Geekly Daily 114 (Tuesday, April 29th):

Now Playing: Battlefield V
Now Listening:  Game of Thrones Aftershow podcasts
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Now Writing: Dakotah Slade Paranormal/Investigator
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Geekly News Headlines:
April 30th:
 ➤ Avengers endgame earns a billion dollars in a matter of days. Captain Marvel, still in theatres, takes second place despite other more recently released AAA films.
https://screenrant.com/captain-marvel-domestic-box-office-behind-avengers-endgame/
 ➤ Woman hospitalized for hyperventilating during Avengers endgame showing
https://screenrant.com/avengers-endgame-fan-hospitalized-uncontrollable-sobbing/
 ➤ Marvel and Stan Lee have always been social justice warriors, despite people's complaint that they are forcing it down our throats.
https://www.polygon.com/comics/2019/4/29/18520723/avengers-endgame-stan-lee-cameo-comics-politics
 ➤ Don't record everything your child does, or do... just don't show it to them until they are older else risk fucking them psychologically.
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/why-you-should-wait-to-show-your-kids-videos-of-themsel-1834375834
April 28th:
➤ Chvrches angry with Marshemello for collaboration with renowned abuser Chris Brown
https://news.avclub.com/chvrches-releases-statement-on-recent-collaborator-mars-1834313944
➤ Opinions on new Star Wars comic are messy in a feminist me too sort of way (there were people saying in the comics  on saying "why didn't you complain about Harley Quinn" and another. "We did! no one wanted to listen to us when we screamed that it rings to true to things that have really happened to us" and at that point, if it's too real, I don't see how it's offensively anti-feminist. If anything it's a cautionary tale)
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-this-weeks-darth-vader-comic-is-causing-controversy-1834311320
➤ Mosquitos taste with their legs
https://www.livescience.com/65334-how-does-deet-work-mosquitos.html
➤ Are all the designers behind the iPhone now gone from Apple?
https://gizmodo.com/why-is-apple-s-famous-design-team-reportedly-bleeding-t-1834335837
➤ Mortal kombat on switch apparently a major down grade.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/26/18518509/mortal-kombat-11-switch-impressions-review-comparison
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Geekly Blog:
I wanna address something the Game of Thrones director said about the battle, and how just shots of hacking and slashing wights can get boring and monotonous. I disagree. I think that's his fault, and his weakness. The fact is, the battle could have used more focus on the tactics and effort of holding the fight together. The people on the walls shooting at the creatures, the people tasked with defending them. THere could have been acts of teamwork, and ingenuous acts of desperation. Instead of Aria just hacking wights apart by herself on the ramparts, she could have been along side a number of archers trying to keep further wights from getting in. Because if that line truly failed, I'd think Winterfell would have been far more overrun during Aria sneaky sneak scene. It would be the fucking wave of creatures filling every room of the keep until they bursted out the windows. So Aria could have been defending the line holding the wights at bay, she could have been taking back a quadrant, and moving troops in to hold it. What I mean to say is that the battle could have been more dynamic and ongoing instead of just a series of vignettes of our favourite characters hacking and slashing left and right, getting overwhelmed, and then surviving with a little movie magic cutaway. The fight against the undead was only monotonous because they made it so.
And that's not to take away from how amazing the episode was. The production was truly spectacular and amazing. I'm only saying a minor gripe... that he's saying could have been so much worse, but it's a problem of his own making.
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Geekly Weekly TV Rankings (➤ for new) ( I live tweet shows on twitter, but try  to keep those spoiler-lite @AndrewGeczy)

1.  ➤ Game of Thrones *****Amazing episode. Horrifying to say the least. I was literally trembling for the first act of the show, it messed me up so bad. It sorta of evened out a little. the second act wasn't as good as the first, and the third was really starting to push my belief... but Then Arya jumped in just in time to save the episode (I literally laughed at Theon's moment) and the world all in one bad ass move. Amazing episode. but everyone is dead now. Who is left to go fight against Cersei? Shout out to Liana Mormont for having an amazing scene. Shoutout to the whole episode for just putting me through the wringer.
2.   ➤ Legends of Tomorrow *****
   Great episode this week. SO funny. We had so many different plots being balanced at once, but they were all told with the right people at the right times. It was fun, each dynamic was interesting, I was laughing throughout. Mick at a convention for his works was hilarious. Nate and Zari was cute. Ray with the evil hand, and Gary with the cursed nipple. It was just all really great stuff. Some of it, the cursed nipple and evil hand, felt very Evil Dead to me, which is great.
3.  ➤ Killing Eve ****1/2
   Last week I kinda told this show off for not having any stand out moments. I'd say this episode was slightly better than last week, which is not to say either episode is bad, but it is a slower part of the season. There was a lot to enjoy, and some great character moments, but I really think if Eve is going to continue flirting around with other people, she should break up with her husband.
4.  ➤ Into The Badlands ****1/2
   Great episode this week. Pilgrim has been built into quite the bigger threat than I considered him before this episode. Even his witch, who I hate, fears him now. I really don't know what she expected. I was super disappointed that they killed Nix. Right away, really graphically and just ground the point home by ripping her head completely free of her body. Did TIlda mourn? Not at all. She was too busy dealing with her ex drama. Blah. Nix... Tilda should have stayed. They could have taken Pilgrim together and saved the world. It was at least nice to see Sonny fighting at full strength again, after so many episodes of him recovering from his major beat down at the hands of Pilgrim. Most of the final episodes have been sans our hero, which was a strange choice, but whatever. I'd blame the writers, if I wasn't too busy blaming them for Nix. I will have my revenge!
5.  ➤ Family Guy ****1/2Hilarious episode of Family Guy. A lot of great jokes, a surprisingly decent moral, and... yeah it relies on the tired and sexist trope of a manic woman, but I've known too many people like this in real life to be offended. This episode felt real in a sense, but also was a lot of fun, and if you can balance both of those in an episode of Family Guy, you've got a hit.
6.  ➤ American Gods ***
   I'm not quite sure what I just watched. It didn't seem like a season finale, and though it had some good moments and some good performances, the police disappearing made no sense, all in all the episode was a middling experience that didn't really lead anywhere. Just sorta jumbled up its pieces and walked away. What a mediocre second season of a once great show. It's not so bad now that it's not worth watching, but I suppose that is an choice everyone will have to make for themselves.
7.  ➤ Supergirl **Meh episode of Supergirl this week. Just super dumb and boring. I could have gone on, but I passed out instead after that first sentence, and now all the details of that terrible episode melted from my brain. It wasn't the worst episode ever. Just this season, maybe. Ooo, next morning, I remember! Okay so The main plot about Dreamer was really cringe worthy. Her one liners were the worst, but also her powers make no sense to me and were never explained or defined. One second she dreams the future. Cool I can dig that. But suddenly she was like electrocuting people, and shooting energy out of her hands, now she's creating lightsaber whips and bright lights. None of it is explained or set up. She just has the power to do whatever the fuck she wants I guess. But then every side story. Supergirl's was sorta interesting, but kept devolving into BS.  Like "Oh, I gotta be supergirl without my costume, and accidentally knock this dude unconscious, or read through these files really fast." The James storyline was terrible, he's becoming superman now? And they just put more effort into making us like his sister, and that's never working, and I don't want her to date Alex, oh god do I not want that one bit. I find her so uninteresting, and totally not needing to be there, and Alex is like being so supportive to her for some reason. No! She's the therapist! She doesn't need your support.She needs to go home so we can go back to not knowing she exists. I can't believe Arrow was worse than this.
8.   ➤ Arrow *1/2
   Terrible episode of Arrow this week. I'm getting really tired of the law and police being the big bad of the season. And this was the dumbest police focused episode yet. Going after Team Arrow because during a terrorist attack that could have killed thousands of people, a couple guards got killed. I mean people have died all the time in attacks, but now suddenly these two guards really fucking mattered because there will be hell to pay for team Arrow. It's insane, super dumb, and it's only saved by the twist at the end, which almost made it worth it if everything before wasn't so bad. All that stuff the fat cop was saying was all such bullshit, he's such and asshole and this show better be freaking done with these storylines. It literally made no sense this week. Just wasted my freaking time. Like why wouldn't it be assumed that the evil organization who kills lots of people and were there that night might have killed those two guards? WHy is that so impossible for these cops to believe, that they have to spend days interrogating people and run a whole investigation. God the police subplot has sucked balls this season, from the moment Arrow got out of jail... no before. Every time the camera cuts to that police station, I know I'm in for a shitty time. Also Fuck Dinah. Perhaps because she's a part of all that bullshit that drags down the otherwise great show.

Geekly Weekly Talk Show Showdown:

1. ➤ The Daily Show ***