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Welcome to the Binge
Club where we prep you,

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the audience on everything you need to
know before you decide to head out to the

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theaters. I'm your host, Landon Johnson.
And I'm here today with my experts,

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Cindy and Germain, where we're
talking about everything The Marvels,

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the latest installment in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cindy,

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first, tell me a little
bit about the Marvels.

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So this is a sequel, obviously
it's technically Captain Marvel 2,

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but in this movie she's
joined by two new heroes.

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She's joined by Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel,

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and we don't know the superhero
name of Monica Rambo yet,

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but she will also be in the film and
they're bringing certain corners of the

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Marvel universe together.

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So basically Captain Marvel
2, but also Miss Marvel 2.

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And also WandaVision 2.5 because
WandaVision 2 is also kind of Dr.

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Strange.

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So it's really like the first movie that
really is bringing together multiple

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pieces of the DC... not the
DC. Oh my God, I said DC,

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I meant the TV,

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the Marvel TV universe
onto the big screen.

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We're bringing characters who first
made their appearance in TV into the

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cinematic universe.

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Now Germain, did you like Captain Marvel?

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Where does it rank in
your all time MCU ranking?

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So I think it's awesome. I think
it's actually really underrated.

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People forget that there's
only 10 movies, Marvel movies,

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that have made a billion dollars.

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And of those only two are the first
movie from a character and was Black

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Panther, the other one is Captain Marvel.

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So it was like a huge hit that
people don't give it the credit for.

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And I think it is definitely worth
rewatching before you see this one,

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because you forgot how much awesome
stuff happens in this movie.

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So one of the better ones.
It is definitely in the
top. Yes. What about you?

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I loved it. I loved it. I felt a very
personal connection to this film.

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This is the first Marvel movie that
had a female superhero at the center of

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it,

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and a lot of the themes
of empowerment and her

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escaping that repression that she felt.
And it felt it was very personal to me.

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So I really liked it and I thought
Brie Larson was great in the role.

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Before we get too excited about the
Marvels, what homework do we need to do?

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What do we need to rewatch?

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I take issue with that term homework
because I feel like if it feels like

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homework to you, then maybe not.
You're not a Marvel fan, right?

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Because if you don't enjoy watching
these movies over and over again,

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maybe find something else to watch.

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That's okay. That's okay.

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That's all fine. That's fine.

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But we just said obviously you should
definitely watch Captain Marvel. I mean,

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this is Captain Marvel 2.

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The first time we're getting
really getting Brie Larson back.

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She's appeared a couple times and you
probably should probably watch Avengers

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End Game would probably be helpful.
This is her second appearance.

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She appears briefly in
Shang -Chi at the end.

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In the mid credit scene.

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Mid credit scene, but
that's just one third.

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Then we have these two characters
from these Marvel TV shows.

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And I would suggest to people if you
don't want to watch all of WandaVision,

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which you should because it's amazing,

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the Monica episodes that you
want to watch are four which

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kind of shows her coming back from the
blip because she's one of the half of the

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population who got blipped. And
her mother died in the in-between.

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Her mother who we met in.

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Captain Marvel.

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Captain Marvel.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, we should definitely watch four.

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And then episode seven is
where she gets her powers.

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She is the only person
to go through Wanda's Hex

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three times, and on the third
time she gets these powers,

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she can see the electromagnetic spectrum.

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And so that's important
to know her backstory.

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And then also there's a tag at the end
of the series where she has a little

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scene with a scroll who's telling her
that she needs to go up to space and meet

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with Nick Fury.

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Which seems like a direct
thing. And then Ms. Marvel.

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And then for Ms. Marvel,

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the whole series is really worth
watching because Iman Vellani is just

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fantastic. She is the character of
Ms. Marvel, she's just this huge fan,

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and she's a Carol Danvers fan,

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which is what I'm really excited about
seeing her get the fan girl over her

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in person. And there's a very important
end credit scene of that show too,

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where Carol Danvers shows up in her
bedroom and that leads directly into this

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movie.

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So I think what's going to be very
interesting to see in this movie is if it

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gives the audience who maybe isn't
familiar with Kamala Khan or Monica Rambo

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an in of like, here's who
she is, here's who she is,

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and I think that's
going to be a big thing.

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Priority one, captain Marvel.

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Yes. Yes.

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Absolutely.

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Non-negiotiable.

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Non-negiotiable.

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I would say after that we
were saying WandaVision.

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Ms. Marvel. Oh, sorry.

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WandaVision.

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Episodes four seven, right.
After that, Ms Marvel.

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I would say the premiere and the finale,
which is episodes one and episode six.

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Avengers end game, the very,
very end. When Carol comes back.

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Carol shows up to the end.

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Epic battle sequence.

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Maybe the tag scene of Shang Chi,

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because Carol shows up there and that
knowledge is something she has here. And

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oddly, probably not Secret Invasion.

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Yeah, that's one thing I would
say. Not to waste your time with.

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Basic question, do we think
it's going to be any good?

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I love these characters and I like a
lot of the creatives that have involved.

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So I'm doing it again,
and I feel optimistic.

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I'm holding out hope as well as Cindy
said. I'm a Marvel optimist always.

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I really always want them to be great.
I love Captain Marvel, like I just said,

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and I love Ms Marvel and WandaVision.

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So I really want this to bring it all
together. I think there's a lot of

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potential, but from a very
inside baseball thing,

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I'm a little worried.
If we're going to go,

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if you want to really dig deep here,

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Disney's press junket for the
movie is not showing the full

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film. They're just showing
footage. That's a little scary.

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And the social media embargo and
the review embargo are very close.

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48 Hours.

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The review embargo is not yet.

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It's probably even less to the Thursday
screenings. It's like on November 8th,

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which may be is already passed, who
knows at this point. But that's scary.

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A lot of the bigger Marvel movies, when
you do that, you get it two weeks out,

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they want that buzz to build.

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You're not getting full reviews of
this until the hours before premiere.

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So that has me very scared.

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I'm hoping that they just don't
know what they have on their hands.

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It's possible that they're just a gun shy.

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So follow up question,

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what would you like to see happen in this
movie that could alleviate the Marvel

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fatigue or really elevate
the brand and save the brand?

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Well, I don't think the brand
needs saving necessarily,

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but what I'm hoping to see in this movie
is Captain Marvel like, as we said,

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had her solo movie popped up
really briefly here and there.

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But her solo movie took place in the
nineties, so there's a 30 year gap.

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We don't know what she was doing. We
know she's been out in space saving this,

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but she definitely developed
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So I'm hoping the movie kind of leans
into answering the questions of what has

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Carol Danvers been doing all the time?

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What has been more important out there
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Thanos until the very, very last minute?

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The team up aspect of it is the
thing that I'm really interested in,

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and I'm really excited to
see the three of them come

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together as a team. So plot stuff,

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all of that is aside for me.

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What I really like is seeing three
characters who are really interesting,

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having these relationships
and complexities,

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and that's what really gets me interested.
And I think that's what fueled the

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original Marvel shows and
movies in the first place,

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is having these interesting
characters, funny,

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quippy in fun situations. And
I just want it to be fun again.

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Well, thank you so much Cindy and
Germain. I certainly have learned a lot.

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I know our audience has learned a lot.
Thank you so much for joining us for the

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Binge Club. We'll be back next week
to talk about the Hunger Games,

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the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
I forgot the name of it.