Hello and welcome to my turn, Waypoints Movie Podcast, where we

take turns talking about a series of related films to drop connections. Well, I guess

well, I guess we'll see how this part of the conceit goes. If we have time for

at the end of this show or maybe in what I am sure will be a reasonable and not

at all ugly and accusatory group DM after the show. But the intent is we take

related films and drop connections and interesting contracts among them.

Today we're watching pray, Dan Trackenberg's prequel that takes a late reveal from the end of Predator 2 and

absolutely runs with it with a Predator movie about a group of quansi being stalked by the alien

hunter in the early 1700s. It's currently a hulu as a hulu original and we are going to be talking

about it in some detail. So if you've not seen it and want to preserve some of the surprise,

you are listening to the wrong podcast at the moment. You should go watch that movie

and then come back and listen to it. So I guess to start us off, this is like set the stage a

little bit because I'm because I'm curious to hear what you all make of this. Well, the film is

ultimately going to be about considering and thinking about the reversals of hunter and hunted

predator and prey dynamics through the saga of this Predator's rampage through the Norman Plains.

The film opens with one of its central conflicts, which is Amber Mithunder's young

command, she won't in Naro trying to gain access to a right of passage as a hunter. Her brother,

Tabe is recognized as one of her village's best hunters, but Naro is being groomed to be a

physician in the footsteps of her mother. And evidently, as we see early in the film, has the

skills and knowledge for it. And I think what starts set up here is in some ways a really standard

like modern feminist setup, which is that she's a woman who seeks to enter and excel in a sphere

that is often regarded as the domain of men in her village. And as as a character, I think it's Tabe

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