MechaDragon

By MechaDragon

A Geek/Nerd Culture Podcast! We discuss all the geeky/nerdy stuff you love, from movies and TV to video games, comics, and fiction of all manner to tabletop RPGs, geek culture, space and technology to... more

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MechaDragon episodes:

March 01, 202177. WandaVision: PREVIOUSLY ON (s01e08)
Will and Jes react to WandaVision's eighth episode, "Previously On."
Topics include:
How Agatha's backstory is/represents an important new piece of worldbuilding for the MCU.

Questions raised by the Salem scene.

Other MCU characters who could appear in the finale.

Will Dr. Strange fail to detect the spectacular afterglow of so many spells cast?

What THAT BOOK could be, and its implications for new MCU villains.

Which other powerful villains could still appear in the finale.

Is there even time left in the story enough to introduce a new villain?

The "secret sauce" for the MCU's success, embodied in how it's made WandaVision so spectacular.

What the mind stone did to Wanda.

Why the deed with Vision's note is suspicious.

Wanda's power level.

Westview's Vision: illusion, dream, or physically real but created from nothing?

The mind stone Wanda... created? (and its apparent limitations)

Length of the finale episode.

Loose threads that need wrapped up in the finale.

Visions.

How Hayward baited Wanda, and why.

Where the penultimate episode leaves us.

Vallainous Squirrel Girl??

WHO'S THE BUNNY??

Our theories and predictions for the finale.

The MCU's multiverse arc.

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1h 16min
February 24, 202176. Bill and Ted Face the Music (2020)
Will and Jes conclude their most excellent coverage of the Bill and Ted franchise -- and this time: BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC!
Topics include:
Taking the time to get the story right.

Going in with the right expectations.

How the film shows its love of music -- moreso than the previous films?

Billy and Thea: our reactions.

The film's humor.

Behind the scenes tidbits and trivia.

The Bill and Ted "formula": the structure of a Bill and Ted movie.

Translating Bill and Ted to middle age.

Bigger roles for the supporting characters.

Jes' two favorite characters (not Bill and Ted!).

Our favorite moments and jokes.

The song that unites humanity and saves all of reality: the roles played by Bill and Ted and their daughters.

How this film ties together the whole trilogy AND makes the previous two films make so much more sense.

How rewatchable is the movie?

Our thoughts on the end of the movie/trilogy.

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1h 25min
February 22, 202175. WandaVision: BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL (s01e07)
Will and Jes go into full-on geek-out mode with podcaster and comic book nerd Stefen in this week's discussion of WandaVision, episode 7: "Breaking the Fourth Wall".
Topics include:
Agnes revealed.

Sitcom influences for this episode: theme song/sequence, style, their house, etc.

How Wanda's sitcom self is, emotionally, catching up to her true self.

Vision and Darcy: dynamic duo.

Why Vision was wrong about who was delaying them.

Why Agatha isn't the sole uber-villain of the show.

All the Mephisto references so far.

How large a role Mephisto might play in WandaVision.

The big, upcoming cameo: who it could be.

Who Peter/Pietro REALLY is: the evidence.

How WandaVision could be setting up mutants in the MCU.

Comics roots of the Nexus and how this episode's commercial has wide-ranging implications for the entire MCU.

What if Loki were involved in the events of WandaVision?

Multiverse madness begins!

Monica Rambeaux: empowered.

The cinematic deftness of the sequence where Monica passes through, and the metaphor it evokes.

Which of Monica's superhero names from the comics she'll be known as in the MCU, and why.

The powers we can expect Monica to have, and who she may fight in the climactic sequence of WandaVision.

Our predictions/theories.

Which characters could show up in the final two episodes, and why them.

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1h 38min
February 15, 202174. WandaVision: ALL-NEW HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! (s01e06)
Will and Jes discuss and react to the 6th episode of WandaVision, "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!" with special guest Kim.
Topics include:
General impressions / episode reaction.

The many acting styles and tones of WandaVision.

Why the episode recap featured Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Quicksilver.

Who Evan Peter's Quicksilver REALLY is: the evidence so far.

Watching WandaVision: Marvel comics fans vs. MCU-only fans.

Exactly how much control does Wanda have over what's happening?

When Wanda is confronted by the cost of maintaining her Hex reality.

What's going on with the near-motionless people at the edge of town.

The moment Vision decides things are REALLY bad in town.

Poor Agnes: her level of involvement and awareness.

The emotional realism of the MCU and how its made the MCU so successful.

The theory that explains the Hex origin, Vision being alive, his mind-stone powers, and free will.

The Mind Stone theory!

WandaVision's Scooby Doo episode.

Hayward's true agenda.

What THAT COMMERCIAL reveals about the mysteries of the show.

How could the children have been concieved?

How this episode's theme song creepily describes the Wanda's thoughts.

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1h 25min
February 08, 202173. WandaVision: ON A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE... (s01e05)
Will discusses WandaVision, episode 5 ("On a Very Special Episode...") with a special guest named Brad.
Topics include:
How Vision is alive.

The extent of Wanda's control over life and death.

Wanda's parenting.

The importance of Wanda's children to the show's mystery.

Vision's increasing awareness.

The deliberate attempts to keep Wanda (and Vision?) within the Hex reality.

The catalyst that may eventually drive Wanda and Vision to try to leave the Hex.

MCU timeline: from Endgame to WandaVision episode 5.

Did Wanda make a Faustian bargain?

Wanda is the Center, not the Puppeteer.

Agnes's role in Westview.

Ralph's true identity.

That email: EXPLAINED.

80s sitcoms references/homages.

Vision's assumptions about his unremembered past.

When Wanda was telling the truth, and how that points to the Puppeteer.

The evidence that Westview's mind control is also affecting Wanda.

Why the Peter/Pietro who arrives is consistent with the Hex reality.

The specific reason why Wanda could become the villain in Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness.

The surprising characters that could appear in the show.

A possible post-credits scene for the series.

Our predictions.

Episode 5 as midpoint of the series and what that implies about the rest of the show.

When the Mephitso/Puppeter character will be revealed.

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1h 2min
February 01, 202172. WandaVision: WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM (s01e04)
Will and Jes discuss WandaVision, episode 4 ("We Interrupt This Program") with podcaster and horror maven Megan Salinas.
Topics include:
S.W.O.R.D. as audience surrogate.

Returning MCU characters.

Super-meta: how the show reflects the way we now watch television.

What Darcy's been doing for the past 10-15 years.

Exactly where WandaVision fits in the MCU timeline, and the definitive evidence for it.

Catching up with Monica.

How this episode re-contextualizes some things in Avengers: Endgame.

What Wanda and Monica share that will be central to both their character arcs and the story of the show.

Why Monica may be the only one who can reach Wanda.

WandaVision's unfiying theme.

The Babadook of the MCU?

S.W.O.R.D. -- what the organization's full name implies.

How the events of Captain Marvel contribute directly to WandaVision.

Mysterious Agnes.

WTF is going on with Vision.

Why it's not as simple as, "It's all Wanda..."

Possible reasons why the events inside Wanda's "sitcom reality bubble" are being broadcast.

Wanda's "deal with the devil."

What explains Vision's free will.

Our predictions and theories.

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Megan Salinas
Twitter: @themenguin
Silver Screams podcast: @Silver_Screams
No Love Lost podcast: @NoLoveLostPod
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1h 8min
January 25, 2021 BONUS: WandaVision WATCH-ALONG! "Now in Color" (episode 03)
Watch WandaVision episode 3 with us! RPG Designer Jessica Marcrum joins us for fun commentary, informed observation and speculation, and geeky shenanigans. Instructions on how to easily sync up our watch-along at home are in our very brief intro comments. We're releasing this watch-along as a bonus episode to give one example of new content we have planned starting this year. For further details, including how to get much more bonus content, follow us @MechaDragonShow on Twitter.\
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32min
January 25, 202171. WandaVision: NOW IN COLOR (s01e03)
Will and Jes discuss WandaVision, episode 3 ("Now in Color") with RPG Designer and Social Worker Jessica Marcrum.
Topics include:
The theory that EXPLAINS the Beekeeper, the helicopter, and "Geraldine."

Wanda and Vision's neighbors: who they are, what they know, who's "in on it," and what Herb was trying to say.

Who Agnes really is.

S.W.O.R.D.: the new meaning behind the acronym, and why they're concerned with Wanda's Westview.

The implications of SWORD's role in the MCU.

Inspirations from the comics and how the show still goes its own way.

How the show works as a sitcom AND on a meta-level.

Why Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and other Marvel shows prior to WandaVision aren't really part of the MCU (yet?).

The escalating "glitches" in Wanda's sitcom reality.

Wanda vs. Captain Marvel: who is more powerful.

Wanda's suprising role in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness

The grief and loss in Wanda and Vision's story.

Vision: a character we haven't seen enough of.

How Wanda and Vision's most intimate, personal moments carry the story and will make the end more tragic.

The Mephisto connection EXPLAINED.

Why Mephisto chose to appear in the way he did, when he did; and why he behaved that way.

Monica Rambeaux.

Who's pulling Wanda's strings, and how/why she's psychologically vulnerable to manipulation.

The character we'll see whose presence will be most shocking (and it's insane multiversal implications).

What Jes would put right what once went wrong in the MCU.

QUICKSILVER(s)!!!??

How Vision is alive.

One limit of Wanda's power.

Which 80s sitcom will the next episode be modeled on? Which sitcom house will they live in?

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1h 15min
January 18, 202170. WandaVision: EPISODES 1 & 2 - (s01e01+e02)
The MCU has finally returned with WANDAVISION! Will and Jes discuss the highly-anticipated premiere (episodes 1 & 2) with guest Ben Adelman.
Topics include:
General impressions, brief non-spoiler review.

SPOILERS BEGIN: ~16:54.

Which audiences WandaVision appeals to (and which it might not).

The many genres of WandaVision.

The central mysterty of the show.

Will we get "event fatigue?"

Thematic connections to the comics that inspired the show (House of M and The Vision).

Why the classic sitcom format was the perfect fit to illustrate how Wanda's trauma is affecting her.

Wanda's power level: MCU and the show vs. the comics.

Who could be manipulatiung Wanda.

Vision = Frodo Baggins??

How the comics inspiring the show point toward tragedy.

Elements from the comics in the show.

Agnes: victim, friend or foe?

Who created Wanda's alternate reality -- who manipulated her into it.

Clues in the show that tell us the extent of Wanda's control over her alternate reality.

Mephisto.

S.W.O.R.D.: what they're doing in the show.

Why the S.W.O.R.D. helicopter was toy-sized (and how the same principle could explain the beekeeper).

Balancing the narrative and the meta-narrative.

The Agent Coulson wager.

What happens (and the dangers of) when Wanda goes off-script.

How many of Agnes's lines can be read two ways, and what that implies about the mystery and her character.

Agnes's purpose in the Wanda's altered reality.

How Jes's kids reacted to the show.

Predictions/theories/hopes:
What Vision's calculations at work could mean.

Why S.W.O.R.D. might be involved with these events on Earth, rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.

The possible importance of the very first line of the show.

Which surprising characters might be a part of the show moving forwward.

A post-credits scene at the end of the series? What it could be.

Which character might has a chance of making a surprise camero appearance and make the fandom erupt with joy.

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1h 25min
January 04, 202169. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Will and Jes kick off the New Year with a discussion of Wonder Woman 1984, with special guest Jessica Marcrum.
Topics include:
How the development of the film's theme adversely affected the whole story.

Max Lord and his defeat: in the comics vs. in the film.

Would the movie have been more effective if it had been released a few years ago?

Chris Pine's inclusion in the movie.

"Body-snatching" Steve Trevor.

Plotholes or not-holes?

Revealing character in action sequences.

"Steve is no punk."

A toxic theme?

What happened to the stone after Max Lord renounced his wish.

The characters who did NOT renounce their wishes.

The film's performances.

Pedro Pascal's performance, and when "the mask slips."

Gaps in the emotional realism of the movie.

What made the film's climax less cathartic than it could have been.

That post-credits scene.

Our top DC comics films.

Wonder Woman 1984: the good vs. the not-so-good

What if the film had been set AFTER the events of Justice League?

Why deleted scenes get deleted from movies.

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1h 26min

FAQs about MechaDragon:

How many episodes does MechaDragon have?

The podcast currently has 88 episodes available.