Onward
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Forrest Wickman is joined by Sam Adams and Marissa Martinelli to discuss Onward. Ian and Barley Lightfoot are elf brothers in a modernized magical realm. On Ian’s birthday he receives a gift that will allow him and his older brother to bring back their father for a day. But the spell goes wrong and they are left with half a dad. Can Ian and Barley work together to find the Phoenix Gem and make their father whole before the day is over?
You can read Sam Adams’ article about the movie’s “exclusively gay moment” here.
Note: As the title indicates, spoilers galore.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | Hello, Slate listeners. |
| 0:05.2 | Do us a favor and help us make a better slate by answering our survey. |
| 0:09.6 | It'll only take a few minutes. |
| 0:10.8 | You can find it at slate.com slash survey. |
| 0:14.4 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:17.1 | I see dead people. |
| 0:20.4 | Silent green is people. |
| 0:24.0 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:29.5 | What's in the box? |
| 0:35.6 | You maniac! You blew it up! Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:43.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate spoiler special for Pixar's new movie Onward. I'm Slate's culture editor, Forrest Wickman, and today I'm joined in Slate's New York Studios by Associate Editor Marissa Martinelli. |
| 0:56.1 | Hey, Marissa. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, Forrest. |
| 0:57.9 | And we're also joined remotely by senior editor Sam Adams. |
| 1:02.5 | Hey, Sam. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello. |
| 1:03.7 | So we usually start these discussions first by just briefly summarizing how we felt about the movie before we get into really spoiling it. |
| 1:12.7 | So let's each just give our thumbs up or thumbs down, or if you only exist from the waist down, just maybe raise some toes. |
| 1:19.5 | I would give this an upward-facing toe. |
| 1:22.4 | Okay. |
| 1:22.9 | With some caveats that we will get into. |
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