Geekly Roundup for May 10th - Superheroic Mother's Day Edition!

This week on Geekly Roundup, Mark, Jon and Mike discuss 3D printed D&D Monsters, which turns into a discussion about why Fantasy doesn't seem to be able to break through to the mainstream. Then they discuss a hacker getting banned in Guild Wars 2, which turns into a discussion on continuing to consume media you hate, and why we do that. THEN they discuss Agent Carter's return, which turns into a discussion on the availability of TV, piracy, and binge-watching vs experiencing TV week by week! It's a world of fascinating tangents this week!

Episode 140: Jarys' Alien Story

The Ace of Geeks come to you this week from the motel room Jarys and Melissa are using to hide from the Terminator! We'll discuss the things that broke the internet this week, like the Power/Rangers fan film. Plus! Mike and Mae Linh try and convince Jarys to see Kingsman! We review

Episode 140! the Agent Carter season finale! And much more!

Heimdall, Peggy Carter and the Falcon confirmed for Age of Ultron

The increasingly tangled web that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe to come appears to be weaving even tighter with the release of the latest poster for the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron movie.
As reported by Comicbook.com. the upcoming Avengers sequel will feature three names well-known to MCU followers but not previously thought to be in the movie: Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, and Idris Elba.

Atwell, of course, is immediately familiar from the fantastic and recently-completed Agent Carter series; though Atwell has made and will make her share of flashback appearances in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the upcoming Ant-Man movie, her appearance in the Age of Ultron cast raises the question of whether she will be one more flashback for Cap and the Avengers or, as the article posits, perhaps a confirmation of rumors of time travel.

With the recent news that Spider-Man will now likely be added into the cast of Captain America: Civil War, the likelihood of movies being hastily tweaked and edited as new opportunities become available isn't out of the question -- and the hugely popular Atwell, coming off the acclaim of Agent Carter, could be another such move.

Mackie, on the other hand, comes off his appearance in Winter Soldier as the very-much-modern Falcon, Captain America's close comrade Sam Wilson. Though Mackie wasn't originally slated to appear in Ultron, rumors have him making a brief cameo; Wilson has always been an engaging character, and as the current bearer of Cap's shield in the Marvel Universe on paper, the more we get of him in the MCU, the better.

Idris Elba has previously been seen as Heimdall, guardian of Bifrost, but revealed his appearance in Age of Ultron as recently as a November interview with the Telegraph. Though rumors sometimes have it that Elba seems to depart the MCU, it's hard to imagine the former star of the BBC's Luther doing anything but good when added to a movie. The extent and prominence of his role is still unknown.

Hayley Atwell, Anthony Mackie, and Idris Elba -- it's difficult to imagine what it must be like being a director for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with this kind of talent to pull from at any given crossover moment.

Damned if it isn't fun to watch, though.

Agent Carter, Gamer Gate, and the plight of the modern day woman.

So I finally caught up with Agent Carter, and I love every second of it.  It blends wonderful female characters with the challenges of being a woman in a man's world.  I don't consider myself a radical feminist, but I definitely believe in the equality of all human beings regardless of their skin color, sex, or orientation.

I'm really excited to see how the show deals with women's issues after the war.  As horrible as it was, war was actually a great opportunity of equality for women because society as a whole had no choice but to accept women into the workforce to keep the country running.  When all the GIs came back, the women were pushed out and forced to go back to their previous lives as secretaries, phone operators, and homemakers.  Carter actually says at one point in the pilot, "during the war, I felt I had a purpose."  There was a new hierarchy in the workplace: men, cripples, and then women.  The newly empowered women were instantly depowered, because who would begrudge their job to a returning GI when so many men didn't make it back?

But that was the 50's right?  Everything is different now right?

We Already Have a Great Wonder Woman Show - It's Called Agent Carter.

Agent Carter promotional television show poster

During Maggie Gyllenhaal's acceptance speech at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards last Sunday, she mentioned how proud she was to see that women were gaining a voice and being represented, multi-dimensionally, in entertainment. On a recent commercial, ABC made claims to being a leader in representing women by showing a span of a few of their television shows over the last decade, including ALIAS, Scandal, and now, Agent Carter. To me, (and many others out there) one character comes to mind with whom most identify women's equality, and that's Wonder Woman. Agent Carter, now three episodes in, has surprised me. Because Marvel comics has accomplished something that the owners of Wonder Woman haven't been able to do in almost 40 years. They've brought Wonder Woman's essence back, and done it better than the company that owns the rights to the character.

First (Ant-Sized) Trailer for Ant Man!

You cheeky, cheeky little jerks, Marvel. Once again, they're promoting their TV shows by throwing an entire trailer at us during the airing of Agent Carter, on January 6th. Which is awesome. But to promote that, they're giving us the entire trailer right now on Youtube! What? Check it out after the jump.