Mr. Know-It-All

Mr. Know-It-All
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Film and TV analysis from inside the process. Comics, Star Trek, superheroes and the genre work everybody watches and nobody reads closely enough - argued from twenty-two years spent in advertising and production, lighting scenes, fixing bad takes and cutting shots that killed the pacing. Every verdict is argued and every score is the host's. New episodes weekly.

  1. 1d ago

    VisionQuest Just Settled a 37-Year-Old Comics Fight #visionquest

    VisionQuest Episode 7 Review VisionQuest episode 7, Immolation, is the second-to-last episode of the season, and a second-to-last episode only has two jobs it can do. This one picked its job, and it reached all the way back to Marvel Comics #1 in 1939 to do it. Paul Bettany plays Vision, White Vision, Red Vision and more, and every one of those faces feels like a different man. The face is the fight. Steve Englehart said one thing about who the Vision really is in 1975, John Byrne said the opposite in 1989, and Avengers Forever tried to split the difference ten years later. I walk you through Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, Phineas Horton, and why VisionQuest just settled a 37-year-old comics fight. Plus the Inception-style descent into Vision's own mind, and why the edit plays like it does. Then the Client, Ultron and Jocasta: the card the show held back, the comics family tree hiding behind it, Horton's forgotten partner, and the keys that kept me in my chair. The VisionQuest finale lands next Tuesday, and the Know-It-All Files on episode 7 come Sunday. Subscribe for more VisionQuest breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters:0:00 A 37-Year-Old Comic Book Feud Finally Settled0:57 The Art of the Penultimate Episode1:51 Diving Into the Psyche: An Inception Quality3:56 The Original Human Torch Revealed6:22 The Face of the Client: Is It Really Ultron? Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2T2vRhc3Fs Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/R2T2vRhc3Fs Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. 3d ago

    The VisionQuest Client Is Echoing a 1989 Comic #visionquest

    VisionQuest episode 6: the Client and the Vision Quest comic The Client finally made his pitch in VisionQuest episode 6, and the breakdowns this week are guessing who he is. The Know-It-All Nation already put a name on the board. This is the Know-It-All Files on VisionQuest episodes 5 and 6, and the pitch itself has been made before, in the comic this show is named after. VisionQuest's Vision, Ultron and Jocasta, read against John Byrne's West Coast Avengers 42 to 45, the 1989 Vision Quest run, plus Avengers West Coast 50 and Avengers Forever 8: who took the Human Torch out of the Vision, what Wonder Man said when Wanda asked him to give the Vision his soul back, and the episode 7 scene Marvel released with Red Vision at the door. Then the receipts. The Nation's calls on the Client, on Ultron's hands, on the hat and on whether Ultron stops Jocasta, timestamped against when I said it, plus the members' ballot on episodes 5 and 6. Episode 7, Immolation, is Tuesday night on Disney Plus; the review is Wednesday and the Files pick it up that Sunday. The 1989 piece and every link from this file are at knowitallnation.com. Subscribe for more Marvel comics and TV breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters00:00 The Client's pitch and a 1989 comic01:16 Jim Hammond, the Nation's pick03:52 The Client's whole pitch06:11 West Coast Avengers 42 to 4507:49 Episode 7: Red Vision at the door09:03 The Human Torch and the Vision11:17 Jocasta's body12:44 Ultron's hands15:02 Vision's hat16:05 Does Ultron stop Jocasta?18:27 The Nation Ballot19:33 The question the 1989 comic asks Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6FA0NI-wgk Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/k6FA0NI-wgk Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. 5d ago

    Why Crystal Lake Had to Explain Jason #crystallake

    Crystal Lake review Spoilers for all eight episodes of Crystal Lake on Peacock, ending included. The series takes the mother from the 1980 Friday the 13th, Pamela Voorhees, and gives her the whole story: Linda Cardellini plays Pam just right, with enough humanity that you follow her and enough wrongness that you start to question why you are still following her. From the opening in the lake to the fireworks at the end of the first episode, this is her show. Everybody is arguing about whether Crystal Lake should have explained Jason. The real question is whether it ever had a choice. Victor Miller, who wrote the 1980 movie, went to court and won back the US rights to that screenplay, just that one, so the series could only be built from the movie where the mother is the killer. And a movie can leave a killer in the dark; eight hours of television cannot. To follow Pam all the way to that camp, you have to see who she was before, and you cannot explain her without explaining Jason. Crystal Lake also keeps the Friday the 13th DNA: the first-person POV shots, the sounder used judiciously, counselors like Barry and Claudette who get lives before they become references, and Ralph carrying his own history. Plus how American Horror Story: 1984 compares, what showrunner Brad Caleb Kane has said about season 2, and the one thing I would change about how Peacock released it. Danny the Dork Knight's review and the season 2 story are at https://knowitallnation.com Subscribe for more TV and movie breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 0:00 Cold open: a mother in the water2:03 Pam in the lake and Linda Cardellini3:41 The snake, the counselors and Ralph4:54 Why the series had to explain Jason7:05 The Friday the 13th DNA: POV shots and the sounder8:21 American Horror Story: 1984, The Orville and Discovery9:29 The all-at-once drop10:38 More coverage and season 211:50 The verdict #crystallake #fridaythe13th #jasonvoorhees Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBCsKJ7-ut8 Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/IBCsKJ7-ut8 Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. 5d ago

    Walter Koenig, Trek60 Philly and VisionQuest | Know-It-All Nation Live

    Walter Koenig, Trek60 Philly for the Star Trek 60th Anniversary, VisionQuest Episodes 5 and 6 and Avengers: Doomsday Predictions: Know-It-All Nation Live What's up my know-it-alls! This is the very first Know-It-All Nation Live, and I've got a full table. James from Lore Reloaded is my co-host, with Danny The Dorkknight and Eric "The Smoke" Moran, both contributing writers on knowitallnation.com. We open by remembering Walter Koenig, the original Chekov, who we lost on Sunday at 90. Then Trek60 Philly, November 14 and 15, where Mrs. Know-It-All and I are covering the whole weekend as press. Drop your questions for the Trek60 guests in the chat and we'll take the best ones to Philadelphia. Then VisionQuest episodes 5 and 6, Ultron, Jocasta and everything those two episodes flipped. FULL SPOILERS through episode 6. We close on the DEVELOPING Doomsday Board ahead of Avengers: Doomsday on December 18, and every guest puts one call on the record with today's date on it. Super Chats are on, and Danny decides when we get to them. Subscribe and turn on notifications for the next Know-It-All Nation Live: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 My VisionQuest review: I Was 100% Right and 100% Wrong About VisionQuest Know-It-All Nation: https://knowitallnation.com Find the panel: James from Lore Reloaded: https://www.youtube.com/@LoreReloaded Danny The Dorkknight: https://www.youtube.com/@DorkKnightLV and https://x.com/DorkKnightLV Eric "The Smoke" Moran: https://www.instagram.com/thesmoke007/ Mr. Know-It-All: https://x.com/MrKnowItAll and https://www.instagram.com/arealknowitall/ #StarTrek #VisionQuest #WalterKoenig Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. 6d ago

    Marvel Already Showed You How Doomsday Ends #avengersdoomsday

    Marvel already showed you how Avengers: Doomsday ends. They hid it in the four new scenes they put on Endgame when it went back into theaters: the TVA's wall of screens, the X-Men's Earth opening fire on another world and still standing, and O.B. saying it plain, the multiverse is collapsing. Jonathan Hickman built his whole New Avengers run on that idea. Two Earths touch, both die, unless one of them gets destroyed first. I'm reading Doomsday against the actual pages. Then the room. Black Panther, Namor and Reed Richards are the Illuminati under a different name, and Marvel gave the New Avengers name to Yelena's crew, the least powerful team in Avengers: Doomsday. Steve Rogers comes back from the life he chose with Loki at his front door, and in Hickman's books he is the one man who says no to the bomb. And Doctor Doom does not beat power, he takes it: Bruce Banner in a cell, an army of Sentinels, the Sentry on the bench, and a whole movie that comes down to Doom asking Reed one question. This is round one of DEVELOPING: Avengers Doomsday, a board that updates every Friday until the movie opens December 18, every call with the date I made it. You get what I'm watching for, what would break the picture, and why Secret Wars ending in a reset changes what Doomsday can afford to do. Tell me who is holding the button: Namor, Reed, Doom, or nobody. The board is at knowitallnation.com/developing/avengers-doomsday Subscribe for more Avengers: Doomsday breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Timecode Chapters: 0:00 The Endgame Encore Scene at the TVA 1:11 The Avengers: Doomsday Board 2:46 Incursions and Hickman's Bomb 3:57 The X-Men's Earth 5:48 Wakanda, Namor and the Illuminati 7:48 Yelena and the New Avengers Name 8:51 Steve Rogers and Time Runs Out 10:35 Doctor Doom and Bruce Banner 12:16 Doom and Reed Richards 13:45 Round One on the Board 14:56 The Molecule Man, the Beyonder and Black Leather 16:21 Who Holds the Button? Namor, Reed or Doom Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay5fJvv3seg Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/Ay5fJvv3seg Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Oct 28

    I Was 100% Right and 100% Wrong About VisionQuest #visionquest

    VisionQuest Episode 5 and 6 Review VisionQuest episodes 5 and 6 just paid off a theory I put my name on, and the same two episodes proved me wrong twice. I said Terry Matalas was not making a show about AI. I said it on camera, and Deadlock made me eat that line. I'm going to walk you through Ultron, Jocasta and the receipts, and show you how the thing I got right and the two things I got wrong are the same thing. At the center of it are Ultron and Jocasta, two machines who want the same thing from opposite sides. One is walking toward being human, the other feels her humanity slipping away, and James Spader playing off James Spader is a chef's kiss. I break down why the comics version of this story may not be the one VisionQuest is telling, and why Ultron may be the one who draws the line. Then the payoffs: why every episode of VisionQuest keeps making the last one better, the Vision and Paladin standoff, the Star Trek: Picard comparison I had to make, and the production side, including the one set that did not sell it for me. Plus, starting Friday, the Road to Doomsday begins right here. Subscribe for more VisionQuest breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Timecode Chapters:0:00 The Fourth Key Theory1:23 I Was Wrong About the AI3:04 The Star Trek: Picard Comparison4:25 Ultron and Jocasta, Opposite Sides6:18 Will Ultron Stop Her?7:36 Every Episode Makes the Last Better8:59 Vision vs. Paladin10:01 Production Notes and Plot Holes11:46 The Know-It-All Index13:20 Friday: The Road to Doomsday Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8tnrCzV-JQ Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/V8tnrCzV-JQ Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Oct 26

    Ultron Has Taken Vision's Body Before #visionquest

    VisionQuest Ultron takes over Vision's body Ultron is driving Vision's body, and every breakdown this week is grading the decision. The Know-It-All Nation asked the better question: what does he do with it now? This is the Know-It-All Files on VisionQuest episodes 3 and 4, and the answer was printed in August of 1969, on a page from my own shelf that one of you described word for word before you had ever seen it. Paul Bettany's Vision, James Spader's Ultron, T'Nia Miller's Jocasta and Mary McDonnell's Katerina Wells, read against Avengers #66, #67, #162 and #171: what Jocasta was really harvesting from the Markridge scientists, why the Bride of Ultron turned on him in 1978, and the question the show put in Ultron's own mouth about whose face he is wearing. Then the receipts. The Know-It-All Nation called the handover days before episode 4 aired, with timestamps, and the members scored episodes 3 and 4 on their own ballot. Episodes 5 and 6 are Tuesday at 9 Eastern on Disney Plus; the review is Wednesday night, the Files on both are the Sunday after. Every page and every link from this file is at knowitallnation.com. Subscribe for more Marvel comics and TV breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Timecode Chapters:00:00 The trigger phrase and Avengers #6601:20 Avengers #67, page four02:45 Ultron-5, Ultron-6 and the adamantium04:12 Katerina Wells and the fourth key05:28 The Bride of Ultron, Avengers #17106:31 The show's Jocasta07:52 Phineas Horton and Ultron's face09:55 The comments that came before the episode11:41 The Nation Ballot12:43 What the premiere missed13:48 Episodes 5 and 6 Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Oct 23

    Clayface Just Proved My Corkboard Wrong #clayface

    Clayface ending explained Last week Mr. Know-It-All pinned five predictions about Clayface to a corkboard on camera, with a Watch For column and a This Breaks It column beside them. Now the movie is out, and this is the full spoiler discussion: the whole film, the ending, the last scene, graded pin by pin against what Matt Hagen actually does on screen. One of those cards gets stamped wrong, on the record, and the video opens on which one. Every Watch For card is checked against the movie: whether Clayface has its own Roland Daggett, whether Dr. Caitlyn Corr (Naomi Ackie) believes in Hagen before the treatment works, the clock on the nanite cure, and the first face Hagen steals. Then the column that could have killed it: Batman, the hero beat, and the one-time cure with no cost. The Batman question from Wednesday's review gets its answer up front. The last pin is the one that explains the rest: did Clayface earn Matt Hagen your investment on his own? Tom Rhys Harries, the Leavesden stages, the Darkman shape of the fall, and what James Watkins and Mike Flanagan's script does with the famous thing in its final two minutes. The Know-It-All Index number from Wednesday is revisited at the end, knowing everything. The corkboard, every pin graded and stamped with its evidence: https://knowitallnation.com/developing The non-spoiler review, Clayface Just Made Darkman a DC Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7QjGViHhs The DEVELOPING episode where the pins went up, The Clayface Pitch Outlived Everyone Who Said No: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKm_O7NjpVc Subscribe for more DC Studios breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Timecode Chapters:0:00 The corkboard promise1:03 Is Batman in it? Then pin two2:43 Watch For: Daggett and Dr. Corr4:03 Watch For: the clock and the stolen face5:12 This Breaks It: the hero beat6:31 The one-time cure and pins three to five7:37 Pin one: Matt Hagen on top8:39 Darkman and the final two minutes9:39 The Know-It-All Index and your turn Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDU58HdSAKI Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/gDU58HdSAKI Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Film and TV analysis from inside the process. Comics, Star Trek, superheroes and the genre work everybody watches and nobody reads closely enough - argued from twenty-two years spent in advertising and production, lighting scenes, fixing bad takes and cutting shots that killed the pacing. Every verdict is argued and every score is the host's. New episodes weekly.

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