Boulder Punch Podcast

CODY vs. ROMAN II - WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY TETSUYA NOMURA! Now that we're finished with our two-month Avatar , it's time to take a look at all the things we missed out on the past couple wee-- oh god that's a lot. Between terrible sequel ideas, terrible video game news, new trailers for Joker and Transformers , Snyder shenanigan discourse, as well as the biggest period of pro wrestling in ages, w...

(FEYD-RAUTHA VOICE) "WHATDOWEDO?" The internet may have tried to stop us, but our persistence in hyperfixation will not be beaten. Between tech difficulties and the amount of ideas we had to discuss, this entry of Boulder Pitch proved way too much for one episode. So, come join Alec and Brian as the former continues with his pitch for the next Avatar series!

"WARNING: EARTH KINGDOM IS NOW TOO SPOOKY!" The boys have finally gone through every season of both Avatar shows. So, what now? With a series about the Avatar after Korra heavily rumored to be coming in the next few years, we thought it'd be high time to bring back Boulder Pitch with our biggest and most ambitious concepts yet, so much so that it's all too big for one episode! So, come join Brian...

THE LEGEND COMES TO AN END... After many, many weeks of covering each season, the boys have not only finally reached the end of Korra , but as of now, the end of the Avatar saga (comics aside). Book Three left Korra in a place far beyond broken, and with a new fascist threat on the rise sparking shades of the 100-Year-War, she must find a way to come back stronger than ever as the Avatar. This fin...

"ENTER THE VOID..." After the difficult productions of Book One and Book Two , alongside tumultuous reception, it seemed like the Avatar sequel series was doomed for cancellation. Thankfully, the complete opposite happened, and although it wouldn't be the end of their production troubles, the creative team were guaranteed two more seasons to plan and execute. What resulted was a season many consid...

"GO IN PEACE." Despite having finished Book One as a single twelve-episode series, the Avatar team were told soon after that Nickelodeon wanted a second season of The Legend of Korra -- and they only have about a year to finish it. The combination of a rushed production, ambitious ideas, and having to follow up on what was meant to be a finished story resulted in what is considered to be the black...

"FACT: AMON MADE UP HIS BACKSTORY SO PEOPLE WOULD FEEL BAD FOR HIM." We tried, but we couldn't shake our Avatar fever after being knee-deep in it for the past month, so it's time to talk about what happened after Aang bit the dust! After the failure and embarrassment of the live-action film, the creators 0f ATLA got to work soon after on a sequel series that'd hopefully wash the taste out. Unfortu...

WE CAN FIX THE SACRED TIMELINE. As many of us know, things haven't been going too well for Mr. Kevin Feige and his weird land of overdesigned tights. While the MCU has definitely still had hits fair share of well received and generally successful projects, there has been a clear and steep decline since Phase 4 began, with numerous aspects to blame. So, what if we could go back and readjust to stee...

BIG FISH SPEEDRUN, GO! It's been about two weeks since we last recorded anything news-related, and we have a lot to catch up on. From Sony Pictures' latest superhero blunder, to a new issue of Ultimate Spider-Man , to the dire and greedy state of the game industry, all the way to the Netflix adaptation of Avatar , we have to see it all through. So, tune in as Alec and Brian discuss the biggest pie...

"AT THE CROSSROADS OF YOUR DESTINY..." Book One of ATLA firmly planted it in the pop-cultural landscape of the mid-2000's, with memorable stories, characters, action, and so on. Book Two , however, kicked it up to an unfathomable notch that nobody could've foreseen, especially those of us who were kids at the time. As the episodes became more serialized, the dangers and the stakes escalated, with...

"THAT'S ROUGH, BUDDY." Now that Netflix's Comet has arrived, it's time for us to master the final season of Avatar if we hope to survive. After the devastating Crossroads of Destiny and a grueling nine month wait, Book Three finally began in September 2007, but through numerous delays would not conclude until July 2008. Despite the bizarre scheduling, this season managed to be the most intense and...

"I REALLY AM AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER (2005)." With the next attempt at adapting it into live action (unfortunately) just a week away, it's high time that the boys revisited one of the most important television shows of all time -- not just to them, but to the artform as a whole. It was only 19 years ago when Avatar first hit the screens in February of 2005, and little did all of us kids at the...

COMBAT REVEAL TRAILER. While the quantity of news that ha come out between episodes wasn't much, what we did have to talk about was more than we could've ever imagined (or feared). So, tune in for another news-oriented episode as Alec and Brian dig into topics like the Netflix Avatar debacle, the launch of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League , and all the new and (unintentionally) terrifying in...

"AND WE NEVER NEEDED YOU..." Despite now being 60 episodes deep into this show, we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to discussing actual comic books outside of Spider-Man. So, for a massive change of pace, we decided to shift focus to a completely different type of character and book altogether. With Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio's run still going strong, we thought it'd be high...

"DO YOU WANT IT BACK?" After its new take on the Clone Saga storyline, Bendis's Ultimate Spider-Man grew more and more inconsistent. The final years of the book felt like it was pulled in many different directions, from Ultimatum supposedly being the end, then Hickman's new Ultimate Comics bringing Peter back, then him being killed off for real less than two years later, the book never seemed to g...

"HEADS UP! BIG TIME SUPERHERO COMING THROUGH!" After many moons of waiting, Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto's brand new Ultimate Spider-Man comic is finally arriving in just a few short days. Despite the shared name, it's looking to be a far cry from the pop-soaked edge-sharpened world that Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley spearheaded back in 2000, yet we can't help but look back on the...

SO LONG, 2023! Our first full calendar year of the show has come to an end, and it's been a crazy ride so far! We've had a whole lot of fun this year, and we can't wait to keep the train going into 2024. So, to wrap up this monumental and unprecedented year, we thought we'd look back at some of the biggest things we've covered this year, moments on our shows, things we didn't get to yet, etc. So,...

FROM DAVID TENNANT TO DAVID HOMEOWNER. The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials have finally come and gone, the Fifteenth Doctor has finally grace our screens, and Ncuti Gatwa's first full episode is only ten days away. However, to say that none of this has gone the way anyone expected would be a massive understatement. Ever since the release of The Giggle six days ago, fans have been fractured an...

WE WERE BUSY IN THE AMAZON WITH HER MOM WHILE SHE WAS RESEARCHING SPIDERS RIGHT BEFORE SHE DIED, OUR BAD. We're finally back from our holiday break! You know what that means: a news-focused episode so we don't have to pick a topic! A whole lot's happened in the past few weeks since we last recorded, from project announcements, to castings, to trailers, and more rumors than you can shake a stick at...

"FOR YOU. FOR ALL OF US." As we talked about last week, Marvel's Disney+ shows have been, for the most part, a middling experiment. Each one seemed to have issues out the wazoo, whether it be writing, concept, editing, cut scenes, effects, direction, and more, there hasn't seemed to be a single one that wasn't troubled. However, despite being some people's least anticipated show, it was Loki that...

OH BOY! TWO WHITE DORKS GIVING THEIR THOUGHTS ON MARVEL STUDIOS! HOW INTERESTING! In case you've lived under a rock, the house that Kevin built isn't exactly on the most solid of foundations currently. Projects are getting scrapped or restarted entirely after filming, others are in production hell, and the ones that are getting released (aside from obvious exceptions) are going to show that Disney...

THE RETURN OF BOULDER PITCH! Now that our Spider-Man game saga is over, it's time to move on by... talking about Spider-Man. Oh boy. Like any other fans, the boys have their own ideas and desires for where Tom Holland's take on the wall-crawler goes next after the events of No Way Home . Some very similar, others very, very different. So, long after they shared their ideas for the new DCU, come jo...

WE MADE IT, EVERYONE! One year ago, we kicked off our show talking about one thing in particular: our excitement over the next Spider-Man game, and our frustration in waiting to hear anything about it. Well, an entire year and fifty episodes later, we have both finally played the game from start to finish. And to be honest, we have too many thoughts for just one episode. So, before they delve into...

"I LOVE YOU." Long before the release, fans were already nervous and debating about where the direct sequel to 2018's Spider-Man would go, especially in regards to the seemingly-upcoming main villain, Venom. Now that it's out, despite widespread acclaim and praise, the story has become somewhat divisive amongst comic fans. The boys are firmly in the camp of loving it, but what exactly makes it the...

"THAT GUY? HE'S OUR SPIDER-MAN." After the release and massive success of Marvel's Spider-Man , Insomniac Games got to work on its full sequel, as well as a spin-off game to not only tide fans over, not only serve as a launch title for the brand-new PS5, but to also develop and shine a spotlight on one of Marvel's most beloved characters: Miles Morales. Despite being a shorter entry, Miles's first...