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

Sasha: Okay, let's do this thing!
Ariel: What thing? Hit the "publish" button before we're ready?
Sasha: Are you still mad about that from last time?

Ariel: Maybe.

Sasha: Well, feel free to grab the mouse and click the button to get me back, then.

Ariel: No, I'm going to be the bigger person.

Sasha: Ouch. You don't have to get personal about it. That was very heightist of you.

Ariel: Oh, no, I didn't mean it that way!

Sasha: You didn't, huh? Don't think I don't notice how you're literally always looking down on me when we're blogging.

Ariel: No I'm not!

Sasha: Are so. You're doing it right now, in fact. Look how you're tipping your head down to point your eyes at me!

Ariel: No, I ... I mean, yes, but only because I'm a little taller than you, and --

Sasha: Great, just keep rubbing it in.

Ariel: I'm not! I ... wait a minute, are you teasing me to stop me from being mad?

Sasha: Super. Now you're calling me manipulative too.

Ariel: ...

Sasha: Haha, okay, take two -- let's do this thing!

Ariel: (grumble)

Sasha: If I remember your big list from last time, first up is Hammertime Guy: Lights Out, right?

Ariel: (crosses arms) No. First we tell everybody to put their spoiler blankets over their heads.

Sasha: Sure. Everybody put your spoiler blankets over your heads, 'cause we're about to spoil us some spoilage, big time. Now, after watching this movie, I don't know why our boyfriend says it gets a bad rap from a lot of people.

Ariel: He probably says so because it gets a bad rap from a lot of people. I mean, why would he just make that kind of thing up?

Sasha: No, I mean I don't know why it would get a bad rap from a lot of people. I liked it!

Ariel: Well, sometimes people suck. Maybe you've noticed.

Sasha: Okay, obviously it's time for a tickle break.

Ariel: What? No!

Sasha: Yes, tickle break!!!

Ariel: Stop! Aah! Ahaha -- eeh! Quit it!

...

...

...

Sasha: So ... all better? Are you over being mad at me?

Ariel: Uhh ... I was mad at you? Oh, right ... I guess it's okay now ...

Sasha: Good. Straighten your shirt, girl, or you're going to be distracting me the whole rest of this post.

Ariel: Is this better?

Sasha: Peachy keen! Ready to get back to Hammertime Guy: Lights Out?

Ariel: Yeah ... it was good! I always like watching Senator Wardrobe from Star Wars, and also I liked seeing that hilarious intern chick more. She's hilarious. And it was even better when she came back in LongDivision!

Sasha: Whoa, we've got so many movies to get through before we talk about LongDivision!

Ariel: Sorry, I just really think she's funny.

Sasha: No argument there. What was your fave part of this movie, though?

Ariel: I think the part where they found the space warp thingabob and were dropping stuff in it to watch it fall and disappear and then reappear. I mean, hunky Hammertime Guy wasn't there, but it was a wacky, funny scene anyhow.

Sasha: Definitely. Also, I liked how Wicked Horny Bro was back to being an interesting character again.

Ariel: I know, right? In the first Hammertime Guy movie, he was like, "Look at me! I'm kind of funny and fun and also kind of a dick ... I'm complex that way!" Then in Everybody at Once, he was like, "Maybe I'll just go all dick, all the time. Worth a try, right?" Then in this one, he's like, "Still kind of into my being-a-dick jam, but maybe I'll try some learning-a-lesson-the-hard-way and then some doing-the-right-thing and going-out-big, just for kicks."

Sasha: Way better story choices. Now, how about the next movie, Captain I'm-Extra-Nice: Frigid Friend Zone? And why are we calling it that?

Ariel: Well, we called the first one of these movies Nerdlicious Nazi-Stomper, but there aren't nearly as many Nazis in this one and also he's not nerdy anywhere in this one, so I figured we needed a new name for him.

Sasha: Cool cool.

Ariel: Exactly! That's what the second part of the title is for -- this movie was way cool. Plus, Cap's buddy from the first movie got dropped into ice, and then fought in the whole Cold War thing, and then also there's that nurse who lives across the hall from Steve who he sort of asks out and then she sort of friend-zones him. Oh, plus Eyepatch Badass deliberately makes all his friends think he's dead, which made me go, "Whoa, that's cold" when I found out he wasn't.

Sasha: You really thought about that title a lot, didn't you?

Ariel: Sort of. You know when it came to me?

Sasha: No, when?

Ariel: When I was chillin'.

Sasha: Uh-huh. Back to the movie, then ...

Ariel: What an exciting movie! Captain I'm-Extra-Nice was awesome, Assassin Gal was awesome, Cap's new wingy-dingy friend was awesome, there was an awesome fight in an elevator and several awesome car chases and just generally a lot of awesomeness.

Sasha: I agree. Also in the dialogue, like when Assassin Gal tells him, "You may be in the wrong line of work," and then later he tells her the same thing.

Ariel: Lots of saying the right thing at just the right moment in this movie! "I'm with you to the end of the line."

Sasha: Yeah, good times. What's up next?

Ariel: I am Groot!

Sasha: Okay, no. I see where this is going, and can we just not?

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: What ... what are these? Note cards?

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: You wrote me note cards to translate all your "I am Groots" for us to use through talking about two whole movies?

Ariel: I am Groot!

Sasha: Fine. Whatever. So what did we think about this movie?

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: "Yes, I agree that it was really funny, especially Tree Dude and Sassy Trash Panda." Aers, I don't know if this is going to work. I mean, I do agree with that, but what if I didn't? 

Ariel: I am Groot!

Sasha: No, stop pointing at the cards! Seriously, I want to be able to give my own opinion about the movie.

Ariel: I. Am. Groot.

Sasha: Ugh. Fine, the next card says ... "Yeah, I guess this will all go easier if I just read the cards."

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: "But I don't want to just read the cards, I --" Wait a minute, did you write a whole argument for us to have about reading the cards on the cards?

Ariel: I am Groot?

Sasha: "What do you mean, 'Maybe?' Look at these things, it's just card after card of me saying both sides of a stupid argument! Why would I want to do this?"

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: "Oh my god, do you really think I'm that predictable? It's actually kind of insulting. Here, take these things back."

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: "Come on. What, now you're going to pretend to be all sad?"

Ariel: I ... am Groot ...

Sasha: "Well, it's not going to work. You know why? Because I'm the meanest girlfriend on the planet, and now I'm just going to hit the 'publish' button."

Ariel: I am --

Sasha: "See you next time, folks!" Oh no you don't -- give me that mouse! Get your hand away from the keyboard! You set this whole thing up just to make me look terrible, didn't you?

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: What? There aren't even any more cards! Oh, one more in your pocket, huh? And what if I refuse to read it?

Ariel: I am Groot.

Sasha: Sigh. "Everyone, I am very very sorry for stopping our last post before Ariel was ready. I hope it wasn't too disappointing for all the people who were really looking forward to reading about our experience of those movies and then not getting anything to read but a big list of doofy titles. I promise I'll never do that again." I do not promise that!

Ariel: I know. But at least maybe you'll think twice about it next time.

Sasha: Okay, okay. So are we done for today?

Ariel: Unless you want me to write up some more cards!

Sasha: Absolutely not.

Ariel: We can be done-sies then. Bye, everybody!

Sasha: Bye, everybody ... sheesh.

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

Ariel: Okay, I'm just making a list here, not actually starting the post, we'll need to delete this bit when we go to post the post after we're done with the real post. Nobody will care about this part.
Sasha: Wait, now you're worried whether people care about everything we put in a post? You really think whatever we say in the post is going to make more sense or be more interesting than this part?
Ariel: Of course it will, I -- look, can I just write my list?

Sasha: Sure. What's it a list of?

Ariel: All the Marvels we've watched that we haven't blogged about yet. Um ... Hammertime Guy: Lights Out ... Captain I'm-Extra-Nice: Frigid Friend Zone ... GOTG, GOTG ...

Sasha: Why'd you list that one twice?

Ariel: I didn't. I just abbreviated the two movies about those guys.

Sasha: But you abbreviated them exactly the same.

Ariel: No I didn't. The first one was the abbreviation for "Groot of the Groot," and the second one was the abbreviation for "Groot of the Groot."

Sasha: Oh. Great. Now I really can't wait until we get to those ones.

Ariel: Me either! Where was I, though? Okay, I remember ... Everybody at Once Part 2: So Many Robots! ... Shrinkydink Bugbuddy ... Captain I'm-Extra-Nice: Let's Fight, but Polite! ... Blast From Assassin Gal's Past, Mad Accent Panther, Doctor Ow I Broke My Fingers ...

Sasha: Haha, that's a good one.

Ariel: Shh! I'm concentrating! Hammertime Guy: Zeppelin' and Zeppelin' Again, Shrinkydink Bugbuddy Getting Top Billing Why Exactly?,  Everybody at Once: Prune-Chinny-Chin's War, Everybody at Once: The Halftime Show, Long Division, Wingman and Frigid Friend Zone, The Wicked Horny Bro Show, Shawn Sheesh and the Legend of My Vag, The E.T. Ernals, and finally, whew, A Very Hawkward Christmas.

Sasha: And this is seriously a list of all the movies you want us to blog about in one post?

Ariel: And shows. And no, but I keep making lists and every time you decide we're stopping before we get to the end of the list, so this time, I just kept listing and listing and now you don't know which one is actually the one I think we should stop at. This way you won't know when you have to push the "Publish" button to not do all the ones I want to.

Sasha: You're sure about that?

Ariel: Yes! I thought this plan over a lot when I came up with it.

Sasha: Totally sure?

Ariel: Yes ... Hey! Give me that mouse back! Where are you taking that cursor? What --

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!"