Thinking Outside The Long Box

We are here to talk about a series so nice, we had to talk about it twice! The Legend of Vox Machina is a mixture of a bunch of different genres, and a bunch of different emotions. The reason for this is because it plays exactly like a game of Dungeons & Dragons. You have your serious moments, and a lot of light hearted moments mixed in with a ton of fantasy elements! We’re here to talk about the second season of this fun show!

“In Season 2, after saving the realm from evil and destruction at the hands of the most terrifying power couple in Exandria, Vox Machina is faced with saving the world once again – this time, from a sinister group of dragons known as the Chroma Conclave.”

The Chroma Conclave adds another great element to an already fun series! The team has saved the world once, and it’s time for them to do it again. This time though, it’s from a group of dragons. Would cooler way to add more fantasy than a group of dragons!! Plus all of the funny shenanigan’s that comes with this team filled with so many different people! We recommend that you watch everything that we talk about, and form your own opinion, but in this case I’m telling you, you NEED to watch this show!

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Two decades after the original tv show aired, in universe, comes the sequel series to a very popular show! That 70’s Show was crazy popular at its height, and a sequel series has already been tried, which failed miserably! BUT, we’re here to talk about That 90’s Show, and I’m here to tell you that it is worth all of the time to check it out on Netflix!

“The show centers on Leia Forman, the teenage daughter of Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti, forming bonds with other teenagers as she spends the summer of 1995 with her grandparents Red and Kitty in Point Place, Wisconsin, 15 years after the events of That ’70s Show.”

That 90’s show touches on a lot of the things that made That 70’s show so popular! Not only does it touch on some of the best themes, but it also brings back some of the most popular cast members from the original show. Red and Kitty are the backbone to both series’, and they’re still funny as ever! This first season is not very long, and it is totally worth all of the time! Go check it out!

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Today’s episode is about a prequel series! We’re talking about a series that is trying to hold on to some of the hype and the nostalgia from Supernatural, which was, and still is, a VERY popular tv show. Because of this, the prequel, The Winchesters, was created. As of the publishing of this episode, there still is no word on whether the second season has been greenlit or not, but the first full season has already come to an end.

“The Winchesters is a Supernatural prequel produced by Jensen Ackles. The series’ story primarily focuses on the early days of Sam and Dean’s parents, John and Mary. The series follows the couple’s love story while trying to save the world.”

Now, there definitely seems to be some differences in this prequel, that were thought to have already been established in the main series, but that may have been explained in the finale of the series as well, as this was filmed prior to the season ending. I THINK this is what has informed Doyle’s opinion of the show to this point. BUT, if you’re a fan of cryptids, and some of the more “easy” parts of Supernatural, you’re more than likely at least going to somewhat enjoy this series, and you should definitely give it a chance either way!

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Today’s sequel is a sequel that is thirteen years in the making! There had been rumors of an Avatar sequel ever since the first movie came out in 2009! Well, it’s finally here, and we’re talking about it. It is Avatar: The Way of Water!

“Jake Sully and Ney’tiri have formed a family and are doing everything to stay together. However, they must leave their home and explore the regions of Pandora. When an ancient threat resurfaces, Jake must fight a difficult war against the humans.”

This takes the esthetics of the first Avatar, and really ramps them up! Not only does it look better, but if you do any kind of research, you’ll find that the sequel actually created a few new ways to make a movie look, as far as the programming goes. If there is one thing that we can’t really knock the movie for……..well maybe just a little bit, if you listen to the show………….but the way the movie looks is definitely leaps and bounds over many movies that are full of CG. Give it a watch if you haven’t already!

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Today’s topic takes us back to 2009! Fourteen years ago, the world was taken by storm, and people flocked to the movie theaters in order to see what all the hype was about. James Cameron had created a movie, that not only was popular, but changed the way that many movies looked, at this point in movie history! We are of course talking about one of his most popular movies, Avatar!

“On the lush alien world of Pandora live the Na’vi, beings who appear primitive but are highly evolved. Because the planet’s environment is poisonous, human/Na’vi hybrids, called Avatars, must link to human minds to allow for free movement on Pandora. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paralyzed former Marine, becomes mobile again through one such Avatar and falls in love with a Na’vi woman (Zoe Saldana). As a bond with her grows, he is drawn into a battle for the survival of her world.”

Now, we might be in the minority, because I know that the world was on FIRE for this movie, but I’m not quite sure how excited we are for it. Now, just like with anything that we take in, we always recommend, that if somehow, you haven’t seen it, that you go watch it. AND, we can respect it for what it did for how movies could look from that point forward!

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When Doyle recommended today’s subject, I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into, because I’d never heard of the movie before. All he told me that it was a western, and that was enough for me to give it a chance! When I saw that Tim Blake Nelson was in it, it made me even more excited, but I thought that I was getting a western comedy. We are in fact talking about Old Henry!

“A quiet man and his son take in a wounded stranger near his homestead, along with a bag full of cash. The stranger claims he’s a sheriff being pursued by outlaws, but the man can’t be sure.”

This is NOT a comedy at all, but is in fact, a straight western film. I won’t talk about it too much here because to talk about it in any kind of depth might spoil the fun twist. But, you get Nelson playing an old cowboy who just wants to get away from everything, and doesn’t want to be bothered. He’s raising a resentful son, who thinks that his father is just an old hermit crab, and is taking his life away. BUT man, those like fifteen or twenty minutes, are so good! It’s definitely worth the watch!

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Today we’re talking about the very first episodic TV show that stars the one and only Sylvester Stallone! It’s crazy to think that after the career he has had all of this time, it’s never included any real time on a TV show. BUT, this was definitely the TV show to start with, Tulsa King!

“Tulsa King follows New York Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma.”

This show is silly on many levels, but somehow it works. Stallone plays Stallone, but again, somehow it works. It feels like Rocky joined the mob while he was boxing, and this is the afterlife. It’s fun, and you should definitely give it a try, even if you’re not a big Stallone fan! It’s worth the watch!

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Today’s episode is a double shot of Willow! We are combining our pop culture classic episode, with it’s newer version!! We are of course talking about Willow, which now has a bit of a universe. The movie was quite a spectacle when it originally aired, and it was even more so, when the TV show was unexpectedly announced!!

“Enter the world of “Willow.” Journey to the far corners of your imagination, to a land of myth and magic, where dream and reality live side by side … to a place that never existed, a time that never was. It is a world where a young man named Willow lives out an adventure that explodes beyond the boundaries of his own hopes and fears.”

If you’re a fan, make sure you take a look back at the movie, then jump into the show, THEN come listen to us talk about it, and let us know what you thought as well!

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While it didn’t dominate our episodes, 2022 saw the return of topics that originally dominated this podcast! We used to talk about comic books much more than we have currently, and 2022 brought a return to the good ole comic books! A part of this episode is a look back at our favorite comic books of last year!

PLUS, while we don’t talk about them a ton during the podcast, they are always lurking in the background. We are talking about our favorite trailers of 2022 as well! Trailers after all, are the best sneak peaks that we get of any upcoming topics! It’s always fun to revisit them, to see if they lived up to the hype, or were nothing but bait!

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Every time we get together to record, we take a look back into our past. Whether it’s a TV show, or an older movie, we always want to look into our past in order to reminisce about something. Sometimes those things are good to take a look back at, and sometimes they are exactly the opposite to what we remember. 2022 was chalk full of of these types of subjects!!

Today’s episode is all about taking a look back at the at the times that we took a look back…………. We not only talk about some of the PCC’s that we watched, but we also choose our favorites from that list. No matter if the topic was good, or way more awful than we remember, we always enjoy at least taking a look back and trying to find a spec of what we remember liking from that movie or tv show!! Take a look back into memory lane with us!

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