalt?
00:25:50
Speaker
If you just know the whole planet is getting glassed anyways, like it was this whole like red herring for no reason at all.
00:25:57
Speaker
when it's just like, yeah, you're all just going to die anyway.
00:25:59
Speaker
So like, why, why even waste the breath to argue with them over it?
00:26:05
Speaker
When there's plenty of more important things to do.
00:26:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:07
Speaker
There, there's plenty of holes in it.
00:26:10
Speaker
Um, again, I don't, I don't think it's, uh, I don't think it's a good reason.
00:26:16
Speaker
And I think they could have, again, just like the tension between chief and the team, I think it could have been executed way better.
00:26:24
Speaker
And I think, um,
00:26:27
Speaker
I think maybe the first two episodes and this one being all about the actual team, making it so that even the viewer is like, geez, maybe Master Chief is going a little bit crazy.
00:26:43
Speaker
Like maybe, like maybe taking Cortana out had other effects that they didn't foresee.
00:26:49
Speaker
And that's how we get Cortana back.
00:26:51
Speaker
Cause again, that's a decision that I'm just like,
00:26:54
Speaker
Why are you doing this?
00:26:56
Speaker
Your core base wants to see Cortana.
00:26:58
Speaker
We've seen her for 45 seconds through three episodes.
00:27:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:03
Speaker
And a show called halo.
00:27:05
Speaker
Right.
00:27:06
Speaker
Like we've seen the actual halo ring for maybe four seconds at the end of season one, I think.
00:27:12
Speaker
So there, there again, there's, there's certain things here that I'm just like, Oh, who are these choices for?
00:27:18
Speaker
What do they do to further the story?
00:27:20
Speaker
What do they do to keep a casual viewer?
00:27:23
Speaker
Um,
00:27:25
Speaker
And to me, the answer is they don't.
00:27:27
Speaker
But again, some more research for episode four to see what kind of, you know, numbers I say in quotation, this is drawing, but yeah,
00:27:36
Speaker
I'm excited to hear what you're able to come up with because I know that streaming numbers are notoriously difficult to come by.
00:27:43
Speaker
Does Paramount, as a whole, regard this show as a success?
00:27:48
Speaker
Are they doing the numbers they wanted to do in terms of attracting new subscribers and retaining the certain amount of subscribers that are here for this?
00:27:59
Speaker
This show's been off the air for over a year.
00:28:02
Speaker
You know, it's been two years basically since we've been we've talked about this show.
00:28:06
Speaker
In the meantime, have people disconnected their service that signed up for this?
00:28:10
Speaker
You know, everybody does that thing where you do the free trial, you put your credit card number in and then they're banking that you're going to forget to cancel it in time.
00:28:18
Speaker
And then they can bill you for it.
00:28:19
Speaker
Did they get enough of that for people that were into this?
00:28:23
Speaker
Right.
00:28:26
Speaker
Um.
00:28:28
Speaker
I even think they were giving out like three month trials on Game Pass as a as a perk or something like that.
00:28:34
Speaker
Am I right about that?
00:28:36
Speaker
Was it three months or how long was it?
00:28:37
Speaker
You are absolutely correct.
00:28:39
Speaker
I believe it was exactly three months.
00:28:42
Speaker
So so it's yeah, that's that's interesting.
00:28:46
Speaker
Well, I do actually have one thing and this was posted by the Game Awards.
00:28:53
Speaker
This is for season one.
00:28:57
Speaker
Halo the series was the number one show on Paramount Plus last year, eclipsing Yellowstone and 1883, which was their other two biggest ones.
00:29:10
Speaker
So those are shows people talked a lot about.
00:29:15
Speaker
Absolutely a resounding success for season one.
00:29:20
Speaker
Hmm.
00:29:21
Speaker
They do go on to say, though, while the Halo series was a huge rating success, it could not fend off criticism from the community.
00:29:27
Speaker
Specifically, players lashed out at creative decisions from showing Master Chief's face to having the protagonist have relationships.
00:29:36
Speaker
Interesting.
00:29:37
Speaker
I'll have to do some more digging.
00:29:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:42
Speaker
But.
00:29:44
Speaker
Interesting, interesting, interesting.
00:29:48
Speaker
All right.
Character Role and Development
00:29:49
Speaker
So.
00:29:52
Speaker
Um, let's talk a little bit about Kwan here.
00:29:56
Speaker
Cause to me, she was easily the worst part of season one in a season that had a lot of things to complain about.
00:30:08
Speaker
And they have managed to go, at least for me through three episodes from going, Oh my God, she is annoying to, yeah, I just really don't care.
00:30:19
Speaker
She's not annoying.
00:30:21
Speaker
But they, whatever they have done, whether or not this was the plan all along, or if they've made some adjustments because of the feedback, I don't care.
00:30:35
Speaker
The parts with her in this episode were so boring.
00:30:39
Speaker
And she is, and I hate to do this.
00:30:44
Speaker
But this character, I'm not saying it's the actress.
00:30:47
Speaker
I don't know what else she is in.
00:30:49
Speaker
I have not watched a single thing.
00:30:51
Speaker
But in this show and this character, there is no presence with this character whatsoever.
00:31:00
Speaker
There is nothing that happens here that makes me root for this character, have any interest in what she's going to mean to the overall story.
00:31:09
Speaker
And it doesn't help that...
00:31:13
Speaker
And again, I know it's a kid, but my God, when they're trying to get out of there and they are trying to get to that ship.
00:31:21
Speaker
And now, now this is when that kid's going to be like, well, where are we going?
00:31:26
Speaker
Where is my dad?
00:31:28
Speaker
Are we scared?
00:31:29
Speaker
Well, are we nervous?
00:31:30
Speaker
Are we scared now?
00:31:32
Speaker
Well, what's happening?
00:31:33
Speaker
Like, are we there yet?
00:31:35
Speaker
Yes.
00:31:35
Speaker
Like of all times, you guys didn't say anything.
00:31:38
Speaker
You didn't say, look, we need to get out of here or anything.
00:31:43
Speaker
You wait until you're in, like, all of a sudden he's going to start asking these questions.
00:31:49
Speaker
Um, those scenes were just, were really bad.
00:31:54
Speaker
I thought, and they're so uninteresting that I couldn't even be bothered to pay attention to the, the, the cast names of,
00:32:02
Speaker
of the other characters, the, the ship that was, you know, looking for them, like the girl with the black hair with her belly showing, I was like, Oh my God, you are the typical supposed to be bad-ass woman.
00:32:17
Speaker
And you're not.
00:32:19
Speaker
Um,
00:32:20
Speaker
You're uninteresting.
00:32:22
Speaker
You're literally a trope right now.
00:32:24
Speaker
Yeah, there's no depth to any of those pirates at all whatsoever.
00:32:28
Speaker
Like that whole section of this was boring.
00:32:32
Speaker
You know, Soren's wife, Lara, you know, you kind of, like as a parent, I could identify with her trying to make sure that her son stayed safe no matter what, trying to, you know, save her spouse.
00:32:46
Speaker
Like I kind of...
00:32:48
Speaker
understood some of that.
00:32:49
Speaker
I identified a little bit with some of that, but overall this whole bit was kind of boring to me.
00:32:55
Speaker
I, I, it was very skippable.
00:32:57
Speaker
I didn't like most of it.
00:32:58
Speaker
I, it didn't engage me, I guess is how I would really say it up until Quan Ha goes all Patrick Bateman.
00:33:04
Speaker
And then I was in, and then I was like, okay, like, I think I'm a little interested now.
00:33:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:10
Speaker
It, it still didn't give me enough just for the simple fact that I,
00:33:19
Speaker
I just really, really thought I still really think she is.
00:33:25
Speaker
The worst part of the show, the worst part of the show, the absolute worst part of the show.
00:33:30
Speaker
It's the least interesting character, the least interesting plot.
00:33:34
Speaker
It doesn't feel like it ties into anything.
00:33:37
Speaker
Think about how much time in season one was spent about Madrigal and all of the mystical crap that was on Madrigal.
00:33:46
Speaker
and her family's birthright to rule madrigal and all this other stuff think about all the stuff that happened there and they just glassed it in a throwaway line in episode one like they wasted so like it makes it almost unrewatchable when you think about like how much time was spent on that and now it's like completely moot like it doesn't even matter anymore and it meant nothing right exactly and
00:34:17
Speaker
I just... I don't know.
00:34:21
Speaker
It is so uninteresting.
00:34:23
Speaker
It is so...
00:34:26
Speaker
Like if they never showed any of that stuff again, like if that character just disappeared, wasn't in episode four, wasn't in the rest of this, like on one hand, you'd kind of go, Hey, what are they doing with that?
00:34:39
Speaker
But would it really upset you?
00:34:41
Speaker
Like you would kind of go, well, that's curious, but you wouldn't be like, and now I'm mad.
00:34:46
Speaker
I'm going to write it a sternly worded tweet about it.
00:34:49
Speaker
Like, no, you're not going to do that.
00:34:50
Speaker
You're just going to be like, Oh, okay.
00:34:51
Speaker
That's a, that's a choice.
00:34:52
Speaker
All right.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:55
Speaker
But you're not going to be upset about it.
00:34:57
Speaker
No, not at all.
00:34:58
Speaker
And I just, who knows?
00:35:01
Speaker
Maybe, maybe they can, maybe they can turn it around, but I just don't, I don't think I'm ever going to be team Kwan.
00:35:07
Speaker
I just can't see it happening.
00:35:10
Speaker
I'm a little, I'm a little interested, you know, if she's got, if she's got the capability to slice and dice a bit, um,
00:35:19
Speaker
Maybe, maybe I'm a little interested, maybe, you know, maybe Quan and Lara, you know, tear a hole in the galaxy and, and somehow, or the way that, that Soren gets sprung and Halsey gets sprung.
00:35:31
Speaker
And it's because of them that Halsey gets to go back to, you know, full on space Cruella DeVille.
00:35:38
Speaker
You know, if that's, if that's how it happens, like, all right, maybe, maybe,
00:35:44
Speaker
Maybe that could work.
00:35:46
Speaker
Now, I, so the other thing that happened here is, is clearly the ending of this episode kind of leaves you on a cliffhanger, but my thoughts going into, um,
00:36:00
Speaker
like going towards the end of this episode where, are you kidding me?
00:36:04
Speaker
We are going to sit here and find another reason to not have master chief be master chief and another goddamn episode or two of a halo show because the, Oh, you're, you know, you're grounded with no orders until further, like until a psych evaluation and all this stuff.
00:36:23
Speaker
And I'm like,
00:36:24
Speaker
you're really going to keep this guy from being master chief for what, two, three, four more episodes, like however long it's going to go.
00:36:33
Speaker
Now the ending of this episode would definitely lead you to believe otherwise, where it feels like from episode four, because how many is this?
00:36:43
Speaker
Is this eight?
00:36:45
Speaker
that are in this season.
00:36:46
Speaker
I had it right in front of me.
00:36:48
Speaker
Let me check it real quick.
00:36:49
Speaker
Yes, there are eight episodes this season.
00:36:51
Speaker
So it does kind of feel, but I mean, we also said this about season one.
00:37:02
Speaker
It does feel like we are about to ramp up here and really go maybe at least for next episode where we're going to get some
00:37:15
Speaker
all right, I got to, like, you know what?
00:37:18
Speaker
We'll settle this later, but get back in the damn suit, clear the road, and we're going to see some Master Chief.
00:37:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:27
Speaker
Let's, you know, let's get him, uh, let's get him back in the Mjolnir armor.
00:37:31
Speaker
Let's get him with his, his squad.
00:37:33
Speaker
You know, let's, let's put an assault rifle in his hands and some grenades on his belt and, uh, you know, get a warthog out there with somebody on the turret.
00:37:41
Speaker
Like, let's, let's see that happen.
00:37:43
Speaker
You know, I think next episode is called reach.
00:37:47
Speaker
That is the name of the, of the fourth episode.
00:37:50
Speaker
And, um,
00:37:51
Speaker
I'm predicting that we're going to have some action.
00:37:53
Speaker
I'm predicting that we're going to be... I'm cautiously optimistic that next week we're going to be pretty excited about what we got, that there's going to be some good action.
00:38:01
Speaker
There's going to be some more of that halo-ness that we love from the games that we're hoping they choose to adapt.
00:38:08
Speaker
Let's get some great...
00:38:11
Speaker
you know, elite battles.
00:38:12
Speaker
Let's, you know, we really, I don't feel like we've seen a ton of grunts in this, in this series overall.
00:38:18
Speaker
Like we've seen some jackals for sure, but I don't feel like we've seen a lot of the grunts.
00:38:23
Speaker
Um, you know, let's, let's see more of the covenant.
00:38:25
Speaker
Let's see more of that.
00:38:26
Speaker
Let's, let's hope that this is good next week.
00:38:28
Speaker
Yep.
00:38:29
Speaker
I, I think so.
00:38:31
Speaker
Um, I, I do have a lot, um,
00:38:39
Speaker
I have a lot of interest in episode four, uh, strictly because of the fact that, you know, again, he's in the church and the realization that yes, you're right.
00:38:51
Speaker
The covenant is here on reach.
00:38:53
Speaker
They're already here.
00:38:55
Speaker
Um, you, you hear the, you know, you hear the message it's deciphered, so to speak.
00:39:02
Speaker
Um,
00:39:03
Speaker
which I really, I want to see that.
00:39:05
Speaker
God, I would love, because there's so many cool moments in the video games to see that almost thrown world scene where the prophets are talking about, you know, the great journey.
00:39:17
Speaker
And there's just some cool shots that we could get here in this show, depending on how far season two actually goes.
00:39:27
Speaker
Which I'm kind of curious, are we, is season two kind of ending where,
00:39:34
Speaker
the first video game really takes place where we're just going to be on the planet.
00:39:40
Speaker
Cause we thought that's maybe where season one was going to end.
00:39:43
Speaker
Yeah, we were way off.
Season Two Speculations
00:39:45
Speaker
We were, we were way, way, way off.
00:39:49
Speaker
You know, you think about Halo reach, what that game was like.
00:39:55
Speaker
we could have a little bit of that, but looking again at these episode titles, next week is called Reach.
00:40:02
Speaker
After that is Illyria.
00:40:04
Speaker
I mentioned that there's a book called Ghosts of Onyx in the next... Episode six is called Onyx.
00:40:10
Speaker
And then we have Thermopylae, which is clearly a reference to the 300 Spartans.
00:40:15
Speaker
By the way, there was way more than 300 of them there in the real battle.
00:40:20
Speaker
And then the last one, Halo.
00:40:22
Speaker
You kind of wonder, like...
00:40:25
Speaker
you know, how much of the fall of reach will we actually see?
00:40:29
Speaker
How much will we get into some of the extra lore, the forerunners?
00:40:34
Speaker
Like how much of that will we really get into?
00:40:38
Speaker
And maybe by the season finale, we're actually, you know, Master Chief has his boots on the ring world.
00:40:45
Speaker
Right.
00:40:46
Speaker
Because my concern is going to be we're going to get we're going to get reach falling next episode.
00:40:53
Speaker
But then the next two episodes after that are going to be similar to similar to this one in terms of it's a lot of dialogue.
00:40:59
Speaker
It's going to be a lot of reflecting back about, oh, my God, reach is gone.
00:41:04
Speaker
All of those people.
00:41:07
Speaker
And a lot of that stuff just hasn't interested me.
00:41:10
Speaker
My hope for for the last episode is it's not just he steps foot on the, you know, the halo ring.
00:41:19
Speaker
at the end of the episode, like for real, like, Oh my God, season three is my hope is that the beginning of it is they found out that this is what their search.
00:41:30
Speaker
The covenant is looking to go to the great, you know, to go to the ring.
00:41:35
Speaker
This is, you know, the halo ring is what they're after, what it means, what it represents.
00:41:41
Speaker
And the episode is on halo.
00:41:44
Speaker
Um, yeah, we'll see.
00:41:48
Speaker
I do think that we're in for a little bit more of Master Chief in episode four.
00:41:55
Speaker
I hope so.
00:41:56
Speaker
And I hope that one of the other things we get is a reason for him to fight.
00:42:02
Speaker
I'll explain what I mean.
00:42:04
Speaker
So far, you know, his other Spartan team, it seems like he's loyal to them.
00:42:09
Speaker
It seems as though he has some loyalty to Captain Keyes, although he really gets dressed down quite a bit when he's trying to reason with him and explain things.
00:42:19
Speaker
I think he knows he's been lied to by Keyes.
00:42:21
Speaker
Obviously, Keyes was involved with Halsey.
00:42:24
Speaker
I wouldn't say kidnapping him, but yeah, kind of kidnapping him because they replaced him with a Flash clone.
00:42:29
Speaker
So I think he's pretty much aware of that.
00:42:32
Speaker
So he knows Keyes isn't a good dude.
00:42:35
Speaker
Halsey is clearly not a good person, although I think there's still some loyalties there.
00:42:40
Speaker
Uh, Ackerson is clearly manipulating him and everybody else.
00:42:44
Speaker
And he's going to know that he already knows Ackerson lied.
00:42:48
Speaker
It's going to be blatantly obvious.
00:42:50
Speaker
So at this point, what does John one, one, seven have to fight for?
00:42:54
Speaker
Why is he going to risk his life?
00:42:57
Speaker
Like, why,
00:42:59
Speaker
Who is he protecting?
00:43:00
Speaker
Like, what is, what is his motivation to fight right now?
00:43:03
Speaker
What is his motivation to continue to be the crazy good Spartan warrior?
00:43:08
Speaker
That's going to be the savior of humanity.
00:43:09
Speaker
It feels like every single person who's a part of the UNSC or part of his life with the exception of his other Spartan team is like lying to him, manipulating him, stabbing him in the back, telling him he's crazy and
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all out.
00:43:28
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He's, he's not having a good time right now.
00:43:31
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I kind of want to see in the next episode, something for him to fight for.
00:43:36
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Right.
00:43:36
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And I, you know, you bring up a good point and I think they kind of painted themselves into you talking about that.
00:43:47
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I think they painted themselves into a corner with that, the way that they've,
00:43:53
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shown Master Chief in this show from season one until now.
00:43:58
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Because before it was cool that he was just like in the games, it's just, he's the guy, you know, but showing more of this human side to him and having him, you know, have these emotions and everything like that.
00:44:15
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I think you're absolutely right.
00:44:16
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You kind of need to see a reason why,
00:44:22
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why he's going to fight.
00:44:24
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Like, what is, you know, what is it to get back with the team, so to speak?
00:44:28
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And again, I just, I think there was a lot more there that they could have, that they could have done to make this a little bit more invested.
00:44:36
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But I think you have a, I think you have a really good point there.
00:44:39
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Yeah, hopefully we see something because even like Perez, you know, he shows up to try to get some more info out of her and she's lied.
00:44:47
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Now that's making his life even harder because people think he's nuts.
00:44:50
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Yep, right.
00:44:51
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Exactly.
00:44:52
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Right.
00:44:52
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Exactly.
00:44:53
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So, you know, it could it could lead to something very good.
00:44:57
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It could backfire, you know, some of these choices.
00:45:00
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But.
00:45:03
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You know.
00:45:05
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there's a lot of questions for what we're going to see over episode four through eight.
00:45:11
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Um, and how quickly does a season three for, I like, I cannot imagine any world where we get a shock announcement that, well, season three is kind of up in limbo.
00:45:23
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Not sure if Paramount's going to do it.
00:45:25
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Um, that would be very shocking to me that that would happen.
00:45:32
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Yeah, we haven't heard anything confirming or denying the existence of season three or the possibility of season three.
00:45:40
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But stranger things have happened.
00:45:41
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I mean, Batgirl was completely shot and ready to be published, basically.
00:45:46
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And they burned the film and just said, nope.
00:45:50
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But they released Madam Web.
00:45:52
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But, you know.
00:45:55
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And the Flash.
00:45:56
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Yeah.
00:45:56
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And I mean.
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you know, Madam Web's released because they have to release it so they can hold on to the Spider-Man rights and, you know, whatever.
00:46:05
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But yeah.
00:46:07
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So Rob, do you have any other show notes that you had or do you want to get to our ratings break?
00:46:14
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Let's go ahead and grab some popcorn.
00:46:16
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All right.
00:46:16
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So popcorn time here for our ratings is gonna, you know,
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be kind of in line with my last
Episode Rating and Comparisons
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ones.
00:46:25
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I can't give this, even though I liked it more and I did, I liked this episode more than I did episode one and two.
00:46:33
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I think it gave me a little bit more to grip onto.
00:46:36
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Um, even if it was just kind of a little bit overall boring, uh, I feel like I still had more things.
00:46:46
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I was like, okay.
00:46:47
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Um, yeah, yeah.
00:46:49
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Yeah, I like what they did here.
00:46:52
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I got a little bit more of the character motivation.
00:46:54
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Some of it made sense, even if overall it wasn't perfect for sure.
00:47:00
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But I would give this three buckets, which is higher than I rated episode one and two.
00:47:05
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Again, it's not a ton.
00:47:07
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It's not a lot.
00:47:08
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It's a half bucket more.
00:47:10
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But I do feel that episode three showed some improvement from episode one and two.
00:47:16
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So I give this three buckets.
00:47:18
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I'm going to go two and a half because of that major issue.
00:47:23
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I have not understanding where Akerson's decision-making is coming from.
00:47:27
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I don't understand the benefit of this.
00:47:30
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I feel as though as the season goes on, there's a possibility it could start to make sense.
00:47:35
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But as of right now, you know, I, I don't want to have to read expanded lore for things to make sense.
00:47:42
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I want them to just make sense in their own moment.
00:47:45
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Um,
00:47:46
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So this is this being a little bit different.
00:47:48
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Perhaps they do justify it down the road.
00:47:50
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It feels hard for me for them to be able to do it.
00:47:55
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But there were some things that did work here.
00:47:57
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There's some things that, again, I'm excited about next week.
00:48:00
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So it's not it's not terrible.
00:48:04
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I'm excited to see what happens.
00:48:06
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I hope we get some good stuff, but I can't go more than two and a half just because I'm I'm just not understanding how the logic makes sense.
00:48:15
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Yeah, no, I totally do get your point.
00:48:21
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I am excited, too.
00:48:21
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And that's not a word I've used a lot with this show.
00:48:26
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But I am excited for episode four.
00:48:31
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And I think there was some.
00:48:34
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There were some crumbs here.
00:48:36
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that actually make me excited for the rest of the season.
00:48:40
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So I think that is, I think that is a good sign.
00:48:45
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Hopefully it's not, it doesn't go against me, but I think they've done better.
00:48:51
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And I think through three episodes for season two, um,
00:48:57
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I think the first three episodes of season two are better than the first three episodes of season one.
00:49:04
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I do feel that they've done a better job.
00:49:08
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Now, is it still?
00:49:10
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It's not the show that I wanted.
00:49:14
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But so far, comparing season one, three episodes to season two.
00:49:20
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Season two is better.
00:49:23
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Yeah, I'll come with you on that.
00:49:25
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So that will do it for this one.
00:49:28
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But, you know, for listeners, we'll be back next week with episode four.
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00:49:34
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But Rob, we are getting back to another series.
00:49:39
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And I guess my question is, because we didn't actually confirm this with each other.
00:49:44
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We're going to be doing another review tomorrow.
00:49:47
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Are we doing?
00:49:49
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the Scorpion King?
00:49:51
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Are we doing the mummy three tomorrow?
00:49:54
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I think let's do Scorpion King.
00:49:55
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Let's keep it.
00:49:56
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Let's keep it sequential in the order it was released.
00:49:59
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Okay.
00:50:00
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And we're going to, we're going to finish off the mummy series.
00:50:04
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We were, we were in it.
00:50:05
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We were excited about it.
00:50:06
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we had to put it on hiatus for a variety of different reasons.
00:50:09
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And I think it's time we get back to it.
00:50:11
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Let's get it finished off.
00:50:13
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Um, I'm, I'm actually partway into my rewatch of the Scorpion King and I've, uh, I'm excited to talk about it.
00:50:20
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I'm excited to get back into hopefully a little more, uh, routine, uh, cause it's, uh, it's fun doing this.
00:50:26
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It's fun, uh, interacting with listeners.
00:50:28
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It's, uh, it's really a great time to be able to bring you this content.
00:50:32
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Uh,
00:50:33
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We really just think it's the coolest thing that there's people all over the world that are hearing these words right now.
00:50:40
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00:50:47
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00:50:51
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00:50:56
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00:51:00
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00:51:05
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Give us your thoughts.
00:51:06
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Maybe you can explain it to me like I'm five, why Ackerson does what he does and why it's justified.
00:51:11
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If you have a reason for it, if there's something that's pretty obvious that I'm missing, please tell us what it is.
00:51:18
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00:51:19
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I would love to know.
00:51:20
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00:51:22
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Is it better than you thought?
00:51:23
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Especially, I would love to hear from people who are watching the show but did not play the game.
00:51:27
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I would love to hear from somebody like that, what their thoughts are of it, if they're just enjoying it, if we should just shut up because it's not the show we wanted.
00:51:35
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00:51:40
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00:51:43
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00:51:46
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Yeah, absolutely.
00:51:48
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Let us know what you think.
00:51:49
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00:51:55
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And we'll certainly see what those movies are.
00:51:58
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But thank you very much for tuning in this episode.
00:52:02
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And we're going to have a new one very quickly as we jump back into the Mummy series.
00:52:07
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So listeners, until next time, thanks for joining us.