• Case’s Fix: Count Dooku is a good guy
• Legitimize the Separatist Cause
• Ben: Mace Windu is more militant
• Addy: Anakin the loner
• A different idea for who the clones are
• Jedi clones
• Ben: We didn’t need the Fetts
• Case: Use the Mandalorians
• Turn Naboo into Alderaan
• Padme and Anakin are already in a relationship
• Make Anakin more charismatic
• Anakin should become Vader at the end of this movie
• Hostile Force Ghost
• General Grievous
• Combining these ideas
• No Yoda fight
• The nature of Jedi Powers
• The Chosen One Prophecy
• Star Wars a reflection of history

Crapping on the Star Wars prequels is easy to do. Coming up with ideas to tweak and fix them is far more interesting. Ben, Addy and Case brainstorm some changes to Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. What could’ve made Episode 3 work better? What changes would you propose? Leave yours in the comments below!

• CW and Netflix new deal
• Ben’s new pet: Drogo the Bearded Dragon
• Addy’s Pitch – New Open for Revenge of the Sith
• Making Anakin’s turn to the Dark Side work, why would Anakin kill younglings
• Giving moral complexity to the prequels, Heroes and Villains on both Sides
• “Purpose over feelings”
• Planting the seeds for the Rebel Alliance with the Separatists
• Big Space Battle over Vietnam like Jungle planet (Saigon) evacuating the planet
• Witness the cost of the war
• Grievous, mix of cybernetic and humanoid, freedom fighter/terrorist, charismatic, not simplistic villain
• Anakin and Obi Wan are forced to protect supplies and troops instead of rescuing refugees
• Refugees killed in strike against Grievous called by Mace Windu
• Case – Heroes on both sides
• Case’s Machete order cut, remove Grievous
• Case’s Pitch, New Close
• Grievous, Organa and Kenobi start the Rebel Alliance
• Anakin has wounds and more cybernetics
• Expand on the Clone War’s impact
• Witness Republic Invasion of a system
• Brutal conflict for first half of the movie
• Palpatine seizes power as the Clone Wars ends and as the Jedi are spread thin
• Ben – Fix Order 66
• Make it a law instead of a command programmed into the clones
• Palpatine reveals himself as the Sith Lord in confrontation with Jedi, but forces them to serve him as servants of the republic and senate
• Jedi are divided
• Anakin wants to unite Jedi and Sith, Obi Wan and Mace Windu want to kill Palpatine
• Jedi Civil War!
• Jedi confront Palpatine who unites with Grievous to wipe out Jedi
• Law to abolish Jedi religion is passed
• Case – use Dooku to reveal Palpatine is the Sith Lord, public attempt on Palpatine with a disgraced Dooku ends with Order 66
• Ben - Padme survives the movie
• Anakin not allowed on the Jedi council and eventually banished by the Jedi Order when secret marriage is discovered
• Anakin resents Jedi and Padme
• Case – jump to other Clone Wars battles including Kashyyk
• Anakin makes a more calculated decision to kill Padme
• Explore the Clone Wars more

Firely, MOBA's, Dr. Who

Ben, Addy and Case talk comics villains! Who are your favorite villains? Who could hold their own as the protagonist of their own movie?

• What villains do we enjoy the most?
• Magneto
• Villains adapting to the strict regulations of the Comics Code
• The Joker
• Location of villains, DC vs Marvel
• Batman has the best rogues gallery
• Spidey and Flash Villains: Lessons in Science
• Fitting villains into a movie universe
• What villains are still alive in the MCU?
• The Challenge of Cap Villains
• Venom
• Villain-centric movie
• Morbius
• Sinestro
• TV is where these stories belong
• Suicide Squad

Winter is Here

Case joins Ben and Addy for a look at season 6 of Game of Thrones and especially the last 2 episodes. 

• Netflix Punisher series is official
• Darth Vader will be in Rogue One
• Forest Whitaker’s character is Saw Gerrera, (from Star Wars the Clone Wars, season 5, episodes 2-5)
• Paramount’s Star Trek Fan Film rules
• Season 6’s improvements to pacing
• Our Favorite Moments from Season 6
• Hodor Holding the Door
• The Resurrection of Jon Snow
• Sansa comes into her own
• Dany’s Mic Drop Moments
• Redeeming Dorne
• Jaime Lannister at Riverrun
• Will Jaime kill Cersei?
• Battle of the Bastards
• Ramsay Bolton
• Nerfing Tyrion
• Sam arrives at the Library
• Rules of Succession
• What happens to Sam
• Mormonts
• Arya’s Story
• Clegane Bowl
• GoT is just a big D&D Game
• Predictions
• The Future of House Stark
• War and the White Walkers
• Littlefinger
• Brotherhood without Banners and Lady Stoneheart
• Favorite memes

Ben, Addy and Case have all seen the Warcraft movie, but feel it had tons of room for improvement. The guys delve deep into what could fix this movie and what other stories to explore in Warcraft lore.

• Recent activity playing Heroes of the Storm
• Plot issues in Warcraft
• The “Fel” magic and the nature of Orcs
• The orcs are not complex enough
• Garona retcons
• Blizzard’s obsession with Orcs
• Casting choices
• The Garona “Betrayal”
• Case’s suggestion to make Lothar, Khadgar and Garona more interesting
• Ben wants the 5 man group RPG experience
• Addy thinks Durotan worked
• Case wants to move forward in the timeline since the First War, focus on Orgrim Doomhammer’s rise and Lothar leading the humans out of Stormwind
• The story covered in this movie should be a prologue not a whole movie
• China is making a sequel possible, how should this story move forward?
• Ben’s theory on why Warcraft resonates with China more than anyone else
• Thrall and Arthas movie?
• Addy wants Warcraft: The Animated Series and War of the Ancients and Warcraft 3
• Shifting alliances and diversity
• Ben is disappointed there weren’t any Shamans
• How many different kinds of magic could they have explored in this movie?
• Guldan and Warlock tanking
• Ben was excited to see Karazhan
• Zug Zug and Orc cameos
• Addy compares Warcraft to the Expendables

Ben and Addy catch up on bunch of recent events and news in the nerd world.

• AwesomeCon recap
• X-Men Apocalypse Billboard Controversy
• HYDRA Cap Controversy
• DC Rebirth: Just Another Reboot or Something Worthwhile?
• Rogue One Reshoots
• Is there room for darker Star Wars stories?