Mr. Know-It-All

James Gunn and Peter Safran Leave DC Studios, and Godzilla Minus Zero With Spoilers: Know-It-All Nation Live What's up my know-it-alls! Know-It-All Nation Live is coming to you from the road this week. My co-host James, Danny The Dorkknight and Eric "The Smoke" Moran, both contributing writers on knowitallnation.com, are at the table. We open with the big DC news: James Gunn and Peter Safran are leaving DC Studios. What it means for the DCU, and what comes next. Then Godzilla Minus Zero, with FULL SPOILERS, so see it first. After that, the VisionQuest finale and Avengers: Doomsday. Super Chats are on, and Danny decides when we get to them. Know-It-All Nation Live is every Friday at 2:30 PM Eastern. Subscribe and turn on notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Know-It-All Nation: https://knowitallnation.com Find the panel:Danny The Dorkknight: https://www.youtube.com/@DorkKnightLV and https://x.com/DorkKnightLVEric "The Smoke" Moran: https://www.instagram.com/thesmoke007/Mr. Know-It-All: https://x.com/MrKnowItAll and https://www.instagram.com/arealknowitall/ #DCStudios #Godzilla #GodzillaMinusZero Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

VisionQuest Episode 8 Finale Review The VisionQuest finale, episode 8, "Forever," ends its big fight inside a sitcom, with Ultron on the couch and a theme song playing. Terry Matalas says all good endings touch upon the beginning, and the beginning of this whole story was WandaVision. This is my review of how Vision's plan fails, and why the way it fails is how VisionQuest just finished what WandaVision started. I start with Virgil Horton, James Spader with a mustache, the man behind the curtain who was never the final obstacle. Then UltraVision, the sitcom Vision builds around Ultron and Jocasta, the chair that matters more than the sitcom, and what VisionQuest has been saying about trauma and grief all season. Paul Bettany wanted it to be about fathers and sons, so Tommy and Billy get their time too. Then the VisionQuest crew gets its ending: Paladin, Edith, Lisa, DUM-E and Friday. I get into who walks out of which house, Vision or Ultron, both credits scenes, and the Marvel comic the second one comes straight out of. The whole finale, beat by beat, is on knowitallnation.com, and the Know-It-All Files on the whole season land Sunday. Subscribe for more VisionQuest breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 0:00 Ultron on the Couch1:47 Virgil Horton3:43 UltraVision5:11 The Chair6:54 Tommy and Billy8:11 Forever, and the Other Son9:21 Paladin, Edith and Friday10:27 Who Leaves the House11:29 The Second Credits Scene13:03 The Know-It-All Index14:05 Sunday: The Whole Season Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iz2No7oCbo Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/_iz2No7oCbo Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Right after the VisionQuest finale, we're live to talk about every minute of it. FULL SPOILERS for VisionQuest through episode 8, Forever. What's up my know-it-alls! Eric "The Smoke" Moran, contributing writer on knowitallnation.com, is my co-host for this one. Drop your take on the finale in the chat and we'll get to as many as we can. And on this stream I'm giving away Alex Ross's Marvel Dimensions to one of my channel members. Members only. Super Chats don't decide who wins. It's my thank-you to the people who hold this channel up. Join here: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall/join My VisionQuest episode 7 review: VisionQuest Just Settled a 37-Year-Old Comics Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2T2vRhc3FsKnow-It-All Nation: https://knowitallnation.com Find the hosts:Eric "The Smoke" Moran: https://www.youtube.com/@THESMOKE007 and https://www.instagram.com/thesmoke007/Mr. Know-It-All: https://x.com/MrKnowItAll and https://www.instagram.com/arealknowitall/ #VisionQuest #Marvel #Vision Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

VisionQuest episode 7 breakdown: who is the Client? In VisionQuest episode 7, the man in the hat turned around with Ultron's face, standing in Phineas Horton's old house. A lot of people saw that face, said Ultron all along, and stopped. The Know-It-All Nation kept digging, and by the next afternoon you had traced the Client back to 1939. This is the Know-It-All Files on VisionQuest episode 7, and the Nation brought receipts. The case runs through Phineas Horton's notebook, the one his daughter Victoria takes on the way out in the cold open, and through the house itself: Horton sold it to pay for Jim, so who bought it back? Then Dr. James Bradley and The Invaders (1993) #3, why the Client wears Ultron's face, how Tony Stark names his machines after people, whether the Client came to give Vision a heart or take one, and what Ultron wants with Jocasta's nanobots. Then the members' Nation Ballot on VisionQuest episode 7, before Vision, Ultron and the Client get their ending. The finale, Forever, drops Tuesday at 9 PM Eastern on Disney Plus, and at 10:30 PM Eastern I'm live right here with Eric "The Smoke" Moran. On that stream, one channel member takes home Alex Ross's Marvel Dimensions. Set your reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2dOgTI4vs and join the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall/join. The finale review is Wednesday, and every beat of episode 7 is at knowitallnation.com. Subscribe for more Marvel comics and TV breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters00:00 The man with Ultron's face01:16 Finale live and a Marvel Dimensions giveaway02:30 Who said grandson first03:51 Phineas Horton's notebook06:10 Who bought Horton's house?08:03 Dr. James Bradley and The Invaders (1993) #309:13 Why Ultron has his face11:02 A heart for Vision, given or taken13:01 Ultron and Jocasta's nanobots14:13 The Nation Ballot on episode 715:43 The finale, the live and your assignment Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOMHR7VAUas Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/TOMHR7VAUas Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avengers Doomsday comics explained: Loki, Avenger Prime and Doom Supreme Avengers: Doomsday has put Tom Hiddleston’s Loki at Steve Rogers’ door, in the life Steve chose at the end of Endgame, and every other hero in the footage is reacting while Loki is the one with a plan. Jason Aaron’s Avengers Forever (2021 to 2023) already told that story: issue 13 reveals Avenger Prime, the hero who gathered the Avengers of every Earth, and it is Loki. Everybody is reading Avengers: Doomsday through Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars. Hickman gives you the ending; this video goes after the way in. The “plenty of caps” gag in the World Series spot next to the two Steve Rogers on Aaron’s cast page, Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom read against Superior Iron Man and the Arno Stark secret origin, and the case for a Doom who walks in having already won, built from Doom Supreme in Avengers #750. Then Mephisto, Doom’s mother and Triumph and Torment, and the “three teams will stand as one” title card read against Avengers Assemble. Every pin, watch item and theory on the Avengers: Doomsday DEVELOPING board goes up with its date at https://knowitallnation.com/developing, and the board moves every Friday until December 18. Who puts this team together: Loki, Steve, Reed or Doom? Subscribe for more Marvel breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Timecode Chapters:0:00 Loki at Steve Rogers’ Door1:37 Jonathan Hickman and Secret Wars2:51 Jason Aaron’s Avengers Forever4:00 Tom Hiddleston’s Loki6:08 Avenger Prime, Avengers Forever #137:19 Plenty of Caps: Two Steve Rogers8:53 Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom10:17 Arno Stark and Tony’s Secret Origin12:26 Doom Supreme, Avengers #75013:43 Mephisto and Triumph and Torment15:12 Three Teams and Avengers Assemble17:37 The Doomsday Board Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTOlj1xBV0 Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/lcTOlj1xBV0 Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trek60 Philly for the Star Trek 60th Anniversary, VisionQuest Episode 7 Immolation and the X-Men Casting News: Know-It-All Nation Live What’s up my know-it-alls! Know-It-All Nation Live is back with a big table. James from Lore Reloaded is my co-host, with Mrs. Know-It-All, plus Danny The Dorkknight and Eric “The Smoke” Moran, both contributing writers on knowitallnation.com. And this week we have a special guest, Amanda McKnight. We open with Trek60 Philly, November 14 and 15, where Mrs. Know-It-All and I are covering the whole weekend as press. Anson Mount, Jeri Ryan, a Voyager table without its captain, and four mystery stars Creation hasn’t named yet. Place your bets in the chat, and drop your questions for the Trek60 guests so we can take the best ones to Philadelphia. Then VisionQuest episode 7, Immolation, and what it just did to Vision. FULL SPOILERS through episode 7. We close on the X-Men casting news, from Adam Driver’s Mister Sinister to Ben Wang in talks for Iceman. Super Chats are on, and Danny decides when we get to them. Know-It-All Nation Live is every Friday at 2:30 PM Eastern. Subscribe and turn on notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 My VisionQuest episode 7 review: VisionQuest Just Settled a 37-Year-Old Comics Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2T2vRhc3FsKnow-It-All Nation: https://knowitallnation.com Find the panel:Amanda McKnight: https://www.instagram.com/vampx13/James from Lore Reloaded: https://www.youtube.com/@LoreReloadedMrs. Know-It-All: https://x.com/AMrsKnowItAllDanny The Dorkknight: https://www.youtube.com/@DorkKnightLV and https://x.com/DorkKnightLVEric “The Smoke” Moran: https://www.instagram.com/thesmoke007/Mr. Know-It-All: https://x.com/MrKnowItAll and https://www.instagram.com/arealknowitall/ #StarTrek #VisionQuest #XMen Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clayface Behind the Scenes Clayface's Gotham City is Liverpool, and the man who built it sat down with me for the whole story behind the scenes. James Price won an Oscar for Poor Things and has worked with director James Watkins three times, and on Clayface he knew from day one he could never afford the backlot every big superhero movie builds. So they put every egg in one basket: Liverpool streets shut down on a Sunday, the interiors built on the Warner Bros. lot at Leavesden, and a unit that never had to move. We get into how James helped Watkins build the Clayface pitch before he had the job, the Renew lab laid out by a real medical expert, Matt Hagen's burns mask, and the lump of clay James sculpted himself before the monster was found. Then Gotham itself: the ferry across the Mersey with more than half the frame real photography, a table from Tim Burton's Batman sitting in Matt's posh apartment, and the details on the Clayface sets nobody has noticed yet, from the ribeye steak wallpaper to the walls of Matt's crappy apartment painted after real skin conditions. And the rest of Clayface's designer in his own words: why in the AI age he is going analog, the three Bond villain lairs he built into Clayface in his head, Ken Adam's volcano from You Only Live Twice, Rick Carter as his Obi-Wan, and the round where he rules on three things the record says about him, DJ Half Price included. He leaves a Certified Know-It-All in Wing Chun. Clayface is in theaters now; follow James on Instagram at @jamesroberternestprice. Spoiler warning: the hidden details chapter mentions a character's death near the end of the film. Subscribe for more DC and comic book movie breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 0:00 Liverpool Becomes Gotham City7:42 Pitching Clayface With James Watkins11:47 Correct the File: The Nest and DJ Half Price14:25 The Trick Behind the Budget15:35 The Ferry and Half the Frame Real17:42 Gotham in Blender and Clayface on the Page19:46 Finding the Monster in a Lump of Clay23:49 Deep Cut: Shell Shock25:52 Tim Burton's Batman Props in Matt's Apartment29:23 The Ribeye Wallpaper and Hidden Details (Spoiler)34:36 Going Analog in the AI Age38:50 Three Bond Lairs and Rick Carter42:44 Certified Know-It-All: Wing Chun44:22 Final Thought Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

VisionQuest Episode 7 Review VisionQuest episode 7, Immolation, is the second-to-last episode of the season, and a second-to-last episode only has two jobs it can do. This one picked its job, and it reached all the way back to Marvel Comics #1 in 1939 to do it. Paul Bettany plays Vision, White Vision, Red Vision and more, and every one of those faces feels like a different man. The face is the fight. Steve Englehart said one thing about who the Vision really is in 1975, John Byrne said the opposite in 1989, and Avengers Forever tried to split the difference ten years later. I walk you through Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, Phineas Horton, and why VisionQuest just settled a 37-year-old comics fight. Plus the Inception-style descent into Vision's own mind, and why the edit plays like it does. Then the Client, Ultron and Jocasta: the card the show held back, the comics family tree hiding behind it, Horton's forgotten partner, and the keys that kept me in my chair. The VisionQuest finale lands next Tuesday, and the Know-It-All Files on episode 7 come Sunday. Subscribe for more VisionQuest breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters:0:00 A 37-Year-Old Comic Book Feud Finally Settled0:57 The Art of the Penultimate Episode1:51 Diving Into the Psyche: An Inception Quality3:56 The Original Human Torch Revealed6:22 The Face of the Client: Is It Really Ultron? Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2T2vRhc3Fs Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/R2T2vRhc3Fs Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

VisionQuest episode 6: the Client and the Vision Quest comic The Client finally made his pitch in VisionQuest episode 6, and the breakdowns this week are guessing who he is. The Know-It-All Nation already put a name on the board. This is the Know-It-All Files on VisionQuest episodes 5 and 6, and the pitch itself has been made before, in the comic this show is named after. VisionQuest's Vision, Ultron and Jocasta, read against John Byrne's West Coast Avengers 42 to 45, the 1989 Vision Quest run, plus Avengers West Coast 50 and Avengers Forever 8: who took the Human Torch out of the Vision, what Wonder Man said when Wanda asked him to give the Vision his soul back, and the episode 7 scene Marvel released with Red Vision at the door. Then the receipts. The Nation's calls on the Client, on Ultron's hands, on the hat and on whether Ultron stops Jocasta, timestamped against when I said it, plus the members' ballot on episodes 5 and 6. Episode 7, Immolation, is Tuesday night on Disney Plus; the review is Wednesday and the Files pick it up that Sunday. The 1989 piece and every link from this file are at knowitallnation.com. Subscribe for more Marvel comics and TV breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters00:00 The Client's pitch and a 1989 comic01:16 Jim Hammond, the Nation's pick03:52 The Client's whole pitch06:11 West Coast Avengers 42 to 4507:49 Episode 7: Red Vision at the door09:03 The Human Torch and the Vision11:17 Jocasta's body12:44 Ultron's hands15:02 Vision's hat16:05 Does Ultron stop Jocasta?18:27 The Nation Ballot19:33 The question the 1989 comic asks Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6FA0NI-wgk Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/k6FA0NI-wgk Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crystal Lake review Spoilers for all eight episodes of Crystal Lake on Peacock, ending included. The series takes the mother from the 1980 Friday the 13th, Pamela Voorhees, and gives her the whole story: Linda Cardellini plays Pam just right, with enough humanity that you follow her and enough wrongness that you start to question why you are still following her. From the opening in the lake to the fireworks at the end of the first episode, this is her show. Everybody is arguing about whether Crystal Lake should have explained Jason. The real question is whether it ever had a choice. Victor Miller, who wrote the 1980 movie, went to court and won back the US rights to that screenplay, just that one, so the series could only be built from the movie where the mother is the killer. And a movie can leave a killer in the dark; eight hours of television cannot. To follow Pam all the way to that camp, you have to see who she was before, and you cannot explain her without explaining Jason. Crystal Lake also keeps the Friday the 13th DNA: the first-person POV shots, the sounder used judiciously, counselors like Barry and Claudette who get lives before they become references, and Ralph carrying his own history. Plus how American Horror Story: 1984 compares, what showrunner Brad Caleb Kane has said about season 2, and the one thing I would change about how Peacock released it. Danny the Dork Knight's review and the season 2 story are at https://knowitallnation.com Subscribe for more TV and movie breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/@arealknowitall?sub_confirmation=1 0:00 Cold open: a mother in the water2:03 Pam in the lake and Linda Cardellini3:41 The snake, the counselors and Ralph4:54 Why the series had to explain Jason7:05 The Friday the 13th DNA: POV shots and the sounder8:21 American Horror Story: 1984, The Orville and Discovery9:29 The all-at-once drop10:38 More coverage and season 211:50 The verdict #crystallake #fridaythe13th #jasonvoorhees Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBCsKJ7-ut8 Read the write-up on SUBPLOT: https://subplot.tv/a/arealknowitall/IBCsKJ7-ut8 Mr. Know-It-All is part of the Digital Fox Talent creator network: digitalfoxtalent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices