490: Julia Carpenter (Madame Web)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Swing into the captivating legacy of Marvel's Julia Carpenter, the iconic Spider-Woman who's weaving her way into the Madame Web movie! Join Geek History Lesson as we untangle her origin story, exploring her pivotal moments, from donning the Spider-Woman mantle to embracing the enigmatic role of Madame Web. Dive deep into the web of connections leading to the movie, dissecting Marvel Comics lore with every thrilling episode!

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to do. Julia Carpenter once Spider-woman, once once Arachney, and presently Madam Webb got her
0:35.9	spider powers without being bit by a radioactive spider.
0:39.2	Jason, do you think that this makes her a less important spider character?
0:45.5	It makes her a strange Spider-Man character, and I don't mean that as a pun.
0:50.6	I mean that as well I mean it's going to be hard to talk about this without
0:57.4	talking about her origin right now is that like because I don't know how she
1:00.6	gets her spider powers so this is a very difficult conversation when I don't know how she gets her spider powers. So this is a very difficult conversation
1:04.2	when I don't have all the information.
1:06.0	I'm like a scientist shooting in the dark
1:07.7	trying to make a guess about whether we can land on the moon.
1:18.7	I don't know. Okay, can you clarify this for me? Is she a magical-based character? Is she a sci-fi-based character? Is she a fantasy-based character? Like how, in terms of those genres, how does she get her spider powers?
1:26.2	She's a science fiction character.
1:27.8	She's a human mutate, like most of the spider characters.
1:29.8	So she still gets it in a sci-fi way.
1:32.4	Yeah. Well, then I'm going to say no because I was
1:35.3	going to say if it was a a magic base then I was going to say like yes the
1:39.4	aunt that makes her a weird spider character but if she still gets it through science and I've used
1:44.0	Spider-Man as a sci-Fi character then I think that makes her a spider character or
1:48.8	a very an important spider character. You can tell my knowledge of Julia Carpenter is very small.
1:53.2	Well then I think it's just time that we untangle this web and get right into our lesson and
1:56.8	I'm going to say hello and welcome to Geek History lesson. I'm Ashley Victoria
2:00.5	Robinson and I'm Jason doesn't know how to spend a web
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