Only 3 weeks into the Tower of Babble Podcast and we already have a host that's gone MIA. Its just Julian and Daniel on this episode as we discuss a little more Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Daytime Emmy's, Marvel news from all the studios, the marriage between EA Star and Star Wars and lastly we give our impressions on Iron Man 3 in the Topic of the Week.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars gets nominated for Daytime Emmy's

Outstanding Special Class Animated Program - George Lucas, Cary Silver and Athena Portillo
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka, David Tennant as Huyang and Sam Witwer as Darth Maul
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program - Dave Filoni, Kyle Dunlevy, Brian Kalin O'Connell, Steward Lee and Bosco Ng
Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition - Kevin Kiner
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing (Animation) - David Acord and Cameron Davis

TMNT also recieved a few nominations

Young Justice received a nod as well - Sound Mixing

Dave Filoni talks about drawing Tie fighters. Possibly points towards the direction of the next Star Wars animated series

Movies

Touching on what we spoke about last week - Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are confirmed for Marvel's The Avengers 2

Doctor Strange Movie in the works for Phase 3, says Feige

Feige Downplays Daredevil Reboot

Falcon seen in set photos from Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Fox's Fantastic Four reboot casting buzz:

Chronicle's Michael B. Jordan for the Human Torch
Girls' Allison Williams for Sue Storm

First photos of Rhino from the set of Amazing Spider-man 2

Star Wars Episode VII set to start filming in 2014

Abrams wants John Williams back

New The Wolverine poster with Silver Samurai - Japanese style painting.

The Wolverine CinemaCon Trailer

Kitty Pride photo from Bryan Singer

Jurassic Park 4 Returns to Isla Nublar

New Men in Black and 21 Jump Street

Tom Cruise Returns for Mission: Impossible 5

Hans Zimmer's Man of Steel Theme. Available on SoundCloud

Games

EA announces exclusive deal to develop Star Wars games. First Games to appear no sooner then April 2014

DICE, Visceral Games and BioWare are said to be working on titles

Madden NFL 25 not coming to Wii U

Sony teases new game announcements

Battlefield 3's Premium service earns $120 million

MGS4 was too big fit on XBOX 360

Nintendo announces its plans for E3

Injustice DLC confirmed: Batgirl (Dans not happy about it)

Comics

Talking about House of M

Topic of the Week

Iron Man 3 impressions

Oct 19, 2025

Bonus Episode - ToB Film Club - Kingpin (1996)

Before Matt officially joined the show as a co-host he was invited on as guest to talk about one of his favourite movies of all time, ‘Swingers’. Now returning in an official capacity to the ToB Film Club, he brings with him another film from his top-3, another comedy, ‘Kingpin’. A Farrelly brothers film that followed up their smash hit breakout, ‘Dumb and Dumber’, and you can see the through lines. Like ‘Dumb and Dumber’ we follow two guys who are down on their luck as they head out on the road where chaos and hilarity ensue. Unfortunately it wasn’t the hit they hoped despite a killer cast, including legends Bill Murray, Randy Quaid and Woody Harrelson and as a result it didn't leave as large of a cultural footprint as some of the other Farrelly brothers films from this era. It's been nearly 30 years so now seems as good a time as any to revisit this sleeper and see what everyone was missing back then.

Oct 9, 2025

Episode 200 - Meet Matt!

After an extended hiatus, ToB returns with a fresh voice on the second chair. Julian is joined by long-time friend of the show, Matt Tworek. We spend this first episode of the "new" ToB getting to know him and setting up what else is to come.

Jun 5, 2025

SSSW - Tales of the Underworld

Lucasfilm Animation has been hard at work on their next major project, 'Maul: Shadow Lord', but they've found the time to deliver another installment in their "Tales of" anthology series. The first ones covering the Jedi and the Empire, they now turn their focus towards the Underworld. However, be warned, this is a bit of a misnomer. Don't expect any crime syndicates or really any large scale criminality here. These 2 mini-arcs instead focus on Asajj Ventress (I know, not the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions the Underworld) as she assists a young Jedi on the run from the Empire, and the origin story of Cad Bane. Which admittedly is closer in line with the criminal underworld concept, but is really more interested in telling a western style revenge story instead. All in all, despite the always great visuals and sound/music design, and few interesting ideas, there's not enough meat on the bone here to satisfy most viewers. But most disappointing is its failure to capitalize on the potential of the Underworld concept.

May 22, 2025

SSSW/ToB Film Club - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

It's hard to believe that 'Rogue One' premiered nearly a decade ago. At the time, it was fairly well received, considered to be a decent first step into the standalone Star Wars movies, if not a bit messy. As the years passed, we learned more about the production. Gareth Edwards, who retained sole directing credit, was assisted by Tony Gilroy to "fix" the project. Tony went so far as to call it a "corpse" when he came aboard for rewrites and reshoots. It was Tony's inclusion that brought us some of the movies most memorable moments, and ultimately led him to leading the charge on 'Andor', a prequel project that flew under the radar as hits like 'The Mandalorian' hogged the spotlight. With 'Andor' now complete, considered by many to be a masterpiece in storytelling, not just in Star Wars but on television in general, now is the most appropriate time to reexamine the movie that spawned the Cassian-centered prequel series with fresh eyes. 'Andor', which leads directly into the events of 'Rogue One' recontextualizes much of the film, creating a unique viewing experience that pays off a multitude of threads that are brilliantly laid over the two seasons of 'Andor'. It takes the movie, which was already pretty good, and makes it great. Now existing as part of a whole that weaves a cohesive narrative from the nascent moments of the Rebellion all the way through to the destruction of the Death Star in 1977 (the seed that begat ALL Star Wars, and what we appropriately align our Star Wars BBY calendars to). It all feels wholistic and considered when viewed from the broader perspective - an accomplishment that should set a shining example of what Star Wars can and should aspire to.

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