Weekly Catchup

What We’ve Been Watching:

  • Sonic 2 - sped to the top of the charts in its opening weekend, earning an impressive $71 million
  • The Ultimatum
  • Pokémon: Indigo League (watching with Grayson)

Bangtan Breakdown:

Exploding Kittens Animated series

  • The animated series will tell the story of “the eternal conflict between Heaven and Hell” as it begins to escalate once God and the Devil both get sent to Earth and are trapped in the bodies of chunky house cats. The mobile game, Exploding Kittens - The Game, will launch directly on the mobile version of the platform and will be available to Netflix subscribers without needing to pay any additional fees or make in-app purchases.

Intermission

Trailers:

Thor: Love And Thunder – July 8, 2022

  • Ravager Thor – self-journey
  • Guardians
  • Might Thor: Jane Foster First Look
    • Comics storyline: Jane worked as a nurse to Dr. Donald Blake who was Thor’s human identity. Odin sent him to earth to learn humility. Dr. Blake was also suffering from a leg injury, allowing him to understand the suffering of humans. At some point a group of aliens infiltrated earth as Dr. Blake took a trip to Norway. This was suggested by Odin. but Dr. Blake was unaware of his previous life as the Asgardian God of Thunder. While fleeing from these aliens in Norway he came upon a cave and in frustration slammed his wooden came against a rock and was transformed back into the Mighty Thor.
    • Thor ended up still moonlighting as Dr. Blake as he had fell in love with Earth and its people. He also fell in love with Jane Foster, but this was not supported by his father Odin.
    • Eventually Thor rekindled his love for Lady Sif.
    • Years later, Jane had fallen ill, and had cried out for Thor…Lady Sif appeared with the enchanted Runestaff and used it to save Jane’s life. Essentially Sif had merged with Jane Foster…she had received the powers of Jane and eventually traveled with Thor on his adventures.
    • At some point they were able to separate Sif’s life force from Jane using the Runestaff again.
    • Later down the road, Jane had been diagnosed with breast cancer…and Thor had lost his worthiness to wield Mjolnir. Jane began to hear the hammer call for her and eventually gave in…she was sent to Mjolnir’s location and she picked it up and gained the powers of Thor.
    • Gorr (God Butcher) –Christian Bale

Moon Knight Ep.2-3

  • Layla – Marc’s Ex-wife –ancient reliques collector
  • Layla takes him to Anton Mogart
  • Jake Lockley - Third Personality
  • The god’s council
  • Kang Easter Egg Rama-Tut

Title: Guardians vol. Thor

We’ve got an array of exciting content that we’ve been loving lately and we start off this week’s episode giving our thoughts on two of them: Sonic 2 and The Ultimatum. Then we head into the Bangtan Breakdown where Emily talks all about the Las Vegas shows and the exciting new album comeback news. We also talk about the (somewhat baffling) news of an Exploding Kittens show coming to Netflix.

We visit the marvel side of things to share our excitement over the new Thor:Love and Thunder trailer and discuss some theories for the film. Finally, we dive into episodes 2 and 3 of Moon Knight. So join us for another all new episode that’s sure to be as chaotic as it is fun!