A Ronin’s (and Pizza Dog’s) Work is Never Done
This week on a loaded podcast, Brian and Darryl are talking Hawkeye and The Week of Time series on D+ and Amazon Prime. Then News Bites on Arcane, Mass Effect, and Indiegogo change.
Episode Index
Intro: 0:11
Mass Effect TV: 5:50
Indiegogo Comics: 12:29
Arcane: League of Legends: 28:36
Hawkeye: 36:21
The Wheel of Time: 01:08:35
News Bites
Indiegogo switches gears to more closely screen crowdfunding campaigns https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22757421/indiegogo-crowdfunding-campaign-screening-fraud-gofundme
Amazon Reportedly Nearing Deal To Produce Mass Effect TV Series https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/11/24/amazon-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-produce-mass-effect-tv-series/
Arcane: League of Legends (Netflix)
Summary
Amidst the escalating unrest between the advanced, utopian city of Piltover and the squalid, repressed undercity of Zaun, sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a war over twisted ideologies and arcane technology.
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Hawkeye (Disney+)
Summary
Two years after the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Clint Barton must partner with Kate Bishop to confront enemies from his past as Ronin in order to get back to his family in time for Christmas.
Episode 1
Title: “Never Meet Your Heroes”
Directed by: Rhys Thomas
Written by: Jonathan Igla
Release Date: November 24, 2021
Summary
In 2012, during the Battle of New York, a young Kate Bishop witnesses Clint Barton battling the Chitauri and aspires to become a hero like him after he inadvertently saves her life. In the present day, Barton spends time with his children in New York for Christmas. Bishop attends a charity auction gala with her mother Eleanor and learns that she is engaged to Jack Duquesne. Underneath the gala, she stumbles onto a black-market auction featuring items recovered from the remains of the Avengers Compound, finding Duquesne and his uncle Armand III among the attendees. The auction is interrupted by the Tracksuit Mafia, a Russian street gang who attempts to recover a watch among the items. Bishop recovers Barton’s Ronin suit and defeats the Tracksuit Mafia members while wearing it. She escapes to her apartment after rescuing a stray dog and tracks down Armand to investigate further. Bishop discovers that Armand has been murdered in his home and is cornered by the Tracksuit Mafia members after fleeing the crime scene. Barton, who saw a news report of the Ronin’s return, rescues Kate from the gangsters.
Episode 2
Title: “Leavetaking”
Directed by: Rhys Thomas
Written by: Elisa Climent
Release Date: November 24, 2021
Summary
Bishop takes Barton back to her apartment but is attacked by the Tracksuit Mafia. The pair is forced to evacuate, leaving the Ronin suit behind. After relocating to the apartment of Bishop’s vacationing aunt, Barton sends his children back home, promising to return by Christmas Day. He escorts Bishop to her workplace, then recovers the Ronin suit from a firefighter named Grills at a LARP event. Later, Bishop fails to convince Eleanor of Duquesne’s involvement in Armand’s death. After challenging Duquesne to a fencing duel, she tries to contact Barton, not knowing that he has allowed himself to be captured by the Tracksuit Mafia. She tracks down Barton’s location but ends up being captured herself, and the gang informs their boss, Maya Lopez, of Barton and Bishop’s captivity.
The Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime Video)
Summary
The Wheel of Time follows Moiraine, a member of the Aes Sedai, a powerful organization of women who can use magic. She takes a group of four young people on a journey around the world, believing one of them might be the reincarnation of the Dragon, a powerful individual prophesied to either save the world or destroy it.
Episode 1
Title: “Leavetaking”
Directed by: Uta Briesewitz
Written by: Rafe Judkins
Release Date: November 19, 2021
Summary
Moiraine is an Aes Sedai, who can channel an elemental force called the One Power. Years past, the male half of the One Power became corrupted, driving male channelers insane, and Lews Therin Telamon, a channeler known as the Dragon, tore the world apart in his madness. Some Aes Sedai wish to eliminate male channelers, but Moiraine and her Warder Lan Mandragoran search for the Dragon’s reincarnation to defeat the Dark One, a force of primordial evil. Their search leads them to Emond’s Field and four possible candidates – villagers Rand al’Thor, Perrin Aybara, Mat Cauthon, and Egwene al’Vere – whom they plan to take to the White Tower, the Aes Sedai seat of power. Rand, who is besotted with Egwene, is disappointed that she intends to become the next Wisdom, a village leader, and healer who cannot wed. Trollocs, beasts following the Dark One, ambush Emond’s Field, and Nynaeve al’Meara, the current Wisdom, is taken and Perrin accidentally kills his wife Laila. Moiraine battles the Trollocs with the One Power and is injured. Rand, Perrin, Mat, and Egwene reluctantly join Moiraine and Lan on their journey back to the White Tower to keep the Trollocs away from Emond’s Field.
Episode 2
Title: “Shadow’s Waiting”
Directed by: Uta Briesewitz
Written by: Amanda Shuman
Release Date: November 19, 2021
Summary
In a Whitecloak encampment, the Whitecloaks burn an Aes Sedai. The Two Rivers villagers (Mat, Egwene, Rand, and Perrin) flee with Moiraine and Lan from pursuing Trollocs and a Fade. They flee across the ferry at Tarren’s Ferry, and to prevent the Trollocs from following, Moiraine uses the One Power to sink the ferry, incidentally killing the ferryman, which disturbs the villagers. Along their journey to Tar Valon, Egwene learns she has the potential to channel, Perrin encounters wolves, the villagers have disturbing dreams about the Dark One, Ba’alzamon, and mistrust and tension between Moiraine and Lan and the villagers grow. Moiraine grows wearier and exhausted from her injury, and when Trollocs catch up, Lan makes the hasty decision to have them enter Shadar Logoth to escape. While in Shadar Logoth, the group is attacked and separated by Mashadar, the twisted evil that inhabits the city. The group is separated and disoriented. Nynaeve is revealed to be alive and confronts Lan about the villagers.
Episode 3
Title: “A Place of Safety”
Directed by: Wayne Yip
Written by: Dave Hill
Release Date: November 19, 2021
Summary
The Two Rivers villagers are separated from Moiraine and each other, with Mat and Rand trekking across the wilderness in one direction, Egwene and Perrin in another, and Lan and an injured Moiraine are confronted by an angry Nynaeve demanding to know the location of the villagers. A flashback shows Nynaeve escaping, outsmarting, and killing the Trolloc that captured her. Egwene and Perrin are followed by wolves, and Perrin has a nightmare about the wolves and a mysterious fiery-eyed figure. They find safety and rest with the Tuatha’an or Tinkers, a peaceful nomadic group. Mat and Rand argue about whether to go home or to the White Tower, with Mat showing darker tendencies that Rand dislikes. They encounter a gleeman, Thom Merrilin, in a village where he steals their gold. They are attacked by a Darkfriend, whom Thom kills. Nynaeve and Lan argue about the villagers and whether Nynaeve should heal Moiraine. Eventually, Nynaeve concedes, using herbs to help the Aes Sedai while Lan scouts. Moiraine recovers enough to travel, and they encounter Red sisters on the road, including Liandrin, who have captured the self-proclaimed Dragon Reborn, Logain Ablar, a man who can channel the One Power.
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