014. It's Like Watching A Fanfiction

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12/01/20 • 75 min

This week, Maggie and V chat about their first impressions of The Old Guard, Pacific Rim, Venom, and Jupiter Ascending, and the ways in which fandom uses those worlds to create character growth. These movies have everything--immortal fighters, immortal aliens, loser aliens that eat people, monster aliens getting killed by robots, wolf-splice alien men with barking guns, and best of all, emotions. Also, V leaves a review on Enola Holmes, and Maggie waxes poetic about The Matrix.

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