X-Men '97 Season 2 Review, Supergirl Thoughts, and TWD Reunion? | Ask BD

[00:00:09]Well, hello.

[00:00:11]Welcome to Ask BD number 25. 25. We're at our quarter century episode already.

[00:00:18]I hope this sounds okay. Traveling a bit this week, guys. I am in New York City by the time you're watching this for the Supergirl premiere where I will be on the red carpet doing interviews with the cast. Hopefully, we get James Gun, Peter Saffron. Stay tuned. It'll be on Instagram. It'll be on YouTube. It'll be everywhere. So, thank you so much for being here. 25 the 25th entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by counting movies and Disney Plus shows is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which is already 5 years old. Can you believe that? Five years since The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Just a show was okay. Show was okay. Great first episode. Great action scene to start it.

[00:00:53]Never seen the Power Broker again, huh?

[00:00:55]But we did go to Madrappor in the Falcon and the Winter Soldier. That was cool.

[00:01:00]2025 is when we got Fantastic 4 in the MCU. James Gun Superman introduced to the world. 25 years ago, the biggest movie of the year was Fast and Furious.

[00:01:10]The first one, the Fast and the Furious, 2001. That's not true. That's not true.

[00:01:16]That wasn't the biggest movie of the year. But this is one take only. That's the rule. I made a slip up. What I meant to say was it has been 25 years since The Fast and the Furious hit theaters.

[00:01:25]The biggest movie of that year actually was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone, which beat The Lord of the Rings for the top spot. Harry Potter makes 974 million in 2001, which if you account for 25 years of inflation to today's money, I think that's about 73 trillion tickets sold actually because everything was cheaper back then.

[00:01:51]Yeah, 25 years though. 25 years. 2001 was 25 years ago.

[00:01:56]That's crazy. That's crazy. We're not going to spend too much time on that. We are going to spend time on today is an X-Men 97 reaction. I'm going to share my full thoughts, review, all that on X-Men 97 based on the first four episodes, which I watched because just yesterday at the time of recording, I had Ross Marwan record with me, Professor X, and Apocalypse and many other characters.

[00:02:18]We'll save the whole spiel about that.

[00:02:20]The Patreon subscribers already heard about it, but X-Men 97 reaction is coming in this episode. Supergirl reaction also coming in this episode.

[00:02:27]That will be a shorter conversation than X-Men because X-Men, you're allowed to review it, but Supergirl, it's still reactions and not reviews until Wednesday. So, by the time you're seeing this, I'm already probably watch the movie for the second time. What does that tell you? Uh, what else we got today? We're going to talk about Oh, oh, oh. I did get to listen to an interview with uh my friend Sean Oonnell from CBR talks to Joe Russo and Robert Downey Jr.

[00:02:53]and I wasn't jealous at all. I was not jealous at all that he got to spend a big chunk of time talking to Iron Man. I mean Dr. Doom, of course. Oops. Sorry.

[00:03:01]That's my bad. He'll always be Iron Man to me, but I cannot wait to see him as Doom. RDJ remains the bucket list interview for me. That has not happened yet. Maybe one day. But I did get to listen into that and they were focused on Civil War and Infinity War and they talked a little bit about Doomsday. The audio for that, I believe, is going to be out this week with with Shawn. Uh, and he's there's a lot of it has been published with articles on CBR. So, I highly recommend checking that out. You probably saw a lot of the headlines from this one, like they thought about killing Iron Man in Infinity War. That made a lot of rounds this week, things like that. But, uh, it fits into one of the questions that come in this week.

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[00:06:24]20. This first question comes from Carter Paling7611 on YouTube and asked the same question on Twitter, by the way. Love your stuff, BD. If you had to guess, what do you think would be some of the reasons for complications to make a Rick and Daryl reunion show? Okay, so Walking Dead fans, we're starting with The Walking Dead. Scott Gimple, The Walking Dead Chief Content Officer, who was The Walking Dead showrunner from season 4 through eight, and he was a writer before that and was chief content officer beyond that and still is today.

[00:06:55]was on the show. We talked a lot about The Walking Dead's highs and lows. We talked about possible reunion shows.

[00:07:03]Fear of the Walking Dead has ended. The Walking Dead has ended. The Walking Dead: World Beyond has ended. Nobody really wants more World Beyond, I don't think. I don't know if we're clamoring for more Tales of The Walking Dead, but Daryl Dixon has one more season. Dead City, one more season.

[00:07:19]Daryl has gone out to Europe. Rick went to Philadelphia. Maggie and Negan are in New York. When are we going to get them to reunite? Right. And I asked Scott Gimple, is there still hope that Rick and Daryl will reunite? And I went on to name a couple other characters that survived the show. And Scott's answer was that it might be a minute. It might be tomorrow. He might be off in the retirement home, but there's absolutely hope. He said there is absolutely hope.

[00:07:42]He said it might be a minute. It might be tomorrow. And he said he's got a he's developed a garden of forking plans for how to do it. And I think the garden of forking plans is a direct result of the thing I'm about to talk about. to answer your question because the sure a lot of us Walking Dead fans are wondering will Rick and Daryl and I would love to see Morgan in that mix too who went off to Fear the Walking Dead after season seven of Walking or maybe season eight of Walking Dead joined Fear went out to Austin, Texas.

[00:08:07]Are they going to reunite?

[00:08:11]I think the be a minute is where the camp we should like like as in it's going to take a while. camp is the one we should be in if we're betting because first of all, I think the cast members are the number one most difficult thing on this one because you can't do this show without them. And whether they personally care about that or not, their agents certainly do. The legal teams that could that talk about money certainly do. You can't have someone else play Rick Grimes in a Daryl and Rick reunion show.

[00:08:40]So, I'll tell you what, Andy Lincoln, I I love Andy. He ain't gonna come back for just pennies. You know what I mean?

[00:08:46]I think that's the biggest thing. I think people like Norman Reus, maybe Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohen, Deny Gera, Andrew Lincoln, the people who play those those Melissa McBride, the people who play those central characters that are the reason you'll watch the show, they're going to command a really heavy price tag and rightfully so.

[00:09:07]They're phenomenal in the role. No one else can play those roles. Of course, they should get paid, you know, a lot of money to do the thing. Um, I personally think that part of the reason the show ended is because some of the price tags got too big. And they got too big when the ratings for the show got too small.

[00:09:21]If the ratings stayed up, sure, everybody could have got paid more and more and more, but the ratings did not stay up. And right now, the ratings are really not up. Dead City, I believe, is averaging about 400,000 viewers, maybe less now. And the Daryl Show just had the lowest rated season premiere with its third season of any Walking Dead show. It was under 300,000 people watching on cable. Now you're saying, "Yeah, who watches on cable?"

[00:09:47]Exactly. I mean, I watch this on YouTube TV. I think that counts as cable.

[00:09:53]I don't know if that counts as cable.

[00:09:55]But I think the number one thing is it will be very expensive to make this show and the audience. Yes, it would be bigger if you do a real a reunion show.

[00:10:03]I completely agree with whoever was ready to yell that at me. A reunion show and a Rick Ryme show in general will command more of a viewership than season 3 of Daryl and Carol in Europe or season two or season 3 of Maggie and Negan in New York City.

[00:10:20]It's still not even going to be close to what it was. Walking Dead at its peak had 17 million people watching it live.

[00:10:27]That's season 7 premiere and the biggest episode was years before that had 17.1 million.

[00:10:32]Now, it's not necessarily a complete reflection of the quality of The Walking Dead that the viewership went down.

[00:10:40]Yes, I know everybody says they killed Glenn. I stopped watching. I didn't enjoy Negan beating down Rick the whole time. It wasn't fun to watch. I didn't I left after they watched Carl. I'm sure those are true for a lot of people, too.

[00:10:50]However, on top of that, viewing habits changed. It used to be Sunday night.

[00:10:55]You're parking it. watching The Walking Dead on AMC on cable because it wasn't as easy to just watch it whenever you wanted to wait for a binge. It was different. So, there was more money going to the show from the ads from All Things Considered. Now, I do think a lot of people are discovering The Walking Dead on Netflix, and I think that it's a it's it's something I see a lot of people talk about on TikTok still. So, I think there is an audience for this, but numbers are down and costs are still high. So, that's that's that to me is the biggest reason why this isn't happening. Number two is schedules.

[00:11:31]I think that let's take a look at what everybody's done. Norman Norman Reus uh and Melissa McBride, who play Daryl and Carol, are still doing Daryl Dixon. They have another season coming.

[00:11:41]Um Andrew Lincoln, his most recent thing was a TV show called Cold Water. nothing listed as up upcoming so he might be available for something like this.

[00:11:49]Norman uh uh did a movie called Pendulum that's coming out soon and the forever teased Boondock Saints 3quel. Who knows if we'll ever see that. Melissa McBride didn't have anything listed as coming up. This is all from IMDb. Lauren Cohen and Jeffrey D. Morgan are still doing Dead City. Lauren Cohen uh most recently was in a movie called When I'm Ready.

[00:12:07]There's nothing listed as coming up on her upcoming credits. Doesn't mean she's not booked for anything. It just means either hasn't been announced or hasn't made its way to IMDb. Jeffrey Morgan. I think he's probably the busiest of everyone involved in the Walking Dead universe at this point post main show.

[00:12:21]Uh and he was just in the boys and still does Invincible or I don't know if he still does Invincible because he was conquest but uh he's got a movie coming up called Starting Point and then in further out he's got a movie called Postcard Killer. So Jeff is booked and busy. He's doing things but he's still doing Walking Dead through Dead City. So I think he would be down. Dyer has four projects coming up. She's not an Avengers doomsday. So, uh, that probably called, but she probably calls for a big price tag, I think, because she's been very successful post Walking Dead. Um, and just saying, "I'm going to play Michonne. Who else is going to play Michonne? You're not going to do the show without me." Well, they'd have to pay her. Or maybe they do the show without her. Who knows? They did they're doing Doomsday with a lot of Wakandan characters, and I'm, as far as I know, a CO is not one of them. So, who knows?

[00:13:03]Seth Gilliam has four short films coming up. Nothing besides that. So, that's not a super demanding schedule. Ross Marquan, who is the next guest on the show, July 8th, that'll be out. X-Men 97, Invincible. He was in Suits LA and Ride or Die on TV. I've talked to him.

[00:13:17]Spoiler alert for that interview. It sounds like he's down to do something like this. Carrie Payton, who was King Ezekiel, uh, you know, most recently he was on um he he does Invincible. He does Teen Titans Go. He does a lot of voice work as well. He's at the Marvel 1943 game, but not a ton of things that seem like he could not possibly do something like this. Josh McDermott Eugene was in Fire Country and Suits LA and doesn't have anything listed as coming up, but again, there could be that it's just not there. Casting McClinsy is on Tracker on CBS. Lydia, she played Lydia on Walking Dead and has two projects coming up.

[00:13:47]Cooper Andrews did the two Shazam movies. He was recently on the regular show. He's got three projects listed coming up on IMDb. But that's just that that's all to say, look, these people are scattered all over the place. My impression from talking to them both in interviews and just in conversations.

[00:14:01]I've become friends with a few of these folks. A lot of them are down to go back and play these characters again, but the problem is the schedules and I think some of these actors will command a price tag that is just bigger than what the show would produce because at the end of the day, this is a business. So, I think the the the the cost and the return on that investment is problem number one and number two is the schedules. I think it would be very hard to imagine scheduling all these people, but it's very possible. It's very doable. I mean, a lot of them are doing Comic-Cons, a lot of them are doing different voice work. Um, it's totally possible and I think it will happen eventually. But I think it's going to be one of those AMC decided the time is right. Andrew Lincoln is in. Norman Reus is in. Okay, let's get the rest. And whoever is down, throw them in. Whoever isn't, their character got eaten by a zombie between the time the time jump, the inevitable time jump between the end of The Walking Dead when we last saw them and when they show up again. I mean, Seth Gilliam came back for The Ones Who Live, the Rick and Michonne show. So it just shows there is a willingness to do this from the cast, but I do think it comes down to also I do think creatively some of the actors want creative input more than I think some of them should.

[00:15:11]Some of them have really good ideas, some of them don't. That's all I'm going to say. I have I'm not naming anybody specifically, but there have been times even somewhat recently that uh maybe that actor didn't need to be a part of that thing or have that input, I guess. Um, but also I mean Norman's show started shooting in Europe because he wanted to go over to Europe.

[00:15:32]That was originally going to film in Georgia. The Daryl Dixon Show season one was going to film in Georgia. He wanted to take it over to Europe and he has he's he is Daryl. So if he wants to say let's go to Europe, they do. But then that ended up producing what is in my opinion the best spin-off of the Walking Dead franchise. I think Daryl Dixon that season one and two were just fantastic.

[00:15:49]Um, but yeah, that's that's the answer to that question for me. And I mean I think that that Scott Gimple interview was awesome. He he was such a cool dude and he talked so candidly about so many elements of The Walking Dead making that show, the highs and the lows and all that kind of stuff that I I appreciate everybody who watched it and I appreciate everybody who has been really kind in the comment section. I really I I think I've said this. I don't know if I've said this on the podcast. When I was launching this show, I actually thought about just doing a Walking Dead retrospective podcast because a lot of those cast members and the people involved are people that I have like direct connections with from years of interviewing them while I worked at Comic Book. But I just decided I wanted to do something. I I do this instead. Um I don't know, maybe maybe I still will.

[00:16:29]And maybe some of these interviews that I've already done because we've had Scott Gimple on the show, chief content officer, Tom Payne who played Jesus, Ross Marquand, who played Aaron, who will be in X-Men 97. You'll see that in a couple weeks. We had Greg Nicotero on the show, and Robert Kirkman. So, I think there will be more Walking Dead actors on the show and maybe those start to parlay into like, hey, here's a couple, you know, bonus episodes. The inevitable Walking Dead podcast that I do one day. But yeah, that Gimble episode was really fun and he had a lot of cool insights. So, yeah. Would you who how many people here are Walking Dead fans? How many people on the channel are Walking Dead fans? If you didn't skip this part of the podcast, if you're here, I want to hear from you.

[00:17:07]Are you a Walking Dead fan on the Brandon Davis show? Do you want to see a Rick and Daryl reunion? Let me know. Let me know your thoughts in the comments because the Robert Kirkman episode is the biggest episode of the show so far and I do think this Scott Gimble episode's going to do pretty well as well. All right, we got this is from Joey Greco on Twitter. What does Doomsday have to do to succeed? Okay, let's put on our Avengers Doomsday hats, shall we? I'm going to chug a little bit of Celsius for this one.

[00:17:37]They didn't pay for that, but they should.

[00:17:40]So that interview I mentioned earlier, Sean Oonnell from CBR sat down with Robert Downey Jr. and Joe Russo, director of he who directed Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, and now Doomsday and Secret Wars, which starts filming by the end of the year is what they're saying. These were my takeaways. I made a lot of bullet points from this interview. Uh they talked about Happy Hogan and Joe Russo having cameos in Infinity War that got cut. They were going to be in the beginning of the movie, Joe Russo is going to be a paparazzi guy and Happy Hogan was going to be driving a golf cart. That scene is deleted, but it is available. You can see it. Um, they filmed 20 days worth of footage for Avengers Infinity War. That's a lot of days. Uh, they were going to kill Tony Stark in Infinity War and couldn't figure out how to use him effectively in Endgame. After that, he was always going to be in Endgame. Uh, so they just decided, let's just wait and kill him in Endgame. They knew Tony and Steve breaking up was going to happen in Civil War and open up a lot of interesting stories after that. But at the time, Joe and Anthony weren't 100% sure they were going to be the people directing Infinity War and Endgame. But they did see the story possibilities that that opened up, which I find interesting that they talk about stuff like that because Marcus and Mcily were the ones writing this. But I really think it's such a collaborative thing where also, you know, we've heard the stories about Marvel movies where sometimes they're punching up scripts or even finishing scripts on the day of recording. So, I imagine Joe and Anthony right there on set as directors are probably directly involved in those things. Tom Holland, Peter Parker. This This one's good. Tom Holland's Peter Parker dying was originally him just saying I'm sorry to Tony Stark, but Joe Russo decided he wants a a real strong emotional gut punch and he goes, "H, I don't want to go." He told Tom Holland to say, "I don't want to go." Because he wanted to rip everybody's hearts out. And sure enough, I mean, think about he said, "You're what?" He said to him, "You're 16 years old. You really don't want to die." So the line became, "I don't want to go." And here we all are. Oh man, Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good after even hearing that story about it. Joe Russo, you demon.

[00:19:34]RDJ talked about differentiating doom from Tony Stark. I'm just going to read this quote directly. I'm going to pull this over here just my eyes, my old man eyes here. He said, "I try to stay as removed from a suggest." Okay, we're going to start that quote over. One take only on the askd here. So RDJ, this is RDJ on differentiating doom from Tony Stark. I try to stay as removed from a subjective experience of things as I can.

[00:19:57]eventually there's so many big shoes to step into that I just have to go what hasn't been done as well as it can be done yet. So we're always looking for that opportunity. There's uh some experimentation and we've had our moments of let's shift here. But we landed in a place where I think we'll more than suffice.

[00:20:16]It's not even about how I executed it.

[00:20:17]It's about the way it's been structured and the other characters. There is something going on in Doomsday and forward. That is literally the only antidote to how do you not let this film be a letown after Infinity War and an Endgame. And boy, have we labored long and hard to bring that? And Joe Russo added to that quote and he said they've been harder than the other ones. Uh but he said the answer to how to make sure this isn't a letown to compared to Infinity War and Endgame which is an important distinction. This headline, this quote went viral in in the media saying that like RDJ and Joe Russo were saying that the MCU has been a letown since Infinity War and Endgame. And even though I know there are people who will agree with that and in part I will too, but there's been a lot of great stuff too. Uh it was in regards to Infinity War and Endgame which they directly made and they don't want to make a let down after movies that big and that successful. So Joe added that uh this has been harder than the other ones but the answer to that is emotional complexity. He said, "You bring an emotional complexity to anything and it richens it and it makes it a fuller experience for the audience and it surprises you." There are a lot of surprises in this. I think it's the most emotionally complex of all of them and in a lot of ways the most mature of all of them. So these last two things and then I'll answer this question. RDJ talked about Doom's music by the way for Alan Sylvester and that's what helped him find the character basically. It sounds like he said we're on day four.

[00:21:37]He goes yes. He told a story from filming. He said, "We're on day four of production on Doomsday." And Joe's like, "It's going pretty good. Come here." And he plays me Doom's theme. And I was like, "Oh, yeah. Okay, it's that." And it even affected that day of shooting every day since. And then Joe called that a tone cue. So, it sounds like Alan Sylvestri's Doom score helped Robert Downey Jr. find the performance for Dr. Doom, which I find to be pretty cool.

[00:22:02]And I've heard him talk. I saw the Cineacon trailer. I think he sounded good.

[00:22:06]Uh the the goal of Avengers Infinity War, according to Joe Russo, was these movies appeal to a wide range of ages, and the mission is to invite everybody under the tent. We're not trying to exclude anybody. We want anybody who wants to watch a big, complex, fun, sad, tragic, high adventure story. Please come under the tents with us. Wherever you are in the world, you're invited in with us. Part of that is you have to give them a full experience for them to feel invited into it. We don't want you to be depressed this entire film. And also, Robert Downey Jr. did say at one point that he loved W division and gave props to people who kept the MCU going and he said that W division specifically was kind of how he stayed in touch with the MCU post Endgame.

[00:22:42]Now, let me conclude this because especially that last Joe Russo quote is really the answer to this question, but there's a couple things that I think all these quotes add context to to how Doomsday is a success. Now, obviously, yes, it needs to make a lot of money. It obviously needs to make a billion dollars. If this movie doesn't make a billion dollars, we're never going to hear the end of it as fans. Twitter is going to be just disgusting. People who are on that whole Marvel, I hate Marvel now, Marvel sucks now, whatever. That train is just going to be exhausting.

[00:23:12]I would have to agree though to some extent that if Avengers Doomsday is not a billion dollar movie, that's kind of crazy, right? I'm not too worried about it. I do think there's a chance Spider-Man ends up being a bigger movie.

[00:23:22]But that said, that's because we've had three Spider-Man trailers and only a bunch of fake AI [ __ ] leaks for Doomsday. But yes, obviously number one, Doomsday has to make really good money to be a success.

[00:23:35]But number two, it has to provide you with the things Joe Russo just said, both emotionally, complexity, experience-wise, and in terms of inviting everyone in. You're getting your greatest hits by bringing Robert Downey Jr. back as Dr. Doom. I don't think he's going to be an Iron Man in Doomsday. I think he'll be an Iron Man variant in Secret Wars, but I don't think he'll be that in Doomsday. But you're bringing back Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, you have those are your three main characters of this movie basically.

[00:24:05]And that is the greatest hits of it, right?

[00:24:09]That is what the Infinity Saga was the safety net. I think people love that stuff. And I don't think it's just nostalgia. I think it's the actors and the characters. I think they just resonate with people at a time where there was more space in all of our hearts and minds. I think for superheroes to resonate with people.

[00:24:25]Maybe if you're here on this show, you probably still love this stuff as much as I do. But obviously, we look look at box offices, we look at ratings, numbers went down. And I don't think that's a direct reflection of quality. I think that's a reflection of appetite.

[00:24:39]It can be both though, of course.

[00:24:42]But then the supporting characters, Shani, Yolena, Fantastic 4, Mbaku, Shuri, a lot of the characters who were raised up on a pedestal, more of a pedestal than they were in the Infinity Saga or outright introduced in the Infinity Saga. Sam Wilson, they are going to be supporting players that each I think it was the Russos who had this quote years ago that said, "Every person in the audience is pro each person in the audience could have a different favorite character. Each character in the movie could be a different person's favorite character.

[00:25:15]And that's one thing I love about Civil War so much is they found a way to tell that story. And it felt like each character had a parallel arc with someone else. One, you had team Cap and team Iron Man. Those two were respectively at the top of the story with the most meaningful, biggest arcs of the film, but then each member of their team had an arc that was parallel in scope to someone else on the other team. And just look at Infinity War and how they balance the characters. So, it's a it's you're going to the greatest hits by bringing these characters back.

[00:25:43]Thor, Steve, and then obviously Downey has anything because he is the MCU with Iron Man. But you can't alienate people who have loved the MCU through the multiverse saga. So, you have to make the supporting characters be very relevant. Shani, Channing Tatum's Gambit, James Marsden's Cyclops, that could be somebody's favorite character from 25 years ago, man. Yolanda Bova with Florence Pew, David Arbers, Red Guardian, uh Vanessa Kirby's, Sue Storm, all of these people who have been in these movies and these shows since 2021 could be somebody's new favorite character. And I think that they have to have a meaningful role in this. And I think you have to be able to emotionally connect with the story in a way that makes you care about all of them as a whole while your character, of course, whoever your favorite character is, remains at the front of it. So, I mean, and it has to be something that leaves you wanting to see what's next. Like, you have to be so emotionally invested and entertained that you want to come back and see Secret Wars.

[00:26:40]That's that's that's I and maybe that's obvious, but I think right that's that is what's going to make this uh a success.

[00:26:48]What would you what would you say that I'm going to flip this one back again on everybody question of the week. How would you define success for Avengers Doomsday? I'm interested to hear everybody's thoughts on that. Go ahead and drop it in the comments section on YouTube, on Spotify, wherever you're listening, or take it over to Discord.

[00:27:05]All right, this is from Joe Bagio on Patreon. Hey BD, this year is shaping up to be a banger year at the box office, but here's a fun one. Which combo of movies do you think will be bigger at the box office? The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day or Dune 3 and Avengers Doomsday? Oh my gosh. I I I actually think this will be kind of a little bit easier than you think it will. I think Spider Odyssey beats Doomsday. I think Spider-Man Brand New Day is a surefire 1.7 or more billion dollars.

[00:27:35]Uh, I think that's just a lock. I think Spider-Man Brand New Day is going to be the biggest movie of the year. And if it's not, only Doomsday can compete with it. And I think they'll be close to each other. Doomsday is going to be dependent on reviews. Spider-Man's going to crush no matter what. Doomsday is going to depend on trailers. It is going to depend on trailers. Spider-Man, it doesn't matter. Everybody's going to see Spider-Man.

[00:27:56]I think maybe I am underestimating Doomsday at this point because I've only seen one trailer which did just certainly restore my faith in the MCU as if it had been lost in the first place because it really hadn't. I was excited for Doomsday anyway. It was my number one most anticipated movie of the year before the trailer and it became, you know, above number one, whatever that is, because Spider-Man was number two, Odyssey was number three, and I'd say Dune was number four probably going into the year. I don't think Dune makes a billion dollars. I just don't. I think dude makes a lot of money, but I don't think it makes a billion dollars. I do think The Odyssey can make a billion dollars. I think The Odyssey is going to be one of those that is going to just It's Christopher Nolan and he just has a way. It's got an incredible cast.

[00:28:40]If the movie stinks, I don't think it makes a billion, but I do think Spider-Man and the Odyssey combined will make more money than Avengers Doomsday and Doom 3. And I think it will be about $3 billion combined for those two versus 2.9 for the other two.

[00:29:02]Yeah. Tyler McKenna on that was a fun question by the way. Tyler McKenna on Patreon asked based on the previous trilogies postredit scenes and endings didn't they didn't have much uh Okay, hold on.

[00:29:15]Oh, okay. So, this is from Tyler on Patreon said, "Based on how the previous trilogy's postredit scenes and endings didn't have much relevance to the larger MCU, if you want to count Fury and Hill being scrolls at the end of Far From Home, fine, but I don't even remember that being followed up on. Do you think Brand New Day will actually tease/le directly into Doomsday or with it being a Sony movie, will it be contained to Spidey?" Okay, so I disagree, Tyler. I think Spider-Man movies have had some great and very meaningful postredit scenes, but I guess in the sense of the larger MCU, I can't really argue too much. There was a Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness tease at the end of Spider-Man No Way Home.

[00:29:58]But the F Homecoming postredit scene was Vulture and Scorpion in jail. Vulture technically, if I don't know if Morbius even counts, isn't even in the main universe anymore based on a story that makes absolutely no [ __ ] sense, but we're going to move right past that.

[00:30:12]Scorpion is back in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. So, that is interesting. Uh, and then that had the Captain America PSA at the end of Homecoming. Patience.

[00:30:20]I was so mad. I was so mad. People laughed and I was like, we waited that whole time for something awesome and you're laughing. And it was kind of funny. It was kind of funny. They were right. Spider-Man Far From Home had the re I mean this was one of the craziest postredit scenes I think in the whole MCU, but it is contained to Spider-Man being affected. Jonah Jameson with JK Simmons in the part in that first mid-credit scene of Spider-Man Far From Home was gobsmackingly incredible. Kick the seat in front of me, hoot and holler in the theater. I watched that in London. I remember losing my mind. I sat beside Kevin McCarthy and we were just losing it. Great postredit scene. And then the scroll reveal which squirrels in the MCU have been one of the biggest swing and misses in my opinion. No Way Home though had Eddie Eddie Brock Venom, you know, and that that that happened. It still hasn't paid off, but it happened. Maybe maybe maybe we get the black suit and we could say that it did pay off in the larger MCU and Doctor Strange 2. All of that said, I do think Spider-Man: Brand New Day will have a credit scene directly tied to Avengers Doomsday.

[00:31:29]Huge missed opportunity if not in my opinion. I just I miss when these movies would have basically a scene, even if it was just like a deleted scene, but a clear connection to an upcoming project that was already filmed. Just give me just give me a scene from another movie and let me be excited about that. And we haven't done that. It's been the credit scenes have in the multiverse saga have had a shameful lack of payoff in my opinion.

[00:31:54]I think honestly it could even be like Tobey Maguire Spider-Man being affected by the multiverse because I'm telling you that could be that could be that could be a tease for Doomsday. That could be a tease for Doomsday. I think my bet, and I could be eating my words here on the confidence and conviction in which I'm delivering some of the sentiment in today's episode, but I'm I'm willing to bet that the Spider-Man brand new day, mid or postredit scene, will have a direct tie to Avengers Doomsday, which I'm pretty sure Tom Holland is not in.

[00:32:27]Professor Whitmire on Patreon. Bey, I don't know if my Supergirl questions fall under reaction or review, but here goes. Saturday is my younger daughter's 12th birthday. What can she and her older sister learn from Supergirl and Ruthie when they see the movie this Wednesday? How much fun is the movie?

[00:32:43]And how rough are the crypto scenes? I'm really hoping they're not as brutal as the animal scenes in Guardians 3. Here's a more general question in case those are too specific. Supergirl used that trailer line, he sees the good in everyone and I see the truth from the earliest marketing. Do you think it pays that line off in substance, character, or tone as a counterpoint to the Superman movie last summer? I love how you worded these questions. Professor Whitmire, you are a professor. This is very well worded. I'll answer all of your questions and I'll count this as my Supergirl reaction. A movie which I thought I'd love and I liked. I can't give it a number score yet. I'll give it a number on Wednesday's little bonus episode thing that I'm posting on YouTube only with Joe when the review embargo lifts. We sat at the Superman experience and we talked through Supergirl. So, that'll be fun. Um, I liked the movie. I thought Millie Alco was great in the part. I think Jason Mamoa is fantastic as Lobo. I thought the movie just didn't emotionally land with me as much as I thought it would.

[00:33:35]And I think that's because James Gun just really emotionally punches me in everything he does. You mentioned Guardians 3. The first scene of Guardians 1, Superman, I left with a feeling of just being inspired and wanting to be better. And I never felt like Supergirl made me feel anything quite to those depths. And that's okay.

[00:33:53]I still think it was a good movie. I don't think it's a great amazing movie, but I thought it was good. Fine. You know, like it was it was okay. Um, visually the creatures are standouts because there's so much of it that is practical and caught in camera and the space aliens and the creatures and stuff that we're seeing brought to life that Craig Gillespie really filmed in camera and found ways to like animate in real life uh make it look like they're breathing things like that was just fantastic. I thought that was really impressive. Um, but yeah, the movie the movie's good. I think it could have benefited from the story structure just being a little more I don't know if cohesive is the word because I wouldn't call the movie messy, but I think there's just really good touching dialogue and story moments that maybe if they were they happened in a different order or something. It's hard to talk about without spoiling. It's hard to talk about without spoiling, but I I think people are going to like the movie more than me. And I think there's going to be people who like the movie less than me. talked to people on both sides of that who have already seen it whose opinion I trust who some people just walked out and went no I didn't really like it and some people walked out and they were like I loved it so I think it's going to be across the board on this one I really hope that uh the discourse stays civil on this channel if you're not friendly you're it's okay to dislike the movie you don't have to like it any movie but we are going to keep it civil and respectful when we talk about Supergirl and everything else on the channel don't be a dick uh okay so let's see what can she and her older sister learn from Supergirl and Ruthie when we see the movie on Wednesday. So that's gosh, how do I say this without spoiling it? There's something about like being good but not nice, you know, being uh like like that like like you asked about the Superman counterpoint. um living a life that is fulfilling to you, that isn't going to damage other people, that just you have your priorities straight.

[00:35:46]I think that I don't know. It's hard. I hope that makes sense. I do think that there it will you will learn there's there's a way to learn a sense of liberation and independence from negativity or from trauma in this movie, I think. And that's something I think people can take away from it, which is really well done. And I think it's better done on paper than than it is in the movie, but it's still when you think about it, you go, "Oh, that that's actually really good. That's actually really good. Meaningful story." Um, how much fun is the movie? Less fun than I thought it would be. Heavier than I thought it would be, but there are a few good laughs. There were also just laughs that I could tell were parts of the movie I was supposed to laugh and I was like, "Okay, are the crypto scenes rough?" I'm really hoping they're not as brutal as the animal scenes in Guardians 3. They're not nearly as brutal as the animal scenes in Guardians 3. But yes, there is some rough stuff with the dog in this movie. I'll say that if you're very sensitive to dog health.

[00:36:39]This my there are moments. They're not that long, but there are moments that are going to be hard and heavy for you.

[00:36:48]Um, here's a more general question. So, he says, "Okay, do you think it pays off pays that line off in substance, character, or tone as a counterpoint to the Superman movie last summer? divine being. He sees the good in everyone and I see the truth.

[00:37:01]Yes, but not in a way you're thinking it will. I think this kind of really contextualizes car cara her person the weight which she carries with her from the from what the world has thrown at her and all those things. So yes, and and they're not and by the end of this they're not trying to make Supergirl grow into Superman Jr. or or girl Superman. Like it is she is very much her own character and different from Superman and it's about accepting who you are. And that sounds like a talking point they'd say at the junkit, but like after seeing it, it is actually that is what it's about. I still have to give you my X-Men 97 reaction. We'll hold on.

[00:37:36]We'll get Don't let me finish this guys without giving that. Nate West via email said, "First time asking a question by email and longtime listener." Hey, let's go Nate to you and the others of the phase hero and the before times. LOL. I see what you did there. My question, as someone who just wishes to see my favorite villain portrayed in live action, right? Which is Rhino. What villain do you hope to see in live action someday? Marvel or DC? Oh my gosh. Speaking of villains, that could have been done right. Apocalypse. I'd like to see Apocalypse done right. Kang, I'd still like to see Kang done right.

[00:38:05]Taskmaster could be done right.

[00:38:07]Taskmaster is over hated, but like the MCU version of Taskmaster, but still, I'd like to see Tony Masters come to the MCU and be real. Also though, it's like the MCU has gotten so away from grounded gritty stuff like technology and scale ground level skill sets in the movies that it would be hard to imagine Taskmaster in like a big film making sense because of how OP so many characters in the MCU are like how there's magic and different powers and stuff. But I would like to see that. I'd like to see Taskmaster. I want to see Mr. Sinister.

[00:38:36]I'd very much like to see the X-Men story that's coming. And the reports are that they're casting the X-Men right now. They want to cast unknowns. I do know one person who is up for some roles there and it's a person that I think would be pretty cool for it. Um, but not Mr. Sinister. I don't know if they're casting Mr. Sinister, but I think a Mr. Sinister story could be cool. I think doing Apocalypse, right, would be really cool. What X-Men 97 is doing with Apocalypse is awesome. But yeah, I think like if you do an Apocalypse story or you could honestly kind of reverse it and have Mr. Sinister be one of the first X-Men villains post Secret Wars because you could do something smaller scale with Mr. sinister that just directly affects the mutants and contextualizes them and their lives in the MCU in a way that the movies that with the previous X-Men cast never did just not that didn't contextualize them but it would do it differently this way with through Mr. Sinister trying to like perfect them and everything and then you know Apocalypse could rise up in that time or Apocalypse comes goes you know becomes a villain overarching villain and then Sinister gets the powers from that story or something like that but I I think Mr. sinister story with the X-Men would be really cool. DJ Dave, who does not send his uh questions, who does not listen right there in the DJ booth, sent this one from from the UK. Hey BD, on the way to work tonight, I passed a poster for Toy Story 5 and it made me think studios love to milk a franchise until it's bone dry, squeezing out sequel after sequel after sequel at infinit infinitum.

[00:40:00]There's never a sense of completion.

[00:40:03]What film series do you think has dragged on for way too long for me? And this is showing my age. It's a tie between Die Hard and Police Academy.

[00:40:10]Well, Die Hard's done, but yeah, they did make a cut. They they started to get a little gratuitous with some of the Die Hard editions. Both of these series should have stopped at three films.

[00:40:21]Okay. I don't think anybody's going to argue with you on that one. Although, I had fun with the Die Hard movies. I'm not going to lie to you. What was the one where they had like the fire of sale thing? I think it was Justin Long was in that movie with him. What? Yeah. But yeah, they got a little crazy. As ever, it's all the best from the DJ booth, DJ Dave. All right. I mean, here's here I have two for you. First of all, Jurassic Park.

[00:40:40]The Jurassic movies, the Jurassic World franchise, not great. Not great. I love dinosaurs.

[00:40:47]I think they could have done something better which would have changed my answer and not put it in there. Like Jurassic World, it seemed like Vincent Denafhrio's character was going to weaponize dinosaurs and have the militaries use them. That would have been so sick. And instead we got like black market dinosaur trafficking.

[00:41:04]Nobody asked for that movie. It's like those movies weren't that good. And I think Jurassic World Dominion is reported now as the most expensive movie of all time. We spent that money to make a movie instead of make an actual [ __ ] dinosaur. Come on. Come on. Put $650 million in bringing dinosaurs back and I'll go to the park. I'll be the first one.

[00:41:23]Make Jurassic Park a documentary.

[00:41:26]But other than that, I mean, come on.

[00:41:27]Fast and Furious.

[00:41:31]They're fun. They're stupid, though.

[00:41:33]Like, let's be real. Am I going to be first in line to watch Fast 11? Hell yes, I am. Come on now. Fast Forever, I think it's called. Is that actually the last one? Absolutely not. I don't believe you for a second. Third bet of the day. Fast Forever is not the final Fast and Furious movie. I know they're already talking about TV shows and spin-offs. Not a chance it ends there.

[00:41:52]Talk about milking that thing. Vin Diesel is gonna be playing Dominic Toretto until he needs help getting in and out of the car and past that, I think. But yeah, those are the two I think Jurassic Park, but if it had a better follow-up movie, I think I wouldn't feel that way. But Fast and Furious could have ended with Furious 7 and they just really started doing some crazy stuff.

[00:42:13]But who knows? That cliffhanger Fast 10 was a little crazy. That was their Infinity War, wasn't it? I mean, they What were they even doing?

[00:42:21]All right, and we've got our last question of the week here. This is from Isabella who sent an email asking if I pay attention to the other questions she asks. So to answer both of your questions, the first one yes and the other one coming. What are two or three of the hardest lessons you've learned since graduating college? I had to think about this a little bit and I'll think about this even more and I'll probably come up with an even more honest answer, a more thoughtful answer which will make it more honest. But the first thing I learned was patience. If I was trying to do this show 10 years ago when I had first graduated college, 12 years ago, I guess, I would have probably given up by now. I would have gotten angry that it didn't blow up and become the biggest show in the world. And I probably would have given up. So, patience. Uh, and not only that, not only that it didn't blow up because more than even just viewership or listenership because it's the numbers we get are really satisfying uh to me now at least, but they're satisfying enough to take them to publicists and say, "Hey, look, I'm proud of this number. This is a big number. This is bigger than a lot of media outlets, all things considered with the reach on social."

[00:43:26]Um, but the patience to understand that people are going to say no right now.

[00:43:32]I mean, there are people I just can't get their publicist to even reply.

[00:43:37]Uh there are people that I I really want to interview that I think it would make them look good and, you know, hopefully be worth their time. Whatever, man. For whatever reason, I don't even get a reply sometimes. And I get a lot of no.

[00:43:48]I get a lot of this doesn't work, especially outside of Marvel and DC and Star Wars and stuff. Even Star Wars, I didn't get Mandalorian junket. I didn't even get the Mandalorian. And I didn't get to do any interviews for the Mandalorian and Grou except Brendan Wayne who I got to have come to the studio separately because I know Brendan's publicist personally and that was super fun episode. But the patience the patience and learning to accept that it's not going to happen right now but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Uh number two I've learned it's it is it is much better to not want attention and and and just everybody's attention. When I was when I was younger, and this is all we're not going to get into too much therapy speak here, but I was certainly raised in a home that left me feeling like I needed everybody to like me. Uh, as as I grew up into an adult, I needed everybody's attention. I needed everybody to like me and I needed everybody to know that I was good at stuff. And honestly, that doesn't matter. I wanted to be famous when I was younger.

[00:44:49]Nah, you don't need everybody to like you.

[00:44:52]You don't need everybody's attention.

[00:44:54]It's okay to just be true to yourself.

[00:44:58]Have a small circle. Believe in what you do. Don't do what you do for someone else's approval.

[00:45:05]And do your thing for you. And those are lessons I learned through personal and professional experiences.

[00:45:13]Certainly definitely learned them on both sides of my life. Now my life is 90% professional anyway. I really don't have time for a personal life which sucks. I have friends mad at me. Um but then it's like okay I have to be okay with that sometimes but also communicate hey this is why don't be a shitty friend. Um and number three like it doesn't matter whatever happened today unless you actually did something to hurt somebody or permanently damage yourself or someone or or some it doesn't matter. It'll pass. like this too shall pass as a real thing.

[00:45:48]Um that doesn't mean you shouldn't look at what went wrong, whether it's your fault, someone else's fault, or something out of everybody's control's fault. It doesn't matter if it does if if today didn't go well. If today didn't go the way you wanted it to, if the thing you were going to do today didn't happen, it's okay. It doesn't matter. It's going to be fine. And I don't say it doesn't matter to be dismissive, but like 10 years from now, it doesn't.

[00:46:19]If you uh if your phone dies, and that is tremendously inconvenient today, that is not going to matter tomorrow. You're going to find a solution. You're going to get your phone plugged in. If you can't find a parking spot, you got to walk further. You're a little bit late.

[00:46:35]Maybe if your third time being late, you get fired. You should have thought about that and accommodated because you should have learned your lesson the first two times. But still, even if you lose your job, your necessity will force you to fix it. At least make it sustainable until you find something better. And 10 years from now, the day you lost your job, take it from me right now.

[00:46:54]Hopefully, I'm two years into this story. And it's not about being late and other things out of my control. It doesn't matter.

[00:47:02]It's going to be fine. And I don't think I did a great job of explaining that because no, you shouldn't lose your [ __ ] job. You should treat your job like it matters. You should treat the your health and your job and the things you need to do like they matter 100% they do today. But just because it matters today does not mean 10 years from now it's going to matter or be as important to you or the people in your life as it is today. If it even is a memory. Do as much as you can today to make things matter and make them important valuable uh memories and moments and opportunities and advancements that you can. But that I would say I've just learned that things really but like especially if you're a a college kid. Oh my god, if I knew how much failing doesn't matter when I was younger, oh my god, I would I would have tried so many more things.

[00:47:51]The fear of people's opinions of me, the fear of appearing to not be good at something, those things like they just don't matter. And I wish I took more chances. And I did take chances in college. I made a I made a trailer for a TV show which started the whole snowball which put me here today. I oversold it for sure to get people to work with me and stuff like I was going to be a pitch for a TV show to AMC which ironically I did actually really I mean I did believe I was going to pitch TV show AMC. I that's a whole story I've told on a previous podcast I think. Uh but I like I I was a little like oh is this still going to happen? But I never let people see that waiver. And we did. I sent it off and I never ended up having a meeting or anything. But I got feedback. No, this isn't for us. But it's just like if you're in college, if you're if you're like if you're in high school or you're younger, like you can go out, you can try things. You can I mean don't like be smarter than you you probably are or I was because it does live forever on the internet. That is something I think kids today are probably aware of. they've come up in that culture. Whereas, uh, people my age, like they get throw, you know, you see people getting thrown off Love Island because it's something they posted when they were 19, be considerate of other people. Uh, and just be a good person, especially in things you're saying out on camera and out loud. But other than actually shitty things that can cause permanent damage or harm to yourself and other people, it just doesn't matter. Does that make sense?

[00:49:16]So, those are the three things. One, patience. Be patient. Number two, you don't need everybody's approval. You just got to believe in yourself and have a small circle of people around you who support you and believe in you. And number three, it doesn't matter. It's going to be okay. It's going to be okay.

[00:49:32]So, yeah. Is that a stupid answer? Is that a weird answer? Guess what? It doesn't matter. No, I'm just kidding.

[00:49:37]Uh, no, but thank you, Isabella. Thank you for always sending great questions.

[00:49:40]I'm actually I owe Isabella an email.

[00:49:42]I've just been all over the place, so I plan to reply to a couple emails from Isabella this week. Hey everybody who sends emails to the Brandon Davis [email protected]. Thank you for sending your Askb questions. Get your questions in for Askb number 26 which is coming out a week from today. A week from today. You can send it to the Brandon Davis showgmail.com or you can wait until Friday to reply to the post on Patreon and Facebook and Twitter and uh maybe your question your question will get answered. Patreon subscribers get first dibs. Um, oh, I will announce the next guest while I give you the actual last bit of today's episode. X-Men 97 reaction. I've seen the first four episodes. This show, I love season 1. I loved season one of X-Men 97. What an impossible task X-Men 97 season 1 had of reviving an animated series that so many of us grew up watching, various ages. We all watched it. Come If you're here, chances are you watched X-Men.

[00:50:40]X-Men the animated series.

[00:50:44]What an easy thing it would have been to create something that made people go, "No, it's not as good as the original.

[00:50:49]It's not as good. It's just not the same." No, they came out and they actually improved it. They made it even better. Incredible work in season 1. I love season 1.

[00:50:59]I love season two. Season two is remarkable. First four episodes. You know what? You know what?

[00:51:07]10 out of 10.

[00:51:09]10 out of 10. I'm giving the first four episodes.

[00:51:12]Hart, Nathan Summers, who is the next guest on the podcast, by the way, July 1st. Michael Johnston from Obsession, who is Nathan Summers, the young cable, he's on the show.

[00:51:24]Nathan Summers is such a great heart.

[00:51:26]This the child of of of Scott of of of Cyclops. I don't want to spoil anything.

[00:51:33]There is heart, especially through Nathan, but through that whole family dynamic, oh my gosh, there is complexity to this. There is timelines. There are characters involved in this, which I didn't watch the trailers for X-Men 97, so I don't know if a certain character being in this is a surprise, a certain villain character being in this is a surprise. And I'm not talking about Apocalypse, who Ross Marquan does a phenomenal job voicing. Apocalypse is a menace, and when you see episode 4, you're going to lose your minds.

[00:52:01]The animation is fantastic on this show, but there's there's a there's parts of this that made me go, "Oh my gosh, this is so good. Why couldn't live action do stuff like this?" Like, this is so good.

[00:52:12]And the truth is, they shouldn't be compared.

[00:52:15]Uh, but I mean, it is a phenomenal show.

[00:52:18]It is a phenomenal show. It is creative.

[00:52:20]It is dealing with heavy themes of what's right and wrong like the X-Men do relationship dynamics, not just Professor X and Magneto or or Gene and Scott and it it's not just brotherhood or romance, right?

[00:52:36]Relationships with people who you disagree with, you fundamentally disagree with on what is right and wrong. That is a part of X-Men 97 and how you still have to come to the table and maybe have conversations and find ways to work together and live together.

[00:52:50]Even if you disagree, you might have a common goal, which is just good good for people, but you have different ideals of how to get there, which is what the X-Men are. This season is doing that.

[00:52:59]I've only seen the first four. Sure, it could all go to We all watch Secret Invasion. There's a chance this goes to [ __ ] after this, you know? I don't know.

[00:53:05]But it it is it is fantastic, guys.

[00:53:07]X-Men 97 is fantastic. It's really good.

[00:53:10]And I think that that is all I promised for today's episode. I'm glad I I almost forgot the X-Men 97 reaction. We got it in there. Make sure you're subscribed to the channel because I'm packing all this up and going to the Supergirl premiere.

[00:53:21]That's right. We're going to have a spot on the carpet and I think we're going to get some really cool stuff. And then uh this Wednesday, Anna Negada is the main character on the show, the writer of Supergirl, who was also writing a Supergirl movie before this one back when Sasha Kelly was attached. That didn't end up happening. So we talk about that. We talk about she's supposed to write Wonder Woman. talk about a lot of things and there will be a uh the missing minutes of that because it's a little bit shorter than podcast episodes usually are because I took eight minutes of it of the 40 minutes I was allotted to talk spoilers. So the missing minutes will be released Thursday night on Patreon, Friday on YouTube, maybe Saturday on YouTube. Give the Patreon people a little extra boost, a little thank you for being here. Thank you for supporting the show uh by literally like financially contributing to it because without you guys, I cannot stress that enough. There would be no show. But every single person who watches, like that's not to say, hey, if you like, if you are watching the show, hitting thumbs up, subscribing on podcast platforms, that's very important, too.

[00:54:15]So, thank you for every single piece of it. Um, yeah, that's what's coming up.

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[00:54:46]Uh if you have notes on how to improve the show, I'm all ears. I love hearing from you guys. And I hope you all have a wonderful, wonderful week. Happy Monday if you watch this on the day it released. Happy whatever day it is if you're watching from the future. See you in the next one, everybody.