Episode #110: MCU Infinity Stones, Solo Timeline, Oscar Results
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay for another huge week in NERD! This week they discuss the Infinity Stones in the MCU, where Solo: A Star Wars Story sits in the Star Wars timeline, Black Panther Box Office Update, a listener question from Grabs, Oscar Results, and much more!!
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay for another huge week in NERD! This week they discuss the Infinity Stones in the MCU, where Solo: A Star Wars Story sits in the Star Wars timeline, Black Panther Box Office Update, a listener question from Grabs, Oscar Results, and much more!!
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Episode #109: Toy Fair 2018, Marvel Comics Reboot, Solo Books
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay for a massive episode were they discuss NY Toy Fair 2018, Black Panther Box Office, Marvel Comics reboot, DC News, listener questions, and much more!!
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Episode #108: Black Panther Review
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay for a spoiler fill discussion of the 18th entry into the MCU; Black Panther.
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Episode #107: Black Panther Prelude, Venom and Deadpool Trailers
Join hosts Tim and Troy for The Nerd Room's prelude to Black Panther Episode! The guys discuss what you need to know (without spoilers) before going into the latest Marvel Studios film Black Panther! They also breakdown the new Venom and Deadpool trailers and discuss the accessibility of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Join hosts Tim and Troy for The Nerd Room's prelude to Black Panther Episode! The guys discuss what you need to know (without spoilers) before going into the latest Marvel Studios film Black Panther! They also breakdown the new Venom and Deadpool trailers and discuss the accessibility of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Episode #106: Solo & Avengers: Infinity War Trailers
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to breakdown a massive week in Nerd! The crew assembles to discuss a new Avengers: Infinity War trailer, the announcement of a new film series in the Star Wars Universe, and of course the highly anticipated Solo: a Star Wars Story teaser trailer!
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to breakdown a massive week in Nerd! The crew assembles to discuss a new Avengers: Infinity War trailer, the announcement of a new film series in the Star Wars Universe, and of course the highly anticipated Solo: a Star Wars Story teaser trailer! The guys also answer a listener question and discuss their week in comics and collecting!
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Episode #105: Ant-Man and the Wasp Trailer
Join hosts Tim and Troy to discuss and breakdown the teaser trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp! The guys also discuss their week in comics, the first reactions to Black Panther, and much more!
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MCU Retrospective Series: Iron Man 3
LISTENERS ASSEMBLE!
The journey to Avengers: Infinity War continues here! Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to discuss Marvel’s 7th entry into the MCU: Ironman 3!
LISTENERS ASSEMBLE!
The journey to Avengers: Infinity War continues here!
Enter the Nerd Room for a massive retrospective review of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, leading into a weekend of release review of Avengers: Infinity War.
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to discuss Marvel’s 7th entry into the MCU: Ironman 3
We look forward to taking the journey with the listeners and would love to have your input, comments, and questions. Send your thoughts to the nerdrm@gmail.com or hit us up on twitter (@thenerdrm)!
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Episode #104: Oscar Nominations & January Nerd News
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to round up and discuss this weeks Star Wars, Marvel, and DC news! The guys also breakdown the 2018 Oscar Nominations and tackle a listener questions about comicbook origin stories!
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Episode #103: Avengers 4 & Revisiting Elements of TLJ
Join hosts Tim and Troy as they revisit elements of Star Wars: The Last Jedi from Rian Johnson's perspective and also to discuss what we know so far about Avengers 4.It is a light news week so the guys also spend sometime talking through some recent Star Wars and Marvel comicbooks as well as some recent announcement of CBM release dates.
Join hosts Tim and Troy as they revisit elements of Star Wars: The Last Jedi from Rian Johnson's perspective and also to discuss what we know so far about Avengers 4.
It is a light news week so the guys also spend sometime talking through some recent Star Wars and Marvel comicbooks as well as some recent announcement of CBM release dates.
31:08 - Avengers 4 Discussion
52:44 - The Last Jedi Elements Revisited
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Episode #102: Solo Leaks & Black Panther Final Trailer
Join hosts Tim and Troy to discuss the latest Solo: A Star Wars Story Lego leaks and what they could mean for the film as well as the final Black Panther trailer. The guys also breakdown The Last Jedi box office numbers, and WB hiring their own 'Kevin Feige' for the DCEU!
Join hosts Tim and Troy to discuss the latest Solo: A Star Wars Story Lego leaks and what they could mean for the film as well as the final Black Panther trailer. The guys also breakdown The Last Jedi box office numbers, speculate on final Rebels episodes, and discuss WB hiring their own 'Kevin Feige' for the DCEU!
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Episode #101: 2018's Most Anticipated in Nerd
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to discuss their most anticipated films, comics, and collecting for 2018!
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to discuss their most anticipated films, comics, and collecting for 2018!
Now, with the arrival of a New Year always comes a commitment to change, so the crew layout their three Nerd-Year resolutions! The guys also rundown their top 10 most anticipated films for 2018 and tackle The Nerd Room's Box Office Fantasy Draft!
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Episode #100 - 2017 Year in Review
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay for Episode #100 of The Nerd Room! This week the guys discuss 2017 in Nerd! What were the biggest stories in Star Wars, Marvel and DC in 2017? Did 2017 live up to the expectations set in their most anticipated lists? What are their top 10 films of 2017? Tune into find out all this and much more!
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay for Episode #100 of The Nerd Room! This week the guys discuss 2017 in Nerd! What were the biggest stories in Star Wars, Marvel and DC in 2017? Did 2017 live up to the expectations set in their most anticipated lists? What are their top 10 films of 2017? Tune into find out all this and much more!
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Episode #99: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to discuss their thoughts and opinions on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The guys go deep into spoilers but just scratch the surface of the film!
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Episode #98: Prelude to Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Spoiler-Free)
Join hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay to discuss their final spoiler-free thoughts before Star Wars: The Last Jedi drops into theaters! The guys also rundown a bunch of recent news and trailers (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Jurassic World 2).
08:58 - This week in Nerd News
54:58 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi Prelude
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Episode #97: Star Wars Collecting in 2017
Join hosts Tim, Troy and special guest Cory from Tumbling Saber to discuss Star Wars collecting in 2017. The guys breakdown how they collect, their favourite 2017 purchases, speculate what 2018 is going to look like in collecting, and much more!
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Episode #96: Avengers: Infinity War Trailer
Join Tim and Kyle from Tumbling Saber for a detailed breakdown of the first Avengers: Infinity War trailer.
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Hindsight: The Novel a Podcast Interview
In the first spoiler-free episode Tim discusses the conception and creation of Hindsight: The Novel with creators Matthew Keegan, Marc Godsiff, and Paul Jones.
Over the next few months Tim will be joined by all three creators of Hindsight: The Novel for a special podcast series that will dive into the creative process of crafting this incredible book!
In the first spoiler-free episode Tim discusses the conception and creation of Hindsight: The Novel with creators Matthew Keegan, Marc Godsiff, and Paul Jones.
HINDSIGHT SYNOPSIS
The year is 2065.
The super-rich have a new way to vacation and collect rare items, Time Travel.
One man can allow you to travel back in time to witness a major event, see an old friend or relative long gone or to attain a rare work of art.
But you cannot interact, you cannot divert from the path and you must not change what takes place.
Thomson Carr is the creator of the Market, a man ‘out of time’ most of his life, and with the assistance of a specially selected team he can offer these services.
Martin Townes is a man that simply wants to right a wrong. Nothing more, and he’ll do whatever it takes to achieve it.
Even if it means shattering time.
Spanning hundreds of years in time, The Market will take us to places and lead us to mysteries we never had fully answered, offering a glimpse of what was, and always asking the question…
What would you change…
in hindsight?
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Feature Fridays - Hindsight: The Novel
Feature Fridays is a NEW Nerd Room bi-weekly post that will highlight creators and their content! This week we are featuring Hindsight: The Novel!
Feature Fridays is a NEW Nerd Room bi-weekly post that will highlight creators and their content! This week we are featuring Hindsight: The Novel!
An exciting new novel titled Hindsight from Matthew Keegan, Marc Godsiff, and Paul Jones arrived digitally and on paperback on November 22nd, 2017! The book has received incredible reader feedback and has a 5 star reader rating on Amazon.
Hindsight: The Interviews
Over the next few months I will be joined by all three creators of Hindsight for a special podcast series that will dive into the creative process of crafting Hindsight! You'll be able to listen to this series of podcasts on The Nerd Room Podcast feed!
In the first spoiler-free episode, hitting the feed on November 28th, 2017, the creators will discuss and detail the conception and creation of Hindsight. In the second episode, the readers will be in the drivers seat and given the opportunity to send in questions for the creators!
Support Hindsight and it creators by purchasing Hindsight on Amazon using the following links and make sure to leave a review!
You can discovery more by visiting the Hindsight: The Novel Facebook Page.
Hindsight Synopsis
The year is 2065.
The super-rich have a new way to vacation and collect rare items, Time Travel.
One man can allow you to travel back in time to witness a major event, see an old friend or relative long gone or to attain a rare work of art.
But you cannot interact, you cannot divert from the path and you must not change what takes place.
Thomson Carr is the creator of the Market, a man ‘out of time’ most of his life, and with the assistance of a specially selected team he can offer these services.
Martin Townes is a man that simply wants to right a wrong. Nothing more, and he’ll do whatever it takes to achieve it.
Even if it means shattering time.
Spanning hundreds of years in time, The Market will take us to places and lead us to mysteries we never had fully answered, offering a glimpse of what was, and always asking the question…
What would you change…
in hindsight?
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Thank you for reading,
Tim
Episode #95: Justice League Review
This week hosts Tim, Troy, and Sunjay are joined by Rob Cast (TSW Roundtable, TSW Comics, Roman Pod and Cast) to discuss DC's latest film, Justice League. The guys discuss everything from the development to the end credits of the film and touch on the future of the DCEU.
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Batman, My Batman
I have made no secret of the fact that I am not a big fan of the direction Zack Snyder has taken the DCEU. I’m not keen on the tone of Man of Steel, I didn’t appreciate his vision of Batman or Superman in BvS and I’m not looking forward to Justice League. I find the tone too dark and the characters too hopeless. But I’m not suggesting everything that came before was perfect either. In fact, I had issues with The Dark Night Rises. These issues were largely mine because I had built a headcanon version of the movie that could never be…
I have made no secret of the fact that I am not a big fan of the direction Zack Snyder has taken the DCEU. I’m not keen on the tone of Man of Steel, I didn’t appreciate his vision of Batman or Superman in BvS and I’m not looking forward to Justice League. I find the tone too dark and the characters too hopeless. But I’m not suggesting everything that came before was perfect either. In fact, I had issues with The Dark Night Rises. These issues were largely mine because I had built a headcanon version of the movie that could never be…
After the Dark Knight, my mind went directly to the sequel. Nolan’s sequel to Batman Begins may be the best superhero film ever made. It also happens to be very dark, lacking any sense of hope and takes the characters extremely seriously, but somehow Nolan made it work. The film was released in 2008 as Marvel was just booting up the MCU and getting ready to teach the world how to manage comic book IP. But, when Dark Knight swooped into theatres it did so beneath a huge shadow. The shadow was cast by the loss of Heath Ledger who breathed life into The Joker in a way that made the character a poison chalice for anyone who dares try to fill Heath’s shoes.
The way the Dark Knight ended, and indeed, the way it closed the book on the Joker felt like the series had more to say. As if the Joker’s return was inevitable, and so my imagination run away with me and ultimately, I created a “headcanon” movie that The Dark Rises, in some small way, to me alone, failed to surpass. I wanted to share that with you today.
My idea for a Dark Knight sequel would require that Christopher Nolan recast the Joker with another actor. Nolan stated pretty clearly as The Dark Knight Rises entered production that this simply wasn’t going to happen. So my vision for a sequel featuring the character started to fade almost immediately, even as my first choice to replace Heath, Joesph Gordon Levitt was cast in the film. Here is what I wanted to see.
In my Batman movie, we would have seen a slightly different version of the Joker. One incarcerated in Arkham. A Joker with no makeup, no brightly coloured hair and no purple suit. This Joker, I envisioned would have sported a close-cropped haircut, clearly visible scars and a subdued persona. This a Joker who is being kept level by a prescribed list of narcotics. Courtesy of his psychiatrist, Dr Quinn of course. In my mind Joker belongs behind glass, rather than bars, the way we meet Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs, and that wouldn’t be the only parallel to Jonathan Demme’s movie.
Gotham would have fallen prey to a terrorist of sorts. A warped individual who is completely obsessed with The Batman. A fanboy who is setting bombs in Gotham designed to test The Batman. To see if the man the press are calling a vigilante is actually hero or villain. To test his prey, the bomber is leaving a series of test, clues that Batman needs to follow in order to foil his dastardly plans. You might call them riddles…
One thing I wanted to see was the introduction of The Riddler. In my story, the Riddler was a simple Gothamite who had grown increasingly more obsessed with Batman and intrigued by the battle of wits between the Joker and The Bat. This is when The Riddler reaches out to The Joker in Arkham. Dr Quinn passes correspondence between the two men, much like The Tooth Fairy in Silence, giving The Joker an opportunity to strike out at Gotham from within his cell in Arkham.
With Batman being the worlds greatest detective (not something we have seen a great deal of in Batman movies so far) it won’t take long before he realises that The Joker is pulling The Riddler’s strings and he enters Arkham with Jim Gordon, in disguise as Matches Malone, to question The Joker and game is on.
This would have been a way to tell a Batman story that shares some of the themes in Se7en. The Riddler, with the help of The Joker, would put Batman in some impossible positions and ultimately tell a zero-sum tale that costs Bruce Wayne dearly.
Ultimately The Dark Knight Rises wrapped up the Nolan Batman trilogy in a spectacular way. Bane was fantastic, Catwoman was a wonderful, morally grey character, and Gotham, perhaps Bruce Wayne’s greatest weakness, was indeed at the centre of the story. But I think I would have preferred a story that utilised The Joker, introduced The Riddler and set up further tales, even if they were not told by Nolan.
My biggest hope for the end of this film that never stood a chance of being made would riff on the Joker playing card sting from Begins and potentially set up the DCEU. In my imaginary movie, just after the credits, we see Batman, crouched on the edge of a tall building in Gotham. Silently, behind him, Brandon Routh’s Superman flutters down into the frame. Batman’s head turns slightly acknowledging his arrival and Superman has one line, “Bruce, I need your help.”
Thank you for reading,
Marc