 This has been an interesting few days for nerds, starting off with the announcement that Henry Cavill will no longer be Superman within the DC Cinematic Universe, which comes as a shock to many because we just saw him as Superman back in Black Adam, which is a bit ridiculous, especially since he announced that he was returning. Now his announcement of his return did happen before Gun and Saffron got hired as the CEOs and managers of the DC Cinematic Universe. At the same time, it is extremely interesting that actor that many people like, especially in his role as Superman, got effectively booted from the role. And a lot of people are extremely confused because they don't see why. Cavill put out a post saying that there was no bad blood, he understands, the visions change, and sometimes that just is what happens, actors get pushed to the wayside or get let go of projects, and he feels no ill will towards the DC Cinematic Universe as it seems. Fans of the DC Cinematic Universe, on the other hand, seem to disagree. Many, including myself, think that Cavill was a good Superman. I personally have not really liked a many of the movies within the DC Cinematic Universe, but I can say that Cavill put his all into playing the role of Clark Kent, and I think he played it very well. James Gunn later put out some clarifying tweets basically saying he wanted to go for a younger Superman so they could tell the stories of his earlier days, and so Cavill being a slightly older actor in terms of where they wanted to have the story set didn't really work within the confines. That doesn't make sense because I don't need another goddamn Superman origin story, so I don't understand the logic here. But also, to me it doesn't make sense to have an actor announce a return to a series, a specially beloved series, just to two months later completely boot them off the project. There are a number of tweets from fans basically calling him out saying, hey man, we don't want this, this is kind of a dumb thing. We liked Henry as Superman, please don't get rid of him, I do not understand, we get it, you're trying to wipe your hands of this, but at the same time, that's not what we want. We really want to see Cavill back in the role, it's something that we've been clambering for since the beginning. I 100% agree with them here, it doesn't make sense to me. Cavill is an actor that fans of DC see you love as Superman, it doesn't make sense to scrap him in favor of wanting to tell a story from a younger part of Superman's life. We've seen that multiple times. We know Superman's origin, we know what his story was when he was young, we would love to see a Superman who's gone through some shit. I kind of understand the logic here. Gun wants to reboot this series as his own, he wants this universe to be his, he doesn't want the old DC cinematic universe, and it seems like they're trying to cut ties as much as they possibly can with the Snyderverse. So part of me understands, but you can keep the same actors. Multiverse shit is a thing that is most likely going to get introduced with the Ezra Miller Flash movie, and at this point it is ridiculous that you are seemingly trying to keep Ezra Miller with all of their bullshit in a movie, but you're trying to boot out Henry Cavill who everyone loves. That's kind of all I have to say. I think it's a stupid idea to sack Cavill. I understand the want to try and separate yourself from the Snyderverse as much as possible, but if the Suicide Squad is going to remain a part of the DC cinematic universe, it's a bit hypocritical because Margot Robbie will most likely be returning as Harley Quinn if that's the case. There's also rumors that Jason Momoa might be out as Aquaman after this, but if they get rid of him as Aquaman, if they hire him back as Lobo, all will be forgiven because that is a casting that I want. Anyway, moving on to the other big nerd news, Ash Ketchum will no longer be the central focus character of Pokemon. That's right, after 25 years, Ash Ketchum is no longer going to lead the Pokemon series. He has achieved his final goal. Ash has become the world Pokemon master and so moving forward, we will now be focusing on two new characters. I know literally nothing about them. The best I can tell you is the image that you see on screen. This is as much as I know about these characters as you do, but personally I am stoked to see this. As a kid, like most anime fans, Pokemon is one of the anime that drew me in. After a while, I personally lost interest in it. Part of that was the fact that we kept following the same kid for so long. I'm actually really excited to see them switching up protagonists and getting two new ones. I think that's going to be a great shakeup for the series. Series like Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh! I always enjoyed coming into the new seasons and new series more and more and more because we had new protagonists and new characters and people to follow with new strategies and just different setups and everything and it was a lot of fun. So seeing Pokemon take this route I think is really really interesting. I don't know what's going to happen. As far as I know, in January we're going to be getting an 11 episode final send off to Ash and Pikachu's story before we are going to then start focusing on these new characters. I think it's going to be fun. I might actually go ahead and check out the new Pokemon just because I can once that starts airing up with the brand new characters and all. Ash has had a great run. He's been on TV for 25 years but I am super excited to see where it goes from here. Now other people are not as excited as me. Joey the anime man put out a tweet saying this ain't it dog. I personally disagree. I'm super excited. I think this will be a good fresh start to the franchise and I think it will allow newcomers a much easier place to come in rather than coming in and having this kid who already has massive teams built up behind him and towards the end he always brings in his older Pokemon and everything and so I think it'll be a really good fresh start to have new characters that were followed. Plus we don't know for all we know Ash is going to be a side character or kind of a mentor figure in this series which I think would be pretty freaking interesting to see Ash kind of have grown up and has started like mentoring the next generation of trainers because he knew what it was like to start out and create persevering and persevering. Either way yeah I just wanted to make a video on these two events. I just think it's really interesting that so close together we got two big news about massive characters and or actors from franchises that are like super beloved by a lot of people are both leaving and are not going to be a part of the franchise anymore at least not in any like super major way but uh yeah that's all I have I hope you guys all have a fantastic day have a good one peace