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Eclipse

🕑 Added 2021-06-21 04:00:02 +0000 UTC

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Fischer Mollard

The no sex before marriage thing probably comes out of Stephanie Meyer being Mormon

Michaela

Hot take: Jackson Rathbone would have been a perfect Riley Biers.

Hayley

Realizing how many of the things that confused the guys are because of all the intricacies of seeing the future/mind reading/wolf groupthink. Makes sense since these are hard things to get across in dialogue. Victoria does not take the lead because she knows that Alice is “watching her thoughts,” and if Victoria decides anything, then Alice will know too far in advance. So Victoria’s big plan is to pick a second in command that Alice is not watching, and let him make all the decisions while also building her army. It still is not a home run plan because Alice still gets the vision four days in advance.

Chris Mangan

You all go ahead and talk about this batshit movie, but I’m legit devastated that the taking cara babies lady is a trump donor. I can’t undo my financial contribution to her cause, but hypothetically if any of you with infants wanted some pointers (which worked like a charm) hit me up and I’m happy to provide the cliff notes.

William Evans

Yeah I think you guys got this one wrong. It spins wheels but does so while deepening the lore and building the world. I liked the periphery characters talking about their origins. They’re giving Bella a look into the possibilities of her future. It is definitely a dumb movie but there’s a lot of fascinating dualism presented in the relationships outside of the Bella/Edward/Jacob dynamic. It allows for some thematic (albeit slight) significance. We get none of that in NEW MOON, a movie that is mostly about the heroine kicking and screaming at her new romantic circumstances.

a_tiny_spoon

Edward’s Volvo is canon. At one point in the books, Bella calls him a “stupid shiny Volvo owner” which I’m pretty upset didn’t make it into the movies, what a line

Jake Yosafat

While I'm personally grinding through all these films (just not for me...and that's okay), I enjoyed Eclipse more than New Moon. But, and this is no offense to Weitzy, I LOVED this pod more than the one for New Moon. This finally had the WTF frustration energy with this franchise that I had been waiting for.

Ian Smart

This episode was more of a dunk-a-thon than I was I hoping. While Eclipse is probably the most anonymous entry in the series, I don’t think it’s that marginally worse than the others. Plus I really dig the action in these films. They didn’t seem super into it tho.

Michelle Koh

Griffin NewMoon

Crystal

Who would have thought that my kink would be the boys shitting on Jackson Rathbone?

Bel Mandelbaum

yeah the lore for this is they worked out a mind reading relay system, so the wolves are watching the battle through their groupthink mind reading, and then Edward can read their minds to see what's happening and tell bella.

rebecca brown

My runner-up award for comment of the episode to Sims for the perfectly learned and casual delivery of, "Rathbone is obviously a complete nightmare."

Raphael Esguerra

Now that we got this one out of the way, it’s time for The Breaking Dawns. I think we get the energy back with those.

rebecca brown

"There are tattered jorts all over the woods. Next to these wolf paws." 😂 Kudos, Mr. Newman

Melissa Moy

When Edward is saying what’s happening in the fight, I’m pretty sure what’s going on is he’s reading Seth the werewolf’s thoughts, since werewolves always know what’s happening to their other pack members.

Jeremy Kozeluh

Can “Kisslington” be a thing now?

Donald W Pratt

Well, we're all glad to know you have a complete understanding of the objective quality of all films covered on the show and can determine how the hosts are viewing them based on what their opinions should be.

Jacob Bowman

The only thing I've disliked about this commentary is hearing the friends saying "Jacob. You suck." It hurts hearing them say my name out loud like this! Otherwise, 10/10

ROSIE H M MURRAY

why did they hate this movie for doing literally everything the previous movies did but with a bit more pizzazz? it's so obvious when Griffin has just taken against a movie for some stupid reason that has as little as is possible to do with the quality of the viewing experience, as in here, where he seems to have decided that David Slade is some dudebro asshole who hates women and is trying to make Twilight all for boys. or when they've decided that a clearly shitty/hacky/mediocre film is actually EXTREMELY GOOD (see: The Old Guard) so that they don't need to spend two hours fretting about whether they're allowed to criticise a black woman. sort yourselves out boys, the podcast fucking sucks these days and it pains me that what I thought would be a great companion for years to come is turning into something awkward and lacking insight.

Manish Agarwal

"That's a not."

Sbenn

I know no one REALLY needs this explanation, but the scenes that feature the main trio on the mountain top and the rest of the cast in the "jungle" aren't too crazy. It's set in WA's Olympic Peninsula, which has both the Olympic mountain range and North America's only temperate rainforest. Crazy biodiversity!