Towelite Talk

What an insane San Diego Comic Con 2016 was. LOTS of fun reveals from all over geekly pop culture and Chris and Casey were in the thick of it. They wrap all about videos that we were shown and geek out about it all. Take a listen below.

Show Notes:

Time to rename these events? 

TV

• American Gods
• Legends of Hidden Temple 

• Legion 
• Exorcist

• Sherlock
• Dirk Gently 

Movies

• King arthur: legend of the sword
• Kong Skull Island 
• Blair Witch
• Fantastic Beasts
• James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver love script for Aliens 5 by Neill Blomkamp

Commercial

DC TV

• Justice League Action
• Flash - Dr Alchemy (non speedforce), what do you think of the Flashpoint world so far?
• Arrow - Ragman - Prometheus
• Gotham - teaser (more old footage than new), Gordon will “evolve”
• Legends - More JSA announced (Stargirl, Dr Midnight, Obsidian), Legion of Doom
• No Supergirl 

Marvel TV

• Agents of SHIELD - Ghost Rider
• Marvel Animated to do Secret Wars and Civil War arcs, Lady Thor and new team
• Skottie Young inspired Groot and Rocket Cartoon Shorts

The walking dead trailer

Marvel

• Spider-Man Homecoming - footage, Vulture

• Black Panther - Jordan/Erik Killmonger, Lupita Nyong’o/Nakia Danai, Gurira/Leader of Dora Milaje

• Doctor Strange
• GOTG Vol 2 - Kurt Russell is EGO/SL’s Dad
• Brie Larson announced as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
• Thor Ragnarok 
• • Time travel
  • Hulk armor
  • Special mockumentary made for SDCC

• Hulk Where Monsters Dwell - Mature, Doc Strange, Howling Commandos

DC

• Justice League
• Wonder Woman
• Suicide Squad
• Ben affleck writing and directing batman solo flick
• LEGO Batman
• Animated - Batman/Harley, TT Judas Contract, JL Dark

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

What an insane San Diego Comic Con 2016 was. LOTS of fun reveals from all over geekly pop culture and Chris and Casey were in the thick of it. They wrap all about videos that we were shown and geek out about it all. Take a listen below.

Show Notes:

Time to rename these events? 

TV

• American Gods
• Legends of Hidden Temple 

• Legion 
• Exorcist

• Sherlock
• Dirk Gently 

Movies

• King arthur: legend of the sword
• Kong Skull Island 
• Blair Witch
• Fantastic Beasts
• James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver love script for Aliens 5 by Neill Blomkamp

Commercial

DC TV

• Justice League Action
• Flash - Dr Alchemy (non speedforce), what do you think of the Flashpoint world so far?
• Arrow - Ragman - Prometheus
• Gotham - teaser (more old footage than new), Gordon will “evolve”
• Legends - More JSA announced (Stargirl, Dr Midnight, Obsidian), Legion of Doom
• No Supergirl 

Marvel TV

• Agents of SHIELD - Ghost Rider
• Marvel Animated to do Secret Wars and Civil War arcs, Lady Thor and new team
• Skottie Young inspired Groot and Rocket Cartoon Shorts

The walking dead trailer

Marvel

• Spider-Man Homecoming - footage, Vulture

• Black Panther - Jordan/Erik Killmonger, Lupita Nyong’o/Nakia Danai, Gurira/Leader of Dora Milaje

• Doctor Strange
• GOTG Vol 2 - Kurt Russell is EGO/SL’s Dad
• Brie Larson announced as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
• Thor Ragnarok 
• • Time travel
  • Hulk armor
  • Special mockumentary made for SDCC

• Hulk Where Monsters Dwell - Mature, Doc Strange, Howling Commandos

DC

• Justice League
• Wonder Woman
• Suicide Squad
• Ben affleck writing and directing batman solo flick
• LEGO Batman
• Animated - Batman/Harley, TT Judas Contract, JL Dark

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

Star Wars Celebration Europe happened over the past weekend and Chris and Casey get on the mic to chat about it. The highs and the lowest of the lows. Take a listen as they express their geekly opinions about their most beloved of movie series!

Show Notes:

Rogue One

• Sizzle reel -multiple times… what else did they see? How they handled livestream
• Trailer EXCLUSIVE
• Vader revealNew troopers
• • New ships, tank troopers, tanks!
  • The beach
• Thoughts on film so far
• Little gunner character played by Warwick

Rebels

• Ezra’s path… Speculation 
• Thrawn in show and book
  • Ysalamiri - force dampening creatures
• Wedge as a tie fighter pilot and maybe Shara Bey?
• Darktroopers
• Mandalorians 
• Darksaber and Sabine 
• An end in sight?

Commercial

Video games

• Battlefront announcements: Death Star, R1
• Viceral’s secret game (uncharted-esque)
• TOR - is it cannon? New expansion “Knights of the Eternal Throne”
• Galaxy of heroes: Tank Takedown raid & Greivous added. Beating them will lead to exclusive Game Mods.

Toys

• Rey Resistance Hot Toy

• Jyn Urso black series figure
• Princess Leia ugliness 
• Force band for BB8 wearable

Books

• Ahsoka
• Thrawn 
• Talk a bit about Life Debt

Comics 

• No news?! Why? 
• Waste of time of a panel 
• Only reveal was about Vader Comic #21 inside panels and #25 variant covers

Han Solo

• Alden Ehrenreich OFFICIALLY cast as Han Solo

Misc

• Goyer, VR Vader?! Movie, game? Makes no sense, the usual Goyer way 

Closing

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

Star Wars Celebration Europe happened over the past weekend and Chris and Casey get on the mic to chat about it. The highs and the lowest of the lows. Take a listen as they express their geekly opinions about their most beloved of movie series!

Show Notes:

Rogue One

• Sizzle reel -multiple times… what else did they see? How they handled livestream
• Trailer EXCLUSIVE
• Vader revealNew troopers
• • New ships, tank troopers, tanks!
  • The beach
• Thoughts on film so far
• Little gunner character played by Warwick

Rebels

• Ezra’s path… Speculation 
• Thrawn in show and book
  • Ysalamiri - force dampening creatures
• Wedge as a tie fighter pilot and maybe Shara Bey?
• Darktroopers
• Mandalorians 
• Darksaber and Sabine 
• An end in sight?

Commercial

Video games

• Battlefront announcements: Death Star, R1
• Viceral’s secret game (uncharted-esque)
• TOR - is it cannon? New expansion “Knights of the Eternal Throne”
• Galaxy of heroes: Tank Takedown raid & Greivous added. Beating them will lead to exclusive Game Mods.

Toys

• Rey Resistance Hot Toy

• Jyn Urso black series figure
• Princess Leia ugliness 
• Force band for BB8 wearable

Books

• Ahsoka
• Thrawn 
• Talk a bit about Life Debt

Comics 

• No news?! Why? 
• Waste of time of a panel 
• Only reveal was about Vader Comic #21 inside panels and #25 variant covers

Han Solo

• Alden Ehrenreich OFFICIALLY cast as Han Solo

Misc

• Goyer, VR Vader?! Movie, game? Makes no sense, the usual Goyer way 

Closing

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

The New Gods are still alive in this episode as Gourmet Scum Radio and Towelite Talk mash up for the second time in podcast history! Take a listen as they talk about their upcoming concert to see famed horror director John Carpenter make music, how much Darth Vader we're going to see in Rogue One, and how much Jameson does it take to make Chris becoming the reincarnated version of Jack Kirby! 

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

The New Gods are still alive in this episode as Gourmet Scum Radio and Towelite Talk mash up for the second time in podcast history! Take a listen as they talk about their upcoming concert to see famed horror director John Carpenter make music, how much Darth Vader we're going to see in Rogue One, and how much Jameson does it take to make Chris becoming the reincarnated version of Jack Kirby! 

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

In this episode we had the good fortune to talk with Ruben Romero from ThinkAlike Productions about his Indie Comic Book Empire and how he is an all-around geek. This is the first of many DFAT Interviews that we'll be incorporating on the show and we couldn't ask for a better guest with Ruben! Take a listen below.

SHOW NOTES

News:

• Anton Yelchin RIP
• Mads Mikkelson is Kaecilius (agent of baron mordo) and Rachel McAdams is Christine Palmer (night nurse)
• DC Rebirth and Marvel Civil War 2

Show:

• Meeting at NYCC
• Influences 
• How'd you grow up with being a geek
• How do you take on the writing process

Commercial

• Where does the name thinkalike productions?
• How did you build this empire?
• Kickstarter
• The Agency

Be sure to follow Ruben at all of his Social Media Outlets: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Pick up your ThinkAlike titles on Comixology.

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

In this episode we had the good fortune to talk with Ruben Romero from ThinkAlike Productions about his Indie Comic Book Empire and how he is an all-around geek. This is the first of many DFAT Interviews that we'll be incorporating on the show and we couldn't ask for a better guest with Ruben! Take a listen below.

SHOW NOTES

News:

• Anton Yelchin RIP
• Mads Mikkelson is Kaecilius (agent of baron mordo) and Rachel McAdams is Christine Palmer (night nurse)
• DC Rebirth and Marvel Civil War 2

Show:

• Meeting at NYCC
• Influences 
• How'd you grow up with being a geek
• How do you take on the writing process

Commercial

• Where does the name thinkalike productions?
• How did you build this empire?
• Kickstarter
• The Agency

Be sure to follow Ruben at all of his Social Media Outlets: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Pick up your ThinkAlike titles on Comixology.

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

You loved our first episode wrapping up all the DC's show so much, we just HAD to give you Towlites part two. This episode is all about Flash and Arrow. One of them is super happy and fun and seems to be going in a cool direction, one of them is poop on toast. Listen to the episode or read the show notes to find out which one we prefer! 

SHOW NOTES

Arrow:

Overall thoughts on season:

Pros:

• Becomes Green Arrow
• Constantine and Sara’s return
• The Calculator played by Tom Amandes, it was kinda cool that they made him felicity’s dad
• Vixen (Mari McCabe same as cartoon), great way to intro the animated character in. Want to see more of her
• Damian Darke played Neil McDonough (baby face) was ok bad guy
• A little lighter, I guess.. He’s still not that funny. Hopefully the Flashpoint will fix all that, compare to rebirth
• Fight scenes were cool
• Diggle killing his brother. FINALLY 
• Curtis Holt played by echo Kellum (Mister Terrific in the comics). Get rid of felicity and use him.
• Crossover episodes were good

Cons:

• Still trying too hard to be TV Batman

• Magic is your big thing this season and it’s used poorly (outside of Vixen)

• Killed Black Canary and Felicity lives?! 
• BORING
• Why is Malcolm still on this show? The “I protect my daughter is getting old”
• Who gives a fuck about Cooper and Lonnie Machin. Both characters are minorly introduced and then play major parts. WHO GIVES A FUCK. If you are going to use a big bad like Anarky then do it right. He’s not some “thug”.

Thoughts on Finale:

Pros:

• Oliver becomes Mayor
• Team disbands. If you’re not going to kill everyone GOT style then this was the best solution

Cons:

• Made a drinking game by saying the word hope
• How does oliver shoot damian in the face and let an arrow go into a crowd
• Why didn’t HIVE shoot everyone?
• How did Oliver absorb magic?
• The WHOLE point of the flashbacks this season was to justify killing and to have him go to Russia.
• Why is Diggle allowed back into the Military?
• Where the hell did all the nukes go?! It was this huge threat that was just casually taken care of
• Constanine not coming back and fake zzantana

Flash:

Overall thoughts on season:

Pros: 

• Kept it’s cheer and hope even with Barry going through tough times
• Zoom was a good bad guy. But I’m ready for some new non-Speed Force villains
• Gorilla City, Dr Light, King Shark, Turtle, The Rogues (Mark Hamill) 
• Multiverse introduction. Earth 2 was fun. Doppelgangers 
• Harry. They found a great way to bring back the character better than before
• Wally West
• jessie
• Cisco true to form. Pop culture references. Getting his powers and being a badass
• Kevin Smith episode  
• Crossover episodes were good  

Cons: 

• Olly can’t go to barry’s dads funeral?
• Caitlin Snow took a back seat. Damsel in distress. 
• Patty :(
• Comes back from Supergirl earth and says nothing?

Thoughts on Finale: 

Pros:

• Amazing. Fucking John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick.  Another JSA member is added to possible roster. We will have to see how Legends treats it 
• Flashpoint storyline opened up… what will the ramifications be? Will they stick if so?
• Mention the Flashpoint “chair” that helped him get powers back  
• Black Flash?! Created by Mark Millar and Grant Morrison 

Cons:

• Kinda wanted to see a hint at Wally’s powers
• Barry and Iris finally get together and then he decides it’s best to go and change time. When he has been warned so many times, why would he selfishly do it this time..

Tom Cavanagh back in season 3 as Dr Manhattan to create the CW verse

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!

You loved our first episode wrapping up all the DC's show so much, we just HAD to give you Towlites part two. This episode is all about Flash and Arrow. One of them is super happy and fun and seems to be going in a cool direction, one of them is poop on toast. Listen to the episode or read the show notes to find out which one we prefer! 

SHOW NOTES

Arrow:

Overall thoughts on season:

Pros:

• Becomes Green Arrow
• Constantine and Sara’s return
• The Calculator played by Tom Amandes, it was kinda cool that they made him felicity’s dad
• Vixen (Mari McCabe same as cartoon), great way to intro the animated character in. Want to see more of her
• Damian Darke played Neil McDonough (baby face) was ok bad guy
• A little lighter, I guess.. He’s still not that funny. Hopefully the Flashpoint will fix all that, compare to rebirth
• Fight scenes were cool
• Diggle killing his brother. FINALLY 
• Curtis Holt played by echo Kellum (Mister Terrific in the comics). Get rid of felicity and use him.
• Crossover episodes were good

Cons:

• Still trying too hard to be TV Batman

• Magic is your big thing this season and it’s used poorly (outside of Vixen)

• Killed Black Canary and Felicity lives?! 
• BORING
• Why is Malcolm still on this show? The “I protect my daughter is getting old”
• Who gives a fuck about Cooper and Lonnie Machin. Both characters are minorly introduced and then play major parts. WHO GIVES A FUCK. If you are going to use a big bad like Anarky then do it right. He’s not some “thug”.

Thoughts on Finale:

Pros:

• Oliver becomes Mayor
• Team disbands. If you’re not going to kill everyone GOT style then this was the best solution

Cons:

• Made a drinking game by saying the word hope
• How does oliver shoot damian in the face and let an arrow go into a crowd
• Why didn’t HIVE shoot everyone?
• How did Oliver absorb magic?
• The WHOLE point of the flashbacks this season was to justify killing and to have him go to Russia.
• Why is Diggle allowed back into the Military?
• Where the hell did all the nukes go?! It was this huge threat that was just casually taken care of
• Constanine not coming back and fake zzantana

Flash:

Overall thoughts on season:

Pros: 

• Kept it’s cheer and hope even with Barry going through tough times
• Zoom was a good bad guy. But I’m ready for some new non-Speed Force villains
• Gorilla City, Dr Light, King Shark, Turtle, The Rogues (Mark Hamill) 
• Multiverse introduction. Earth 2 was fun. Doppelgangers 
• Harry. They found a great way to bring back the character better than before
• Wally West
• jessie
• Cisco true to form. Pop culture references. Getting his powers and being a badass
• Kevin Smith episode  
• Crossover episodes were good  

Cons: 

• Olly can’t go to barry’s dads funeral?
• Caitlin Snow took a back seat. Damsel in distress. 
• Patty :(
• Comes back from Supergirl earth and says nothing?

Thoughts on Finale: 

Pros:

• Amazing. Fucking John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick.  Another JSA member is added to possible roster. We will have to see how Legends treats it 
• Flashpoint storyline opened up… what will the ramifications be? Will they stick if so?
• Mention the Flashpoint “chair” that helped him get powers back  
• Black Flash?! Created by Mark Millar and Grant Morrison 

Cons:

• Kinda wanted to see a hint at Wally’s powers
• Barry and Iris finally get together and then he decides it’s best to go and change time. When he has been warned so many times, why would he selfishly do it this time..

Tom Cavanagh back in season 3 as Dr Manhattan to create the CW verse

Be sure to check out our other great podcasts: Those Geeks You Know, Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes or  Stitcher and rate and review us! If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.

We also have a donation page HERE where any support you can give us goes right back into the site for better equipment and podcast hosting. Thanks for listening and Don't Forget a Towel!