Robot Kraken Ep 79 Now Available: Disney Drops and WB Flops
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Robot Kraken Ep 79 Now Available: Disney Drops and WB Flops
Segments and Notes:
Sucking the Monkey:
- Kris- Dr. Pepper and Kraken Rum
- Thom- The Saarlac [Gin, Tonic, Lemon served in a Boba Fett helmet]
Red Sky Roundup:
As we started last episode, we are giving each item a rating. Like it? Red Tentacle [R] ! Hate it? Black Octopus [B] ! Grey Kraken [G] for ambivalence. Three IS the magic number. Listen to the show to see how we landed…
- Trailers:
- Marvel:
- Hawkeye includes many characters including Echo
- Letitia Wright said things
- X-23’s aborted solo film
- Spidey 3 is a hot mess that may or may not include Doc Ock and the other Spideys and the MJs and the Gwen Stacys (and the Spider-Gwens?) and the Daredevil , even Sandman. I wouldn’t mind and Emma Stone Gwen Stacy as Spider-Gwen, though…
- New Falcon and Winter Soldier trailer
- New Loki trailer
- New Ms Marvel featurette
- Ant-Man 3: Quantumania
- Christian Bale as Gorr the God Killer and Sif is finally back
- Ironheart! Somebody tell Narrative Mic!
- FF Finally acknowledged as existing
- New Wandavision trailer
- New What If? Trailer
- Even More: She-Hulk, Armor Wars, I am Groot, and Secret Invasion
- Black Panther will not be recast
- Yet More: S3, DR Strange 2, and Miss America Chavez:
- DC:
- New Batman creative team
- Future State Batman is a Fox
- Female Plastic-Man because male gaze
- New Superman suit best yet
- The Batfleck Batman could have been rad
- Star Wars:
- Misc:
- Denis Villeneuve comes out swinging: one of many critical voices on the WB streaming move.
- Baymax and Zootopia series: Too great properties that need expansion
- Indy 5: Last film of the franchise, and Harrison Ford continues to claim involvement
- Enchanted sequel: Looking forward to this!
- Moana and Tiana: More projects for interesting princesses of color
- Cars and Up and such, is this an alternate timeline? (are we living in an alternate timeline???) I mean there’s even an alternate Walker Texas Ranger WTF is even and who asked for this?
- Houdini from Affleck but will he be… tall… ?
- Samurai remake: a blast from the past
- Chris Pine D&D : if anyone can charm audiences into watching this, it’s him?
- Corben RIP at the age of 80
- Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear the man, not the toy
- Maya and the Last Dragon streaming in March : Another princess of color which looks amazing
- Thomas Jane Directs Expanse S05 Ep (and it was great)
- Build your own armor for a few pennies and thirty years of your free time
- Buck Rogers: biddebiddebidde why
- True Blood again but why
- New female Zorro unfortunately contemporary
- Hawkins Alien… on earth…
- Thomas ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr., ‘Friday’ actor, dead at 62
- Stranger Things 4: Robert Englund
Planned Plundering:
- Kris- High Score, John LeCarre
- Thom- For All Mankind, Raised by Wolves, Barely Lethal
Rum-Fueled Recommendations:
- Kris- Cyberpunk 2077
- Thom- Expanse!
