SuperGeeks #64–Video Game Memories
Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Join the guys as they return for a video game centric episode. The guys answer some listener emails, discuss whether Christoper Nolan is coming back for the Justice League movie, and get nostalgic about old video games. Check it out!
Show Notes and Time Markers
- What’s been Going On With Us
- Thomas watched “The Watch”—-8:30
- Jeff caught up with “Buffy: TVS Season 7″—-12:35
- Blue saw “Ted”—-22:50
- Review of “Star Wars: Clone Wars” season finale—24:25
- Robot Combat League—-26:13
- Blue saw “Meteor Man”—–31:16
- Listener Emails
- What is the history and Influence of Captain America in the U.S?—38:38
- What is your favorite Star Wars video game?—-48:28
- Super News
- Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale to be part of JL movie??—-1:01:40
- “The Hobbit Part 3″ delayed by 6 months—-1:14:14
- Chris Cooper cast as Norman Osbourne—1:17:14
- SuperTopic
- Old School “retro” video games—–<
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Wow, not a lot of posting about this last episode, which is odd, cause you guys covered a lot of ground. Guess Face book is the place to be.
First, i found Jeff’s perspective interesting with regards to Buffy as someone coming in on the last season. Obviously, Xander is the go to guy for the viewer relating to a character. However, if you start at the beginning, as I did, Buffy and soon after Angel were the only supernatural characters in the gang. Willow didn’t start as a witch and Anya and Tara were nowhere to be seen back then. So, while the core male geek demographic would totally relate to Xander, the geek girls, while wanting to be Buffy, would relate to Willow. The older audience, if there was one, might have related to Giles and so on. Looking at it from the perspective of the 7th season though, I totally get that Jeff would come to that conclusion.
You guys mentioned Mystery Men, which brings up the topic of off beat super hero movies. While a Disney movie and targeted at a younger audience, I found Sky High to be quite good. My favorite one though is The Specials. If you haven’t seen it, I highly suggest you give it a try. Starring Thomas Haden Church, Paget Brewster, Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, and Judy Greer to name a few. Written by James Gunn, who will be directing the Guardians of the Galaxy movie and Directed by Craig Mazin, co-writer of the Hangover sequels. Its kind of a documentary style. The opening title cards sum it up nicely:
This is the story of the Specials…
The 6th or 7th greatest superhero team in the world.
They have spent many a day fighting natural disasters and battling super villains.
This is not one of those days.
Anyway, may not be for everyone, but I highly recommend it.
Star Wars games. I really liked the Lego Star Wars games as well as the Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2. My favorites though, were the X-Wing Rouge Squadron games on the N64 that were mentioned on facebook. They had a great variety of new missions to fly as well as classic battles from the movies. Plus you got to fly a lot of different ships including a T-16 Skyhopper and there was a code to turn the V-wing into a Buick. i had a lot of fun flying that car around Tatooine.
Finally, at one point you guys mentioned the classic arcade game Joust. I don’t remember if you guys had talked about the book Ready Player One or if that was a different podcast i had been listening to. This book is by Ernest Cline and if you grew up immersed in 80′s pop culture it is so worth reading. It is basically a treasure hunt set in a future where the outside world has gotten so bad that a massive online game is the preferred reality. The creator of the game left clues after his death that would lead someone to the ultimate prize. Years later someone finally cracks the first clue. Months after the book was published, the author announced that he had hidden a secret message in the book. People who found it were treated to a real treasure hunt that would get the winner a Delorean similar to the one in Back to the Future. I was delayed in playing along due to my wife’s death. By the time I finished the 2nd challenge, someone had already finished the third and final challenge. Anyway, I bring this up because Joust was featured prominently both in the book and the final real life challenge, and your comment just made me think of it.
I highly recommend reading it, regardless of age, but children of the 80′s will get more nostalgia value from it.
FYI, the secret message is only in the print versions, not in the e-books.
Another great episode guys, keep it up, looking forward to the Mystery Men commentary.
Great comment. Thanks! I like your point about Buffy. You’re dead on. Jeff, of course, wouldn’t know that as he hasn’t seen the other seasons, but that makes total sense. Willow was pretty normal until almost Season 4. Even to some degree, Cordelia represented the “regular” popular girl audience member in a way that Buffy didn’t.
But I would still argue that Xander was the “heart” of the gang. Because while the other Scoobys eventually gained power of some sort, Xander never did. Not even in 9 total seasons. That was never the point of the character. I think the point of Xander (though it was sort of a stretch sometimes) is that even the most simple ordinary person can be powerful. He saved the world a few times and was one of the Buffy’s closest advisors, despite never once getting any real power.
Injustice is not only gonna have the Red Son package for superman, wonder woman, and Grundy. They are also going to have a black lantern Batman package. This game is gonna be awesome.
Ikr!!! plus the dlc with four extra fighters!!! I’m getting all the dlc just like arkham city!!
Finally the comments bored is fixed!!!!!
I know. How crappy is that. I thought you guys didn’t love us and then……a week later, I realize that somehow I shut off comments. I was so mad. hahaha
So much content to comment on this episode! Personally as much as Buffy is one of my favourite shows of all time I preferred the Angel spin-off over Buffy. I just enjoyed the darker, more serious tone. I also found the episodes more consistently good overall. You also had a more ongoing main storyline and there was never really the big bad boss at the end of each season like Buffy. It felt a bit more character driven. Look at Wesley for example, his evolution is one of the best I’ve ever witnessed in a TV show.
As far as this JL malarkey goes I don’t think we’ll get anymore news until Man of Steel has come out and how it does. If it has a solid opening and makes a ton of money they’ll make the press announcement etc. If it does badly, perhaps it’ll never be mentioned again or the studio will have second thoughts about the future of DC movies. Personally, despite some of the story elements that Nolan will need to work out for Batman, I’d be pumped to see his and Snyder’s take on JL or a Batman/Superman team up. I say bring it on!
Agreed about Wesley’s evolution. But Angel was not more consistent in quality. They both had roughly equal share of awful episodes.
When I say more consistent I don’t mean consistently amazing. I think Buffy has more top quality episodes than Angel, but also more bad ones. Angel was more consistently in the middle of the two extremes. Obviously it also had its better and worse episodes, but personally I felt it straddled the extremes to a lesser extent than Buffy.
uhhhh….I’m afraid I might have to take Stevey’s side on this. I often mention how Buffy is one of my top 3 favorite shows of All Time. Buffy, I think in the long run, was the better show, was more epic in scope. Great characters, great Big Bads, great stories, great actors.
But sometimes….just sometimes, I absolutely agree that, episode for episode, Angel might have had Buffy beat. The dark tone, the really disturbing character themes, the Season long story archs. You weren’t messing around when you watched Angel. The %$^& could get real serious at the drop of a hat. I think Angel was Joss Whedon’s attempt at telling a more adult supernatural story. I’m addicted to that crap.
Gotta say I tested up reading Nightwing #18. All this stuff happening to Batman, but just as much if not more has happened to Nightwing. Plus the fact that he probably related better to Damien than anyone including Batman. Really was a great issue.