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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.
Watch all 1 Season Episodes NOW! https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81435684
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 locat
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.
Watch all 1 Season Episodes NOW! https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81435684
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 locat