AVENGERS CODA: With the release Avengers: Endgame this week (this is SPOILER FREE since neither have seen the film yet), Andrew and D. Bethel decide to examine a few aspects of the MCU and, especially, what and how Avengers: Infinity War set up this big finale. They discuss an analysis of Thanos as a sympathetic villain, what they're looking forward to after this movie's release, and briefly discuss Andrew's attempted rewatch of 11 years of MCU entries.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Singer, Mara. "Making Sympathetic Antagonist (And Why Thanos Wasn't One)." Mythcreants. 25 Jan. 2019.
• Andrew's live-tweeting of his Iron Man rewatch (click through for the thread).

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Shortcast 54 - Cameo Train (11 May 2018): Where Andrew and D. Bethel have a spoiler-filled discussion about Avengers: Infinity War.
• Crutch Talk (29 Mar. 2019): Where D. Bethel and Andrew talk about the most recent MCU entry, Captain Marvel.

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• "Disco Medusae" and "District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompotech.com)*

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NOTRE-DAME THE TORPEDOES: We open this week talking about the tragic fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, focusing on how its rebuilding efforts may be aided by the diligent work of Ubisoft (and the work they put into making Assassin's Creed: Unity.

THIS SHOULDN'T WORK: Andrew and D. Bethel talk about a tv show they've been mildly reticent to discuss because they can't believe it's actually good: Seth MacFarlane's The Orville––an unabashed Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation pastiche that is actually becoming some of the best Star Trek available.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Gach, Ethan. "Ubisoft Pledges More Than $500,000 to the Notre-Dame Cathedral Restoration Effort." Kotaku. Gizmodo Media Group, 17 Apr. 2019.
• Rogers, Adam. "Wrinkles in Spacetime: The Warped Astrophysics of Interstellar." Wired. Condé Nast, Oct. 2014.
• The Quasimodo Notre-Dame tribute drawing by Cristina Correa Freile.

CONSOLE WARS II: THE NEW CHALLENGERS: Things got shaken up in the world of video games––maybe––as Google announced its streaming-forward gaming platform––maybe––called Stadia while Apple announced its gaming-focused subscription platform––maybe––called Apple Arcade. Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the merits of these announcements and how they either apply, predict, or completely misread the gaming landscape.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 16 - Of Underwear Models & Wayward Sons: When D. Bethel and Andrew first talked about the hit CW show, Supernatural.
• Episode 27 - Super Sleep Mode: D. Bethel talks about starting to read Blake J. Harris' Console Wars––a book he's still reading in 2019.
• Plants Having Sex (05 April 2019): When Andrew and D. had a kind-of-fight about news coverage of games.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• McWhertor, Michael. "Google Stadia is the New Streaming Gaming Platform from Google." Polygon. Vox Media, 19 Mar. 2019.
• Marks, Tom. "Valve Admits Artifact Has 'Deep-Rooted Issues,' Commits to Fixing It." IGN. Ziff Davis, 29 Mar. 2019.
• Walton, Mark. "The Fabled SNES-Playstation Prototype Has Been Turned On and Disassembled." Ars Technica. Condé Nast, 09 Nov. 2015.
• Warren, Tom. "Apple Arcade is a New Game Subscription Service for iOS, Mac, and Apple TV." The Verge. Vox Media, 25 Mar. 2019.
• Webster, Andrew. "Apple Arcade has Game Developers Excited, But Quetsions Remain." The Verge. Vox Media, 26 Mar. 2019.

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew dives into the storied No Man's Sky and kind-of-fights with Dan about games media coverage while D. Bethel relates his experience speaking about comics––and his webcomic, Long John, to a college graphic novels as literature class.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• D. Bethel's webcomic, Long John. Start Chapter 1 here.

• Kuchera, Ben. "The Second Coming of No Man's Sky." Polygon. Vox Media, 25 Jul. 2019.
• Mitú. "Shazam."

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 121 - Almost an Andrew Sandwich: Where D. Bethel discusses watching Suicide Squad.
• Episode 122 - It's a Fake: Where Andrew talks about becoming enamored by Starbound.

INFO:

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FEATURED MUSIC:

-"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-"District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
*Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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