XRGC: Wicked: For Good, The Mighty Nein, and Why Metroid Should Stay a 2D Platformer
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In this week’s episode of group chat, Rosie is joined by entertainment critic Amelia Emberwing and Joelle to break down why Wicked: For Good falls short of its potential. Then they discuss The Might Nein, the latest show from the incredible team at Critical Role. Finally, Carmen joins to make the case for why Metroid games should stay 2D platformers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.4 | Warning! |
| 0:05.4 | Today's episode contains spoilers for Wicked for Good, |
| 0:08.4 | The Mighty Nine and the Metroid franchise. |
| 0:11.5 | The Metroid franchise. Hello, I'm Rosie Knight and welcome to XRGC or group chat, a weekly roundtable with our producers and special guests to talk about all the things we're excited about in movies, TV, comics and pop culture. In today's episode, we are joined by Amelia |
| 0:42.5 | Emberwing to discuss two very different worlds of magic. We will be talking our mostly |
| 0:48.1 | spoiler-free reactions to Wicked for Good with Amelia and Super producer Joelle, as well as digging into the |
| 0:55.7 | lore of the books and what changes from the movie to the musical, to the book, and back again. |
| 1:02.9 | And then in segment two, Amelia will be joining me to give us the lowdown on Amazon's The Mighty |
| 1:07.5 | Nine, the new animation from the world of critical role. |
| 1:11.8 | And in segment three, Carmen will be joining me to talk about the pitfalls of the |
| 1:17.7 | Metroid franchise inspired by the newest game, Metroid 4. |
| 1:21.3 | But first, we're going to talk about Wicked. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello, lovely witches, Amelia, thank you for joining us. How's it going? |
| 1:32.4 | Thank you so much for having me, babes. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:36.4 | It's going to be delightful. And Joelle, thank you for joining us to me and you. Well, all three of us, really. |
| 1:48.8 | I know that we have enjoyed the wicked franchise throughout its years. |
| 1:55.2 | Joelle, we did go to a wicked eat-along for the first movie, |
| 1:58.7 | which was really delightful in L.A. with your mom. |
| 1:59.9 | Shout out for you film. We love you. Yes, incredible. Black. It was so fun. It was legit. We love you. |
| 2:01.5 | Yes. |
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