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Welcome creatives! These are discussions, thoughts, case studies, interviews, and lessons about how our creativity relates to life. The host, Mr Benja, is a former video game programmer / designer for Rockstar Games, Sony Santa Monica, The 3DO Company, and others, as well as a fine artist. -- Be sure to check out the website for more.
Season 1, episode 1 of attack
on Titan Was by far the most
impressive It just did its job.
Came in, showed you what was up,
and then left you wanting more.
And I don't know how many
other series have done that or
realized how important that is.
People might say it's important, but I
don't think they really understand how
important that initial impression is.
And we're gonna talk about that
powerful initial impression of
attack on Titan and some other shows
today on creativity threads life.
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Always here most weeknights.
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So that's gonna do it for that
Little introduction there.
I was gonna say more, but I
just remembered that I created
an ad role for this thing.
So now I have an ad role at the
beginning Of the podcast, if you're
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live, you'll hear an ad roll.
So that's something I
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Wanna get people to help support the
podcast, help support this effort.
So that's why that's there if you're
listening on Apple or if you're listening
on, um, more of the podcast later.
But otherwise, let's get into it.
So this show came out,
uh, Attack on Titan.
I'm it was a while back, and
somebody recommended this to me.
I forgot who.
But they were like, yeah.
I watched these anime, and
I watched this and that.
But you know what you really need
to check out is attack on titan.
I was like attack on Titan.
Alright.
Went around, saw a picture, I think, of
some Some monstrous being with no skin.
And, you know, you just, like, do
a search on Google, and it shows
you a few of the preview images.
So this pops up, and I'm like, oh, wow.
That's interesting.
I guess that's, uh, some
kind of titan or something.
And then it showed pictures of all the
The few promo pictures that came out are
pretty distinct and they don't really
give much away, which is interesting.
So, yeah, I was like, alright.
Um, I'll see what this is about.
Didn't seem like my style at the time.
Wasn't really into the whole vibe.
But within seconds of pressing play,
The music, the styling, the seriousness,
the The coloring, all the elements came
together within the first 5, 10 seconds
to let you know This is something intense.
This is something real.
This is something hardcore.
You're in for a ride.
And I was sold.
I was like, oh, man.
First 5 seconds.
Hold on.
Let me sit back down.
Let me let me take this in properly.
And I'm gonna I I may end
up spoiling some things.
So if you haven't seen attack on titans,
I'm not gonna gonna spoil the episode,
but if it comes up in discussion, We
might chat, but I'm not planning on
spoiling anything, just so you'll know.
You should definitely go watch
it, but I don't plan on spoiling
anything while you're here.
So I'm watching this first episode.
We're only a couple seconds
in, and I'm transfixed.
I'm like, who are these people?
Why is that dog barking?
What's what's everybody looking at?
What's going on?
And I don't it's hard to describe
something like this because it's
very it seems very straightforward
Simple, but it's so elegant and
well done in this particular case.
You really have to watch it, rewatch
it, and then compare it with other
shows to see where they go wrong.
But this is first episode brilliance
kind of stuff because it does
exactly what the first episode is
supposed to do, get you hooked.
And within the first 5 seconds, 10
seconds, I was hooked and wanted to
see the next 15 seconds, the next
30 seconds, The next 5 minutes, the
next 10 minutes, the whole show.
So without getting too much into the
weeds of of how it was written, It gave
you this idea of the tone of the show.
It gave you this idea of the the
spectacle, the size, and everything.
Actually, I will get into
the weeds a little bit.
Screw it.
So basically, this first episode comes on.
It it puts you in a situation.
Now you don't always have
to start with the Situation.
You can start with the character.
You can start with, um, a plot point.
You can start with a revelation.
You can start with A death, you can
start with building up a character.
You can start by explaining the world.
You can start with, you know, an opening
crawl just to give you Just to settle the
people down where you put some exposition,
some text up right up front to let
people know where they are in the world.
But basically, right when you're
starting out, You're setting the stage.
You're preparing the audience for
the world and the character that
you're gonna be involved with.
And hopefully, you can do this
in at least the first episode.
Attack on Titan does it
within the first minute.
Because after the first minute,
you're wondering who the
characters are In a good way.
You're curious about them.
You're wondering what's going on with
these with these people in a good way.
You're wondering what kind of
world this is in a good way.
So you're curious about all of this
and then the opening credits start up.
When the opening credits start
up, you're given quick flashes of
everything that this world is gonna be.
And now your mind's racing again.
It's like, wait a minute.
How are they getting to this point?
Who are these people again?
Now I see what they're gonna
be doing in the future.
Okay.
I'm invested.
And I think that if you can craft A good
enough intro, a good enough banger, a
good enough reason for people to get
in their seats and stay seated For a
whole hour and be really interested,
that's half the battle right there.
That is half the battle.
How can you not make it contrived?
Not make it too boring, not fall in
the problem of somebody saying, yeah,
I stopped watching after the third
episode because nothing happens.
And then someone tells you, oh,
you gotta wait until episode
8 before it gets any good.
And there are only like 15 episodes.
As much as I hate to say it,
you gotta aim for The hook.
You gotta get them in quickly.
Build up time is at a premium nowadays.
You really don't have too many situations
where you can really build up A lot of
characterization, a lot of the world.
You just kinda have to
drop people into it.
You drop people into it right now,
Then it's expected that a couple
moments down the line of the
story, down the story line, you'll
drop them into other deep dives.
So I don't think it's any stretch
to say that you should give
people the goods right up front.
I think a lot of people still have
this idea that it's only you know,
you're you're not doing anything
with smoke and mirrors if you make
a really powerful first episode.
And Those are people who went to writing
school, who went to creative creative
writing classes on the weekends.
You've gotta get in there
and get them by the throat.
Get the attention, keep them there, hold
them, have them want the next thing.
I'm practicing that with this podcast.
I'm not doing as well of a job as
I would like, but I'm doing it.
In fact, The first episode of attack
on Titan was good enough to where
I watched it, sat back, watched the
credits, And instead of going to episode
2, I watched the first episode again.
It was that intriguing
of our first episode.
So how did it do this?
As I said, I really don't wanna
get too into the weeds of it, and
I'm just referring to the idea that
this had a great first episode.
But 1 of the things you can take a lesson
from is how it presented the characters.
Now all of this happens simultaneously
And very quickly so you don't
have a moment to separate these
different pieces from each other.
They're all kind of necessary
all at the same time.
But it sets a theme, a tone of
vulnerability And confusion and
fear, it sets that up within
the world pretty immediately.
So right off the bat, you've got
this tone that's set, and it's
just kinda drilled into you.
And when you hear that first note of the
music and the audio is very good as well.
When you hear that first note of
the music and when you see those
first images of this world, You
almost can't help to be drawn in.
So right off the bat,
they set a great tone.
So 1 of the things you gotta
get right when you're first
starting out is your tone.
What are you saying without saying it?
What are you what what is the feeling that
you want to elicit From your audience.
What do you want people to resonate with?
And then get that second level.
The characters, obviously.
It's like, who am I relating to?
Who am I following around?
Whose story am I trying to discover
or learn about or relate to?
Whose shoes am I walking in?
And these are your characters.
You obviously have your main characters,
your side characters, your antagonist
and protagonist, Your supporting
staff, your supporting characters
on the good side and the bad side.
You've got numerous characters
that you're you're dealing with.
But pretty quickly, the in attack
of on Titan, new the the characters
are set there for you to watch.
The characters are set.
So, okay, we got these we got
these characters, and characters
are always about individuals
with needs, Hopes and wants.
They hope for something, they need
something, and then they want something.
And these may change over time.
They're gonna change throughout
the course of the show.
That's what a story arc is for.
But right off the bat, you got
your tone and your characters,
and they're both intertwined.
And then you get your world that
you're setting, if you will.
It's narrated as well as actually, I
think the first episode I can't remember
much narration outside the first
episode, But I think they they layered
their opening crawl onto the basically,
onto the narration, and they don't
go back to it very often, if at all.
Every once in a while,
they do some exposition.
Like, when someone opens up a book,
they'll start explaining like that.
They'll start talking from the
book as if they're reading.
That's a good way of doing
exposition, but they kind of wove
it into the intro right away.
And it's pretty oh my god.
I'm actually thinking about it now.
It relates to the final episode too.
So, yeah, stuff in the first episode
relates all the way back to the the final
episode and every chapter along the way.
But the world is is set up to the hell?
Alright.
Instagram is having problems
.
So, yes, getting your initial story
together, getting your initial Flow going.
Comes down to getting that
character right, That tone
right and that world right.
Once you've got those 3, you can
pretty much go where you want.
And the tone covers the audio,
the feeling of the story.
You start getting an idea of the
type of things that you might see.
You start getting an idea of the
way they present the story already.
So the tone covers quite a bit.
And you may actually
wanna make tone and style.
You may actually wanna make those
separate topics And then, of course,
you always gotta have the plot.
Now the plot is this this chain of
events that's gonna lead you from
the very beginning all the way to
the end and hopefully tie everything
that you've ever seen in this
entire show together all at once.
So having this all lined up together,
Uh, the plot, the style, the tone,
the characters, and the world.
Getting all those together and having
them all make sense Really make
whatever you're creating strong.
And I don't mean just for a TV series,
whatever you're making, whether it's
a video game, A movie, TV series,
whether you're doing a speech, whether
you're presenting something at work,
whether you're meeting some people
for the first time, It's all about
the first impression and I'm using
attack on titan as this example of a
very strong creative first impression.
Other series that might do
this or do this a little bit.
I could harp on and break down, like,
what went on in attack on Titan,
but I might do that somewhere else.
I may make an actual post about that,
But you can look online on YouTube.
There are plenty of
things breaking this down.
But I was thinking about some
other series that do this as well.
I thought about lost, how it hit
hooked you from the beginning.
Jade you might not like JJ Abrams
style, but He did get a lot of
people hooked in the beginning.
Did it lead anywhere?
Well, that's up to the people.
Breaking Bad, Similar style, actually.
Breaking Bad to to a lot of anime where
it just kinda throws you in the mix.
Game of Thrones did a good job.
Game of Thrones was really good
with setting the world very quickly.
It set the world and then kinda let you
go And then went on about some stories.
So there was a little bit of a
disconnect, but it worked out.
Supernatural was very good.
I didn't think I'd like
Supernatural at first, but, um, no.
That first episode would work.
Invincible, The boys, mayor
of Easttown, the White Lotus.
And I have to give a special mention
to to how to get away with murder.
I'd heard a lot of my female
friends talking about this, and
I didn't know much about it.
But when I took the took the leap and
jumped into How to get away with murder.
I...
was impressed.
That was another first episode
banger that goes up to near the top.
How to get away with murder.
Shout out to Shonda Land for that 1.
So It's a great creative exercise
because let me start talking about that.
Why is this important?
Why is it necessary?
Well, being a great Having a great
creative exercise like this, um,
what does what does it mean to
be a great creative exercise?
Well, when you're trying to put
something together, a lot of people
have part of an idea and they just go
with that and then they start writing.
Um, they call them pantsers, people
who fly by the seat of their pants
or right by the seat of their pants.
They're just flying off.
And they just get in and start
writing, Oh, there was a guy in
a forest and he ran this way.
And then he started talking to somebody
and then he met this person and they
spent 3 chapters discussing life.
And then they ate pancakes.
And then and then and then.
And that confuses 2 things.
1 thing you're supposed to do is
make a situation where Every line or
every scene or every frame that you
see or experience in any property is
supposed to pull you on to the next 1.
That's the good I that's the idea.
Like, what's the what's the
purpose of the first sentence?
To get you to read the second sentence.
What's the purpose of the second sentence?
To get you to read the first paragraph.
What's the purpose of the first paragraph?
To get you to read the first chapter.
What's the what's the reason behind
the purpose behind the first chapter?
To get you to read the entire book.
So it's this cascading
linear storytelling.
This Cascading idea that you're going to
experience something and then experience
the next thing, next thing after that.
So it has to build up.
I get that.
But a lot of writers and developers,
they get caught in the, I have an
inkling of an idea, and they Take off.
Take off.
They just take off with that.
Or they're on the other extreme and have
no idea and just start writing without
any Concept of having that first idea.
They just wanna start droning on and on.
And the only problem is I mean, this
wouldn't be such a such a problem if if
you had an audience that was forced To sit
down and watch or sit down and experience
the first half or however long how long
it took took you or How long it's gonna
take to get you to get into the story?
Well, you don't have that luxury anymore.
You used to be able to sit in a
theater, and hopefully, you'd be
able to Allow them to, you know, take
their time and sit down and maybe,
maybe an hour into a 3 hour movie.
It just, it just starts to get good.
It just starts to attach to you.
Some people actually go with that style.
It's not recommended anymore at all.
I remember watching
hearing about some anime.
Yeah.
I was hearing about 1 piece, and someone
said, um, I watched 1 piece, by the way.
Someone said, yeah.
Yeah.
It doesn't get good
until around episode 300.
Just keep watching.
Who's gonna watch up until episode
300 just in case it gets good?
Didn't think that was a good idea.
I don't like that.
So get in, make a good
impression, and then keep going.
Right?
That's the idea.
So as I said, this is necessary in
everything we create, but in this
microwave culture, you gotta get in there,
tell what you need to tell, And get out.
Move on to the next thing.
Keep on going.
I'm telling myself to do this as I'm
recording these podcasts so I can get
better at actually telling you the telling
you the next thing and keeping on going.
So hoping you guys are catching this
meta discussion here, but it's happening.
And this is not necessarily
just in TV shows.
I mentioned it's also in movies,
but when you meet somebody let's
get into that a little bit.
When you meet somebody, you
don't want to start off with
all of these Extraneous things.
They wanna know who are you?
Why should I be talking to you?
What interest do you have
that I'd be interested in?
How can How can I use you?
How can I benefit from even knowing you?
How can I benefit from giving you my time?
Now knowing a lot of people
don't think like this.
Some people do.
A lot of people don't think this
cutthroat in real life, but their
thoughts tend to behave that way.
Where it's like, oh, okay.
I'm listening to you.
I'm I'm supposed to be listening.
Uh, I wish I could get away
from this person talking.
They don't seem very interesting.
I don't know.
Uh, And it's just a long, painful process
if you're getting to know somebody.
You gotta put something out there, not
necessarily be as heavy as The intro
to attack on Titan, that's that might
be a little too tense, too intense for
people when you're first meeting them.
But have something to say.
Have something that gets them
interested that may make them
want to talk to you further.
You know, you don't tell them
you don't tell them your life
story on the first outing.
You just get started with it.
Talk a little bit, make them interested,
have a little mystery about you,
tell a good first sentence so they
want to hear the next sentence,
Pull them along in the story.
It's a good creative exercise
in life and in story.
Have you ever walked into a
restaurant and, you know, you You
ever walk into a restaurant and you
just know this is the right place?
Where the music is right, the
staff talks to you, You saw from
the outside looking in how nice it
was, and you wanted to be in there.
You go in there and start
interacting with the people.
It looks nice, smells nice.
You sit down.
You're not waiting too long, and the
menu pops up and the menu pops up.
You can decide quickly.
And before you decide, the The wait
staff comes over to talk to you.
Now they're talking to you.
You're excited and takes your
order, comes back with your
drinks, and you're still excited.
By the time they get back
with, you know, with your food,
you're like, wow, this is great.
Everything's moving according to plan.
It's a good pace.
Food is delicious.
You may even spring for dessert.
You get up and you leave, and
that whole time, you were Kind of
entertained because this restaurant
had a great experience for you.
That's how your creative outing should be.
Whatever you're creating,
Gotta hit people right off the
bat and then keep them there.
Of course, you're gonna dip down
and up a little bit as you navigate
The different parts of your creative
output, whether you're writing a movie,
there's gonna be exposition scenes,
action scenes, romance scenes, Thriller
scenes, horror scenes, whatever.
You're gonna go in and out of
these different scenes, and the
tone and the feel and the vibe
is gonna change a little bit.
But you wanna start
out good and stay good.
And what I'm saying with the attack of on
Titan first episode, The brilliance was
how well it did the first episode, and
I didn't see how well it did the first
episode until I saw the last episodes.
They had so much ingrained in that first
episode That made sense as it went along.
I didn't I don't know if they made it
up as they went along or how much of the
story was complete before they put it
all into manga form, But it worked out.
And I'm not saying you need
to watch the whole thing.
I could understand dropping
off after season 2 or Maybe
even before that if you like.
I don't know.
The important part is that fir the
that first episode, maybe the first
couple episodes are an example of
really high quality storytelling.
And that's what all this
creativity is about.
Right?
Uh, in in a way, it's it's
all about telling a story.
You have something that you create and
it fills something in in that person's
life where it has an introduction.
You you check it out.
Gets your attention, then it gets your
interest, and it has meaning to you.
It proves to you that it's
gonna do what it's gonna do.
It's It's accessible to you,
so you can definitely access
it and keep keep going with it.
Um, there's a community involved,
and people are talking, and
it's just It's just a whole
thing that keeps you involved.
There's a whole process behind it.
I might make an ebook of that later.
But attack on Titan.
What else is there?
Um, that was the restaurant example.
And, you know, you've seen
this in movies as well.
Some movies, uh, start out nice.
Well, now we have the option
of turning off movies a lot
easier than we did before.
Now that we've gotten so many
movies in our homes, it's like,
uh, I watched the first 15 minutes.
It wasn't my thing.
I left.
I'm like, oh dude, you gotta watch
until, You know, hour and 20 minutes
in, people aren't with that anymore.
So now you gotta go back to all your old
movies that are solid And think about
which ones came out the box with a good
story and kept it going till the end.
Terminator, Terminator 2, Firefly, Iron
Man, Jaws, probably a lot of others.
Give me some examples in the comment.
Get people interested from
the first However long.
Otherwise, they start to check
out, and their thoughts wander.
So, yeah, it it answers the fundamentally,
getting in and having a strong impression
Within that first 5 seconds, that first
15 seconds to that first 30 seconds,
getting that process down where you've
got the 5 points, The style, the tone,
the character, the world, and the plot.
Getting those down, getting those in
order, And having those set up before
you take off, in the user's mind, in
the the viewer's mind, the reader's
mind, The person who's experiencing
your creation, in their mind, they're
being taken on a good ride, and
this is what they're looking for.
And it automatically should answer
the question, what happens next?
I don't know what the answer
is, but the What happens next
is I'm gonna keep tuning in.
I'm gonna keep watching.
I'm gonna check it out.
Squid Game was another 1
that did a good job of this.
Keep showing your toes.
Makes you wanna watch the next 1.
1 piece, uh, live action did it.
1 piece anime could go on for For a while
without doing anything terribly exciting.
Same thing with Dragon Ball.
It just went on too long.
I say that now.
Uh, I didn't feel that way then, though.
But now, yes.
And what happens when you have a
first first good first impression?
The good first impression is
not just going to be for the
person you're talking to.
You're going to gain followers
because if you hit them once with
such a strong impression, They're
going to be want to be hit again.
They're going to want that feeling again.
It's like the last time I talked to him.
Yeah.
He said this, this and this.
Yeah.
I never met that guy before.
It's crazy.
You always got something new to say.
Always got something great.
Like, yeah, that that's the kind
of thing you want to follow.
So someone starts following you
around just to get that vibe again.
And once you've got people
following you, sometimes you're
gonna start getting followed just
because people are following you.
I think about those shows that didn't
really hit it off until 5 episodes
in The ones that go to the graveyard
and people are just clamoring.
Oh, it's a good show.
You just got to wait it out.
I know it starts out slow.
Hey, man.
It starts out slow.
I just gotta say no.
That's that's the opinion
a lot of times now.
I got too much I don't have enough
time, and streaming services are here.
I can jump to whatever.
Netflix even allows you to
watch shows at 1.5 Speed.
Have they changed that to 2 x?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
But they allow you to just
speed through because they know
how valuable people's time is.
Now you may say, okay.
This only works for action.
Right?
This only works for hard hitting things.
But that's not necessarily the
case because you can get this in a
slower drama, a slower something.
You just need to make sure that there's
enough there to Keep them interested.
If it is a slower, softer pace,
that might be just fine for whatever
you're making, but that has nothing
to do with the idea of Getting them
enraptured in what you're doing.
You may have to say, hey.
Listen.
I'm gonna ask you to
slow down for 1 second.
Just sit on the grass here.
We're gonna tell you a story.
It's about these characters,
and you're like, oh, wow.
Okay.
And it's going to be about this and that.
And you're like, okay, wow, this is good.
And you don't have to, like, go crazy with
explosions and death and Whatever else.
But you know an intriguing
first episode when you see 1.
Mad Men is another good example.
A corporate drama that starts out with
the about to say with the bang, but
it starts out Very, very intriguing.
A lot of the HBO shows did.
Um, Mad Men wasn't an HBO show when
referring to it in that way, but A
lot of those HBO shows do it as well.
Oz, um, Entourage, Veep, Oz, which
I like to say twice for some reason.
But, yeah, there's there's a
whole art skill craft to it.
Try to get in your work.
Try to get it in your In your play, try
to get it in your impressions when you
meet people and see where it takes you.
Because if you got that right, it'll
take you a long way, and you can
really start building out the rest of
your world to support the beginning.
I know that sounds backwards.
Like, you want it everybody talks about
having an awesome climax, and then
they they build up to this crazy fight.
It's like, yeah.
But do you have a crazy intro that's
gonna get us up to that crazy fight?
And you have to start
thinking about it backwards.
Do I have enough of an initial impression
where I can start backwards from the
initial impression to the climax?
A lot of writers, developers,
they want us in the climax.
They're thinking about marriage.
They're thinking about the final stage.
They're thinking about If you're in the
restaurant business, they're thinking
about the food right when it's finished.
It's like there's a lot of steps
up to that point that The person
experiencing this doesn't care about.
They don't care about all your
you know, all the work you put
into it if they can't see it.
You know, they don't care about,
Well, this came from such and such.
Uh, yeah.
All that is secondary to their experience
when they walk in the restaurant.
So you gotta pick your battles here
and decide where you're gonna put the
most time, but do not underestimate
the importance of getting somebody
Not just hooked, but enraptured
in that first introductory meetup.
And hopefully once you have that,
you can move on to the next phase.
And this is already assuming that
you've got their attention, like Like,
from an advertisement or something.
This is just an interest phase
where you're trying to get them
interested in what you're doing.
We'll discuss all the parts of this
at some other point down the line, um,
attention, interest, desire, meaning,
proof, Acceptance, community, etcetera.
We'll get into all that later.
But that's the takeaway.
Come correct with your in come
correct with your beginning
so you'll have a good ending.
If you're only thinking of having
a good ending, then you've got a
problem of, well, what if people
don't even make it to the ending?
Going back to a lot of old books, people
tell you, yeah, just nail the ending.
It's like, Hey, listen,
I get what you're saying.
The ending is extremely important,
But it can't outshine the beginning
so much that I don't care.
Get people hooked.
Get people talking.
Get people invested, and you'll
find a a good you'll you'll
get good returns from that.
Alright.
And that's gonna do it for this 1.
Now I'm gonna drop some news on you.
If you notice, we had a little
bit of a format change with
how I put these together.
So hopefully I don't know if that
made any difference to you listening
to this, but it makes a difference
to me and how I roll these out.
Gonna keep on giving you better
better and better podcast.
Uh, also, the study
lounge community is up.
I haven't really been Pushing it
out there super hard and telling
everybody, but the community is up.
If you go to the creative study lounge
or creative study lounge dot com, You'll
be able to find the members page is
up and ready to get people onboarded.
So if you're on my email list, you'll
be able to see more of that later.
And the community is basically where
I wanna talk about some of this stuff
with anime, movies, just general
creativity of things Without a lot
of the overhead of social media.
So that's why I created the community.
Also, I wanna support this
podcast in a proper way.
So I think a good, a good
community will help with that.
It's kinda like Patreon, kinda
like Kajabi, kinda like Podia.
Uh, it's, it's called circle.
That's what it's built on,
so you can check that out.
And let me know.
Are there any, uh, shows you found
that have great initial episodes?
I definitely wanna know that.
And what's going on in the news?
Oh, speaking of changing
formats, check this news bit out.
The Sopranos.
The Sopranos has basically
turned in well, not turned into.
They've turned Sopranos
into Short TikTok clips.
So you can basically watch an entire
season of the Sopranos on TikTok.
Not long form, Short form.
So they've basically broken up all the
different bits of it into these short form
clips that you can watch sequentially.
Really interesting.
I mean, I suppose that makes
sense, and you may just wanna sit
down and watch the whole thing.
But that's, uh, I don't know.
That's that's a funny 1.
I wanna see how that plays out.
But they're doing it with The Sopranos.
I know some other shows have tried stuff
like that, But the Sopranos was a big
show on HBO, so seeing them do that
to 1 of their flagship properties or
classic properties is pretty interesting.
What's another news bit?
I wrote down my news notes and didn't
bring them in today, so I kinda
forgot what I was talking about.
Uh, the Inside Out 2 trailer came out.
That's actually looking good.
I like the inside out.
Good concept for Pixar.
God knows Pixar needs a hit.
We'll see if this other You know,
going through going through puberty,
it seems to be the the story behind it.
So if you know the story of Inside Out,
basically, it chronicles the different
feelings of a young teenager's mind.
And all the things that the teenager
goes through, we see it played out
in live action not live action.
Disgust, anger, Fear.
You know, you've got your your couple
different characters that, um, that
play in, uh, that play this Gosh.
I don't even know how to explain.
But, yeah, these characters are the
feelings, and you see them going on an
adventure to get their host, The the human
girl to get the person, uh, inside that
they're they're in To see them move toward
another place, uh, it it's a growth story.
And seeing the emotions the emotions
go on adventures to get the person
to where they need to be next.
That's what's happening in the story.
Inside out 2 is here,
and it looks to be good.
So I'm pretty down with what What they're
trying to do with it seems interesting.
I like the first 1.
It's fun.
It's the fantasy world that everybody
kinda understands and thinks about
because they're always thinking about
their own emotions and thoughts.
So looking forward to that 1.
X men 97 character picks her up.
I don't know how many people are
actually into X men 97 or what
they're hoping to get from it.
I wanna see how they how they've
updated the animation and look.
I know it's Supposed to be reminiscent
of 97, and the whole cartoon is
telling stories that are played
out like this 97 version of x men.
But I don't know.
It's just interesting.
I mean, they're not
gonna do the same thing.
They're obviously gonna update it.
So Pretty interested to see what happens.
Pretty interested to
see the talk around it.
I don't know what type
of audience this is for.
Maybe it's to get younger people Into the
whole x men thing a little easier because
a lot of them weren't around when the x
men were really big in comics and on TV.
So We'll see how that works out for him.
I'm a fan of the x men, so we'll see
how it works with the whole leading
up into the real world kind of events.
And there's a Good Times
animated show coming to Netflix.
I don't know why they're bringing Good
Times to a show Or who thought this
was, uh, not saying it's a bad idea.
I didn't know who thought
of it and was like, hey.
We we need this.
But Good Times would be an interesting
that'd actually be an interesting take
animated, like a cartoon of Good Times.
I think they could go a lot of
interesting places that the TV show
didn't, and it wouldn't be so serious.
Because when I saw Good Times, I
never thought of it as a serious time.
You know, I thought you could do
a lot of fun things with those
characters, especially, of course,
you know, um, dynamite, JJ.
Get him on there.
And that's about all I
have for the news today.
I said, I really gotta fix up this outro.
I don't know what's going on with
me in this, but this is mister
Benja for Creativity Threads Life
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Um, it's just a great way to experience
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It podcasts have changed my life, and I
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So hopefully I'll keep improving
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experience, And we'll go from there.
I'll see you later.
Bye.