Better Worlds

Life has been busy, but here’s a handful of topics that we wanted to talk about on October 7. Shocking news about Telltale Games! The first teaser image for The Mandalorian! We finally have a trailer for Captain Marvel! Please clap.

Dread it. Run from it. We will circle back around to talking about Destiny. And now, it's here. Or should I say, Better Worlds 42 is. Also, the robot dinosaur concierge revolution.

One of the "25 Most Disruptive Apps of 2012" continues to make incredible product decisions. Kelly Marie Tran reveals her real name. Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy game has Matthew's seal of approval. The trailers for Aquaman and SHAZAM! are items we discuss.

This episode features an unplanned deep dive into the complete Alien franchise, and the latest news (at time of recording) about Star Wars: Episode IX and The Clone Wars. We also discuss board games, movie-watching decisions, dangerous holidays, and how you really should join our Slack.

We're going back to the show's roots: video games. Trevor and Matthew update Dustin on the state of Destiny 2. We also discuss this year's E3 announcements and debate the merits of mechs, game downloads vs. discs, and playing old games.

In this episode we discuss a couple interesting articles covering The Field Museum, user interfaces for mummies, and dinosaurs. We also return to Solo for some items we missed, including the more-controversial-than-it-should-be question of which Star Wars movies people are allowed to like.

Part 2 of our discussion of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Part 1 of our discussion of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Part 2 of our discussion about Avengers: Infinity War.

Part 1 of our discussion about Infinity War.

Matthew gets his completely spoiler-free thoughts about Infinity War on the record before we all see the movie. Also discussed: Pacific Rim, Ready Player One, Hufflepuff representation, and a possible Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV revival.

War! *huh* What is it good for? In Wakanda, rhinos. Yes, we forgot to mention some things about *Black Panther*. The sun will never set on our Wakandan followup, but this is not a Part 3. In fact, it's less than 40% of this episode, and we save it for the end. This episode also covers *An American Tail*, a land where there are no sasquatches and the streets are paved with snow, and the future of sustainability in construction toys & coffee making. We manage to limit ourselves to two Star Wars-related mini-topics and only one non-*Black Panther* MCU digression: "Who am Groot?"

We did what we had to do… and kept talking about Black Panther for a second episode. Actually, we just kept talking, and then split it into two episodes later. This half of the conversation goes into characters, plot points, and overarching themes of the movie.

Shuri enough, our discussion of the latest MCU movie went long. This episode covers the first half of our conversation on Black Panther, along with important information about crocodiles, middle names, and Nokia's product road map.

Are we living in the Darkest Possible Timeline? The signs are everywhere: Jumanji is a runaway box office success. Minions have almost completed their takeover of our dimension. Keurig has purchased Dr Pepper. But there are signs of hope.

Is Frosty who he says he is? Can Levar Burton read? What incredible risk did Matthew take as he rewatches the early MCU movies? In this episode we discuss mystical creatures such as golems, hevisaurs, Elcor, murder whales, camelcorns, and colonels, followed by space exploration, books & reading, and what’s happening in video games. We wrap it up by revisiting the early MCU movies as we continue to prepare ourselves for Avengers: Infinity War.

We present a discovery which may change your world: the first known dinosaurs native to Finland. Other topics include what A New Hope would sound like with an all-Elcor cast, some followup on The Last Jedi, murder whales, and Kingdom of Loathing.

The conversation on Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues into deeper waters, sort of like that time R2-D2 fell off of Luke’s X-wing into a swamp. This episode explores the new age of space combat, the unchanging nature of the Force, and the theme of killing the past… especially when it’s The Force Awakens.

The Star Wars saga continues with Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. (We will never surrender our Roman numerals, whatever the Lucasfilm marketing department might say.) This episode of Better Worlds explores important questions like: What has JJ done? What is Rian doing? What isn’t Finn doing? What is Luke pretending to do? What is Rey capable of doing? Why is Poe doing that? This is the first half of a conversation recorded on Sunday, December 17.

In the conclusion to our Episodes With No Name Trilogy, we make an accidental return to main topics with our discussion of Justice League. Only two of us have seen the movie, but 66% is still better than the movie’s score on Rotten Tomatoes.