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Dave here again with my second edit and write up of the podcast. I promise there will be no Canadian hating in this episode. I think. I don’t know, I’m sure I’ll piss off Goon with something I say. This week we talked about G.I. Joe, Martyrs, and a whole bunch of other stuff. On with the post!

~~ Show Notes ~~
00:00:00 – Intro
• A kinder, gentler introduction this week. Thanks, Chad!

00:7:40 – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
• Andrea and James lead the conversation about how hot the woman in this movie are. Dave can’t really argue against that. Three Yes reviews all around.

00:39:30 – Martyrs
• Gah, this was a 180 for damn sure. Only Dave and James watched this one; Andrea should be glad she didn’t. Two No reviews.

01:05:00 – Whatcha’ Watchin?
• Thanks to Greg from Film Junk for recommending Man vs. Food. It’s pretty good.
• Andrea saw Julie and Julia. It made her hungry.
• James watched a whole lot of movies including Valkyrie, Hated, and, ugh, Dear Zachery.
• We went ahead and hyped District 9 before seeing it. For me, at least, it did not disappoint, but that’s for Ep 49.

02:22:25 – Goodbyes

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Quite possibly the greatest NatPort interview ever…

Sure, you could read this exhaustive 178 paragraph – 1,565 line – 21,890 word – 101,059 character (w/out spaces) explanation as to what exactly was going through David Chase’s mind when he decided to end the most popular premium-cable TV show with… well, nothing.  Or you you could let Microsoft Word’s “autosummary” feature do the heavy lifting for you!

Summary

Tony is dead. A: Tony walks into Holsten’s.

Tony is dead.

Tony isn’t exactly paranoid:

Tony and Carmela have a critical conversation that foreshadows Tony’s death. During Tony’s “coma trip”, Tony Blundetto/“Man” told Tony that “You’re Going Home”. Tony’s “Journey” is over. Tony is clearly scared.

Tony replies “than life”.

Just like Tony Soprano.

Kind of reads like a severely malformed Hiaku, no? But seriously, if you have an hour (or ten) to snuggle up with Random Internet Person’s good o’le fashioned impeccably-researched theories on POV shots, it’s worth the time. I’m convinced. Link.

On a side note, I guess the Sopranos movie, if it ever happens, will not be a continuing of the Tony story, timeline-wise. I’m good with that.

Veidt.com has posted the contents of an email claiming to have information about season 3 of Dexter, Showtime’s hit show (airing edited on CBS) starring Michael C. Hall as a “good” serial killer. For those that haven’t seen it, here’s the basic plot : He works for the Miami Police Department as a blood spatter analyst, and uses his inside pull to let killers go free so he can later hunt them down.

Previously, I had been worried (especially with Dexter’s monologue in the finale stating something about the Dark Passenger feeling like something bigger than himself) that the new season would be based on the third book in the series by Jeff Lindsay, which has been largely disowned by fans of the character for introducing the story element of Dexter being possessed by a supernatural being as the genesis for his murderous desires.

However, it looks like we won’t have to worry about this element seeping into the show (even season 2 was largely new material, while the 1st more or less follows the first book very closely). Here’s the info, straight from the source:

I received an email about the upcoming season 3 of Dexter, from a friend in a position to know, and it contained the following hints of what’s in store:

“…new season seems is trending darker. Again, nothing to do with “Dexter in the Dark”…no body-switching demons. Think more along the lines of the serial killer convention story from Gaiman’s Sandman run, and Suspect Zero.”

The Sandman story referenced is issue #14, it’s an outstanding issue of an epic series, and can be found here. Suspect Zero is a criminally-underrated, 2004 psychological thriller that plays like a horror movie designed to scare serial killers.

This news has me stoked, I can’t wait for September, when the new episodes are set to premiere.

If you had told me 12 seasons of The Amazing Race ago that I would still be watching the show I would have called you crazy. Surely watching strangers tramp around the world in a quest for adventure and greenbacks would eventually get old! If you had told me that I would be so addicted to the show I’d not only be hunting down an Asian only iteration of the show not even aired in the states, but also consider the latest season of said series the best of the lot, I’d call you crazy again! (Holy crap that was cheesy.)

Such is the fate of The Amazing Race Asia 2 for me. The first season of the spin-off show was pretty bland, but the latest season had all the players: A j-pop model and her jerkoff boyfriend, the stuck-up “moms” team, the handsome pack-leading “jocks”, and the mixed background couple who constantly bicker – loudly. There’s even a deaf guy. The music is the same, the mechanics virtually identical, only the cash prize has been downsized (the US version being 1 mil, Asia’s winner scores a tenth of that).

What really did it for me this season was three-fold:

1) Tons of cute non-annoying Asian chicks that can actually play the game (I’m a white-dude, cut me some slack).

2) A “jock” team that dominated while being genuinely funny and likable.

3) A surprise payoff ending not seen since the US versions’ season 2, in which Tara & Wil lose a finish-line footrace.

If you haven’t checked it out yet you should really track it down. Whoops!