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The boys are grumpy this week. Arron is tired. Andy has first world problems. They both want to get it off their chests.. Which means quality content for you! But what IS quality content..?

Clowning around just got spooky again, and with the release of the second chapter of Stephen King's "It" in cinemas, Arron thought it would be a perfect choice for his baby daughter's first trip to the cinema! A balanced and spoiler-free review, then, plus Andy gets ready to return to Pandora. No, not that one. The other one.

After many a Trine waiting, we dip our toes into the world of Thra, for a (largely spoiler-free) chat about the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, ponder if Fizzgig is a proper noun or not, and why Andy's cat is being such a git.

This episode is accompanied by a fly on the wall documentary showing the process of Arron tweeting "what the heck?" at Disney, some pre-viz storyboards of Andy's Richard from Weta Workshop impression, and a featurette on the sound design behind Arron's husky voice. What, it's not? Oh.

With Sony and Marvel/Disney's relationship going the way of Uncle Ben, what does the future hold for our friendly neighborhood web-slinger? If it's an origin story, Andy's swinging for someone with a radioactive 2-by-4!

We're back, like a T-800! And we've had a big change.. of diapers! Or nappies. Or Crap-hankies. Whatever you kids are calling them.

But aside from that, we wax lyrical on the new Terminator: Dark Fate trailer, and get nerdy about good ol' DVD players!

Arron and Andy are podcasting from a secret Federation outpost this week, cloaked so they can observe you whilst still observing the Prime Directive! So naturally, they go from the undead, to Trek, to their choice of mobile phone, at maximum warp!

Speed lines! Big hair! Huge eyes! Cybernetic bits! All things that have fans the world over.. But can Andy cope with them as a middle aged man? Plus: will the kids of the future remember what an iPod is?

As well as Top Gun sequel news, there's more SDCC chat this week, as we look at some of the Marvel and DC reveals! Including a new Blade, an animated Harley Quinn, and Professor Strange and the Trousers of Madness!

The boys are back, after a brief flicker of absence, but it's sadly NOT because Arron has been to Comicon! Nonetheless, we set out to talk about it, with tangential and existential results..