The Tomorrow War & Best Time Travel Methods - The Weekly Planet Podcast

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This week, we look at the latest big blockbuster whatever with The Tomorrow War! Plus news of Black Panther 2, Tarantino's last movie, The Many Saints of Newark, Transformers Beast Wars, Masters Of The Universe, WandaVision alterations, a new Fast & Furious spin-off, Space Jam: The Granny Does A Matrix, Good Omens Season 2 and Star Wars: Visions. Thanks for the support!
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00:00 The Start
04:33 Atlantis War in Black Panther 2
06:33 Tarantino's Last Movie
11:46 Many Saints of Newark Trailer
13:16 Dexter Killer Returns
13:49 Optimus Pearlman in Transformers
14:34 Masters of the Universe Trailer
17:10 Weird WandaVision Addition
19:26 New Fast & Furious Spin-Off
20:34 Space Jam: New Legacy Hell
23:27 Good Omens Season 2
25:40 Anime Star Wars: Visions
29:33 The Tomorrow War Review (spoilers 38:51 - 01:07:55)
46:34 Best Time Travel Uses in Movies and TV Shows
01:07:55 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:13:48 Letters, It's Time For Letters
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[@blyzer7373]

Mr Monday Movies!

[@blyzer7373]

I will never stop!

[@kieronsullivan9515]

More like Mr maso movies

[@oneopinion6806]

I will always remember Quantum Leap not for the silly moments, but for the episode where he's in the Vietnam War, and Al keeps trying to get him to a particular location at a particular time even though it ends up not being the "reason" he's there. Sam ends up not being able to save these POWs who again end up not being the driving focus of the leap and you get the parting lookback of one of them and it's Al. Just chills.

[@edfoli8230]

You guys make my Mondays so much better. I honestly think I could listen to you guys chat about how rust forms and enjoy it.

[@johnpotts8308]

The Tardis (in Doctor Who) does take the Doctor where he needs to be - at least according to "The Doctor's Wife" where the Tardis is put into Suranne Jones' body (just go with it!): Doctor: You didn't always take me where I wanted to go TARDIS: No, but I always took you where you needed to go

[@gabi-chan7806]

@@conormurphy4328 i love this comment

[@MonsieurJimjams]

I'm most interested in the origin of Tony Soprano's catchphrase "Ho!"

[@Tristan._.Taylor.]

Nick’s rant about Space Jam is genuinely my favorite thing.

[@MONEYMEMONEYPLZ]

My favorite method to listen to the weekly planet is watch the Pitch Meeting for the movie prior to listening to this podcast. Then I can pretend I watched the movie and have a good laugh.

[@mmmghool]

Watched a great episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9 recently where O'Brien is affected by some radiation that keeps sending him the future 5 hours at a time for a few moments, and it ends with the radiation killing him and him asking a 5hr future version of himself to go back in his place to solve the big problem of the episode. great show, lousy time travel. Season 3 Episode 17 btw

[@rev-ilojikai]

Hey, that 'doctor strange silhouette' thing was just a technical glitch! it was disproven a few days ago.

[@dicedude1071]

And doctor strange's theme was always in the end of that episode, just not specifically credited l

[@bearman9033]

@@dicedude1071 a bit late but the other change was putting some random trees around her little cabin, no ideas why considering the model of the trees are completely different than the others on the mountain.

[@claudegrenier3180]

Hey ^^ nice shoutout to Thew! I watch him whenever he posts something. He's a real wordsmith 👍 funny as hell

[@MegaRay220]

One of my old high school theater teachers is an extra in The Tomorrow War and back during class he always made sure to brag about him being in a movie with Chris Pratt. Wasn’t a very nice guy so happy to see the movie not being received well

[@ef2293]

Plot twist: the teacher was Mr Scumbag movies himself GOTTEM

[@geordaneplays]

I'm so in love with the bit where James just geeks out over The Time Traveler's Wife, and even more so because he was talking about the book.

[@mekinbah]

What about the book/limited series 11.22.63 where you just walk in a closet and show up in the 60s but it resets every time you go through

[@dustinakadustin]

I enjoyed the tv mini series of that.

[@McDonald_Mando]

I’d choose the tardis because you also get a massive house and unlimited food so it’s useful for just living. Also you would never have to sit on a plane again

[@ryconn-93]

Don't ever change the opening!

[@danielclark-hughes692]

How else will I prepare my butthole for the red hot, comic book, movie news if they don't warn me in the intro? They _have_ to keep it.

[@TheLegoJungle]

I’ve listened to each theme hundreds of times and they’re so fimiliar to me that I’ve grown attached. I will not have them swapped. I’ll be mad for a bit then forget.

[@v8bitecho]

Nah do it, itll be funny

[@cometmoon4485]

Don't listen, change it!!!!

[@kite-flying_potato]

What I'm hearing is the problem with everything is that cops show up.

[@TT-md7mm]

10:35 Maso using the One Punch Man argument and I can't even be mad. lol

[@davidwilliamson4559]

THEW!!!! It's like my favorite Australian KZbinrs discovered my favorite British KZbinr?!?!?!?!?!??!? Very happy.

[@bewdragon2908]

Best ad for a vpn I have ever heard!

[@make.and.believe]

If you are doing time travel movie comparisons - make sure to screen Primer. It’s very good.

[@bobsandwich3431]

Ign had a video where they thought the guy who plays Silvio in the many saints of newark is that middle aged looking balding man in the trailer

[@Chord_]

Mason: Mentions Thew Me: "What is this, a crossover episode?!" ;P Honestly though, Thew's great. He's lively, smart, funny. His videos are actual great creative pieces. He's basically the only toy reviewer I can stand, because he's more than disembodied arms behind a camera.

[@pjcane1177]

Young me never got over how Doc never addresses just bypassing or disabling the DeLorean's speedometer sensor to avoid dealing with the 88mph requirement he built in order to prevent accidental time travel in BTTF3.

[@shelbyvillerules9962]

I always just assumed that 88mph was some kind of inherent, cosmically required speed that you needed to reach in order to time travel.

[@bearman9033]

I'd be surprised to see a DeLorean go faster than 90mph😂

[@alexjames2264]

Mr. The Day After Sunday Movies

[@J.O.R.D]

Robert Swappenheimer 🤣👏🏽

[@stoneylonesome7]

Didn't know what to comment so...this is it lol DON'T CHANGE THE THEME SONG

[@Wetzelpretzels]

“Little Magic Spanish Dance”

[@moses9647]

Predestination has a nice easy mechanism (just a briefcase) BUT it's all determinism which is minimal shenanigans

[@wbennin]

The station agent is awesome!

[@MrChip06]

What you said about any super power being made interesting gave this idea: I speedster who is limited by their own reservations about going fast. Sure, they may be able to go so fast they can turn back time - but wouldn't they be kind of scared? I've had enough of genius scientists telling superheroes "I've done the calculations, if you believe in yourself you can go faster and it will be safe". I'm picturing a realistic story about someone who gets powers and spends the movie trying to use them without getting anyone or themself killed, kinda like chronicle

[@Kratosx23]

I was so happy to hear Maso give a shoutout to Downtown Griffy Newms! Blank Check needs more listeners. #FinstockExchange

[@oscarbobo4733]

In tomorrow war, the past that his grown up daughter is from is a past without the tomorrow war.

[@DynamicSheep]

Hell yeah casually comics shout out!

[@Lukkilikka]

tardis is also a very cool house so that's a plus. tbh tardis would be cool, there generally isn't any big issue of you ruining everything by changing history etc. you would have to go on adventures a lot probably, but comparatively. seems okay to me

[@warrendesenberg]

I so want an all hair-talk episode!

[@SirSeabass]

The theme songs are the only reason I watch.

[@yellowfamilyfunny3065]

59:20 LOST time travel is completely sporadic (electro pulses) only moves the island and only works for you if you have someone to fix the wheel to stop the skips wherever you happen to be. Also, it literally starts to kill you via some kind of brain damage/aneuryisms if left

[@J.O.R.D]

I also learnt recently that Marvel have a Scarecrow but DC’s came first and has clearly had a way better impact 😅

[@TheDelinear]

I've only ever seen DCs scarecrow scaring the Bat. I'd like to see some stats on number of crows scared by both before I commit to a decision on the best scarecrow.

[@chrislee3601]

MR sunday mocies talking about k pop isnt something I knew I needed

[@12fuxu2]

"It's not Atuma!" (bwa-hah hahh!)

[@doriandegrandez8886]

Swapenheimer got me

[@davidschrader4902]

Mike and the time travel Mechanics.

[@cristiandavis5362]

Part of me feels like mr sunday thinks if he just promises to change the theme we wont notice the he never will 😂

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Django/Zorro is actually pretty good and really fun

[@MintyFresh799]

Maso fucks with MF DOOM!!?? I'm somehow even more of a fan and I've been eating Big Sandwiches for almost a year now. Also Murs is a good rapper from LA who looked up to DOOM himself... sad to hear his looney toons bars are wack

[@doomstadt2371]

Of all the things Maso has said, that was the least surprising lol

[@Pandothegreat]

I came straight to the comments when I heard Maso mention DOOM! I was also surprised and needed to say something lol

[@DaDestroyer1986]

The Austin Powers Pimp Mobile!

[@slothmanification]

for the next versus, can you do Alien from Alien VS John McClane from Die Hard?

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Don't believe we've seen the timelines about to cross in Loki as of yet (unless I missed it in episode 2). Thinking that will lead into Spiderman No Way Home, so maybe they are waiting to drop the trailer until then.

[@sebastienjames3606]

I love casually comics

[@galvatron3323]

Boys from the Dwarf!!

[@make.and.believe]

Omg Casually Comics is the best! Sash rocks!

[@gnarcissist7669]

Can we get a movie poster for Swat but instead it’s Swap?

[@17absolut]

Rachel McAdams is in how many time travel movies ?

[@raistlinmajere5550]

The best time travel film ive seen in recent years is Safety Not Guaranteed and bonus it has Aubrey Plaza

[@Green__Man]

What about the remote from Click? Or the Machine from Contact that makes Jodie Foster look like a liar? These are my inputs

[@snaek29]

Dr Who's T.A.R.D.I.S. is sentient. The reason that Dr Who was able to steal it in the first place was because it wanted to be stolen. It even set it up so that it would be the one that the Doctor stole. It saw a "kindred spirit" of sorts in the Doctor. Or at least the best option it had among the stuffy Timelords. The T.A.R.D.I.S. does not see time as a sequence of events one after the other from beginning to end. It kind of sees "all time at once" in no particular order (to the degree that it is not ever entirely sure when "now" actually is). Therefore, although its external shell (doorway) is directed to specific points in time and space by the Doctor, it will force its own control over the more specific details of the "when" and "where" to varying degrees. Normally choosing the specific place and the specific moment which it thinks will be "the most exciting" for the Doctor (and itself) somewhat guiding the Doctor into events in the process (with mixed and sometimes even tragic results). At times it will even hijack complete control if it deems it necessary, negating what The Doctor wants completely in favour of "a better adventure". The T.A.R.D.I.S.'s sentience is the major reason why The Doctor continually finds themselves in these important moments over and over again in space and time even without Dr Who deliberately seeking them out. The T.A.R.D.I.S. is just as rogue as a time machine as the Doctor is as a timelord... making them a sort of perfect couple. Within the limitations of their separate physical circumstance and without the ability to directly communicate they are quite in love with each other... and it was a "love at first sight" scenario for them both. "Companions" come and go... but they are the true love story relationship of Dr Who.

[@TheDelinear]

There was a post on reddit explaining the odd floating shape in the post credits of WandaVision. It turns out they masked an area of light that was shining through the door to make it less distracting, and for whatever reason they forgot to remove the mask on the zoomed out view. It's more compelling than any secret semi-transparent floating Dr Strange/Vision explanation. If you search the post and watch the video attached to it, the floating shape perfectly matches the shape of the window that was masked out. So it's not secretly Mephisto or Cthon, it's more likely a graphics artist who was in a hurry to finish up for the day combined with an unusual (on Marvel's part) misstep during the QA. So, no great conspiracy there. The erasure of that duck, on the other hand...

[@associatedsteeladministrat381]

I'm disappointed that JCVD's TimeCop character did not show up in Marvel Studio's Disney+ Loki Series. Perfect opportunity to fold him into the MCU.

[@rgoodfellow]

I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about Red Dwarf, but am I correct in thinking it’s a Blues Clues “blue-ska-doo” situation?

[@bijikedelai]

oh damn that BTS Meal is causing a national chaos few weeks ago in my country, i dunno about the other countries tho

[@DarkachuWasTaken]

Had to read tomorrow blah blah at school here in NZ probably a decade odd ago

[@battleupsaber462]

Anyone who watches Thew Adams has good taste

[@mahoutsuguy863]

New Rockstars did a video on the wandavision post credits scene. I think he mightve explained what's actually happening

[@Penpaper]

Wasn’t there a Dr Who episode that showed the Tardis does have a mind of its own and does take him places to do certain things just like Nick theorized. I think it was called The Doctors Wife

[@Penpaper]

I see someone beat me to it!

[@bfragged]

I’d take Tarantino on in MTG

[@teppeiando]

James always seems like he's eager to leave by the last 2 segments, latley

[@17absolut]

Yo !!! Rachel Mcadams been bein a time traveler's gf/wife in : The time traveler's wife, About time, Midnight in Paris...

[@jonathangiannone7258]

BTS? BT-Yes

[@quitequaintq5830]

Did they mention tenet?

[@joshhiroti]

What about the movie Boss Level? Loved that shit

[@gimlym6641]

Hey can you please tell me how to turn the weather widget off on my computer machine?

[@rawcollings]

right click it - news and interests - turn off - victory!

[@gimlym6641]

@@rawcollings Thank you Collings! I did look at that but I'm probably just blind and missed the turn off bit somehow.

[@arch1017]

Best usage of time travel I've seen lately was in the 12 Monkeys TV show. Spoiler: They went back in time and killed Hitler too (I think someone equally nasty took over and things played out roughly as they always did).

[@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319]

This is 2 years late and I sincerely doubt you'll see this comment. But, the thing that saddens me about The Tomorrow War is that I truly enjoyed it yet because streaming is the way it is, Paramount will NEVER release it for home video. I hate that they acquired it because of the pandemic. There are so many films these days that are on streaming services that will never see the light of day because the companies that own the distribution rights don't want people to see it anywhere except their service...even if it's not a draw. The Adam Project, Prey, The Outsider, Blood Machines, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Project Power, Day Shift, the list goes on. And if they ever remove them from the servers for whatever reason then they're just...gone forever. And even when they're not removed such as in the case of this movie or others like it, they're more quickly forgotten because they're not physically in the public eye when we visit our local Walmart or Target and they get buried under a mile long digital queue that no one will ever scroll through. As a cinephile and a collector of physical media, I really and truly hate this all digital future that Hollywood is trying so desperately to force us into.

[@Football__Junkie]

Joe Roggin

[@calebee4205]

I’m pretty sure hoodwinked was the first to do Granny does the matrix

[@MrJagermeister]

Good Omens is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. That said, I thought the show was a huge letdown. David Tennant and Michael Sheen were fantastic and they had great chemistry but all the rest was a bore and lost the spirit and humor of the book. Which is crazy, you would think, because Neil Gaiman was the co-author of the book and the showrunner of the series. But here’s my thought: Neil Gaiman needs to stay the fuck away from his adaptations to film and television. **Fantastic** author, shitty at understanding how other mediums outside his own work. American Gods is a great example of this. Another one of my favorite books, btw. The first season was STELLAR, with Bryan Fuller and Michael Green making pure magic out of it, absolutely brimming with atmosphere and well written, interesting characters that made you want to go on a journey with them. Then Gaiman got his knickers in a bunch over them giving Dead Wife an entire backstory episode because it wasn’t faithful to his book (though he later admitted that it was his favorite episode of the whole season because it felt like other people creating something original in his world). And it WAS one of the best episodes. But of course, because of Gaiman’s complaints and problems with Starz not wanting to pay the budget and the production company being tight fisted, they fired Fuller and Green and hired someone else for S2, and then that person fucked up SO ROYALLY that they had to shorten the season from 10 episodes to 8 and spend a ton of money doing reshoots to try and punch up the quality of what they had filmed, which was boring and dreary and lifeless and had absolutely none of the visual flair or style of the first season. Gaiman managed to get his own show cancelled by the third season. I’m fine with him writing the idea of American Gods S2 but for the love of all that’s worth watching on television, *please* let someone else write the scripts and be showrunner. Anyone but him. I hope like hell that he doesn’t destroy Netflix’s The Sandman as well, before it even begins.

[@jonnyjohnson650]

👍👍

[@AverageDrafter]

The BTS Meal was basically just a couple of limited time sauces. The Sweet Chili was great and the creamy Cajun sauce smoothed out its spiciness for a great double dip. I got it once a week and I don't like BTS, and I'm a total JYP Stan. (JYP's meal would be Double Cheeseburger, Extra Cheese and whatever soda Bobby Brown likes).

[@michaelhughes9553]

My theory is the changing timelines of Loki are actively changing the other shows.

[@TheDelinear]

I was just talking about this recently. Can you imagine if they actively went back and made tiny changes in the movies and TV shows on Disney+ every time a new divergent timeline got created on Loki? That would have been incredible, and the MCU is one of the few places they could have pulled this off, what with everything (almost) existing together in the one place.

[@ImDeluxeSP33some]

Where are the time stamps 😩

[@siobibble9078]

Yeah they still make you read tomorrow when the war began, or atleast out school made us. I had to read it like 4 years ago back in highschool

[@FlynnTheRedhead]

17:11 It was confirmed to be an editing mistake. Later on you can see what it's actually covering up... DUCKS. Yes. Ducks. Why they didn't just cover it up for only those few seconds instead of the entire shot, I have no idea

[@Triforcefilms]

Super powers that ruin stories and cannon, literally... every time? Just the ambiguous power to bring people back to life. The cheerleader from "Heroes"? literally just useful when the writers need a way out of a corner, and literally shoved under the rug any other time. Rei learning to heal things and transfer life energy with the force? Even worse world breaking BS. NEVER a good idea.

[@Triforcefilms]

@@ThreadBomb omg exactly. Or when Superman just time traveled to save Lois in Superman 1, then forgot he had that ability in every other movie

[@dustinakadustin]

@@Triforcefilms he doesn't forget, it's worse cause he uses it in Superman 2.

[@Triforcefilms]

@@dustinakadustin oops. Guess I blocked that out😂

[@dustinakadustin]

@@Triforcefilms 🤣🤣🤣 that's more than fair, I like the film but god it's such a weird idea.

[@mr.dr0bot731]

Really strange how Tarantino claims to know Bruce Lee's wife lied about anything. What a clown.

[@TheJohnWhites]

She said that Kung Fu was stolen from the script Of Warrior but Kung Fu was written first

[@kxnpanda7643]

U forgot the avengers end game and dead pool time travel

[@BaileyZKerr]

*please* change the opening

[@WhaleNamedJonah]

I'm begging you to change the opening. You want it. Just do it.

[@calw.9373]

I hate it because whenever I introduce someone to the podcast it starts with “shooting up your buthole”

[@deathboyinc]

Agreed. It's so fucking cringe

[@claudegrenier3180]

Having watched "The Tomorrow War" this was my take on it... Its a modern take on "Starship Troopers" with time travel shenanigans directed by a Michael Bay fan. Its watchable but I'll never rewatch this movie. It's ok. Nothing more. That is all. Good day to all 😁👍

[@bobsandwich3431]

👍

[@MrJagermeister]

Man, I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be an encouraging or discouraging summary, but the elevator pitch of “Starship Troopers” as directed by Michael Bay feels like something I actually want to see. I mean, I have no doubt he’d have a fundamental misunderstanding of the material, but the guy does make fun action movies (and I un-ironically enjoyed Pain & Gain; the rare movie where Mark Wahlberg’s quality of acting fit his character).

[@forpetessake8123]

The TARDIS is technically conscious so it does have a mind of its own to an certain extent

[@evanevans5428]

Notice how NO ONE is watching the futbol match at the futbol match party

[@evanevans5428]

@@OldManYellsAtClouds you're a Chrispratt pattie

[@tyronesilkypatrickmcfitzer1575]

DONT YOU DARE CHANGE THE OPENING!!

[@Strykar86]

When they fell from the the sky in the War of Tomorrow, it was because the time travel tower was destroyed.

[@tedroberts5016]

You forgot the "Dark" time travel method

[@gazl7356]

Never change the theme sound, ever

[@eddyk3]

Now then guys how ya doin'?

[@dantheman3780]

Don't you dare change that theme song!!!

[@seanmurphy4758]

Domhnall Gleeson isn't British, he's Irish

[@Madbmberwhatbmbsatmidnight]

As far as time loops you missed Russian doll and happy death day

[@doriandegrandez8886]

If you guys change the opening it better be a polka version, i will accept nothing else

[@FuzzyMuffin1]

Tom Hiddleston or Jason Statham for recast John McClane

[@FerociousPaul]

Made me realize that Tom Hiddleston low key looks like Bruce Willis. Pun intended.