that was six hours long, or at least it felt like it. With all of these characters in it, and my favorite person to see on screen is a pen. They really did a great job writing. There was literally no reason for us not to get started. Everyone knows all you guys. So, do we do the thing where we all give an overview, or should we go right into it? What do you reckon? Ah, overviews, we generally do the whole, hey, what'd you think?  Yeah, I just said too late, I already forgot the movie. No, we have like an hour or so left before everyone forgets this ever happened. We nearly did it. Dragon, and it's a big one. You know how hard it is to keep this movie in my brain, Mola? Do you know the strain? I know, people watched it in the cinema, going their cars, started driving, and they were like, man, Shazam, you know, did he do the red light, green light? There's the cars. Wait, did I see a movie today? Like, what's happening? Why am I in this bus in the middle of the night going home? I don't know, what's happening? I'm scared. Where is everyone? I watched the movie last night, and ever since then I've had, I've put little quirks in my ears so that I don't forget the movie, so the memories don't fall out during the night. Yeah, so I should be good. Mola, where is Az? Listen, if you watched the stream that he did, he explained, he literally just couldn't, he couldn't watch the movie, he just couldn't, couldn't bring himself to do it. Wow.  That's what I've heard. Yeah, you keep, see, I told myself that when I thought about it a day later, it's like, I think that was okay, and then I started to think about it more. It's like, oh no, that movie is garbage. I will say, I'm a little bit baffled. I'm surprised that you would have thought it was just sort of okay. Should we do our blurbs then? Yeah, yeah, sure. Define the order for him, you go. Right to left. Right, meme, you're up. That's fun. Yeah, this film, it's like, I don't, I came out of the theater like it was lukewarm, and as it's gone along, it's kind of cooled into like, I don't, I just don't have any feelings whatsoever. I'm the neutral planet in the sense that I just have no ability to feel anything for this film beyond. Yeah, it's so hard to even, I just remember there was a lot of things in it that I was really raising my eyebrow at, and I knew as I was good, as I left the theater, I knew they're gonna fall apart. And, but the thing is in order for them to fall apart, I need to remember what happened. And I'm struggling at the moment. My brain knows it watched this film and remembers some of the bits, that some of the ideas it liked and some of the moments that it liked, but it doesn't really remember that much about it. So that's how I experienced this film. It seems to be a film of amnesia and of just, it doesn't leave an impression really. It's just kind of, you know? All right, which next up would be rags.  I hated it pretty much all the way through. There was nothing of any value in here. There was a moment in this movie where I was just sort of amazed that these are the kinds of scripts that get many, many millions of dollars thrown at them. And they're like film, they hire actors, they edit and they do post-production and they have CGI and they have all this stuff. Like this is a full-fledged movie and all of that money and time and effort got poured into this script and it made me kind of sad.  It's way worse than the first Shazam and the first Shazam's bad, but this one is like a whole new level of bad. Metal. Yeah, for me it was the same with meme in the beginning. I was like, oh, I watched the movie. Oh, the end credit scenes when it was always like, oh, I don't care, I need to get my bus so I don't have to wait an hour to get home. So I think there were some, probably doesn't matter anyway because all that movie doesn't count to anything anyway because we're doing the reboot soon, right? Yeah. Unless I keep that. Hopefully, yeah. I don't know, I still don't exactly know how that reboot is going to work. Yeah, with the box office numbers of this film. They're probably not going to keep it, no. No. So yeah, this kind of went home. Then we had to do some other stuff. There was 3 a.m. I had to sleep. Then I had a whole day of work and then I started thinking about the movie again. I was like, oh, that was bad, that was bad, that was bad. Had a pen in it, that was fun. It was a fun pen that was in there. Didn't talk, so that was very good. The movie's completely tonally fucked.   And it's like, okay. Oh no, this person died. We're going to forget about that. I think legally they can be considered jokes. Oh yeah, I guess so. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, oh, we're going to focus on these two Shazams. But we forget about the other one, they don't matter, family. Well, so powerful about it. There you go. All right, I guess that's up to me. I have been graced with seeing this film, I think three times at this point, it'd be safe to put it that way just because that's why I end up doing that. But you'll know why when we go through this. And I know everything about this film.  Ray, I, pardon first viewing, was getting more and more frustrated just watching the cinema.   And the sort of approach with almost every payoff is that it's either incredibly poorly supported or it's subverted seconds later because they're just trying to drain every last piece of emotional value out of this IP before it crashes and burns forever. So yeah, you know, I don't think it's very good upon digging deeper and deeper, you know, some people say like, oh, you can nit pick apart any film if you dig deeper, some films improve. This is not one of those, not even close. What? I thought you were going to tell us it's going to be amazing. And you know what? Sometimes we end up saying, oh, you know, at least the CG and the performances in the soundtrack are all real good. Didn't really like the soundtrack and some of the performances were incredibly distracting to the point where I was like, wow, you got away with that. Okay. Magic fire. There's a lot, we'll go through it. But yeah, really bad, really, really stinky bad. Stinky. You think? Yeah, Shazam, Fury of the Gods, pretty terrible. I think it's almost going to sort of skirt by on the perception of being lame, like that it's a lame, boring movie that nobody really is going to care about in a week. But it's terrible. It pretty much suffers from like all of the writing problems that you can have. It is like, yeah, it's pretty, it's really bad. Yeah, those are my thoughts. All right, next. Cap to close it out.  It's not good at all. It's quite bad, in fact. But I didn't hate it as much as you guys did. I thought there were a couple of things where I'm like, maybe that was okay. Maybe. I'm sure that the more I think about it, it will fall apart even further. But I didn't hate it as much as some recent superhero films like Ant-Man and such. Though, I guess it might have been more disappointing than Ant-Man on some media because I didn't come away from Ant-Man thinking there was even the possibility of a good movie in there. Whereas this felt like there was some opportunities they had that they totally wasted, especially the ending. That really left a lot of space. Yeah, we can talk about that. We'll get there, I don't know. That's the worst part of the movie for me because there's something that they almost do that would have won me over a lot. I wouldn't have thought it was good, but it would have won me over quite a bit. And then they undid it. You'd have said they had testicles, but then you had to take that away. Yeah, they did not have those on this movie. No testicles to be found. They're not taking away testicles. Oh no. No one likes doing it. Sometimes it has to be done. It's not a good movie and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Yeah, I think when Fringy said that people will stop talking about this in a week I might have been overstating it. I think that it's never like four days from now. People will be like, we gotta hurry. It could be the next few minutes, like I said. Yeah. Like, change the start of the start. What are you talking about? Wait, where did that come out? I think I saw an obnoxious guy that we were, that we were just upset because Dwayne Johnson wasn't in it. Black Adam is better than this film. Oh, that's absolutely better than this film. But well, does anyone here think this film was better than Black Adam? I haven't seen Black Adam. I don't mean I'm not Black Adam enough to stay, honestly. Pierce Brosnan and the Falcon guy alone. I was talking to Shad about it on the Azzastream, right? And Shad was like, no, Wrath of the Gods is a fury. So, you know, Fury of the Gods is better. And then I said, dude, I don't like anything in Fury of the Gods as much as I like Dr. Fate. And he literally went, oh yeah, okay. Well, yeah, Dr. Fate was right, too. But yeah, Dr. Fate was carrying that movie pretty hard. I think that just the idea, even though it was really terribly executed, the concept of Black Adam's character passed, that's something. You know, like that's something. I have more to say in terms of him having a coherent story than most of everything in phase four. Like him as Black Adam is a character which is kind of mind-blowing. So, you know, it gets- Oh, and I mean, and I guess in terms of comparing it to this film, this film feels right out of like phase four of the MCU. Yes, it does. Well, it would fit in snugly, yeah. It would fit in very well, yeah.  Well, and can you believe it? We've finally seen repercussions. I put it in the title. We'll probably talk about it, Papad through, maybe the beginning, more of the end, who knows. But DC, the state of it and the state of superheroes at the box office is starting to get very interesting. Well, yes, Ant-Man and the Wasquonsomania is probably going to lose money. This film, like who knows what this one's going to look like. Well, I think Ant-Man and the Wasquonsomania may not break 500 million, which is less than the first Ant-Man made, which was nearly a decade ago on a lower budget. So, and that was shocking, surprising in terms of how it's all going. Shazam's doing way worse. Shazam is opening a lot lower and it's another case of it costs more money to make. It's like barely 30 million or something. 30 million domestic opening weekend, which is not good for a hundred million dollar production. Been paying attention to what the director's been saying these past leading up weeks. You've known this film was doomed. He knew, too. Yes, he even seems to have known. Oh, I miss him. What's he been saying? Oh, I think he went on Reddit and basically said, like someone was saying, oh, yeah, damn, like the numbers. Hey, and I think he basically said something along the lines of, yeah, I kind of knew that this was happening, but I got paid. Like that was kind of the R. That was basically the message. Not the best of him begging on Twitter for people to go and watch this film. Like, oh. And then there was the Twitter as well, where like because they revealed that Wonder Woman was going to be in it and like a commercial that was playing on television.  Like, if you don't want to see spoilers, like don't go on like forums or watch television, I guess or something like that.  And the answer was, well, you know, they, do you really think that was an accidental leak? And it's like, well, no, just market it with it at that point. Why? Like why do sneaky leaky? Like you just, just market. Go, go, go. I mean, what is that even worth? So remember they did it with Spider-Man, okay? When they were like, look, the Rhino. He's going to fight the Rhino. Look how cool that is. We saw every, you could have just, I'm surprised they didn't take that cheap shot of being like, one of them's in this movie. Come see it. Come on. Come on. Please for the love of God. You'll love her. Please. Keep it alive. Let us keep the lights on. Good God. So, yeah, I don't know. But in any case, we should probably get on with talking about the film, the story. Yeah, we need to. This will take a while. It will. It will take a while. Why? You know what? I should have just said no. Myself, self rags and friggy did a good, we refamiliarized ourselves with the first Shazam before seeing this one. And my God, they do not, they wish the first Shazam didn't exist in this film. So it gets in the way of the story several times.  Yeah, that's the rule we set before. Fuck. Like, well, now it's a different rule.  And it's like, oh, okay. We'll get to them examples as well. But I'm just saying, yes, we, I don't know if it's controversial anymore or not, but we all thought it was terrible, the first one too. It's really bad. It ain't as bad as this film, no way. But yeah. Yeah, that's the only positive that the first Shazam has is that it's not as bad as its sequel. But I'm afraid EFAP, was EFAP going when the first Shazam came out? What did we just know? Yeah, but we wouldn't know. Yes, we had how things roll out.  And it's like, I actually find this interesting in terms of the, this is a big sort of tech point in terms of the downfall of superheroes at the box office. This one's a big one. Nest and Edman. And it will be very interesting to see what it looks like for both Marvel and DC for the rest of the year. And especially how it looks compared to other films that are coming out this year. So we open with a wonderful Ellen Mirren and Lucy Liu approaching a museum.  You see that the staff from the first film in two pieces is in a display case and a guy is like talking about it in Greece.  And I think a lot of people are like, well, what's the problem? It's like, did you see the first movie? Wow. Why is that staff in Greece? The explanation that he provides is that they found it in like rubbish. Like they found it at a dump. Well, so to be just to give everyone a refresher, they fought the big bad guy who had that staff in the first film in some like fair in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia. And he snapped the thing in half by breaking it with over his knee and dropped it to the floor. And so they're like, how did it end up in Greece? And he's like, well, that's where I dropped it. So that's where it's journey started. That is the line. That is it. That's where I dropped it. Yeah. How did it get to Greece? Well, I dropped it in Philadelphia. So that's where the journey started. Okay. So we're on the right planet. You meant to nail the planet. I mean, cosmically speaking, we're almost home. So I guess. I don't know. I'm not convinced.  You just why did it? Why did it need to be in Greece? I don't know. Why did it get stolen it from Philadelphia or some museum in America? Greek gods. Oh, OK. Definitely. I could tell by looking at him that these are Greek gods. Yeah, apparently it broke three trash compactors. That's what they say as well. What?  Well, we don't know. Calm down, Moller. We don't know anything. Yeah, I couldn't play. OK. They were probably fine. There was a big battle at this fair. You would imagine that police and stuff showed up and somehow the magic stuff ended up just in the trap. This also means that, I guess, Mark Strong, when he talked to the police or any of the Shazamites, none of them like discussed. None of them mentioned this magic staff with his. Oh, they have a line for that, Rex. Don't worry, explain it. They say what the fuck, Sam, you left the staff there and he says, no, we all left the staff there, which is true. You all left the staff. That is true. But my God, my God. Well, yet another fantastic example of if you if the riots. If we suggested this to each other as part of the story with the other people, we're like, funny, what's the actual thing? What are we actually writing? That's not that's not anything. What are you doing? It's like, it's all right. It sounds kind of funny and we'll move around a log. Like, oh, OK. So so. So I really quick, just this mean that they put it in two separate trash compactors and it broke both.  Third time's the time. Let's try one more. That'll do it, I'm sure. Bring out. Bring out our best trash compactor for this one. Only our finest of trash compactors. Well, the call just really gone. They call Batman for a special special. Bad compactor, bad compactor. Yeah, it's just it's just so funny to see it there in that way. Just like that. None of this should have happened.  Got a new story to tell. Like, OK, fine. I guess we'll just move right along.  I mean, oh, I think it's funny to know this ahead of time. They are the daughters of Atlas. Oh, that sounds pretty cool as a title, I guess. And one of them has the power of elements, which sounds like just all powers then or something. But it just means like ice, she can make ice. She can make fire. She could blow wind. Maybe she could use electric like lightning. What do you say? You know, we just see. I used to use that's about it. Oh, that's not an element and melt some stale. Yes, she that's that's he kind of. That's like fire elements. Remember when she peaces like a big line to make a platform around them? So what's what's that exactly? So I don't know. That's the element of the element of cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting.  And the other one is Lucy, because that's Helen Mirren. The other one's Lucy Lou and she has the power of chaos. My god, Lucy Lou. Oh, I'm not by whatever their names are. I'm calling them by their actresses. OK, what is what is her character's name? Is Lucy Lou is Calypso. Helen Mirren is a Thera or something. Athena. No, it's not Athena. I can't remember her name. And the other one is Anthea.  Her name is Helen. Well, like I said, I'm calling them Helen and Lucy. That's a great name. Helen and Lucy. Lucy is the god of chaos. And you're thinking to yourself, like, Oh, what are the powers? And it's like one power, one power. OK, what's what's the power? You can go up to people and tell them to do a thing and they'll do it with like mind control. That can be more chaos. I mean, it's just it's just not what comes to your mind first with the god of chaos. You're like, OK, well, the third chicks power seem more like chaos than like rearranging the world. That seems like a chaotic. I've got I've got thoughts on her powers, but we'll get there. Oh, yeah, we all do. That's interesting image of those. They have one. There they are. So, yeah, Lucy Lou, that's the only power she has when she doesn't have the staff. And I was like, that's so lame. I mean, it's a really good power. Like it's really useful and strong. But how does it make you the god of chaos? It was to do with anything. It does all kind of chaos.  That's what I would do with that power because she's going to be the bad one. That's why. Yeah. Well, like in that opening scene, it's the closest it gets to being chaos because at least when she whispers into the ear, the other people start whispering into other people's ears and it's kind of this pile up. That's the closest it gets. And I don't think they do that. I think that was the most interesting thing she does with the power throughout the whole film. Yeah, right at the beginning. She the security guard goes to stop them and then she whispers in his ear and then he like goes rabbit and jumps on someone and whispers in the area. And it's like a zombie infection. But with that, yeah, that never happens again. Yeah, I thought that would be like I thought that would be like the plot was they had to don't know, there's a bunch of crazy people and we got to stop them. But that just ends. And instead, we do something else as we'll discover later, which is definitely way cooler. That one is a way more interesting movie, like a virus that's spread via speech. And our heroes can't can't kill the people because they're under a spell, right? You have to stop the spellcaster.  Oh, we can't use our powers to kill them. We have to come up with ways to wrangle them or to capture them or something. But, you know, we don't want them to talk in our ears.  I don't know. It works. Yeah. So something really happened. Something really funny happens that I just weren't greased, by the way, everyone. This is in Greece. I forgot that was a country in Greece until you guys said it was Greece. It's like, oh, there are things that you just won't pick up while watching the film. And I think they rely on that. Yeah, it's so dumb because it just don't need to say it's in Greece. Just make it America. It's like, what? I don't believe it, Kelly. We fly. Great gods, that's good agrees. The first scene of the movie is them flying over the Parthenon where the Acropolis is. Yeah. And I just got like flashbacks from the Snyder Cut. I'm like, oh, my gosh, we're back. This is a classic location from the Snyder Cut. When I first saw this, I was like, oh, I wonder if they will be dropping in Diana into this, at least peppered in through the story. Like she'll it'll open with her discovering some disturbance. And then she's trapped in some thing. And, you know, because I was like, it's going to be difficult to account. Wonder Woman's in this film, but she obviously isn't going to be able to be a big part of it because she'll annihilate that guy. It was probably never a possibility because she's too expensive. Oh, yeah. Very expensive. Like she wasn't even a step with everyone else. No, she was. Oh, I didn't photo just come out of her. Yeah, but the director said that she was there. Oh, in that case, I was there, too. Well, so the stunt double might have been for that dream sequence. I think he said, yeah, it was. Yeah, they used her for the dream sequence. Oh, what a waste of money. But anyway, this split staff is in a glass case. And Helen Mirren walks up to it and she goes to a glass case inside a museum outside of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is. And she goes to grab it like any normal person would. And she hits her hand on the pain and she's like, eh, and she tries again and again and again and again.  So at first I was thinking they didn't understand the concept of glass. Yeah, like they didn't know. They thought it was like a force field or something. It was. Oh, my God, it's like ants. It's like the movie ants. When there's a sandwich in the plastic bag and the ant wants to get it. But he thinks there's a force field around the sandwich. This is a really clever reference to the film. What is this hot air? It's hot air and then kind of unreal. As far as I was concerned, I didn't realize that here at Lucille, we have to work together to tip the glass pane case over and it smashes on the floor. Then they don't break it or cast any kind of spell. It's literally just a cover that has apparently got no like link to the adhesive sort of. Yeah, it's it just it can lift up and they do that. And then they're like, yeah, we got it. It's like, OK, that's the coolest thing to think of, I guess. Fine. And they pick up a piece each. Yes. And it like it does something to him. And I was like, is that supposed to be a signal that it's giving them powers? I think so. So did they have powers before then or they? No, I think I think the idea was because it's broken. No, because it's because the step. No, wait, hang on. It made sense from the right. Now we're strong from trying to I'm trying to arrange. It's they have that power stolen from them, right? Got a lot of mechanics to talk about here. But that was because the staff exists, right? That that all sealed them in. That was I don't know if you want me to. Should we do the Lord Dump now? So that you can understand the hell is happening. I guess. Let's do it. They have they got it.  And then one day Atlas is like, man, you know, some of these gods shouldn't have powers and some of them should have more powers. So I'm going to make a big old staff that can do that specifically. And then, unfortunately, the humans did an uprising and some human wizards, that's how they call it, steal the the staff and they steal all the God's powers and I guess killed them or a lot of them and then locked the remaining gods in their realm in a big old sphere. Um, are so how does this affect the continuity of like the stuff we learned in Wonder Woman? Like I think they are banking on you not remembering any of that. The fact that this staff apparently has Zeus's power in it. It's like, wait, Zeus, the Zeus that Ares killed in Wonder Woman. Like that's right. He's that made Wonder Woman with lightning or whatever. He used all of his powers to create Wonder Woman or whatever. Yeah. And someone just said, didn't Ares kill all the gods? It's like, I don't know anymore. I don't know because the thing is like Wonder Woman is in here and she recognizes this place is important to us. It's like, so you do share continuity, right? They're like, sure, man. How did you mention this? This just makes me realize.  They're all so forgettable. Yeah, I haven't seen. I haven't seen Ares team up with wizards since that Harry Potter film. I. Yeah, where will there be? Oh, and I guess the the next part in terms of the relevance of the stuff is that when they broke it in Shazam, that was like the thing that broke the barrier that allowed these two to get in to like Earth so that they could go get the stuff. So how long has that staff been a barrier?  And when it should have mentioned a lot of things, when when that when the staff gets mended a lot later in the film, we doesn't seem to work in that same way anymore, I guess. He's so great. If someone was like, why didn't the wizard say anything? And one of the writers just like, because we made that up. Wow, I thought of that in the first movie. We lost all of our notes. And also, we forgot the previous films we made, just like everyone else. A wizard did it because I was that I've already lost at this plot.  We're in we're in Greece, by the way. We're still in the family. I'm just trying to give all the back. So the Acropolis with Arthanon is the thing is, they need to repower up this staff to allow it to do its thing. That's going to be the next quest. So how do they get powers from it? How do they get powers from the staff? Yeah, because they seem to get powered up by it. Yeah, they get a little bit of it doesn't work as a little bit. Well, the whole point is that it got broke in the first one. But in that, like, affected something. The barrier broke the barrier between their worlds, rags. Come on, because the. Because that's how it works. But yeah, they're never told, never told, like, Billy about any of that. Because remember, the wizard didn't tell Billy basically anything in the first film, he shits on him for that. Like, he was all like, it's on Billy for that. Even though he never told him any of this. Mm hmm. So I guess what I'm trying to highlight is the wizard's staff breaking seems to break it, breaking the spell cast with the very staff to hold the barrier. The barrier breaks like, OK, I understand all that. Those two don't have powers, but they draw their powers back from the staff when it's broken before they fix it. Question mark. So it doesn't make any sense. Hidden in there. Had a little bit of juice left. So how did they get here without powers? They fell. The barrier broke. So they walked, I guess. But there's no giant space island where they live. No, I know. I know. I don't even I don't know how they got to Earth, period. I remember the other way that the only way that we see people getting to that room later is through those magic doors in the place that they don't have access to. Oh, God, that's even stupider in terms of writing. But yeah, it couldn't have been that. They say that they didn't do that. So yeah, they just walked here somehow. So yeah, do you know what I mean? Like the whole thing is absolutely crumbled and we're like two seconds in. We just don't know anything about anything like space and time and continuity and the stakes of anything that's happening. We have no clue what's going on. Nothing matters. Loose and loose with the magic. They don't want to deal with it at all. Yeah. So you said that they'd rely on us not remembering the first Shazam. I think that they rely on you not remembering previous scenes in this very film. Yes. I think that's a good way of putting that. So yeah, the mind control thing is spreading around the whole room. Everyone's screaming and running. And I just, like I said, it's kind of a neat power, but I don't know how it has anything to do with. Well, it also seems to lead to a bit of a dead end in terms of like a scene that's playing out because then they turn everybody into stone. Well, before that, we have a guy run out here with a baton. And I thought it was really funny.  It's just like, what are you doing, man? He knows why he's here.  He's been practicing with this baton. He's like an old woman I could hit. Yes. In the world. Oh, yeah. Finally, I can be a security guard. And so he runs up to it and then I see my father was a security guard before me and his father before him. And now I'm going to prove myself and honor the family name by beating up this woman with this baton, just like I've practiced. And he doesn't even get to do it. Because Helen Mirren grabs him with telekinesis. It's definitely like this is her power sort of moment. It's like, OK, she's got it's pretty amazing, too. She she's got the zero point energy power that syndrome has. Just go when you're stuck and you can't do anything. Yeah. Remember, she can just freeze people. She just put people on pause. That's it's pretty good. Yeah, it's a power that she has. Remember this for later, potentially. And yeah, some of the guy then runs up to it like, please just let me go with that. She goes out of the blue and like a statue of Atlas turns to sand or dust, whatever. And it goes on everybody and turns everyone in the room to stone. That's like an elemental power, kind of. I'm pretty sure that guy was from pacemaker, I think. Really? The guy working in that music. I recognize him. And I'm yeah, I'm pretty sure he's in that show. So I guess that's that now. Yeah, I guess I guess that's some continuity, though, right, at least. Hey, this is a universe where like characters interact with other characters. There's not going to be any point in this film where you're like, where's Superman or Wonder Woman? We'll ask that a couple of times. So she kills them all. Yes, she kills them all. And she even knocks over one of the statues at Crumbles. And then Lucy Liu starts to introduce just how bad she's going to be in this film.  Let's have more of it. I was just like, oh, this is actually a dialogue in this film begins. Yeah, I will say she's not got great dialogue to deliver.   Elmira was fine. I even at times was kind of like, yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, she's so good that phoning it in is still pretty solid. Lucy Liu cannot phone it in. She has to give it a bit more of a shot. OK. So yeah, this is the thing. I almost want to give this to the to the chat to see what they think, right? Instead of what all of us were thinking in the cinema. See if they share the same thing, right? We have Helen Merren's like the champions of this realm outnumber us. And Lucy Liu is like human champions are still humans. We are gods. Again, great dialogue. Wow. And so Helen Merren then tightens up on her and she says, do not underestimate the judgment of the wizard to protect the power of the gods. He would have chosen with meticulous precision the strongest, most keenly intelligent champions this realm has ever witnessed. Now, you're watching a movie and have expectations on editing or delivery of jokes. What do you think happens next when she says these champions are going to be amazing? We cut to the champions being shitty. Oh, yeah. Everyone's already said Q Joe cut to blah, blah, blah.  Yeah, so that's thus is the beginning of the first draft jokes that are all throughout this film. Yeah, that's the idea of the joke that you want. And then you like make that a joke, particularly with a joke like that. You go, oh, yeah, but this has been done like a billion times. So yeah, and like the different kind of twist on it. But no, it's the first, most obvious, most basic version of that joke, of which that is the vast majority of the jokes in this film. Yeah, when she when she said that was me, oh, we're going to cut to the. Yeah, of course, we're going to cut to him saying, yeah, pretty much doing that.   Like it might have even been funner if it was him doing something really dumb, like as a superhero, you know, like something because didn't he do like the whole charging people's batteries? Yeah, yeah, exactly.  But yeah, it's the first draft version of that joke. Nobody laughed in my cinema. There weren't many people there, but nobody laughs. I didn't laugh once in this film. Didn't even go or, you know, kind of smile, not a single joke. I smiled, I think twice. I think there was one I smiled at, but. No, it's not very good for two hour comedy.  I mean, I had a love when I when I realized that was actually only a few four people in my cinema when the movie started. I don't think it's super wise to open up, introduce him in the movie just by reminding me or like making me question why he was picked in the first place again. Well, that is the fact. I mean, that is the biggest problem, but they re ignite that issue in this one. And then they come in and double down. So it's to help people out. The problem that's being highlighted is that kid Billy is way more mature than Zachary Levi Shazam guy. Like they're two different people. They feel like two totally different people, right? Which the point was supposed to be of what if an adult had that like mind of a child, what does that mean? Especially if they're like super powered. And then this for some reason, this film and even the previous one is worse in this film is Zachary Levi is more childish than his child counterpart. Yeah, yeah, there was like multiple scenes where I was like, why is this in the human form, in the adult form? Like, why is this not in the child? That is kind of weird. There are a lot of opportunities where they could have, you know, they could have done something with these characters, like explored, you know, what it means for a teenager or a child to like spend all their time as the adult version and like how they prefer that and you could do some character stuff there. But they waste any opportunity for exploration there. And also the movie just incessantly reminds you that like he probably shouldn't have been picked as Shazam. No, absolutely not. There's no reason really to pick him. And to give a comparison of this dialogue, it's even it's not just the performances in the writing as well, right? You have the he's he's nearly 18, Billy. And he he says just this is one part of the movie. He says, you know, the wizards in my dreams now and he's trying to get me a message. I'm going to call an emergency meeting after school. That's for the superheroes. Like, OK, and then immediately after that, we get Shazam in the meeting and he's like, look, look, look, fam, I know it sounds crazy. And obviously, I don't know exactly what is all means. But but he he was he he was super aggro. He was super loud trying to warn us. And I think about the realms and stuff. It's just like, what the? You know, what happened? You're like different person. Yeah. You know, even close. It's like entirely, like you said, highly different characters. I don't know why they played it this way. It doesn't it's just like Billy gets taken over by Shazam rather than he is Shazam.  Yeah, yeah, yep. And a lot of people saying that's not how Shazam supposed to be.  I should hope so. Yeah. I'm I'll give it to you. It totally is definitely. I believe you. I believe you. This is this is the issue, right? Because like for the longest time, like the whole idea is, oh, yeah, Billy Batson, he's this wholesome, wholesome kid who turned who because he's so pure of heart and so like just a good person and only a child could be this good. That's why the wizard chose him. And then in 2011, they rebooted everything and ruined him and went now. He's actually like an household, but the wizard like was dying.  And that's how he gets it. That's the version they adapted. Congratulations, you played yourself. Yay. Oh, we could probably move on to the plot. Fine. Yeah. The whole Ivan, the deep thing. He is currently talking to a pediatrician and he's saying there's already a superhero with a red bolt who goes faster than me. Aquaman is literally huge and he's manly. Batman is just so cool. And I'm just me. Like, OK, I just put a wheel out those references to those other DC characters. It doesn't help because we're like, OK, so where are all those guys going to be in this whole movie? You can't like actually reference them, too. At least you could pretend to ignore them.  Shazam is I think people like, oh, but he's referencing other characters who exist in that universe. Yeah, that like never show up. Yeah, but it's not fair. You can't do that. You're not a snake. You're slimy.  As everyone's pointing out, it's like, man, that must have been difficult to write, isn't it? Because Shazam is like he's basically Superman and he's complaining. Yeah, he's got he's very powerful. He has all the powers.   This is not interesting. You're just the best. You know, it's supposed to be that it's a kid. Control it all of that. You're supposed to be something to that, but they don't. No, no.  But we don't get that in this. Oh, there's definitely mental challenges.  Like, no. And yet he's like, oh, I'm just not as cool as all of them. It's like, right. Well, OK. And then really subtle with the dialogue, aren't they? Just really getting the motivation through implication, never spelling it out like explicitly or overtly. You know, just just really make allowing us to infer really what he's going through. Well, it doesn't even seem to be that he's grappling with the insane responsibility.  Well, they say you have imposter syndrome. It's like, oh, God. And then you were saying about the dialogue. It's like, so what are you going to do with the people who don't remember the plot of the first movie? Not everyone is a huge Shazam fan, like me, Fringian Rags, who. Not anyone is just a shazam fan. And so it's like, how do we fix that? You know, a lot of movies try to remind you of particular events, especially if they're going to be important going forward. And so the guy is like, you know, hey, have you ever experienced any trauma in your life? And he goes, well, I never met my dad. I was abandoned by my mom. I ran away from 11 homes. I got into a lot of fights.  A doctor conjured seven demons and held my whole family hostage till we had to rip out one of his eyeballs. And then everyone got superpowers, but now everyone wants to do their own thing. And I'm the only one that's trying to keep everyone together. All right. Well, now that we're caught up, Shazam 2 can commence. That's so lame to me. I'm just like, wow, you just try to describe as quickly as possible the first movie because you can't be asked to like, just put it into the movie in any kind of natural way.  Now we're doing this one. Right. Okay. Thanks. And that's not the worst character exposition in this film. That's the bad part though. That's the very sad part about this is that this is still not, we haven't reached the bottom yet. We haven't reached, not as far as I'm concerned. There is a moment that's coming up in the Rock of Eternity that I'm excited for, but we will get there. We will get there. That sounds like a Christian rock music, like what the CD would be called, Rock of Eternity, and it's just like lame Christian rock music. You're not wrong. That's all Christian rock music, but, you know. Correct. You can just say Rock of Eternity? No, no it isn't. So the guy says, so you're rejected by a parents, then the system, and now the city. I thought that was really weird because I was like, didn't you just say the system got him into his new family? Yeah. Yeah.  Because the rejected by the parents was like fair enough, but then he was a troublemaker who just couldn't settle down in any area at all. And then he found the family he wanted. And now the city, he's like what? The city doesn't reject me. I never said that. And then he holds up a newspaper that says city rejects Shazam or heroes, whatever. And that's the tribune. Nobody reads the tribune. And then the guy looks at it and says, I do. I thought it was okay. Yeah. The newspaper, you know. Like he literally would be the one that reads it. Yeah. So that's like a slight moment of just, someone in the script there. I think it was partly due to the guy's delivery too, who is in the boys, that character, or at least that actor. I've seen him around in a couple. In any case, yeah, the city is apparently rejecting them as superheroes. That's gonna come up. Again. Once, maybe? Well, kind of once. They sort of reference the idea that it's, so they sort of reference the idea that these superheroes are kind of causing trouble. But that's as far as it goes. They even blame the upcoming bridge sequence on them destroying the bridge. But that doesn't, yeah, somehow. But it doesn't have any consequences whatsoever. You would think that if the city actually thought that these heroes were causing bridges to collapse, there'd be some consequences to that. But no. No. No. It's just this thing that they almost threw in. They have a big old bucket of ideas. Right? They're just, they're taking an idea out and they're just throwing it in the movie. But they don't do anything with it. It almost feels like residue or like the remnants of a previous draft of the script where they're gonna focus more on that. It does, because they're gonna get dropped as a threat. We cut to kids playing like some Koldy clone. And I thought it was so cringe that Bailey says. It's like a mobile ad or something.  That turns into a commercial or something else. So the Billy then is complaining about how he doesn't want to have to do this semi-regularly. And apparently the reason they do it is for training, right? The way he describes it is, do we always have to play war games?  Like, they sound so boomery. Game about the war. The whole thing was so boomery. Because the first thing we see him do is come up and these people are clearly labeled hostages and he just blows them up and he goes, oh, man, I'm so bad at this. Yeah. It's like he's an old man trapped. He's the revision of Shazam. Yeah. Yeah, and then he says, hey, it's for practice for our other job, military strategy, multiple team members, each with a special skill set unleashed against an unknown enemy. And I was just sitting there, they get like, nah, that's true. What do you mean? Yeah, why would a kid even think that? Like each with a special skill set, so something they've wrecked on since the first movies, they all have all powers, not individually one power each. Why didn't they just have him like playing video games with each other like kids do? Yeah, you could just do that. Why did you have to frame this as this? Like, why are we doing this? Like, because we're kids, and we play video games together. Like that, why would we have to explain why we're doing this? I was probably with mentioning, this film said that, in fact, this post was kind of useful. Freddie got flight. How do you get her name? She got speed. He got strength. What did Mary get? Mini skirt. Something. And then the guy below her, he got electric blasts. Like they all basically got pieces of Shazam's power. But by the time he hit the second movie, they've all got all powers. It's just like, oh. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Fine, I guess. That's something I was confused about actually, because I was like, didn't they get like all different powers? But they just all use the same ones now. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, I was like, I was just thinking, I think I gas slipped myself when I saw it. I was just like, oh, I must just be misremembering that last film. That's fine. It's okay. I think my brain was protecting me from thinking too hard, lest it explode. I think they literally were like, this won't be as fun if they all have one power each. Oh, nah. We can't be asked to write it that way because that's harder. Yeah, exactly. It is harder. You have to go, well, if they all can't fly, how are we gonna make sure they can all be everywhere we want them to be? But does it make you wonder if, just like in an original script or first draft, when he says each with a special skill set, it's like, that's not true. Yeah. It may have been true before, but it's not true now. It was barely true before. Oh yeah. And then unleashed against an unknown enemy. The vast majority, I mean 99.9% of things that they do are all things that they know what's happening when they go in. Because they get told through like police reports or news reports and stuff. If they, for example, oh, there's a car pile up and people are struggling to get out. Not exactly an unknown enemy. No. Unless they're talking about like the wizard man that they fought or the guards that are gonna fight in this one, which is like, oh, that's two situations over two years. Really don't think that. I assume that these last years, canonically, how much time is between the two movies? Two years. Two, okay. So for two years, they've just been doing normal earth crimes, you know, bank robberies. And no government has wanted to do anything about anything they're just carrying on. All right. They didn't wanna go to conduct when all that was going down, even though there was a familiar lightning bolt showing up there. Well, no, and they haven't been contacted by Waller at all. Either she contacts them at the end of this film. Kind of weird. Is that one of the after-credits scenes? It is indeed. That I didn't bother to stay for. What? That's like the whole reason we go to these movies now. Yeah, but I had to grab my bus. Oh. Sorry. So anyway. Yeah. He says in response to him talking about all the military strategy, teamwork, membership, special skills and stuff, Billy says, we don't need guns, though. We don't need guns, though. And it's like, does it have anything to do with what he just said? But okay. And there's a lot of that in this film too. Characters just say stuff. We're just like, wait, why did you? Yeah, this is one of those terrible films where people just don't like talk as if they were human beings communicating. Yet again, it's becoming one of my least favorite tropes is how characters are written to not have conversations like humans would have conversations. So why have an end credit scene when you restart in the franchise? Out of the two, one of them is pointless, like actually in universe pointless, they knew it was pointless. And the other one is promoting Peacemaker. So I guess season two. Well, that's why they can use it to promote James Godd's more stuff. Because everyone's gonna sit through the credits hoping that they'll be there. So might as well put something there. Yep. Because you've conditioned them at this point.  And the dad is like, what is this? Why are you doing this? And then she's like, it's like revised history. And I think Friday or someone else says, well, unicorns aren't real.  Oh, that was the set up? You're right.  How cool. How could we possibly thought that was a set up? I actually think the writers would be like, hey, see, wasn't that cool? You're like, no.  She's like, yeah, it's pretty quirky. Little girl likes unicorns. That's a set up for how there's gonna be unicorns later, guys. Like, I'm in disbelief that that was a set up. I really am. Well, that was his character arc is that he's like, unicorns aren't real. And then later he's like, well, maybe. Why would you say that? What do you mean? Something happened in the first film that was bizarrely funny where they all do an escape. I can't remember why, but basically they all teleport to like a titty bar type place.  Now correct me from wrong rags cause we watched them and just like, wait, what?  And then Pedro just says, yeah, it's not really for me. Not my thing. Yeah, it's like, not my thing, not really for me. Like the cameras, the whole film like almost stops to let him say that and then we carry on again. It's like, what?  Like okay.  It's very important that we understand this. The movie really wants us to know that this is the case. Well, so like, what I want to point out is just like, it's such an awkward moment in the first film and it has nothing to do with anything at all. And it comes across Disney style, so to speak of like, you see, there's a gay, look. Yeah, we're good, we're good guys. But don't worry, we'll get it again. And he's like, all right.  There's two scenes. First one, I think is fattier, but they're both pretty bad. So the mum is hanging out with Pedro and she's trying to get him into just stuff, hanging out with him and she's watching baseball with him and you see someone doing something on there.  Good job, he hits the ball, you're in. And he's like, yeah. And then she goes, see, I told you this is worth giving a chance. And he goes, yeah, I'm really starting to see the appeal and his eyes drift down to the book he's looking at with a magazine. And there's just a shirtless guy on the page and it's like, what? I want to know how to write gays so accurately.  You see, mother, you shouldn't be trying to get him into baseball.   It's just so funny as well because of how over it is. Like, yes, I am very much into this that just looks at his naked guy. Like, OK, yeah, all right, fine.   That's your scenes. Like, all right. Yeah, like the first movie where they just don't really do anything with them. Only really gets any amount of Billy and Freddie. They're the main characters. Everyone else is just around. Yeah, but the film insists that they're like a family. Yes, it does. There's like a thing going on and they really love each other. I'm like, yeah, we know.   He probably could have been augling the baseball players. That that that was probably something you could have done. And then you didn't need. They almost present these guys. Cool after all, mom.  I was true. That baseball is very good. Baseball is the straightest of sports. Because it makes as much if you wanted to like reveal the straightness of a character.  He's like, yeah, sure, sure. And he's looking at porn. What?  So, yeah, Freddy's listening to a police radio and it says possible two nine nine in progress, multiple reports of cracking on roadways and suspension cables fraying. They're referring to an enormous, it's the it's the Ben Franklin Bridge. I don't know if it's like a real bridge in Philadelphia or not. I assume it might be. I think it is real. I don't know. Why not? And so it's not unreal. Yeah, they're just reporting that there's cracking on the roadways of the bridge and the cables are fraying. Like, damn, that sounds disastrous.  We just reports. We don't want to cause panic. Uh-huh. Especially to all these people on the bridge. There was this thing and it wasn't the movie. It was rags that made me laugh. Okay, so you got, they're all leaving to go do this superhero thing.  And then Billy says bye Rosa.   Standing right there. That's right there.  They're all saying goodbye to mom. It's like he's invisible. He's not even there. And by the way, the dad is- Like why did you write it like that?  But yeah, it's so weird that the film like just, it's like, isn't it sad that he doesn't call him mom? It's like, didn't call the dad anything? Okay. Yeah, at least she got called. At least she got acknowledged as existing. That's a start. And by the way, there is an arc to be done between Billy and the mom. And we've just had, I think, I want to say 39% of it is now done. Yep. That's it. So yeah, not bad, good start. Yeah, that's a really subtle arc they're setting up here. It's extremely subtle. You might think that it doesn't exist, but you'd be wrong. It definitely does. And then they do their cool, super awesome, really great walk through the middle of like suburbia and just go shazam. And they all like shazam up.  Yeah. Especially when their house is then struck by lightning several times. Can we talk about that?  What do you want to say about it? Go ahead. Oh, that apparently, even though they all know how this works, they keep saying shazam while in the house, lightning strikes their house and causes damage to the house that they don't even own that they rent. And then meanwhile the parents are like, yeah, I don't know why, but lightning keeps striking the house. It's like, guys, do you want to go outside? Yeah, it's particularly awkward when like the oldest sister looks the same as both the superhero and herself. Like surely it's over. You would think so. Oh, yeah, this is that. Oh, yeah, that's really hard to like accept because usually how is anyone having trouble with that? In fact, in the film, I'm pretty sure that Shazam says marry obviously. It's like, oh, is it obvious? It's kind of weird that nobody's matters to connect the dots on that one that you look identical. Oh, sorry. What you're referring to is when they reveal it, right? Yeah, that's right. He says, like, I'm Billy and that's Freddie and this and he goes, that's Mary obviously. Like, hmm. Not obviously enough for them to notice. The will to notice is kind of ridiculous, but, you know. Yeah, sorry. Especially if they just start their power just in the neighborhood, like someone just needs to look out the window. It's like, they're just kids just turning to superheroes. What's going on? It's constant lightning and then people flying away from that area. It's like, hmm. And also people yelling Chitam very loudly as well. They're just big fans. You know, kids are. I know, like, I didn't know. Because Shazam once and then that's it. Get back inside. It's a little bit nice. Is imagine one of the kids was just like, you know what?   Yes, you could do something with that. You could have done something is the yes. Shazam, you could have done something. Then you go, better go watch another movie. They'd be like, everyone else turns back and you're just like, I actually liked being tall, strong, fast and but I'll say wise, but you know, riders knew they couldn't do that.  It's like, no, I don't know. I have to go travel the world. See, this will be really fun, actually.  So yeah, the situation is the Franklin Bridge, the all the suspension cables are actually breaking apart and all of the, I guess, the bridge itself, all the concrete is just smashed apart. And there was this big crash in the middle of the bridge into, I guess, something very important that holds it together. I can't remember which part of it it was, but everyone's looking at it like, oh, God, I think I think things can happen. And it turns into Final Destination 5. Oh, it does. Yeah. Unfortunately, nowhere near as much fun deaths, but that character who was the pediatrician, he was in Final Destination 5. Oh, I want to go killed by Buddha.  The acupuncture one. Yeah. Someone should make an edit that combines the two together. Why? Yeah, everyone watching this later on. They'll be at a loss. Because, you know. But then I kind of want to talk about music first, OK? So the scenario is everyone's screaming and running away, but there's plenty of dumbasses in the cars who just sit and stare. I'll give it to them that they try to portray. The woman has just stunned with shock, I guess. Like, all right, yeah, there's people in the room. There's still the radio on and it's playing. I Need a Hero, famously, the song from Shrek 2. Shrek 2, yes. Yeah. It plays for and I counted because I was curious. It plays for 20 seconds. And then we cut it out to go to like pure dread music because a car is just over a crack and it sits falling into the water below, which likely kill it. So it's like, and it's like, yeah, OK. And, you know, the first thought I had was like, wow, 20 seconds of I Need a Hero and it's gone. It's strange, but OK.  And then you hard cut again to the blaring I Need a Hero as Shazam grabs the car. And I was just like, wow, that felt odd. I guess that's a choice. Like it's it's hard to say exactly what you're supposed to do with music, but it just distracted the hell out of me. I was like, it's very strange. Yeah, it's like they didn't know how to. They wanted the song. They paid for it and they wanted to get their money's worth out of it, but they didn't quite know how. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, just tried to get as much as they could in between their own music. Yeah, well, let's compare this to Shrek 2 where they incorporate the Shrek theme into I Need a Hero and kind of create their own version from it and make it more thematically relevant while this one is kind of just shoved it in there with a crowbar and a plunger. Well, you know what, they hear us. I remember that sequence of Shrek 2 being hype. Being yeah, it was really cool. Yeah, yeah, the sacrifice. He's on the horse. Right. Let's ride. No. Then he sings of the. Of course. Yeah. Think to think if we have a new Shrek starring Puss in Boots, we'll be like, let's go. Let's go. Yes, well, yeah. But yeah, then you have Freddie arriving. He says, no need to panic. Captain, every power is here. And he and I did mention this, but I was going to just pause. Not familiar enough with them to know. He grabs two cars and pulls them fully up from falling off into a crack just by their bumpers. Seems like. Yeah, probably not. I'm not going to hold. No, no. It's just all the way, you know, all of the force right localized into your hand on that point of the car. But it'd be the.  Yeah, he was holding up the entire bus by putting his hands on the crack. That was shield. Yeah, that was right. So same thing here, but whatever. It's a superhero movie. Yeah, whatever. Do you mean just whatever superhero movie should we see this all the time? Yeah, like it's not even worth fighting about that one. Well, no, it's just stated as like, yeah, it's one of those ones guys moving on as one of those one. So a lot of people like hundreds of being saved with super speed. In fact, we find out it's one hundred and sixty six because she mentions it. I guess we're not going to bother addressing whiplash, which is going to be like, no, no, that was my first thought.  OK, no, it's fine. Yeah, that's another superhero movie, regular thing. It just happens all the time. Yeah, what was the film where somebody actually put their hand on the back of someone's head to do the super speed thing? Because I know what you're thinking about. Wait, what did you say? Was it as if you lost? Was it that or was it? Lash, again, because it was a quick silver and magneto. OK, maybe it was. Yeah, why didn't everyone learn from that? Yeah.  I'm sure, but like, that's at least accounting for it a little bit. But then the thing is, is with super speed, the big question you'll be asking throughout the whole film is, why don't you guys use that more often? And then you'll be like, well, as long as they never use it, maybe we'll put it in the back of our mind. It's like, nope, they use it to save the day. They use it there. Yeah, they use a lot happens a bunch, but then they keep forgetting to use it at moments where it would be like really critical and essential. And would say, yeah, exactly.  We're back to things making a little bit more sense and Tim's just a lot of variables. Collapsing bridge. That's what I'm saying, compared to where we're going to go. Yeah, it's going to get difficult for everyone to follow along and shout at that point. So yeah, they're doing all that. And then you have this moment where I think I can't remember if they had like a hierarchy. I think they consider Mary the smart one out of everyone. I guess that was part of the fact that she got Solomon, the wisdom Solomon when they split to seven in the first movie. But like I said, everyone has everything now, so it doesn't really matter. In any case, the other dudes, the, I forget all their names, the one below Mary in this poster, he's come up with an idea. What if the frayed and broken apart suspension cables, what if you melt the top and bottom of it where it broke and then smoosh it back so it reconnects? No. Goes about as well as you'd expect. So the first thing I thought we'd see it is like, well, if you don't freeze it, which you guys don't have freeze breath or anything, then it's just going to pour apart. You know when you like melt two things and then put them together, you can pull them apart real easy because it's still melty. That's just- Well, it's like- And plus all of the cables are breaking. You can't connect just one back up and expect it will hold the bridge. Does what I mean? Like it has to hold up the weight of a bridge and it has to do more than it normally did because there's so many other cables that are broken. And that's the thing is you have, it won't work in principle and then the whole problem the bridge is currently having is that they're all snapping anyway.  You have all that put together and then he notices like some other things are happening, some other people in trouble and just flies off and the camera remains on the cable he just sealed and it just breaks. Like- Yep. Okay. I thought that's going to be addressed in some degrees. Like, oh man, we're actually not doing so good. Like, I actually had no idea what to do. It's like, no, they're just breaks and then there's never talked about again. They're saved them all, I guess. Some people saying you can't weld cables together like that. It's like, I don't even, like I said, I don't know what the fuck's going on in this scene. No. Yeah. And then the whole bridge begins to fall but he grabs one broken cable on the bottom and lifts it all the way back up to where it's supposed to be. He doesn't seal them, he just holds it there and apparently that keeps the entire bridge up. Wow. Yeah. Amazing. Like, the bridge is about to like fall into the water but he holds up one cable. It's like, okay, good. Why isn't it breaking at any of the points?   And they do a very funny meme. Shazam is like, we have to keep this bridge from collapsing, hard cut to news report. The Ben Franklin bridge has collapsed. First draft, first draft joke. We need to do this. Oh, we didn't hard cut. What's weird is Freddie is talking to them about how he's not a huge fan of the Philadelphia fiascos is the name they've been given right now. And as he's talking, it cuts to the dad watching on TV and he's like, have you ever noticed? And he stops and he goes, I need to check on the kids and the kids walk in and they're just like, hey dad, whatever. And it's like, what did he notice? Tell me, you never find out. I'm guessing- That's a good question now. Whenever the Philadelphia fiascos are on the news, that's just right after the kids all have to leave for some reason or whatever. Well, it's the thing, if you had to go for two years, you would have been able to, the parents should have found out by now. The kids are terrible at keeping this, should have secreted it. Yeah, they should. They're bad at keeping it a secret in the first one. There's several instances where you just have Freddie talking to Shazam, like out in the open with people visibly recording it on their phones. Yeah. No, they don't. I feel like the film doesn't even remember that that was the case. Bell even remembered that that was the case in the first film. They remember he met Superman though. Oh yeah, that's right. What do the parents think about that? But like he actually met Superman at school. Wow, you met that psychopath who genocides his own people? Yeah, that's right. Did you bump into one of the more past Batman toys? Batman, the guy who branded people who got executed in prison because he branded them and also kills a bunch of people. I don't think I approve of this role model, dear. Kind of insane. Yeah, I guess it's like a bat. Friends, I had to step away briefly. Did we talk about how inappropriate their behavior during the bridge scene is? Well, there's really happy and chill and goofy. Yeah, exactly.  So the thing is, it's so funny. This is just in line with all the other shitty superhero movies where I would normally complain. But the thing this film gets as a shield every once in a while is the fact that their children or at least some of them are children. Well, that's what I told myself. And in hindsight, I give the movie entirely too much credit. I thought that maybe this is something that we set up at the beginning is that they're not actually very mature about this. And then maybe they'd have to learn to be later, but they don't. Yeah, you're right. This one struggles more, though, because they're all older, like Mary's an adult, Billy's 17. So not like that young. And Freddy's probably like, I think Freddy is like 16 or something. They're not that young, or at least a few years old. I think Billy is like very close to 18 and Freddy's a month younger than him. Right. So he, yeah, exactly. So then Mary's a few years older than both of them. Very dearly, yeah. The three on the team.  Yeah, when he's not, when he's just Billy, he's actually surprisingly mature, actually. Like he's he's pretty, pretty on top of it and like wants to resolve problems and sort of grapple with the things that he needs to deal with. I mean, it was pretty well exemplified by that shot, like in the trailer where it's like after the scene that's meant to be like a really heartfelt scene later in the film.  I don't get it. I don't get why they're so different. Yeah. Wisdom of Solomon going to the wrong body. I want to change you, Fringy. That kind of power, it changes a boy. So you find out they have a layer in the form of the rock fraternity, which they do mention in the first film is going to happen.  You've even like, but silly clothes on all the seven deadly sins, which amazing to see that they were there considering the sort of stakes of them from the first film are completely forgotten in this one. If you remember, right, you need the strength of like the wizard to keep them sealed. And then the wizard is gone. And so it's just Shazam.  I can't remember how he did it in the first film. Was it with the staff? It was with the eye, wasn't it? Yeah, he uses the eye power. He comes back and gets the eye power. And then that breaks them out. Yeah, it breaks them out. I think we should have that behind like glass or something. Somebody in chat has pointed out, how do they have cable in the rock of eternity? That's a good point. So apparently they were, they have the know-how to like rig up cable television in this different realm or something connected through. There's a very, very, very long extension cord leading out one of the doors and they've hooked it up illegally to some poor man's setup. And that's how they're doing it. And someone somewhere in the world is just having their cable drop out every five minutes because of this tampering. I don't know about the cable, but they actually have a shot where they show that there's like a gas generator, which first of all, those things are incredibly loud.  But they at least thought, maybe we should try to explain the electricity. Does that put the film needs as an explanation? Yeah. Yeah, so that's why it isn't a dimensional cable. That's fear that released the seven sins then. Is that there in the place? Or is it gone? What's the deal here with that? I assume it's gone. We're going to repost that. Yeah.  Yeah. Whatever. That was a thing. It's probably a little bit. It's a little bit weird that you would be so chill and casual with like the stone figures of the things that nearly killed you. Like might be interesting if one of them actually had a little bit of a trauma relating to that whole incident. Or if any one of them had any trauma at all relating to the crazy perilous stuff that they've got going on. But no, they're like incredibly chill about this dangerous life that they're leading. So you see on the TV, Philly Fiasco destroyed bridge. Why on earth do they think they destroyed it? I don't know. It was clearly being destroyed before. There were newscasts and everything. That's how they learned about it. There were reports. Yes, exactly. If they saved 166 people, can you imagine the public outcry? Like what the fuck? They did not destroy the bridge. They saved everyone's lives. Yeah, the bridge was already destroyed anyway. All the people would come out, yeah, they saved me from the thing. They didn't destroy the bridge. But they were there because the bridge was breaking. What are you doing? I hate to go this direction. The state of journalism in this city. It's not just slander at that point, like, blaming that on a new report. I think it is. Yes. Probably. And if it's imprint, it's liable.  It just looks like there was some kind of car accident and it's broke something so badly. Those things do not go down as easily or as commonly as that at all. It just looks like something crashed into it a little bit or a little hard, whatever. And just like, yeah, this is going to break everything. Pretty big ask movie to get me to think that this one car crash, which doesn't even look that really that bad, was able to take down the whole bridge. A lot of films seem to think that like, it's like a papier-mache or something that like this massive suspension bridge is like, which is just ready to go at a moment. It's all like bridges are actually incredibly sturdy. Yeah, you'd have to remove a lot of these cables for it to actually collapse away. I mean, these sorts of things are designed with like tons of redundancies. Oh, yeah, you have to imagine they wouldn't. But whatever, it's for our action set piece. Look, the bridge and then ha ha, funny joke. They're pretty irresponsible or something. I guess. Yeah, sure. I don't really respond to how they saved all these people. He says, like when seeing it, he goes, we saved countless lives. And then she goes, 162. It's countable.  Yeah, this is just like. That's just 100% true people who are alive now, thanks to you, who may not have been. Yeah, this is just something that a cat says. Exactly. I was just like, he's reacting to being told they destroyed the bridge. That's the important part. But she's just like, actually it is countable. Actually, it is countable. It's very much an up actually sort of statement. Like, how about we don't do it? Maybe it isn't countable. Maybe he's referring to all the future lives that have been saved because all of those 162 people are now alive. How about that? That's right. And the impact. And the immeasurable impact that their loss would have meant to their families or whatever. Yeah, checkmate. Yeah. Why don't you read that in your book? Yeah, look at me, I can read. What was she reading? Was she reading like a chemistry book? Organic chemistry is what she's reading. See, she's smart. She's reading the chemistry book. Well, the reason I can read in that is that she is going to reveal soon that she wants to go to college, right? She can count. Which is interesting because we do nothing in terms of like figuring out what Billy wants to do with his life as an adult, which is fast approaching. I think that the point is that he doesn't have any plans. Like that he needs to. It's almost like he hasn't even thought at all. Like there's no ideas to entertain at all. Which seems odd because, I mean, he does go to school, right? And he does like study and have classes he attends. Theoretically. His schooling is just irrelevant to him. It was irrelevant in the first film, but it's it's even more so here. So you got, where's Eugene? And he says, where he always is, mapping doors. But turns out Eugene has been going through each of the mystery doors in the mystery door room to just mark what they are and where they go. And I was just thinking to myself like, this got to be insane worlds in there with all kinds of crazy atmospheres and rules, realities, all kinds of different things. I was just like, is it safe for this little kid to just be going in and out of them? And when Shazam comes in there, he gets blown out of one of them and he says, don't go in that one. It's actual nightmare fuel. And it's like, what would have happened if he went in there and then didn't come out though? What does that look like? It was like, hey, where's that guy? Should probably go in twos or something or, you know, don't close the door or you know, some kind of contingency installed that you can get some amount of supervision right back out. The older ones should accompany the younger ones if they're like planning on going on some adventure. Yeah, this is like one of those things you don't do alone. Yeah. The door is kind of weird. How irresponsible they are. Oh, anyway, it cuts to Shazam.  Marys, pay attention, please. It's like, Shazam has a character played by Zachary Levi just annoys me, I guess. I just call it, I never believe it. It always comes across as he's like trying to entertain children sort of thing. So she says, organic cam is my meditation. And he said, said nobody with friends because I'd have friends if I went to college. Okay. They don't have friends in other places. They don't make friends. They don't have any friends anywhere else. We all went to college together by the way, chat. And then, I think Eugene says... Stop crowding, I see. I just like that you say that you can't make friends anywhere else as a Tinder spam bot shows up in the chat. Happy friend. Play the bot. Yeah, so Eugene just says, I got to test the slime for toxicity. I'm starting to tingle. So when he came out of the nightmare fuel place, he just got covered in slime and decided to just sit down and talk with everybody instead of having a shower or anything. Kind of weird. Yeah, because that's what we would do. That's what people would do. So that's weird.  So I'm gonna go watch baseball. Gonna go ogle the shortstop if you know what I mean. I mean, that's what I don't get about that line. I was like, does he actually like baseball or does he use baseball as his excuse to go do gay things? What does that even mean?  And then, I forget the names of these characters. The youngest one, little girl. She says, I should probably return this kitten. Yeah, you should. Yeah, you probably should. So that's cool. Catnapping's bad. Yeah, that's pretty bad. I think it's somebody's cat. Yeah, like. She just took the cat. It's kittens, no less. Yeah. He just took the cat. Because there's like three of them that they wouldn't miss one of them. Just, yeah, it's just, what else can you say about it? It's just like, man, you shouldn't do that. Yeah, but isn't it really funny though? Yeah, see, gotcha, checkmate. So then we get a really weird conversation, just like the rest of this movie where people don't talk to each other properly. He's like. Oh, here we go. He's the only guy, Mary left, and he says, oh, if you say you have to work, and she says, I have to work. And he goes, why do you even have a job? Wonder Woman doesn't have a job. She's like an archeologist, right? No, I guess he doesn't know that. I mean, she doesn't have a job. That she doesn't. And it's just like, that's strange, but okay. But also it's not a very meaningful thing to say. Like Wonder Woman is a God. Like this is just a person, you know?  She's not, because Wonder Woman is Wonder Woman. So you can at least say that that is her primary identity. This lady had a whole life before she became a Shazam person. Wonder Woman is basically immortal. She lives for like thousands of years, whereas it's not the case for her. Then you get some, because Freddie earlier said he wanted to go fly solo for a bit, right? And so then you have this line. Mary says, just stop, Billy.  What, now, what are your, your, your discord's cutting out there? No, it wasn't. For me. Your discord's cutting out, rags. Yeah. Here we go again. Bye rags. It was nice knowing you. Hello? Is he going to talk over us this whole time? Yes, he is. This has happened many times. Yep. You don't wait for him to go boo-doo. I'm assuming it'll happen at some point, right? Yeah, well, it's just like we've been working into another dimension. We're all talking rags. Oh, there you go. He'll be back. Don't worry. Whoa, okay. How are we doing rags? You there? Hello? All right, Singapore. Let's go. Let's go. Singapore is a new trend. As part of the new DLC. Dear Lord. All I heard was Singapore is part of the new DLC, which is good. It's what I had for two. Yeah, Mario Kart 8 has the new DLC and it's got like Singapore as one of the courses because I got the tour maps, like Mario Kart Tour is where they're in real like world cities. So they've got like Berlin, Sydney, all sorts. But I've also added a new one called Yoshi's Island. It's a new, totally original new map for Mario Kart 8 and it's really cool. It's very quaint. This has been a very good pass. There's rags you there yet? I am here. Yeah, are you back? Okay, cool. Well, anyways, getting off of the really fun and awesome Mario Kart 8 back to the really terrible Shazam movie. Yes, so he said about the job thing and her response is stop, like basically that he feels a little bit too controlling, which is one thing you could say, but instead they have to say, you're holding on too tight just because Freddy wants to fly solo for 10 minutes doesn't mean he's gonna leave you like your mom did. Thanks for explaining that one of the themes of the film.  Like, well, it just comes out of nowhere, but it's like, oh, that's about 25, 30% of what you're gonna get for that is like a theme in this film. Just that one like line of dialogue. Phrase rather harshly, I would say.    Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's a, yeah. It's not a very nice thing to say.  Thanks dude. The movie tries to make it a thing that he's controlling, but you don't really get that vibe.  He just wants to hang out with him, but they don't want her. No. So yeah. He is kind of annoying. Beyond surprising, but none of the characters actually accept that line for what it is. He instead just can keep moving. And she says, all that me going to college means I'm abandoning the family. And he goes, oh, college again. And she says, you turn 18 in five months. So that's how old he is then. And there you go. Because they're not going to kick me out. They didn't kick you out. And she says, Victor and Rosa are saints because you're about to age out of the foster system. Just like I did. And you know, I'm still there. And he's like, yeah, I know how it works. And she goes, do you, Victor and Rosa can only barely pay rent and the state no longer sends checks to feed or house me and soon they won't for you.  Victor and Rosa are like taking care of all these kids and they don't get support from the government once they hit a certain age. And he's got like the testicles right now at age 17 to be like, you don't need a job. Like, dude. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that Billy is smart enough to understand the notion of like that you need income to pay bills. Yeah. Yeah, those two barely paid for everything. And what we find out as well is that they buy the house later on in this episode.  All episodes of this giant show. So yeah, that's a reality. She's trying to explain why she has a job. And then she says, I don't care if Wonder Woman has a job. I want to contribute. Everyone on earth, we have to get a job or leave home. Nothing lasts forever. And I remember thinking about like, I wonder if the film agrees or disagrees with that said to it. I'm not even sure. Yeah. Is this going to play into like a theme later on about something or is it not? Kind of like just saying I want to contribute regardless. I was like, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be nice if you weren't so mean to know about it. The problem is I don't even think she realized. The writer didn't realize that was me. The writer was probably just like, you're insecure about your mom. Rip. Like, oh.  Yeah. Abandon you when you were like five years old. Yeah. You're insecure about that.  Well, it painted the entire, sorry. Go ahead. No, go ahead.   It was coming. I just remember in that scene, it was coming off like, are you trying to like, are you trying to like stoke the psychological flames that you clearly already see are there? Are you a secret demon? Yeah. Are you trying to give them a panic attack right now? Are you trying to, I don't know. It was, it read as like, I can see every insecurity you have and I'm going to play directly into them. And I think it is because of that initial mum line. It was, it was, it left a bad taste. It really did. It makes you feel like they, like she doesn't, doesn't actually like Billie like at all. It's like, you're just being annoying this whole time. We don't actually, I don't want you around basically.    But no, he's like, well, just you're right. Wonder Woman does never drop a mouth. It just comes across like the writer was worried you'd forget that that's sort of part of his character. So he had to make it explicit when that should just be the subtext. Yeah, he could have just left it at like, he's just because he wants to fly solo doesn't mean he's going to abandon you. Period. That could have been it. And we would have, you know, inferred the rest. But I think the writer was worried we forgot. Even though they brought it up earlier in this movie, didn't they? In the diatrous office or whatever it was. Yep. Idiotrition, whatever. He's saying nothing lasts forever. That's going to come up a few times here and there. Well, he says it's called the Rock of Eternity. So some things last forever. Oh, good one. Eternity, I know what that word means. So this is the part of the movie that I think everyone is like, what? Especially if you haven't seen like the trailers where he pops at it, but you hear someone in a prison cell where the Helen Mirren and the other, well, there's only the two of them right now, actually. It was my photo of them. Continuities, you understand what the fuck's happening. Back to their plot line. They walk up to a prison cell. There's someone in there who says, just leave me to die. And she says, we come bearing gifts. And he gets up and it's the wizard from the first movie. It's the wizard. Oh my God, how are you here? How are you alive? You might have thought he disintegrated, but have I got news for you?  No one's ever really gone. He is not dead. Somehow the wizard lives. And I may as well skip to it, Alex. It's just so funny. One of the characters at one point in this film is like, wait, aren't you supposed to be dead? Like, I think everyone thought you were dead. He goes, no, I just went to a different realm. Oh, that's how disintegration works. Okay. Well, that's not a big deal at all. Yeah, cause you could just go from realm to realm. So it's not even a somehow he returbed. They've record it so that he didn't die at all. He just teleported, but in a way that turned him to ash. Apparently when he disintegrated, it's like, oh, I just disintegrated in like that room, but I'm here in this prison again. I just like to think that he sees us like, that's how I travel. I just go to ash and it just looks really scary to everyone. Totally fine, don't worry about it. It's like, oh, okay. And he's like, this realm was sealed off from magic. And then Halmyrin, I don't know, man, I think it's the dialogue. It could be the performance, I don't know. But she says, yes, after you ripped it from our father's very core, from every God in the realm, from me. Do you not remember what you took from me? What my particular power was? The power of elements?  Just kill me, I can't take it. Oh, why would you write it like that? Okay, moving. This is what we're doing. Leave me alone, why are you doing this to me?  You be a normal God, not a cringe God. And does he make sense like that? The powers of cringe. Why don't I remind you what you did to me, so that people know what you did to me? Okay, okay. How will they know unless I tell you now? Here are my powers, whoa! It is the most exposition discussion ever. They don't sound at all like they're saying things they're actually interested in.   Why did you write this so bad? It's like she was excited to finally drop this on him. I was like, oh, he's gonna ask any moment now. Yeah, he's about to ask about it. Here I go, here's my moment. And I was like, oh, I got it. He's like, how, where is the champion? And then you just think like, why didn't you tell Shazam? That staff is incredibly important to the point where the whole of Earth would be destroyed if it breaks. Should you break it? Yeah. Man, I'm sure glad we don't have any other of these items lying around that we don't know about. Lucky, that's only the one. Shazam three. No, no, no. That's not gonna happen. Wrath of the Titans or whatever. It's just no way. There was no way anyway. Like, how much money do you think this film would have to make for them to make a third one? Doot, doot, doot. Not too much. Kind of looking budget. For them to get. I was thinking like, would a billion even be enough because there's DC James Gunn stuff? He'd be like, eh, it's good. It's really good, but no, we're moving on. If it made two billion, he'd be like, okay, yeah, we gotta make another one. Like that way, yes. Yeah. So is the metric that it has to make 2.5 times its production budget to break even? Well, I'm not interested in that. I'm just thinking how much do you think it would have to make for people like James Gunn and the others in charge to think, yes, we'll make a third one? A shitillion dollars? It would be a lot, yeah. It would have to be a whole bunch. And even then a billion is just, that's already pushing it. I think if it was a billion, they'd be like, well, we'll use the benefits of that to generate our new stories. I don't think a billion would be enough for them to be like, oh yes, the IP of Shazam on its own is enough to continue, you know? I don't know, maybe. Wait, what? So for your question, how much do you think this movie would have to make for James Gunn at ALT to conclude that we should make a Shazam 3? The problem is that I don't know that there's like, I almost wonder if there's no real amount of money that a film could make that's even remotely reasonable that would sort of offset the amount of damage that seems to just sort of pervade like the DC brand. Cause this is gonna be like the fourth one in a row that has not like done very well at the box office. Birds of Prey didn't do very well. The Suicide Squad didn't do very well, but that was simultaneous release. One Woman 1984 was not received very well at all. That film was just broadly considered a clown movie. And of course this one's not doing very well either. And I imagine even looking forward, I don't know how much money Flash makes. I don't even know if like the Flash making a billion dollars would be enough for them to go, oh, let's scrap our plans and then, you know, keep making these things. I'm not sure. Maybe if it made like a billion dollars. I don't think a billion would be enough, but I think two billion would be. So I'm not sure where the line would. Two billion would probably be enough. Cause it was two billion would be one of the highest grossing films like of all time.  I guess. Of course, we live in the real world rather than make, believe, fantasy land. This film might not even make like 200 million dollars.  It would be. I mean, it's the same as if, you know, Ant-Man doesn't crack 500 million, which it looks like it won't. And then again, looking forward at the rest of the year, how well does the Flash do? You see, you hear the thing that Tom Cruise apparently asked to watch and loved it. What a weird headline to read. Tom Cruise specifically wanted to see the Flash watched it and liked it. Oh, well, no. That was a real tweet. I thought it was a meme tweet that I saw. I think that was from a Hollywood reporter that he asked to see it and he loved it so much, he called up the director, basically said that he loved it. But why? I need to know what are the superhero movies Tom Cruise likes. But I don't know what we're dealing with, you know. Imagine he said like the only other what I like is Harley Quinn's Birds of Prey. He like, okay. Oh. He's, he's standing by the mummy and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. I sure was gold. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how much money it needs to make a hell of a lot more than it's going to. Yes. But yeah, apparently the only person that can repair the two pieces of the staff are the wizards. He has to hold the two parts and shout Shazam. So they get him to do that with telekinesis and the mind chaos thing, like done, done, done. But before they leave, he grabs a hold of the staff so hard, like bigs his nail into it so he gets pretty hard splinter. You okay? Yeah, I just remember what happens with that splinter. It goes somewhere I don't like. No, it's not a great place to have a splinter. No. It's ouchy. It's a relatable ouchy. So you may be thinking, well, what's he gonna be able to do with that?  They've got everything they need out of him. No, they don't kill him. And so it's on you as the audience member at that point, I would say, to try and think and infer why they might not kill him. And I think some people might say, well, they might need him in future for anything that happens with the staff or maybe they wanna ask him questions about stuff in future or that, you know, it's just one of those prisoners maybe you hang on to especially because he can't do anything from within that cell and it's like, maybe, but then that gets thrown out the window because the next interaction they have with him is they're gonna kill him. Yeah, right? Also, I guess that mind control isn't permanent. No, that's a good point. I feel like it should just be permanent.  Yeah, I guess a different kind of thing. Well, why wouldn't you just get full control over him? Yeah, that's a great point. Why do we? Well, he's a wizard, so he can... Yeah, that's the only thing that like, you know...  Yeah, I guess. He's a little bit, he's got some stronger brain than the average guy, I guess. His brain's got the strongest sort of temporary on Freddy as well. I meant you were faster with the joke. Oh, you're right. It is on the temporary on Freddy.  Yeah, it seems like... That seems the most likely. She doesn't have a mastery of her powers that much. So then we have awkward high school scene where Freddy bumps into random girl and they have very awkward and stilted ban to try and generate like a relationship super fast because again, we've already done like a third of their whole interactions. Go, go, go. And then the bullies turn up and they're like, hey, new girl, if you need anything, wear your guys. What would you say they're doing in that moment, guys? Generally speaking? Assault. No, not to... Wait, am I talking to her or...? This is actually leading somewhere. What do you think they're doing in relation to the girl? They're just trying to like, I don't know, schmooze her up a bit. I would say they kind of, I guess... They'd be in a bit horny, yeah, they're like, hey, hey, cool, hot, new girl, we're the guys, you probably... Simping, yeah, that's fair enough. This is later described as they were planning to like, beat her up. Wait, what?  I thought she said that he knew what they were going to do to him for saying that and he still did it. She, I could have sworn, maybe I misheard it, but the...  Well, so part of what she mentions is like, he was protective of her, but I don't think that makes any sense. No. I still don't think it's like working, but I'm pretty sure that's what she said.  Like he was just... Yes, exactly.  Well, of course I are jerks, but yeah, she doesn't know that yet. They are jerks, but they hadn't actually done anything yet and he decides, so they just say, hey, how's it going, new girl? We're here and we're your guys. Maybe to help you understand more again, is she says she was going to kill them. Oh, later on she does, yeah, which she's been saying. Well, that's true. Why doesn't she, she says it later in the film, no, she says it in that same scene that she was going to kill them and that Freddie protected her or whatever, so she didn't need to. Like basically she said, just give me a sec, she says you did all that, but you didn't need to because I was going to rearrange their organs anyway. That was later in the film. I thought that was later in the film, yeah. No, that's once they, it's past the dragon pot, same scene. Where do you think this happened? The scene when they're talking on the rooftop or something? No, no, this is after the dragon. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, now I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Because the whole idea is like, he's like, oh, you saved us and she's like, you saved me from, yeah, that was it, I was right. She said, you saved me from bullies. I thought you were talking about the conversation that they had right after he had confronted the bullies. No, I literally said this way later in the film when she's talking about the contextualizing what happened with the bullies and she did say, you're the one that protected me from the bullies, which is like not even moving through.  That was at the school. This is why I'm confused. I heard the same thing, so I got confused as well. Yeah, this whole time I was talking about the dragon scene. The point I'm getting at is that this is mutual. This problem is that you said that line from that scene, which is where I got confused. What I'm trying to highlight is this is mutual confusion. What I'm trying to highlight is that she was criticizing him for being too protective of people who were gonna beat her up with what was gonna happen. That's my whole point. Yeah, no, I agree with that. But still, mutual confusion here. You were partially responsible for this. Well, but I was right. She does contextualize it as they were gonna bully her. No, I know that she, I know, okay, sure. I wasn't talking about any specific lines, just the notion that they were gonna hear. I didn't, do you literally read out the very specific line and then that was where I thought it was supposed to be? No, I didn't read any of these. I don't have any of these written down. That's why I was guessing. All I know, that's why I just got remembered is the reason that the bullying line comes up is because she says, I protected you from bullies in this realm.  Which doesn't make any sense. They weren't bullying her. No, I know that weren't bullying her. I agree with that. But still, fudged references, confusion all around. It's cool. Oh my goodness. Moving on. No, no, same scene.  I would imagine there's not gonna be much ways you can do that, which would still save your life.  Yeah, yeah. All because they said, if you need anything, we're here. We're here.  Yeah, you might be like, yeah, but they mean bullies. They've beaten them up before.  Yeah. Well, it's pretty, we might be jumping the gun, but I do not like how much this film tries to bail this character out for like moral culpability for a lot of the things that she does. It reminds me of a, what's her name from Black Widow? Helena? Helena? Yeah, Helena. Oh, the mum, right?  We'll move on. And it's kind of weird as well, because later in the film, she's like, oh no, bad things happening to people. It's like, apparently you would totally chill with doing that to kids. Like, I don't understand. Helena is new Black Widow. I'm talking about the mum. Whatever her name was. I forget what her name was. Yeah, someone in chat right now. Eventually. The movie does not. You don't remember Black Widow? Jane or something. I don't know. For some reason, I was going with Helena. Melina? Melina. Melina, yeah. Oh, yeah, I remember now because it was like Mortal Kombat. That's what I kept thinking when I was editing. Oh, there you go. I was thinking of a horrible, monstrous creature. Yeah, yeah. That's actually really suitable. Oh, yeah, right. I was mixed up with Katana. Never mind. Well, that makes sense because she's a botched clone of Katana, right? Win, alone, yeah. With Takatan, DNA. See, I know my Mortal Kombat slightly. Mortal Kombat 2, hopefully without the OC, Johnny Cage, main character, and bringing back Kano. Yeah, and I would even, as far as just just having back. They're like, weren't you dead?   All right, that's the excuse to give him the actual prosthetic laser eye. Yeah.   Nothing in Mortal Kombat. Pringy. They alluded to this idea that they could like return or something. Well, they did with because behind original Sub-Zero, they'll probably bring him back as Noob Saibot and then put in like sort of mainline, regular, long-standing Sub-Zero. That was like the best part of the movie was Scorpion versus Sub-Zero. And then they had to put their OC character into the fight as well. Nobody wanted him there. I just wanted to see Scorpion in Sub-Zero fight. But did you have a list of the generic action man characters? Because there's so many of them. Yeah, there are a lot of them. Unfortunately, Chris Pratt's got like a few of those pinned down just for himself. Yes, he does. Yeah. And did you hear that they're not certain if Scorpion is going to return for Mortal Kombat 2? Really? They're not going to put back? Scorpion is the icon of the franchise. How do you not have Scorpion back for Mortal Kombat 2? The same way you have an OC as the main character in Mortal Kombat 1 with incompetence.  If that may have come out like that entered production today, there wouldn't have been that OC character. It would have been just the video game characters. And they wouldn't have tried to come out. Isn't it crazy that that's a thought, though? That they thought, you know what, people? We're going to bank on this movie selling because it's Mortal Kombat. However, we're not confident enough in that. So instead, the better move is to have the protagonist be this lame, super generic OC. That's the reason why Sonic the Hedgehog was like a crazy monstrosity thing instead of just being Sonic the Hedgehog. It's because even though they know the name, it's like, yeah, but we can't have like a blue hedgehog like running around. Like that'd be silly. We need to make him look like he's kind of plausible as like a creature. We need to make him look like a monster. Yeah. Well, hey, yeah, exactly. Like a failed genetic experiment. With human teeth. People love that. 95% of Molina is hot. That's fair. Definitely can't go wrong on that one. That is true. Do you remember in MKX where they gave her a human lips over her teeth just so they could do that one scene? No. Yeah, actually. Yeah, that's right. And then in Mortal Kombat 11, they were like, no, just give her the full tar cart and like crazy looking sort of mouth. Yeah. So for those not aware, so in Mortal Kombat 10. You don't need to talk about it. You don't need to like go into it's gross. OK, OK, I don't. I will not go into it if the panel does not want to go into it. I mean, it really opposed to it. So if this bugs him, we don't have to, you know, talk. It does bug me. Yeah, it bugs me a lot, actually. That I see what you did there. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah.  So when they say that we can do anything, he says, yeah, narcissistic personality disorder, chlamydia, they've got it all. I thought it was like a line nine to fight against bullies. Where have you gone? See, I had forgotten that they were the bullies from the first movie. So I thought, like, well, that was really rude. They didn't do anything yet. They're the comical, crazy bullies that pick on crippled children. Yes. Yeah. Which is why, you know, the line.  Yeah, that's right. Even though it's probably going to get towed. Immediately towed and they'll shoot out for it. Yeah.   I was like, see, that's why as a Shazam superfan, I saw the first one again. So I knew how well constructed this story beat was and you were suffering sitting there, not knowing.  I think they thought it was a funny joke, like, ha, ha, funny, funny. She's kind of like not familiar with, you know, the customs of like society or something. Is that what they were doing? I think it was meant to be like kind of almost a fish out of water thing that she's like an ancient god.  Well, she did say like I wouldn't have needed you to do anything because I was going to rearrange the organs, meaning she knew it would at least stop them. I assume she knows that we killed them, though.   She understands like. Well, yeah, but I didn't have that interpretation anyway. I didn't think that's what they were trying to tell us. I thought that he was literally killing them hence. Hence my like concerns about her as a character, right? She doesn't actually know at that point that they're really terrible bullies. They just kind of rather aggressively said hi to her. That's true. They did. And that's the thing. Someone would be like, but they and it's like, no, that is after. But we can talk about it now. They punch him in the in the good old belly and then they I was going to say break, but they bend it. Is is crutch that it's not not usable.    Everybody would hate them. You're picking on the crippled kid. The 40 year old 50 year old man who wrote this, he thinks that like everyone wants to pick on the crippled kid. Like if someone's crippled, that means that everyone in the school will hate them instead of them like actually getting a lot of social credit for that in a way. Like everyone's going to look out for him. What do you generally the kind of people who get bullied?  They usually get bullied at school, not crippled people. Oh, yeah, yeah.   So it's just annoying to see that that's happening. And then it's like, oh, a teacher just saw it all or principal. I don't think we have to find out his job, teacher. Yeah, I think so. We'll go with that. He's like the cool teacher.  You know, and they move the they were going to put him in a trash can. They move that back.  Don't don't you worry about it. And they like leave. And then Freddie, like, I don't know if he high fives. Most of the time he's like, oh, thanks so much. It's like, hello, teacher. You just saw him get beaten and then they broke. Yeah, like very significant support. Do something. And this is like, no, I did something. I broke it up. It's fine. Yeah, just let him go. I was like destroyed his property. You know, like it might might require a little bit more like least get attention, please. From breaking his steering talking to anything. Just like anything. No, he did it. It's fine. It's like, oh, maybe the maybe the principles in on it. Maybe he's cool. Teja, I hope that you don't die lighter in this movie. I would be unfortunate because that's our way of being a cool dude, apparently. Well, does he die? As you watch that movie, I don't remember that. You know, it's not that long away. That theoretical. Yeah, it's very sad for you. Right. No, I remember. OK, yeah, you're right. That maybe happened. Well, maybe we'll find out whether that happened in a minute or two. So they have more banter and then the bullies just throw a football at his head and he falls to the ground. And it looks like kind of painful, but then it just like camera just sits on and he's like, ah, I met a girl. Hey, I don't know. We see the ball. He never ends. No, that's it for the bullies. They've done their job. So then the way they don't they don't even do like for that. They don't even do like a weird like payoff where they get like, I don't know, where demon shits on them or whatever. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, we're we're we're something like you expect kind of like in the first movie. Yeah, like like Shazam saved the truck and dropped it. And then they come up and. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.  Oh, something. Yeah. But then Freddie bends his leg backwards. Like, yeah, I see how it feels. No, that's not the Zack Snyder version. Too dark.  So the wizard gets the splinter out of his finger and uses it to cast a spell. And this is the thing, right? Let's just pretend the all he can do with the splinter is contact one person. I don't know what else he could do with it. Seriously, up to the writer. But we know he can contact someone to talk to. And you might be thinking, well, Shazam, right? That's the one he's got to talk to. That's the one he needs to talk to. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds like a good idea. But do you know who he he asks to speak to? Is go find me the one who did this. And what he's referring to is breaking the staff. But that could be a couple people. Right. Yeah, because what what if he didn't know that it was Mark Strong, that he had broken it for some reason? Yeah. And then he's like contacts in prison like, hey, Mark, what are you doing? He's just like, especially, especially given what we see later in the film. Contact one. I know who he is. Just got a Wonder Woman. I don't know what's up. Yeah. Or just anyone that can be told and warned about the future of Earth as opposed to the person who broke the staff. Like, OK, really dumb, but fine. Go to the Justice League. He looks like some evil guy who did it. Yeah, like Mark Strong. Oh, yeah, sorry. Anyway, yeah, he gets in contact with his Sam. It's nice and lucky. He's he's having a dream currently about hanging out with Wonder Woman. And that's the scene where you don't see her face at all. It's a I thought they were going to make a joke. So I knew she was in the movie where he would be like, you know, it's I thought it would be like that lame joke where he's like, it's like a dream where you can never quite see the thing you're trying to look at. And the camera just pans up and she's actually there. And you'd be like, I don't see who actually have it. But no, not in that, yeah, because they probably didn't have it when they were filming that one, I doubt it. And so, yeah, you only see her from the back until she turns into the wizard. But only in the face and the beard. Everything else is Wonder Woman. Yeah, it just has the wizard. What do I think of it? That's hilarious. If so, the goal here of the wizard is to tell Shazam that there are evil daughters of Athena and they're coming to get them. And they're the barrier between the realms has been broken. And the bad stuff is going to happen. It's very, very, very important. This is a very high stakes message. And the way that it is conveyed is just to be clear. It's in a dream, right? He does this in a dream. He doesn't do it in the real world or anything like that. In a dream, Shazam is dreaming about dating Wonder Woman. And so he inserts himself into that dream by making Wonder Woman's face become his face in voice so that he can then talk to Shazam in this dream. Yeah. Yeah. What if he were just, yeah. Because every time when every time when I have a dream after this, like, oh, man, maybe this means something and it's not like this has an impact on my actual life.  Exactly. I too choose to like write them down or remember them very deliberately for them to stay or they just yeah. So Shazam could just go going like a Billy rather. Oh, that was a weird dream. Anyway, moving on. Well, so before we go to that, I was just as was kind of implied, there's like the strategy, of course, should have been that he actually sits down as himself as the wizard and talks to him very seriously. So it's like, you need to write to me instead of being like, I'm Wonder Woman. And you're I guess we need to chalk that up as like an accident, like that wasn't meant to happen. Like how much control does he have over his dreams? I don't know. Don't think he just really wanted to be like, oh, he has to do it this way. It's like. Yeah, it has to be Wonder Woman's face. OK. I don't know. But I guess we don't get any rules to break all that one. Yeah, exactly.  The daughters of Atlas are coming for you. They're coming to unmake your world and torture mankind into the pit of endless agony. So basically so far, nothing useful. Nope. And then he says, oh, wow, I should write this down. He says, why does it just know you don't know what you've done? I regret ever choosing you because of you. The barrier of the world has been brought down and they will be hunting the ones you love. Again, nothing useful. I think that the wizard, you need to take a little bit more personal responsibility for not telling you anything. But also, you tell him something you can actually use.   That's where you're in luck for me.  That's writing. Because because the reason we do that is to set up that there's something else to find out and we don't know what it is. How how interesting. Hmm, that's mystery. I like me some mystery. The thing he didn't waste all the time by talking about how much he hates them first. Yeah, that would be that would be awkward. So annoying, because when it's just like that line we talked about earlier and some of the other ones where when you have the camera like zoom in on him and he's like, one thing you absolutely must not let happen is you're like, yeah, he's going to get cut off. Yeah, that's all you do. Yeah, yeah. This script is so thoroughly generic. You know everything that's going to happen before it happens. Not because it's well written, but because it's so tropey and it's so cliche and it's funny cliche. Yeah, some of those tropes are like the time it's most coherent. Just him doing that and getting hate. You're like, well, that was a stretch in terms of timing, but I guess it's not a whole. So that's what could happen. I guess it could happen. I think it might by numbers parts.  I think it might help make sense of the script to know that one of the writers wrote fast in the furious three, four, five, six, seven and eight. Yeah, that explains that. That explains the fossil furious reference in the film explains the theme about family. Oh, right. Yeah. You guys got the trailer. The world as with fast 10. The end of the road begins. That is a funny. It's funny. That's a trope in and of itself. The end begins. Wasn't that the tagline for God of War three? It was. Yeah. Well, the name of one of the most famous songs. Right. It's it's it's a good meme. The end begins. It's like the end it begins. That's crazy. I see the word end and begin next to each other. And my brain goes, whoa, well, it's and I don't it's not just that it's next to Ted. The end begins. Now, the 10th, finally started to get to the end. Yeah. And I think it's going to be funny that they went. Yeah. The fast in the furious, too fast, too furious. The fast and the furious Tokyo drift. And we've got all the way into now fast. That's just the name of the world. Well, there was five. There was well, because fast, there was the reboot, which was for that was just fast and furious. So they got rid of the fast and and and then the drop the cleaner. They had the end in the end, but they got rid of the the and then it was fast five. And then what was it? Was it like furious? It was in furious six and then furious seven. Oh, my God. The fate of the furious is eight. That's right. We're going to have an annual. That's nine. I think it was fast, fast and furious nine. Was it or was it fast?  And then, of course, you can't forget about fast and furious presents. No, it was F nine. If you were sorry, it was actually F nine. It was fast and furious presents. I love how inconsistent the naming is. It's hilarious. It's called. Oh, and also it's called F nine. The fast saga. Oh, yeah. And then the last X is just fast X. And what's the last X? Yeah, the end of the fast, the furious. I mean, I don't know if that's the furious five. But I just feel like you have to come a wall up at the potential drift. That's right. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's the end of the fast and furious. I go drift five furious. Right. Of the F nine X 11. Do it. Present it by and then do it again. That's right. Fast and furious. Yeah, the fast saga. The fast saga. They went into space in the last movie. Can you believe it? Incredible. You know what I can actually, yeah. It's only a matter of time, I thought. Freddie, the Spanish version of fast and furious was Los Bandoleros. Good. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Freddie wakes up. No, sorry. When Billy wakes up, of course, he says, like, Whoa, what was that? And his his little globe in his room explodes. They don't know why that happened. I was very confused because I thought we're a we're a foot. Well, I thought he was about to get attacked. Like they like they come in close. They're like, oh, they're coming for Shazam now. He's going to have to fight now. But then the scene just ends. My rate of that was, ah, see, it wasn't just a dream. Electricity. That's like Shazam related. What are those called? I think you're right. Those electric balls. Oh, I know what that is. It's something, isn't it? Or an electric ball. Static electricity. Electric ball. What are they called? Like what's a ball? Plasma ball. Plasma ball. OK, they're called plasma balls. Plasma globe. I guess I'll have to go with the that interpretation, the freaking cap had, because I got nothing for it. I just don't I can't crack it. It's like he wakes up. He sees it go and it's like, OK. And it just throws glass everywhere and there's no problems are all OK. One other interpretation possible is that it's happening because someone shes amped. Maybe. And then the explanation. Well, but the thing is like Freddy, maybe, but he's nowhere near the house at that point. So yeah, well, then they he must have a really high usage for these plasma balls. I was about to say he was replace of every day. Yeah, it's like, oh, again, it's given them by the city. Yeah, not not sure about that exactly, but we'll go with this one. Yes. Let me cut to Freddie, who's just in an alleyway, and he's looking through, I guess, crime. Current crime is happening. And you hear him going, nope, over it. Yeah, this is crime app open. I don't know what I'm willing to give him that. I guess whatever he's tapped into, he's got a way of might be the police, blah, blah, blah. But it's something like that. Yeah, the the. So I was listening to him, he says, nope, over it. Done it. Check for what? Are you kidding me? Oh, armored car heist. And then he shazams and he flies and he's going, and then it cuts to him at school, having a really shitty school lunch. Like, see the difference. And I was just thinking, like, I don't want to do what you're doing film. I want to do the fact that he just scrolled over something and said, done it. Like he's doing this for the fun of it. He's not doing it to help people. That's way more interesting to actually address. And the film doesn't ever talk about that sort of thing. No, absolutely not. Nothing to do with this movie. The idea is like, oh, it's someone sitting robbed. Yeah, but yeah, those robbers have it all the time. Lame done it too many times.  That's yeah, so oh, well. And so the girl turns up again and she's like, can you show me where you met the superheroes? It's like, yeah, that's not us at all. This this lady's never appeared before.  I just I got the distinct impression she was evil at this point. I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop. But the thing is, it drops pretty fast because this movie is broken up, I think, into four acts, is how I would put it. Seems that way.  I don't know. It's really hard to sort of nail with. I think it's the beginning of act three, but it almost seems like it's not. It almost seems like the beginning of act three because it's such a dramatic escalation. Yeah. You're not wrong. There's still most of the movie left at that point. And Freddie says, sorry, I have an overbearing brother.  You always just to know where I am. She thinks she knows better than me. Nice to not have someone breathing down your neck because I'm not a kid anymore. And that's where I was like, yep. So she's related to those great people. She's evil. We were even thinking before that in the first hallway sequence is like, why? Why is this this new random girl shows up and she takes this interest to this is this guy, this Freddie guy, when Freddie doesn't seem to have any positive qualities whatsoever to be attracted to. Really? And like, OK, that's I don't I think, Mama, you'd ask you didn't know if this was bad writing or if she was evil. Yeah. It's one of the two. I just want to do bad writing. You should always assume that's probably this movie. Yes. Safe bet. Yeah, I writing. I kind of underestimated the movie because I thought like, well, there's no I had the brief thought that maybe that she's related to them somehow.  They wouldn't do that. Oh, well. So then Billy turns up and he drags Freddie off to talk to him about this dream. And he says it's the wizard desperately trying to contact him. And it was really strange because I think everybody would have just come to conclude like we mentioned earlier that you wouldn't think much of that beyond it being a dream. The wizard is dead. And what did he say in the dream that you're not good enough and that something called the Sisters of Atlas are coming? That sounds pretty absurd. And maybe something you read in some school, you know, thing. I don't know. Nobody ever even entertains this. The Freddie immediately says like, wait, the wizard, but he died. Like, it was a dream. He's not alive because he's in a dream. It's a dream. What a woman's dream. And then you're like, oh, how did you see him? It's like, yeah, he was one woman's face. Like, you know, that might have just been a dream. Something that just happens. But no, no, we treat it all as real and we move forward. Is it real? OK, good. Um, yeah, he says he's going to organize everybody to. Well, figure this out. And they say the daughter's guard, the mythic tree of life, which grows golden apples that contain the seeds of life, which give birth to their realm that's protected by a dragon. All right. Yep. Well, I'm glad we've all done that. Good. Yeah. Um, and then Pedro says, I know someone that might be able to help. And yeah, we get introduced to possibly the most useful thing on earth, casually, because they talk about this. He opens up a secret door behind. I think it's gluttony is the statue. I think so. Yeah. He hits like a blue button on the gluttony statue. And then it slides back and swings away. And then like a whole new section of their layer just opens up. Yeah. And he takes me to a room. He. Oh, God. Takes him into a room filled with magical flying books. The huge library. And they go to the center table. They see this little pen and he's writing something and he introduces it as Steve, the pen, and he knows everything. Wow. He never told them. That is here. No, it's obviously that literally knows the answers to all things wouldn't be that useful. There's an entire massive section of the cave. And boy, it's like massive this underground library area with a with an omniscient pen that writes things down whenever you talk to it as it's way to answer used to write things down. It knows everything. And he has never told anybody else that this entire part of the cave exists.  Like, no, that's the other character that was mapping out the entire cave. He didn't find it. This guy did for some reason. And he didn't tell. He even pointed out, doesn't he? He's like, are you kidding me? I'm mapping out this whole thing and I didn't find this. Something like that. I think I remember something.  No, it's like the movie feels like, oh, we already gave this gave this guy all the mapping out of the doors.  So they all have something. It's like, OK, one in chat said, pretty smart pen. Yeah, pretty smart pen. Well, he's pretty smart. The smartest pen, you might say. And this is the thing, if David Sandberg wrote like a how to write or I guess because he's directing, but like, I just I can already imagine the tip in there being like, if you ever noticed kind of a flaw that's kind of getting in the way, just a good way to sort of move past it is to have a character point it out and then, you know, the audience laugh with you and they kind of forget that it's a problem. I could totally see myself actually fixing it. Because I mean, what does it mean to fix a problem with the scripts? There's no such thing, even though it's a sort of thought process like that kind of acknowledges as much. Yeah.  I'm like, you just did it there. Why? Why did you do it there? And you never do it anywhere else? Is it because it's easier there that it was these other places? And so you just gave up? Is that it? Tell me the answer. It's almost worse. It shows that you're aware of these things that you couldn't be asked to fix it. Yeah. Yeah. In their minds, do they think do they imagine that this one is the one the audiences will really need to know? So we'll explain this one because or else audiences, they'll be confused. They won't know what's going on. So we need to explain this one. This is the one we need to explain. You know, what does it mean for an audience member to be confused as to what's happening in a story? You know, like, what does that mean? Oh, it probably means that something is incongruent, right? I don't know. Might be worth giving that a bit of thought. No, the only thing I could think of that could possibly answer the question of why he didn't tell them is because he's getting the pen to write him a book report, crime and punishment thing. But the thing is that's thrown out the window because he presents it to them and he's proud of it. It's a joke.  So South Park just did an episode about chat, GPT, where like a plot thread was the the boys using the app to write like school reports for them. This is Proto Chat GPT. He's Steve, the pen, the original version of that. Steve GPT. It is kind of crazy, though, that he wouldn't tell them about this labyrinth of knowledge, like this absolute wealth of knowledge, just because he didn't want people to know that he was using the thing to to cheat at school. But then he brags about it anyway. Of what use would it really be considering how they end up using Steve? They go, they use, oh, yeah. We're looking for information about the Daughters of Atlas. Can you help us? And Steve writes, I think, six book titles. And so they go, aha, we'll take one each. Instead of just asking them, what's in those books? Yeah. What information do they want? Do they want to know what the Daughters of Atlas want? Ask Steve that. They want to know where they came from? Ask Steve that. Do they want to know what powers they have? Ask Steve that. Why are you going to go read books that'll have vast majority of them useless information? Not because it's useless information in general, but because it's useless right now. That's a matter of time. Takes a while to read a book, especially if that book is dense with information. You don't have a lot of time. Oh, you know, you need to you need to use Steve like Blinkist to get those summaries. Yeah, yeah, like this summary. Steve, this Shazam Pure, the Gods is brought to you by Blinkist. Oh, good God. Oh, and so what do you think, Steve?  All the books in the library are in English, by the way. Yeah, of course. But it wouldn't be like the Greek ones. It's not written in Greek. I guess Steve wrote all of them. Westmark, I don't know. In English beforehand. Yeah, he knew everything. He knew that one day these these kids, these magical superhero kids would need these pages written in a language they understand. He knew. Well, and I assume there's no throwaway line about there being some translation spell on the library or something. What it would be funny if I don't have a funny, maybe it'd be something if they told Steve to write something and he started writing it and like Greek or Latin or some old language. And then they said, well, can you can you write it in English, please?  Like that'd be something. Yeah. Yeah. Be something. That would be something. Not much, but something. What's what am I thinking of? So there is a there's some. I don't know if it's a cartoon or something, but characters in this cartoon or something come across the source of all knowledge. They like a person, a wizard or whatever that knows the answers to everything.  And they just have a bunch of weird pooping questions like that. But how much poop if they ever pooped and stuff? Like, I don't know. Maybe someone knows what I'm talking about. I have no idea what it is, but that's a thing. And I was familiar. Yeah, I have no idea what that is. Maybe someone will. He said robot chicken. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It might be a robot chicken bag. It's just the stupidest questions just out of curiosity.  I think. Yeah. Like how many pounds of poop have I ever pooped? I mean, what do you think I am?  What happened with that? What's the truth? I think that a thing.  You're like, I knew it. Locked as well as three. He's like, oh, that's true. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ancient aliens. That's something that kids would ask, right? These are kids who have access to this this this pen that gives all the answers to everything and they don't have like any gags about that. They don't have any jokes. They don't use this to remind you that these are kids and this is the kind of things that kids would ask. They just don't know what this guy is. The thing like the kids will selectively act like kids when it's useful to the plot, but a lot of the opportunities to to have them act like kids in situations that could be interesting or funny or just for God. Yeah, they don't take advantage of that. Oh, so we cut to them on the roof of the school, Fredy and Gil. And Theo. Don't know that. Are you just calling our girl and right? Yeah. But that's OK. Well, we're about to get it anyway. Well, this is where you hang out with. She says this is where you hang out with your superhero friend. Huh? Do you even know those guys? Or she's like, is it a Canadian girl friend type situation?   And he goes behind the corner and then ends into him, brings him here. And then like he says, I think she says, I've never met someone like Freddie. He's genuine, warm and funny.  You've had like one conversation. You've been alive for six thousand years. Yeah. I don't believe you. She's attracted to a minor and she's six thousand years old. Well, and they've known each other for like five seconds. It's not even remotely built at all. And then she says, how did you two meet? And he goes, Comic Con. And then she goes, what's Comic Con? Like, what can we cut? Didn't laugh. Why? I know if that is. Hey, you guys know Comic Con? I'm packing. I packed up the laugh. I'll use it later for something good. Oh, after reading all of the books because they cut back and now they've got some knowledge. They didn't just ask Steve, of course, they start reading out and they say, God's considered human servants, toys to be played with, children to be punished until the rebellion where the humans turned on the gods. Like, OK, I guess. All right, then. Yeah. Yeah, I know. This is just the thing. We talked about Atlas made a staff that could give and take powers for the gods. And then the staff was stolen by the Council of Human Wizards and what they then stole in total. That's their name, the Council of Human Wizards.  That's like a Rick and Morty joke. The Council of Human Wizards. But they're not actually human. They're like cyborgs or aliens pretending to be humans. So the name is funny because they're not the thing is. So they say, oh, God. How is it was stolen total? 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