Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

Season 8 of Game of Thrones begins this Sunday,

which means Binge Mode Game of Thrones makes its long-awaited return,

with your resident experts Mallory Rubin and Jason Conceptsion guiding you through each episode.

And to get your fix every Sunday night, Chris Ryan joins Mallory and Jason on Talk the Thrones,

a Twitter after show recapping each episode throughout the season.

So make sure you check out the Binge Mode podcast on Apple or Spotify,

talk the Thrones on Twitter, and for even more Thrones coverage, you can head to theRinger.com.

I'm Sean Finis, Editor and Chief of the Ringer, and this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

We have talked about two films already in this Marvel month series.

The first was Captain America, the first Avenger with Amanda Dobbins.

The second was Marvel's The Avengers with Chris Ryan.

I am joined today by someone I would describe as a significantly deeper comic book expert,

and we're going to talk about what I think is maybe the best Marvel movie.

And that's kind of where I want to start. I'm here with David Shoemaker. David, what's up?

Not much is up. It's been fun rewatching Guardians of the Galaxy on and off over the past couple of weeks.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Yeah, I really had a lot of fun listening to it.

We got a little bit of flack for some of the conversations we've had about these first two films.

And the reason that we wanted to talk about those movies at the beginning of this series is because Marvel didn't totally have their tone

and their approach figured out in the early stages of these films.

Phase one, they were still kind of working out the kinks. They were figuring out who their characters were.

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