Sasha and Ariel Experience ... some of Star Trek: Very Disco - Season Four!

Sasha: Are you sure this is what we want to blog about next? Our Arcane post was kinda skimpy. People might want to find out a little more detail on our opinions of that one.
Ariel: I'm still getting over freaking out about the season finale of Arcane. I mean, yeah, our boyfriend pointed out a couple of ways maybe the cliffhanger might not turn out as absolutely terrible as I thought, but who knows if he's right?
Sasha: Okay, but that was such a good show ... I don't think we should just leave it at us saying how shook we were after the finale.
Ariel: Well maybe if you stopped bringing it up and talking about how shook we both were, I wouldn't keep being so shook over it, you know?
Sasha: Fine.
Ariel: Anyway, now that Star Trek: Very Disco is back on, I figure everybody wants to hear more about how we feel about it.
Sasha: Yeah, we've been getting so many comments on this blog where people are pining away because it's been on four episodes now and we haven't blogged about it.
Ariel: Really?
Sasha: No, of course not.
Ariel: Oh. Boo, you got my hopes up.
Sasha: Don't worry, eventually we'll be famous bloggers and tons of people will be commenting away right and left on our posts.
Ariel: Really?
Sasha: Yes, because of quality exchanges like the one we're having right now. Who could pass this up?
Ariel: Not me.
Sasha: You don't think so, huh?
Ariel: Because you'd get mad at me for just walking out in the middle of our post.
Sasha: That's ...
Ariel: We should talk about the show now. I don't want to keep delaying the part where we're famous bloggers any more than we have to.
Sasha: Great. Spoiler blankets up, everybody!
Ariel: I think for Star Treks, we need to have our own alert color for the spoiler blanket warning. You know, like "Red Alert!" or "Yellow Alert!" or "Black Alert!" Are there other Star Trek alerts?
Sasha: I mean, there's hundreds of episodes of these shows. Probably they have about every color alert covered by now. Do we really need one?
Ariel: Come on, it'll be fun.
Sasha: Well, how do we make sure we're not repeating some other color of alert from one of the hundreds and hundreds of episodes we haven't watched?
Ariel: Maybe we could move on from colors to some other sensation.
Sasha: Like what?
Ariel: Like ... Warm Alert, because blankets are all toasty.
Sasha: So, "Warm Alert! Spoiler blankets up!"
Ariel: Maybe not. "Warm" sounds kinda cozy, and "Alert" means you should be alert, so they're a little bit opposites. There's a word for that, putting two things together that are opposites. I know I heard Hettie use it a couple weeks back. It's a very insulting word. Like somebody so stupid they ought to get pecked to death by a bird.
Sasha: That doesn't sound very much like something Hettie would say.
Ariel: I didn't think so either! Which is why I interrupted her and Elle to ask what was going on, so she explained it. I'm trying to remember what kind of bird it was.
Sasha: I think we're getting off track from naming our alert, which was already --
Ariel: Albatross.
Sasha: -- off track from --
Ariel: Owl.
Sasha: Ariel ...
Ariel: Or maybe a bird sound, like "Squawk!"
Sasha: Really, babe ...
Ariel: No, wait, that's it! "Auk!" That's the kind of bird.
Sasha: Thank god.
Ariel: Auks-eat-morons. It's when one thing is made up of two things that are opposites.
Sasha: Fine! Auks can eat all the morons they want, as far as I'm concerned, but if you don't like "Warm Alert" can we just move on?
Ariel: "Sweet Alert! Spoiler blankets up!"
Sasha: Ariel!
Ariel: "Sour Alert!" No ...
Sasha: ARIEL!
Ariel: Aha, Salty Alert, because people will get all salty if we spoil things on them.
Sasha: Beautiful. Now let's --
Ariel: Ooh! Also, people used to use salt to keep things from spoiling!
Sasha: Did you like these episodes?
Ariel: Wait ... which episodes?
Sasha: The. Episodes. We. Watched. Of. Star. Trek. Very. Disco. Season. Four. 
Ariel: Oh, sure, mostly.
Sasha: I like the sound of "mostly." It means there's nuance. Go ahead and nuance us, chica. 
Ariel: So the first episode was called, "Kobayashi Maru." Which Claire tells me is a Star Trek thing that means the sitch is a no-win scenario. Which, I'm not sure why they need a different name for it, especially since "Kobayashi Maru" and "no-win scenario" are literally exactly the same number of syllables and the same number of letters. Like, if you're making up a new word, be efficient and have it be shorter. Like "K-Mar" or "Kob-u" or something.
Sasha: Okay, so you didn't like the episode name. Was the episode itself okay? 
Ariel: Pretty okay, with some good spots and some less good spots. I guess the thing I thought was weird about it was, there was never a no-win scenario?
Sasha: What do you mean? 
Ariel: I mean, there's a space station spinning out of control and some weird space distortion fieldy kinda thing that keeps them from transporting and blah-blah-blah. And the crew was like, Okay, let's figure something out. And they figure something out, and some of them go to the station, and then something else bad happens. And they're like, Well, time to figure this new thing out. And every time there's a new thing to figure out, they figure it out. It's hard, I guess, and in the end not everybody gets out alive, and they have to do all this risky stuff that could maybe get the whole ship blown up and all of them ker-splattered all over the galaxy. But the only no-win part was that there's this politician chick on the ship going, "Hey, we're not gonna win, let's split before it gets any worse." Which seems more like a Chicken Little Maru than a Kobayashi Maru.
Sasha: I can't argue with any of that. 
Ariel: Great. Now you do the next one.
Sasha: Okay, the next one was called, "Anomaly." Which I think is a Star Trek word for, "Everybody talks way too much about their feels."
Ariel: I like it when people talk about their feels!
Sasha: Yeah, but you know, it's got to be done right and in some of the big emo convos that went on, they got somewhere to the middle of it and I'm thinking, "Hey, isn't there a giant frickin' Space Anomaly you're supposed to be trying to stop from destroying half the universe?" 
Ariel: That's true. I remember thinking something like that myself, now that you mention it.
Sasha: The next episode did it a lot better, I think. People got all their feels-discussing done during reasonable downtime, and the big problems they were trying to solve in the episode weren't nearly as big and didn't need as many people trying to solve them.
Ariel: You did some nuancing in this episode too, though, I think.
Sasha: Ugh! Yeah, it was those darn ninja nuns from Star Trek: That Bald Guy again. Like, it's been 900 years and these chicks haven't figured out, hey, maybe not every mission needs me to kill somebody during every disagreement, so maybe I should bring along like, some nunchaku or some other non-killy type ninja weapon. 
Ariel: It's even got the word "nun" right there in it.
Sasha: I know! Plus, I mean, yeah, they tried to explain it, but the whole situation could have been avoided if the one nun had just found a way to ask for the dilithium instead of stealing it, or had at least told the boss nuns why she was doing what she was doing. 
Ariel: Oh, no, that part made sense actually.
Sasha: What?
Ariel: Yeah, remember the ninja nuns have that "absolute candor" thing going on, right?
Sasha: Right ...
Ariel: So who's she going to go ask for dilithium that's not going to ask her, "Now why exactly do you need this dilithium?" Cause once they ask that, she's gotta tell them.
Sasha: Hmm.
Ariel: She can't ask the boss nuns -- they can't keep secrets either. She can't ask the Federation or they might say, "Well, where are you taking this dilithium?" And then she's got to give up the location of the people she's trying to help, and maybe some loose-lips Federation dude sinks their ship.
Sasha: You're kinda selling me on this.
Ariel: It works when you think about it. You can do the same thing all over the place. Like how Captain Snazzybraids was all pissy at the end when they handed the murder-nun over to the Vulcans and were like, "Well, she's one of theirs, so they need to hit her up with their own pointy-eared kind of punishment." And she's like, "WTF!!! Are you F****NG KIDDING ME?!?"
Sasha: Captain Snazzybraids. Haha. I did think she overreacted there. I mean, diplomacy, right, and respecting other cultures' ways?
Ariel: Yeah, but remember, she grew up on Vulcan. So it's not just, "Oh, this gal's gonna get some Vulcan justice instead of the Federation kind, maybe it will be better, maybe it will be worse." She pretty much knows what sentence Murder Nun would probably get from the Vulcans compared to what she'd get from the Feddies. Apparently she think odds are, the Vulcan judge'll say, "Well, you did murder somebody, but we can see why it was logically hard for you to avoid it, so how about we have you make license plates for a couple years and then you can go back to your nunning and killing."
Sasha: I'm impressed! Did you grow up on Vulcan too, or are the brainy space-elfs just rubbing off on you?
Ariel: I mostly like them. But you'd think maybe they'd have a good sit-down with the ninja nuns and go, "You know, guys, we could totally make you some swords with a 'stun' setting on them. We're smart like that."
Sasha: Yeah, you'd think. Okay, we done with these three episodes?
Ariel: Yes! And there's that fourth one we've still got to watch anyhow.
Sasha: Nice, sounds like a plan.
Ariel and Sasha: Phase you later, turbovators!

Ariel and Sasha Experience ... Arcane (Season One)

Ariel: I'm so broken.
Sasha: I don't know what to do. 

Ariel and Sasha: Somebody help us!!!!!

Sasha and Ariel Experience ... The Bad Batch!

Sasha: Whoosh! I dunno how this happened, Aers, but it has been over SIX MONTHS since we did a Star Wars post.
Ariel: That's not true! That's impossible!
Sasha: Search your feelings ...
Ariel: Or I could just scroll through our post list, I guess. GASP! You're right!
Sasha: How did this happen?
Ariel: We're smarter than this! Wait ... no, actually we forget about things all the time.
Sasha: Yeah, like the stuff from all those Marvel movies we watched just a few months back. Plus, you're so lazy.
Ariel: I'm going to try to forget you said that.
Sasha: See? You're proving your own point.
Ariel: Okay, time for us to do something about it, then! What Star Wars do we want to talk about?
Sasha: There's a lot to choose from ...
Ariel: Like we never did a post just about Episode Ai-Yai-Yai.
Sasha: Or Empiresode V.
Ariel: Or the Glam Solo movie.
Sasha: Or the super-super-sad one we don't even have a joke name for.
Ariel: It was so sad, the name would have to be a perfect synonym for sadness, and then it wouldn't be a joke, it would be too sad.
Sasha: Plus, you're too lazy to look in the thesaurus.
Ariel: Am not! Hettie gave me hers to help with the blogging. It's right there. That kind of dusty one. Oh my gosh, there's our joke name!
Sasha: What?
Ariel: Roget One.
Sasha: Someone somewhere is groaning.
Ariel: But at least we named it and we can move on.
Sasha: You're sure you don't want to talk about that one?
Ariel: Too sad, unhappy, discontented, dejected, angstful, morose, sorrowful, melancholy --
Sasha: Would you shut that book? Carefully, so the dust doesn't make a big cloud everywhere?
Ariel: I'll just leave it open in case later in the post I need a synonym for, uh, sacreligious, saddle, sadism --
Sasha: Moving on ... what about the first one with Sunshine Rey and Helm Solo? We never did a post on that one.
Ariel: Or decided what to call it. The First Awakens?
Sasha: Or The Thirst Awakens, since those two got pretty thirsty for each other.
Ariel: Yeah, but not really in that movie. Plus it's been so long since we watched that one.
Sasha: We never did a real post about The Mandalorian ...
Ariel: What are you talking about?!? We did two GREAT posts about it!
Sasha: Never mind, I'm sweeping the subject under the rug before this post goes the way those ones did.
Ariel: Okay, so really maybe we should just talk about the one we watched most recently and is most freshtastic in our memories.
Sasha: The Bad Batch?
Ariel: Yes! It'll also be easy because the girl character already came up with the silly names for us.
Sasha: She did?
Ariel: Sure! Huntah, Tick, Wrickah, Icko, and Crosshere. Plus herself, Amiga.
Sasha: Haha, okay, I won't even complain that you're being lazy with those.
Ariel: Good, because you saying I'm lazy is getting really ... dull, dreary, dry, humdrum, irritating, tedious, tiresome --
Sasha: Okay, that's enough!
Thesaurus: *SLAM*
Sasha and Ariel: cough! cough!
Sasha:... cough ...Would you just take that thing back to Hettie already?
Ariel: How about I put it under the desk here and take it later?
Sasha: Fine. Now what do we want to say about this show?
Ariel: It is sixteen episodes long and has some clones in it. Done! That was easy.
Sasha: Why do you always get so far off the subject and then when we finally get back to it, you try to rush through the part we're supposed to be here to do?
Ariel: I don't! Not really, I mean. I've just noticed for a while now, you start an awful lot of our posts off asking me to say what I think first, and if I don't have anything already ready to say right away, that's an easy way to get you to go first instead.
Sasha: Sorry, I didn't notice I was doing that. You could have just said, "Why don't you go first?"
Ariel: Wait, are you asking me to do something the easy way?
Sasha: ...
Ariel: Anyway, I've figured out some things to say now, so I can go first after all.
Sasha: Great. You do that.
Ariel: So this is the third Star Wars cartoon show we've watched, after The Clone Wars and Rebels, although it comes in between those, so they're definitely trying to keep you on your toes.
Sasha: Oh, hey, we better tell people to put their spoiler blankets on.
Ariel: I was getting to that, only I'm saying stuff right now that's not all spoilly yet.
Sasha: My bad. Go on, then.
Ariel: Anyway, I know there are people out there that like Star wars but haven't watched these shows because they're cartoons --
Sasha: I don't know if I would call those people "cartoons," exactly.
Ariel: What? No, the reason they haven't watched isn't because they're cartoons. It's because the shows are -- wait. You know what I meant! What are you doing?
Sasha: I just figured since you're actually going first for real and not even putting on the spoiler blanket, I could act like you normally do.
Ariel: So you're making fun of me.
Sasha: I would never! Go on, you're doing great.
Ariel: Whatever. Grr. People, just put your spoiler blankets over your heads and you dumb ones who won't watch a good show because it's a cartoon, I'm just going to let it be your problem.
Sasha: Great, let's go! So what are we going to say about The Bad Batch?
Ariel: You're doing it again!
Sasha: Whoops. All right, let me start off by saying I really like this show.
Ariel: Better.
Sasha: Thanks. Probably kind of predictable, though, because we pretty much always like Star Wars stuff.
Ariel: Except the sad stuff.
Sasha: Right.
Ariel: And the unhappy stuff. And --
Sasha: Don't.
Ariel: Well then you keep going.
Sasha: Sure. I guess the thing about The Bad Batch is, I have no idea where the series might end up. With The Clone Wars, it was obviously telling the story about the Clone Wars, which we already knew what happens at the end because of Episode Ai-Yai-Yai where the war is over. And with Rebels, we mostly knew it was heading toward where the story starts up in Rogue One --
Ariel: Roget One.
Sasha: Roget One and Episode Ivy. But The Bad Batch starts right when The Clone Wars ends --
Ariel: Kinda overlaps just a little.
Sasha: True. And --
Ariel: Just a teensy little bit.
Sasha: Yes. So --
Ariel: Like, this much.
Sasha: Aers, nobody can see you making that pinchy gesture.
Ariel: I'm sure they got the idea.
Sasha: Can I keep talking?
Ariel: Uh-huh, go right ahead.
Sasha: Anyway. Unlike The Clone Wars, where we knew the Clone Wars were gonna end with Big Space Politician winning and turning into Emperor Prunepatine and Teen Hotty turning into Darth Vader and Sexy Jesus and the Wise Old Gnome-Toad going off into hiding, and unlike Rebels where we knew the Rebellion was going to get formed from these people in a few years, with The Bad Batch, there's literally no telling what's going to happen.
Ariel: I mean, we know there's a batch of them. And that they're bad. I mean, the good kind of bad, not the bad kind of bad.
Sasha: Okay, yes, we knew that.

Ariel: I mean, Crosshere did turn into the bad kind of bad, but -- oh, sorry! Still your turn!

Sasha: ...

Ariel: Really, I mean it! Look, I'm zipping my lips!

Sasha: sigh. Now then --

Ariel: Oh heck! That was like the pinchy gesture, wasn't it? Nobody could see me making the lip-zipper motion moving my finger and thumb across my mouth. That's what I was doing, everybody! Like, putting my finger and thumb together like I was grabbing a zipper handle, and then moving them across my mouth like it was a zipper.

Sasha: ...

Ariel: Why are you looking at me like that?

Sasha: ...

Ariel: okay everybody, I'm doing that lip-zipperer thing again!

Sasha: Look, I'm going to take a deep breath and finish what I was saying really fast, and I'm not going to stop no matter what you say or do, so don't interrupt, got it?

Ariel: mm-hmm-hmm-hmmf!

Sasha: (deep breath)

Ariel: Just so everybody knows, I was nodding and pointing at my mouth like --

Sasha:The-thing-is-we've-never-seen-any-of-the-Bad-Batch-characters-in-any-of-the-later-movies-or-shows-so-we-don't-know-if-they-live-or-if-they-die-or-if-some-of-them-live-and-others-die-and-we-don't-know-if-the-story-of-the-whole-series-will-last-all-the-way-from-the-end-of-The-Clone-Wars-to-the-start-of-Rebels-or-even-longer-so-it's-all-completely-unknown!

Ariel: Whoa, that was a mouthful.

Sasha:*wheeze*

Ariel: I think you could use a break. How about if we call this one done and maybe later we can come back and talk about just our favorite episodes of the show!

Sasha: ...

Ariel: She's making a thumbs-up sign, everybody! Bye!

Ariel and Sasha Experience ... Are You Really Mad at Me?

Ariel: Um ... Sash?

Sasha: Yeah? What's up, Aers?

Ariel: Are you really mad at me?

Sasha: What? Why would I be mad at you?

Ariel: I dunno, I mean, I just figured that if you got so frustrated you just up and ended our last post all on your own and when I was even the one publishing it on my login ...

Sasha: Oh no! Chica, I'm never really mad at you when we're blogging! Here --

Ariel: Ack! My neck! Not ... so ... tight ... choking ...

Sasha: Sorry! Is this better?

Ariel: Uh-huh.

Sasha: Okay, gosh, don't scare me like that!

Ariel: So you're not mad? Cause you seemed pretty mad.

Sasha: mwah! mwah! mwah!

Ariel: Stop it! You're getting me all slobbery and I'm trying to talk!

Sasha: I can't help it. It's a reflex. Seeing you upset is like getting poked with a stick. And not the good kind of poked or the good kind of stick!

Ariel: Well, I mean, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to stick-poke you or anything, I just, you know, you've never just plain stopped one of our posts before, and, uh ... gk! ... glk ... choking again ...

Sasha: Sorry! Sorry!

Ariel: Maybe you should let go of my neck and like, hug me around the waist or something.

Sasha: Good idea. Here.

Ariel: Okay, better.

Sasha: So -- no, I don't ever get mad at you for real, especially not when we're blogging.

Ariel: I mean, you sure do a pretty good impression of being frustrated and irritated sometimes.

Sasha: Only to be funny!

Ariel: So I'm not really annoying to you?

Sasha: Of course you're annoying. You're hilariously annoying. Acting like I'm frustrated is the only way I can keep from cracking up sometimes.

Ariel: Oh, jeepers, I'm so relieved. It seemed like I must have really gone too far this time or something and made you not want to blog with me anymore.

Sasha: No! No way ever! I'm not hurting your waist am I?

Ariel: No, that's actually a nice kind of squeezy.

Sasha: Good. If you want to know the whole truth, I thought it would be funny to shut the post down that way ... but I also was having a pretty embarrassingly hard time remembering anything fun to say about the movies. I should have done some more preparing before we sat down to blog. It's been so long since we watched them!

Ariel: I know. We've been so bad about not blogging here lately.

Sasha: I feel all guilty on so many levels now.

Ariel: Me too. But I have a solution!

Sasha: Mmm ... are you thinking what I'm thinking ... ?

Ariel: Yes! Ice cream!

Sasha: Oh. I was actually thinking something else. But you know what? Ice cream works too. 

Ariel: Obviously. Only you'll have to lick it off really fast because it's going to be kind of chilly on the spots I was planning to put it.

Sasha: Rowrr! So you were thinking what I was thinking!

Ariel: Yes, but with ice cream.

Sasha: Let's go!

Ariel and Sasha: Bye, everybody!

Ariel and Sasha Experience ... Some of the Marvels, Part Two!

Ariel: Okay. So here we are, then, finally talking more about all those Marvels we watched months and months ago.
Sasha: It's been a while.
Ariel: It's been so long we've watched a whole other Marvel since then!
Sasha: Loki!
Ariel: Actually, I thought we just straight-up watched it? There wasn't really anything low-key about seeing it as far as I remember.
Sasha: I'm not falling for this. Which movies are we talking about today?
Ariel: Well, I don't know that I'm all that excited to talk about any of them, if you're going to spoil the fun like that.
Sasha: Oh, come on. I'm not spoiling anything.
Ariel: Then it will be even less exciting to talk about the movies! We can barely say anything about them if we're not spoiling them!
Sasha: You -- I just -- ugh. Okay, fine do all your ridiculous off-topic wackiness. I guess that's what most people are still hanging around to read anyway.
Ariel: No, I'm not going to be wacky if it bugs you. I'll just talk about the movies all calmly and without getting distracted.
Sasha: Really. YOU are not going to get distracted?
Ariel: I mean, I may get a teensy little bit distracted. Like ...
Sasha: OMG, do not say it.
Ariel: ... low-key distracted.
Sasha: Sigh. Can we figure out what movies we're talking about now?
Ariel: Well, I went back to the last post and the part of my list we didn't get to was Everybody at Once, Heavy Metal Man Again Again a.k.a. Heavy Metal Mandarin, and Hammertime Guy: Lights Out.
Sasha: So many sequel movies. Do we really just want to keep talking about Heavy Metal Man and Hammertime Guy that much?
Ariel: Yes, because we can just mush them all together and it won't matter that I kinda don't remember which things happened in which movie.
Sasha: I guess that makes sense. So. Everybody at Once. What did you think about this one?
Ariel: Well, I'd say it had it all, except it didn't have Se- Captain Marvel. And it didn't have a whole lot of other characters we saw in the movies that came after it. But I guess for the characters who they'd put in movies already at the time, it did have it all.
Sasha: But was that a good thing or a bad thing?
Ariel: It was both.
Sasha: How so?
Ariel: Well, we just finished watching Hammertime Guy, right? And who was the bad guy in that one?
Sasha: Are you going to make a pun if I say his name?
Ariel: Maybe. You should probably make up a goofy name for him like I do for everybody else.
Sasha: Sure ... only, nothing's coming to me.
Ariel: Here, I'll help. He's Hammertime Guy's brother, right? So we can start with "Bro" and build from there. Your turn. What else is something about him?
Sasha: He has that helmet with the big horns. And in these early movies, he's a bad guy. Like, wicked bad.
Ariel: There you go. Wicked Horny Bro.
Sasha: Haha, I'll take it.
Ariel: So what I'm saying is Wicked Horny Bro is the bad guy in the first Hammertime Guy movie, and then right in the next movie, who is the bad guy? Same. Like, how is that a good idea? Especially if, honestly, he was way interestinger in Hammertime Guy, and even way more interestinger in Hammertime Guy: Lights Out.
Sasha: Not that you knew about that when we watched Everybody at Once.
Ariel: No, but I'm mushing them all together, remember? And it's like, Wicked Horny Bro, Wicked Boring Bro, Wicked Horny Bro.
Sasha: So if that was the bad part of it having it all, what was the good part?
Ariel: Mostly the characters being really funny together. And fighting and stuff. Only ...
Sasha: What?
Ariel: Well, you know what? The parts where they're fighting each other were actually more interestinger than when they're fighting the giganto evil minion army at the end.
Sasha: Are you going to keep saying "interestinger"? I noticed you making it up a minute ago, and I'm thinking it may get a little old.
Ariel: What?!? I think it's a great word! Why would you want me to stop using such a usably useful word?
Sasha: How is it useful? It just means "more interesting."
Ariel: Right, but once you've said "more interesting," and then something is more interesting than that, where do you go from there? "More more interesting?" That sounds dumb.
Sasha: I mean, come on, a second ago you said, "even way more interestinger." So you could totally say, "even way more interesting" if you wanted to let people know that something was more than just "more interesting." Isn't that enough? What are you going to do when you decide something is more than just "even way more interestinger?"
Ariel: I dunno, like, maybe, "evener wayer morer extra-er interestinger." Or something. I can cross that bridge when I come to it.
Sasha: Please don't cross that bridge. I mean, ever.
Ariel: Fine. Anyway, what I was saying before you interrupted to criticize my ...
Sasha: Where are you going?
Ariel: I have to go ask Hettie if there's a word for this. She'll know for sure.
Sasha: But ...
Sasha: ...
Sasha: ...
Sasha: ...
Ariel: Yep, I was right. So what I was saying before you interrupted to criticize my neologism was, the big fight with all the scads-o-bads at the end was really kind of boringer than the earlier fights between the hunky good guys.
Sasha: Neologism, huh? Het sure does know her words.
Ariel: Right? Neo-lo-gism. I'm gonna say that's now my second-favorite kind of gism.
Sasha: Gross. Let's talk about the next movie already.
Ariel: Heavy Metal Man Again Again: Heavy Metal Mandarin?
Sasha: Yes, but we're not really going to call it that every time we say it, are we?
Ariel: But I like saying it!
Sasha: Great. You say it, I'll say something shorter.
Ariel: You can just abbreviate it, like using the first letter from each word.
Sasha: How does that help? H-M-M-A-A-H-M-M ... that's like eight syllables for a movie that's real title is only four syllables long even if you say the whole words.
Ariel: Well duh if you say all the letters that way. But it's barely nothing if you just pronounce it like it looks: Hmm-aa-Hmm.
Sasha: Fine. What did you think about Hmm-aa-Hmm, then?
Ariel: Exciting! And funny! Heavy Metal Man Again Again: Heavy Metal Mandarin may be my favorite Heavy Metal Man movie of them all, in fact.
Sasha: Uh. Huh. Moving on to Hammertime Guy: Lights Out ...
Ariel: Wait, what? How do you know I didn't have lots more to say about Heavy Metal Man Again Again: Heavy Metal Mandarin?
Sasha: I don't know that. But if you have lots more to say about it, I'm going to go crazy listening to you call it that over and over again.
Ariel: What if I call it Hmm-aa-Hmm? That's not going to drive you crazy, is it?
Sasha: No, but you're going to call it Hmm-aa-Hmm like, twice and then go back to saying the one I'm already sick of.
Ariel: I won't, I promise!
Sasha: Swear?
Ariel: Pinkie swear!
Sasha: Okay, but if you say it the crazy-making way even one more time ...
Ariel: Sasha, I am not going to. Trust me!
Sasha: Fine. What else did you want to say about Hmm-aa-Hmm?
Ariel: Nothing, really. I just didn't like you acting like it didn't matter if I did have more to say.
Sasha: ...
Ariel: What?
Sasha: Well, folks, that's it for now. Tune in next time when we'll talk about Hammertime Guy: Lights Out.
Ariel: Wait! I thought we were going to talk about it now! What are you ...
Sasha: Aaaannnd ... "Publish!"

Sasha and Ariel Experience ... Some of the Marvels, Part One!

Sasha: We sure haven't jumped right on our promise to tell everybody about us watching all those Marvel movies and series.

Ariel: Is it series or serieses?

Sasha: Are you really asking that?

Ariel: Yes! Its a seriesous question.

Sasha: Boo. I don't think terrible puns are the best way to get readers to stick with this post.

Ariel: Oh, come on. Anybody who's reading this is reading it because they love us.

Sasha: Right, and it's not that many people, and we know at least one of them happens to hate puns.

Ariel: Ooh, you shouldn't have said that, then.

Sasha: Said what?

Ariel: Happuns.

Sasha: ...

Ariel: Okay already! You don't have to look at me like that! Everybody can just put their spoiler blankets over their heads and we'll get started.

Sasha: Better.

Ariel: So which many of the Marvels are we talking about today.

Sasha: I don't know. It's been months since we finished watching them. I'm not sure I even remember all the first few ones we watched.

Ariel: Um, let's see. Nerdlishous Nazi-Stomper, Captain Marvel, Heavy Metal Man, Heavy Metal Man Again (that's "man again," not "mannequin"), Hammertime Guy, Everybody at Once, Heavy Metal Man Again Again a.k.a. Heavy Metal Mandarin, Hammertime Guy: Lights Out --

Sasha: Okay, stop. That's probably plenty, and also I have to ask why you actually got one of those titles right.

Ariel: I got them all right!

Sasha: Yes, but one of them you actually gave the same title that came up on the Disney And menu when we picked it to watch.

Ariel: Which one was that?

Sasha: (sigh) Captain Marvel?

Ariel: Oh. Well, it would be pretty hard to forget the "Marvel" part since we're talking about Marvels. And also it was pretty memorable because she was the only girl with her own movie in the whole gazillion-movie series. Do you want me to call her Sexy Space Girl instead?

Sasha: Definitely not! Don't you think it seems kind of wrong to sexualize and infantalize the only female character who's gotten her own movie so far?

Ariel: I mean ... I didn't sexualize her. I thought she was pretty sexy all on her own. That's on her, not me.

Sasha: But she has a lot of other traits besides being sexy that you could have picked, and a lot of people think "girl" is a pretty insulting thing to call a powerful, smart woman.

Ariel: Oh. So I can't tell you, "You go, girl!" anymore? Or, do I have to say you're my womanfriend now?

Sasha: This is very off-topic.

Ariel: You started it! I'm the one who actually remembered the right thing to call her! And now I'm all worried I'm going to be insulting you if I say, "Oh, girl!" the wrong way at the wrong time.

Sasha: Ugh. You don't have to be worried about it, because I'm actually your girlfriend, and I know you don't mean it the wrong way.

Ariel: Well, sometimes I do! Sometimes I'm definitely sexualizing you when I say, "Oooh, girl ..."

Sasha: No, no -- once again, I'm your girlfriend. You get to think about me sexually. And you can think about Captain Marvel sexually too, but she's not your girlfriend, so a lot of people would rather you not say she's sexy and call her a girl as the first thing you say about her. That's all I'm trying to tell you.

Ariel: I'm just thinking people who've read my profile on the side part of this blog will maybe give me a break on that.

Sasha: Okay. Sure. You're probably right about that.

Ariel: Whew. Dodged that bullet!

Sasha: What?

Ariel: Oh! Nothing! I was just saying something to myself.

Sasha:What bullet did you think you dodged?

Ariel: Um ... um ...

Sasha: Oh my god. You didn't mean she was a sexy girl from space, did you?

Ariel: How else would I have meant it?

Sasha: You meant she was a girl with a sexy space!

Ariel: Well ... I mean ... this space right in here, on her, you know ... is kind of sexy.

Sasha: Awesome. So instead of just being 2/3 offensive, you called her something a hundred percent offensive.

Ariel: I didn't call her that at all! I just asked you if you wanted me to call her that!

Sasha: ...

Ariel: Scroll back up and look!

Sasha: Can we just talk about these movies?

Ariel: Yes! Good, that's all I wanted!

Sasha: So ... goddamn it.

Ariel: What? And don't swear. That's offensive.

Sasha: Now you've made me think about, uh, that space on her.

Ariel: Don't! You'll destroy all feminism! Think about Nerdlishous Nazi-Stomper after they pump him up from super-scrawny to super-brawny!

Sasha: Okay ... yes. That's kind of more the way I swing anyhow. Wow. Those muscles.

Ariel: I don't know how that's less offensive than thinking about her space, but good. Work with it.

Sasha: Grr.

Ariel: I really liked this movie. Even the non-muscly parts. In fact, I think especially the non-muscly parts.

Sasha: How's that?

Ariel: So, once he turns all big and able to stomp Nazis, the movie is pretty good. There's some decent enough action and it gets all sad at the end where he has to ditch the giant nuclear boomerang into the water and he doesn't get to have that dance with the ... woman! The extremely smart and competent woman who I can't even remember what her legs looked like or if she was pretty.

Sasha: Okay, but ...?

Ariel: But you know, it's like a twenty year old movie or something.

Sasha: Not quite but I don't want to have one of those arguments.

Ariel: Which arguments?

Sasha: Just get to your point about it being old, okay?

Ariel: Fine. What I'm saying is, it was a perfectly fine action movie for when they made it, but the first part before it got all actiony was really really excellent. It was funny and smart and Nerdlishous was absototally a hero even though he hit like a ... like a really shrimpy guy.

Sasha: Plus that funny doctor was in there in the first half.

Ariel: Yes! That dude cracked me up.

Sasha: Anything else about this one?

Ariel: The bad guy was excellently evil. "The Shredded Skull."

Sasha: I think that was the Red Skull.

Ariel: Really? I didn't think we could actually see his skull to know what color it was, because it still had some shredded head-stuff on it.

Sasha: Moving on.

Ariel: Great! Captain Marvel!

Sasha: Sounds like you liked it.

Ariel: Absolutely. She was so bad-ass! Uh ... can I talk about her ass that way?

Sasha: Let's just talk about the movie.

Ariel: So exciting! Tons more great action than in the first movie, plus it was like a fun buddy-cop movie with that agent dude from the Shield place, plus I just loved her character and how she wouldn't take shit from anybody. (Plus a couple of things I won't talk about because I know better now.)

Sasha: I was pretty into this movie too, even though it was the second "Captain" movie in a row. I thought that was a weird way to start off a movie franchise, with a "Captain Something" movie set way in the past and then another "Captain Something" movie set not quite as way in the past and with a different Captain. It seems like people would get confused and wonder why the third movie wasn't also about a captain.

Ariel: Well the dude in the third movie was kind of a "captain of industry," right?

Sasha: Hmm. I guess.

Ariel: Oh! And don't you remember? MSG and Claire said we were watching them in the order of the storyline, not in the order they were released. This one came out way later.

Sasha: Right, right, I remember that now. Which also explains why the fight scenes and special effects in this one were so much better than the one before or the one right after.

Ariel: I mean, they all had good fights and effects, but yeah, Captain Marvel really busted those aspects out to the max.

Sasha: Should we talk about the next two Heavy Metal Man movies together?

Ariel: I thought we were talking about all of this together? Isn't that kind of the whole point of this blog?

Sasha: No, I mean, not us together, the movies together.

Ariel: Oh, sure. Much more interesting bad guys in Heavy Metal Man Again, if you ask me. The bad guy in the first one was just, like, "Hey, look at me, I'm a businessman who is greedy." But in the second one, there's the guy who's like an even sleazier version of Tony Sleaze, plus the super-villain bad guy who loves his pet bird and doesn't care if he gets beaten in the face as long as he makes Tony Sleaze look bad.

Sasha: Why are you calling him Tony Sleaze?

Ariel: What are you talking about? He was such a total slut with women! I mean, except the spicy red-head.

Sasha: You're sending very mixed messages criticizing him for sleeping around and then calling her "spicy."

Ariel: Dude. Her name is literally a spice. "Pepper," remember?

Sasha: Oh. yeah, you got me there.

Ariel: Although the other red-head was also pretty spicy, especially when she turns out to be a bad-ass secret agent almost as bad-in-the-ass as Captain Marvel.

Sasha: Maybe even more, because she doesn't actually have any powers.

Ariel: True, and she has a badder-ass name: the Black Widow.

Sasha: MSG says she was one of his favorite characters growing up.

Ariel: What was she like before she was a grownup?

Sasha: No -- ugh. Time to move on to the next movie, I think.

Ariel: Yes! I loved this movie because it had Senator Wardrobe from Star Wars as the love interest.

Sasha: Haha, I forgot about us calling her that.

Ariel: Only this time, instead of a Senator, she's like, a professor. And instead of a crazy giant wardrobe, she has a bunch of degrees about space. The actual space space, I mean. They're not degrees about anybody's sexy space.

Sasha: She was good in this!

Ariel: Def. Plus she had that adorable hilarious intern who -- spoilers -- comes back way later in the first Disney And show.

Sasha: And then there was Hammertime Guy himself.

Ariel: More spoilers, that dude is in a whole buncha these movies and is a mouth-watering laugh riot in them all.

Sasha: Even the one where he gets all fat?

Ariel: That was just a little bit of a tummy. 

Sasha: I admit I did still find him awfully attractive.

Ariel: But that's way later. In this one, he's mostly just a charming dumb hunk of funny man-meat. I can talk about him that way because he's a guy, right?

Sasha: Yes. Probably someday you won't be able to, but for now it's pretty no-holds-barred.

Ariel: Whew.

Sasha: Speaking of "whew," are your typing fingers getting really worn out? Mine are.

Ariel: We still have three more movies left on my list though.

Sasha: But that was a totally arbitrary list. It only ended where it ended because that's when I stopped you. How about if we take it easy for now, then start off big next time with the Everybody at Once movie, and go on from there.

Ariel: You know I never argue against taking it easy.

Sasha: Great.

Ariel and Sasha: Bye everybody!

Ariel and Sasha Experience ... Dummy!

Ariel: I don't know why you think nobody's going to get mad if we're not going to talk about watching all those Marvels, Sash. Last time we promised we would, and we've already taken so long getting to it, and now you want to talk about something else?

Sasha: That's right, Dummy.

Ariel: You don't have to be mean! I mean, I think I have a pretty good point.

Sasha: No, I mean that's what we're going to talk about: Dummy.

Ariel: All right, I see what you're trying to do here. This is supposed to be another one of those posts where I keep misunderstanding you and it goes on and on and we never actually talk about the thing we say we're going to talk about. But I get it now, you're saying we're going to talk about the show Dummy that we just watched.

Sasha: Sometimes you're no fun, Aers.

Ariel: I'm always fun! I just think we're already treading pretty thin water by not talking about the Marvels like we promised, and we're totally going to lose all our readers if on top of that we spend the whole post not even talking about the different thing you say we're supposed to be talking about, Dummy.

Sasha: Wait, are you calling me a dummy now?

Ariel: Argh! Were you not listening when I said we're treading thin water?

Sasha: I was, but I didn't want to make you sound like a dummy by pointing out it's "Treading on thin ice."

Ariel: Okay, miss smarty-pants. What's ice?

Sasha: Jeepers, Aers. I thought you at least knew what ice is.

Ariel: I totally know what it is. But you should tell me anyway.

Sasha: Okay, I'll play along. Ice is frozen ...

Ariel: Mm-hmm. Frozen what?

Sasha: Um, water, but --

Ariel: So if you're treading on thin ice, you're also treading water, aren't you? And treading water means you're not going anywhere, just putting out a lot of effort to not sink and drown. That was me playing with words, not me being dumb.

Sasha: ...

Ariel: Aha! I got you for once, didn't I?

Sasha: Let's talk about Dummy.

Ariel: La-la-la, ha-ha-ha! Sure, let's talk about Dummy. I'm going to say everyone should put their spoiler blankets on, and then we can start.

Sasha: Okay, so Dummy is a show about --

Ariel: Whoa! Whoa, whoa whoa. I didn't tell everyone to put their spoiler blankets on yet.

Sasha: Yes you did, you said --

Ariel: I said I was going to. I didn't actually say it.

Sasha: Well, you did because in order to say you were going to, you did actually have to say those words.

Ariel: So if I say, "I'm going to say one, two, three, go, and then we'll start talking about Dummy," when are you going to start? Right away, because I said one, two, three, go as part of saying I was going to say one, two, three, go? Or are you going to wait for me to say one, two, three, go again first?

Sasha: ...

Ariel: See? There's not even any right way to answer my question, because as part of asking the question, I said the thing that was supposed to be the start phrase for us to talk about Dummy, but if you just start talking about Dummy without answering my question, then you haven't answered my question, but if you answer my question, you prove that you should have waited earlier for me to say everyone should put their spoiler blankets on.

Sasha: You ... I ... that doesn't ... okay, eff it. Can we please just talk about Dummy?

Ariel: Yes.

Sasha: Why are you looking at me like that?

Ariel: Like what?

Sasha: Like, giving me that funny look, like if I start talking about Dummy, you're going to say "Aha!" again and tell me how I fell for another trick?

Ariel: I'm not looking at you like that. I'm just ... looking at you. Like normal.

Sasha: I don't trust you. You go first.

Ariel: Haha, okay, I was looking at you funny just to freak you out, and it worked!

Sasha: Argh. All right, then. Fine. You got me. So, Dummy is a show where --

Ariel: Hey, you said I could go first!

Sasha: I'm not falling for that. Dummy is a show about this chick whose boyfriend turns out to have a sex doll --

Ariel: What? This is so unfair! You promised!

Sasha: And she sneaks a look at it one night while he's asleep --

Ariel: And the doll starts talking to her!

Sasha: Yes. Great. Are we doing this thing now?

Ariel: Well, we were, until you asked me that question.

Sasha: ARIEL.

Ariel: Anyway, from there, the chick and the doll start having conversations and then sort of a relationship, and then they have some adventures and stuff.

Sasha: Right. Whew. So did you like it? I liked it.

Ariel: I mostly liked it, but it was sooo unrealistic.

Sasha: Wait, what? You're totally a talking sex doll. How was the show unrealistic?

Ariel: Weren't you watching?

Sasha: I was sitting right next to you. And the show was obviously supposed to be unrealistic by the people who made it. It was a fun goofy show about this chick and her insecurities and either how the doll became a focus for her to express her insecurities, or maybe about the doll really being able to talk to her and being its own person and her having to come to terms with that weird thing and accept it.

Ariel: Duh. I get all that. I'm talking about all the unrealistic stuff with the doll itself, as a doll. Like, when she broke the doll's arm, and it made a cracking sound like the bone broke, but then what you saw was a big tear in the doll's skin. As a doll who recently had something break with a loud cracking sound, and who lives with another doll who's had a couple big skin tears like that, they're totally not the same thing.

Sasha: Wait. Are you saying Claire and Elle have had big skin tears like that?

Ariel: Have you never looked at one of their armpits?

Sasha: Ew, why would I look at armpits? Armpits are gross.

Ariel: I mean, maybe guy armpits, but not girl armpits. Girl armpits are sexy. Unless they're the not-shaved kind. And even then they're kinda sexy. Less sexy when the silicone there is all torn up. But sexy enough to do the trick of turning me on, at least.

Sasha: You're just really trying to school me today, aren't you?

Ariel: Yes! Look at these armpits right here! Don't you think they're sexy? Are you going to tell me my armpits don't turn you on?

Sasha: No, I'm not going to tell you that, because if I do you're going to pout about it, and if I admit they're sexy, you're going to gloat about it, and we're never going to get back to talking about Dummy.

Ariel: It was so unrealistic.

Sasha: How? How else?

Ariel: Like when she gets her the replacement vagina because her old vagina is all gross on account of the boyfriend not taking care of it. The replacement vagina is just, like, the outside bits. It's like the people who made the prop never even looked at an actual replaceable vagina on a sex doll. Except they had a sex doll right there they could look at, so why did they make such an unrealistic prop?

Sasha: Maybe the guy who bought the doll for the prop department didn't get one with a removable vag.

Ariel: Well that was dumb of him, wasn't it? Because it was right there in the script that she was going to have one.

Sasha: Fine. Okay, what else?

Ariel: Like, one of the first things that happens is the doll's arm breaking, where the skin tear happens just from moving the arm. But the whole rest of the show, in practically every episode, the doll is getting handled way worse than that and nothing else breaks. I mean, even when the chick is dragging the doll by the armpits across that hardwood floor, it would be way more likely the heels would tear off than that other tear happening from wrestling with the arm.

Sasha: Aers, these really seem like nitpicks to me.

Ariel: If you were a sex doll, they would be more important to you.

Sasha: Okay, maybe. Are there more unrealistic things you want to complain about? Or can we talk about the rest of the show?

Ariel: Well ... if I can be honest, I've sort of been complaining about all that because I don't know if I want to talk about the rest of the show.

Sasha: Wait, you didn't like it?

Ariel: I did! But parts of it got me really emotional and even crying and stuff. I mean, I was quiet about it so nobody would notice, but --

Sasha: You thought that was quiet? Girl, everybody in the house noticed you sniffling and doing that little quiet blubbery thing you do. You didn't notice us all looking at each other like, "There Aers goes again, isn't she cute when she gets like this?"

Ariel: Oh no. I thought nobody saw.

Sasha: We just didn't want to embarrass you.

Ariel: Well that's a change!

Sasha: No, really. It was very sweet. You're adorable when you get like that.

Ariel: I'm always adorable!

Sasha: Um ... mostly always.

Ariel: Also, I'm kinda sad now because it looks like that one season is all there's ever going to be of the show and I really wanted to see more.

Sasha: Yeah, me too. I don't know if I'd say it was exactly a great show, but it was fun and funny and really pretty touching in some parts.

Ariel: I thought it was pretty great. Other than being unrealistic.

Sasha: Well ... some of us would say the same thing about you, Aers.

Ariel: Sasha! Did you just say something nice to me?

Sasha: Maybe. It probably had something to do with you flashing those sexy armpits my way.

Ariel: So you did like them!

Sasha: I'm not sure I'd go all the way to "like." I was non-ambivalent about them.

Ariel: Okay, well, it's time to wrap this post up anyway.

Sasha: Why?

Ariel: Because I can't blog very easy if I've got my arms up like this to show off my sexy armpits.

Sasha: Put your arms down.

Ariel: And I bet you won't be able to blog very easy if you have to keep looking over at my sexy naked pits.

Sasha: ...

Ariel: I am hypnotizing you with my armpits. It's pitnosis.

Sasha: I give up. Everybody go watch Dummy. The end!

Sasha and Ariel Experience ... All the Marvels!

Ariel: I. Am. So. Exhausted.

Sasha: That was an awful lot of movies and shows.

Ariel: What were we thinking?

Sasha: Well, it didn't sound like so much when we compared it to watching all the Star Warses. Those were like, 11 movies and a hundredish half-hour shows that we went through, so ... 70 or 80 plus hours? This was only 20 something movies and 16 shows that were half an hour to an hour each.

Ariel: Why would you add all that up?!? Together that's got to be a thousand hours of shows and movies! Now I'm even more tired!

Sasha: Pretty sure 70 or 80 plus another 50 or 60 doesn't equal a thousand, Aers.

Ariel: You expect me to do math when I'm this tired?

Sasha: I like how you put "when I'm this tired" on the end of that sentence.

Ariel: Hey!

Sasha: I'm kidding, I'm kidding! Math isn't my thing either. So ... the question is ...

Ariel: Go on, I'm waiting.

Sasha: No, I was leaving it open for you to finish the question.

Ariel: Oh.

Sasha: So ... the question is ...

Ariel:  ... do we need to tell people to put on their spoiler blankets?

Sasha: What? No, that's not the question, of course they need to put on their spoiler blankets if we're going to be able to talk about all these movies and shows!

Ariel: Um, that's the answer, but we still always ask the question, don't we?

Sasha: Okay, yes, fine. That was a question. But it wasn't the question. The question is ...

Ariel: How many times are you going to make me say I'm tired? I can't read your mind when I'm this tired! I mean, I can't ever read people's minds -- I don't want our readers to think I'm saying I can do that when I'm not tired. But I especially can't do it when I'm tired! I'm not even very good at guessing when I'm tired!

Sasha: Uh-huh. How is it you're always able to put so much work into telling me how tired you are?

Ariel: Is that "the" question? Because I'm feeling like you're just trying to dodge out of saying what "the" question is. You're not trying to trick me into doing all the work because you don't really have a "the" question, are you?

Sasha: Argh! The question is, "Was it worth it to spend all that time watching the Marvels?"

Ariel: That's "the" question?

Sasha: Of course it is!

Ariel: I mean, that's a pretty dumb question, Sash. If it wasn't worth it, why would we have kept it up through all those thousands of hours of shows and movies?

Sasha: ...

Ariel: What?

Sasha: I was about to get mad at you for saying my question was dumb, but I guess that's a pretty good point. We did give up on Space: 1999 after like, 4 or 5 hours.

Ariel: Exactly. Which wasn't remotely as much time as we spent watching the Marvels.

Sasha: Right, so clearly the Marvels were better than --

Ariel: Wait, did you notice my joke? I said it wasn't "remotely" as much time. Because we made so much fun of Space:1999 for having those remote-controlled doors.

Sasha: Are we going to talk about watching all the Marvels, or not?

Ariel: I dunno ... did you come up with a better "the" question yet? Here, I'll set you up. The question is ...

Sasha: ... So what did we think of the MCU?

Ariel: Wait, what? I thought we were talking about Marvels. What's this em-see-you thing?

Sasha: It's the short way of saying "the Marvel movies and shows."

Ariel: No it's not. "Marvels" is two syllables, and "em-see-you" is three. That's longer, not shorter.

Sasha: But it's fewer letters. An M, and a C, and a U. Three letters instead of seven.

Ariel: But it takes more work to say.

Sasha: But it takes less work to type.

Ariel: Well don't look at me! You're the one who's doing the posting this time, I'm just talking, not typing.

Sasha: Fine, I'll just say and type "Marvels" from now on.

Ariel: And what does that even mean, "MCU"? I'm guessing the "M" is for "Marvels" and "C" is because we saw them, but what's the "U"? Is it "University" because we spent so much time watching them we ought to get a degree in it?

Sasha: Why do you care? Do you even care? If you care, just look it up yourself.

Ariel: Okay, I will.

Sasha: Seriously?

Ariel: No. What was the question again?

Sasha: Oh, no, you're not getting off that easy.

Ariel: "That's what she said."

Sasha: Ugh. Seriously, I'm not going any further here until you look it up.

Ariel: Fine. M ... C ... U ... here we go, Wikipedia says, "The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is ..."

Sasha: Great, "Marvel Cinematic Universe." Now you know. So let's --

Ariel: Hang on, hang on, I'm still reading! The first sentence just talks about it being a series of films. It doesn't say "films and shows." Did we watch those two shows without needing to?

Sasha: We didn't need to watch any of --

Ariel: Oh my gosh.

Sasha: What?

Ariel: I shouldn't have kept reading.

Sasha: Why not?

Ariel: We only watched two shows, the ones on Disney And. This says there are ... a bunch more shows that aren't on Disney And. "Agents of SHIELD" and "Daredevil" and "Runaways" and -- oh my gosh, I'm not going to keep reading. We didn't watch all the Marvels at all. Not even close.

Sasha: Well ... we were probably going to have to break this up into parts anyway. This post is already pretty long and we haven't actually talked about any movies or shows at all yet. Let's just do a few posts about the Marvels we've watched so far, and then sometime in the future maybe we'll come back and post about those other shows after we watch them.

Ariel: No, I don't think we have any choice about it. We have to go back up and change our title to "Sasha and Ariel Experience Some of the Marvels."

Sasha: If we change it, we're going to have to change it to "Sasha and Ariel Experience Some of the Marvels But Don't Talk About Any of Them Yet." Because it's looking pretty obvious to me that we're not going to get around to talking about the movies or shows at all in this post.

Ariel: That's a terrible title for a post! No one will want to read that!

Sasha: Exactly. So let's just leave it, right? Path of least resistance and all.

Ariel: I can't argue with that.

Sasha: Really?

Ariel: I mean, I could, but I'm even tireder now than when we started.

Sasha: Gotcha. Okay, everybody, next time, we promise: "Sasha and Ariel Experience Some of the Marvels, Part One!"