'Lanterns' Episode 6 Deep Dive

Joanna Robinson (0:05)

Hello, welcome back to House of R. I'm Joanna Robinson. Joining me today is not Mallory Rubin. It is Rob Mahoney. Rob Mahoney, how are you doing?

Rob Mahoney (0:12)

The pregnant pause worries me.

Joanna Robinson (0:13)

It's like Guy Gardner flying in to Rushville. Okay.

Rob Mahoney (0:17)

Don't put that on my hair. You know, that's a very rude thing to say about anybody.

Joanna Robinson (0:21)

Everybody supports and admires your hair.

Rob Mahoney (0:23)

I don't think that's true, but that particular bowl cut, deserving of any horrible thing you can say about it.

Joanna Robinson (0:30)

It's a tough look. All right, we're going to dive in to the bowl cut, the white leather, all things Guy Gardner, right after this. All right, Lantern Season 1, Episode 6 Mallory Rubin is on a much deserved vacation.

Rob Mahoney (0:54)

Yes.

Joanna Robinson (0:55)

I was taken ill last week, which was our plan to sort of pre-record.

Rob Mahoney (0:59)

So what was the plan if you had fallen gravely ill? Was it just going to be me solo potting House of R? Are you ready?

Joanna Robinson (1:07)

But maybe you could crack the four-hour marker if it was just you.

Rob Mahoney (1:09)

You know what? The depths of, I feel like a solo pod. If you can get over the 20-minute hump, the depths of insanity you will stumble into will take you into three and four hours.

Joanna Robinson (1:19)

What's the subject matter that you think you could go longest on if you needed to just, like NBA aside, like pop culture wise, what's the subject matter that you could easily crank out for four hours?

Rob Mahoney (1:29)

The Beatles biopic experience.

Joanna Robinson (1:31)

I almost sent you the video of them coming out of the balcony. Did you see it?

Rob Mahoney (1:35)

I got to say, I'm coming around on Mescal Paul.

Joanna Robinson (1:39)

But Joe Quinn George is like really tough. That's not the one. We're here to talk about Lanterns, season one, episode six.

Lanterns season one, episode seven will come out maybe Monday, Tuesday, whenever Mallory comes back from vacation. After that, we're getting ready for Vision Quest. We're going to do a WandaVision rewatch. Remember WandaVision?

Rob Mahoney (1:59)

What a delightful show. Sorry, what a delightful half a season of the show.

Joanna Robinson (2:03)

Nope, the whole thing.

We'll be watching WandaVision. Then later this week though, I am doing a book recommendation podcast, House of Reads. You guys have been doing a really good job. The listeners have been doing a really good job sending in their book recommendations, hobbitsanddragons.gmail.com. Rob doesn't read fiction. No.

Rob Mahoney (2:23)

How well represented will non-fiction be on this list?

Joanna Robinson (2:25)

Zero percent unless you have some suggestions.

Rob Mahoney (2:28)

You can't do a non-fiction history of witchcraft?

Joanna Robinson (2:31)

If you have one to recommend. Is it below you? If only there were a book about the Marvel Cinematic Universe or something like that that I could recommend.

Rob Mahoney (2:39)

Like a New York Times best seller perhaps?

Joanna Robinson (2:40)

Possibly. Something to think about.

Rob Mahoney (2:42)

We'll see.

Joanna Robinson (2:43)

That's what's coming up. Follow us on socials, subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Email us as I said at hobbitsanddragons.gmail.com.

Spoiler warning for today, lanterns up through episode six. I don't have a lot of comic book lore to drop on people today, so I don't think we're really going to do a ton of lore diving today, but it could come up. Any other spoiler warning you want to issue?

Rob Mahoney (3:09)

I think they'll come up as they do.

Joanna Robinson (3:10)

Okay.

Rob Mahoney (3:11)

We'll dip and dive into spoiling, I'm sure, all manner of things.

Joanna Robinson (3:14)

Great. Let's go to the opening snapshot.

Episode 6 I'm just now thinking about your four-hour Beatles biopic podcast and how much I want to watch it and listen to it.

Rob Mahoney (3:34)

Don't throw me with a good time.

Joanna Robinson (3:37)

Episode 6, Bad Optics, directed by Stephen Williams, written by Justin Britt Gibson and Damon Lindelof. Justin wrote the previous episode. Stephen Williams directed a previous episode this season. These are all people who have worked with Damon Lindelof before, so this is just a very Lindelof-y-verse-y episode.

Rob Mahoney, I haven't really talked to you in depth about Lanterns at all.

Rob Mahoney (4:00)

Somehow we've dodged it.

Joanna Robinson (4:02)

We've just been talking about Slow Horses and a number of other things. How are you feeling about the show in general and how do you feel about this episode?