By The Lunar Sea Spire
A weekly podcast for cartoons.
GC13, Soren, and David discuss the movie Hilda and the Mountain King. As far as cliffhangers go, Hilda being turned into a troll at the end of the second season rated quite highly. Now that we’re discussing the movie, it’s finally time...
GC13 and David discuss It Takes Time, the series finale of Summer Camp Island. How many tropes did you spot in this episode? Because we found quite a few without really even looking. But if having a beautiful song to montage over...
GC13 and David discuss Weather Your Weather from Summer Camp Island. Does anyone think there’s a lot of magic happening for a world where the source of all magic has been destroyed? Last episode it was just a tornado and a ghost,...
GC13 and David discuss Swellington Boots from Summer Camp Island. Susie has finally arrived. She’s been the de facto main character of the series for a while, but now that she’s experiencing a story arc she has officially joined the main character...
GC13 and David discuss Meeting of the Mounds from Summer Camp Island. Another series, another baseball episode filled with wacky hijinks—apparently nine innings worth, which is enough to drive anyone to exhaustion. Susie, you are forgiven—especially because at least you used your...
GC13 and David discuss Retrace Our Hooves from Summer Camp Island. It’s okay Mildred, there’s no rush—we’re sure Susie has time to finish her epic death speech and make it out of the Metaphysical Reserve alive. And thank goodness that she does! Susie escapes...
GC13 and David discuss Croissant Moon from Summer Camp Island. With the help of Jimjams it’s time to send Mildred into her dreams to find the Thin Place and break through it into the Metaphysical Reserve. Do you think she would have...
GC13 and David discuss Bear With Me from Summer Camp Island. The Jar Guard has arrived on Summer Camp Island, and the Rascals have come out to finally feast on jelly at her expense. Thankfully they’re not very observant, and fall prey...
GC13 and David discuss Jar Guard from Summer Camp Island. And now we see what was happening a bit deeper into the Frozen North just as Susie was planning to unleash her newly minted swear words on her sister. The word “tragedy”...
GC13 and David discuss Night’s Pockets from Summer Camp Island. So out finally comes Jimjams’ true backstory: once a god, he was turned into a lowly purple pair of pajamas for his transgression against Time. At least he took his punishment like...
GC13 and David discuss The Metaphysical Reserve from Summer Camp Island. The metaphysical reserve is a very mysterious place, but there’s no mystery to Susie: she wants love and adoration, and as long as she’s in the metaphysical reserve she’ll get it....
GC13 and David discuss The Last Witch from Summer Camp Island. Susie has a very complicated spell that just came to her (as if in a dream), but unfortunately it’s going to require the witches to go into a trance one by...
GC13 and David discuss Storybook Susie from Summer Camp Island. It’s finally time that Susie’s coven knows the full story: not only did Mildred turn hands into feet, she also drank Susie’s immortality potion. Because she’s her sister! But this isn’t an anniversary,...
GC13 and David discuss Go Get Our Girls from Summer Camp Island. It’s one of the greatest mysteries since the introduction of the coven: where did the coven go? We knew they were on the island immediately before the campers appeared, then...
GC13 and David discuss The Three Grrs from Summer Camp Island. It’s an episode about a bunch of jesters doing fun bits with banana peels for the king, what could possibly be depressing about that? Leave it to Oscar, he’ll surely find...
GC13 and David discuss Miracle Rabbit from Summer Camp Island. Each week adds even more fuel to the plot train. Ramona takes Oscar on a trip all the way to the Moon in order to meet the eponymous Miracle Rabbit to get...
GC13 and David discuss The Hits from Summer Camp Island. After a tornado sweeps through the island, Barb and the King have a bad feeling and so inspect “the hits”: the Rascals, the Spotted Bears, the ferns, and the magic diamond. Unfortunately...
GC13 and David discuss Pepper’s Funeral from Summer Camp Island. Oh Pepper, we hardly knew you. Wait, what? He’s just officiating the funeral? That’s a relief. Thank goodness these episode titles didn’t leak—that really would have send the fandom into a tizzy,...
GC13 and David discuss See Bees? Gee! Bees! from Summer Camp Island. Oscar has a lot of dedication to his pursuit of enlightenment to spend three weeks walking a garden path 9,999 times. But he has even more dedication to his friend...
GC13 and David discuss If I Only Had a Wand from Summer Camp Island. If any time spent with Hedgehog’s mother is depressing, then what does it say about this episode that has by far the most screen time for her? But as...
GC13 and David discuss The Legs from Summer Camp Island. Summer Camp Island, here we are! It’s time to discuss the sixth and final season, and we’re starting up on a story arc. This episode gets us started with the story slowly,...
GC13 and David discuss Cheers from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. And now we’ve seen the big showdown. Thank goodness Simon is on a first-name basis with a deity, or that could have got real ugly. Even as it was things didn’t...
GC13 and David discuss Casper and Nova from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. It’s all coming together. Simon and Betty, Scarab and our heroes… Thankfully Ellis didn’t lose his spaghetti to his squirrel friends; that would be enough to turn a dream...
GC13 and David discuss Jerry from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. The adventuring party comes to a new world somehow even more suited for Halloween than the episode we discussed in our Halloween episode, though of course it was perfect that we...
GC13 and David discuss The Star from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. Marceline is such a good girl. Bad actually, a punk. But she has a good heart. Now ask yourself how dangerous she’d be with absolutely no conscience whatsoever? Why, something...
GC13 and David discuss The Winter King from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. It’s an easy pick for favorite episode of the series. Ice Scouts? Check. Fabulously perfect Simon? Check. Adorable, deranged Candy Queen? Check. Two, count them two songs? Check. What’s not...
GC13 and David discuss Destiny from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. Fionna has had her first taste of adventuring and she is loving it. She’s in her element, after all (that time spent playing those post-apocalyptic RPGs is really paying off). If only Farmworld...
GC13 and David discuss Prismo the Wishmaster from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. Ah, now we’re getting into the good stuff. Fionna and Cake find themselves in Ooo oh so briefly before being sent out to the multiverse. Not to explore though,...
GC13 and David discuss Cake the Cat from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. Cake isn’t just in Ooo now, she’s exploring it! And while she may initially get on quite well with the locals, following her instincts leads to some… Less than...
GC13 and David discuss Simon Petrikov from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. Simon is no longer the Ice King, but that doesn’t mean things are good: he’s not better now that he’s not part of a madness. At least it’s always wonderful...
GC13 and David discuss Fionna Campbell from Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake. In this move to Max Adventure Time has taken some steps they couldn’t have taken on Cartoon Network while remaining fundamentally itself, if you can get over the sadness. Some...
GC13, Soren, and David continue their discussion of the Netflix movie Nimona. This is a movie that couldn’t have been made just a decade ago, and even still it almost got lost to history. A theatrical release, once planned, wasn’t even...
GC13, Soren, and David discuss the Netflix movie Nimona. Nimona took a long road to come to fruition, but now that it’s here it’s a wonderful adaptation of a graphic novel collected in 2015. Fantastic characters, beautiful art and transformations, with...
GC13 and David discuss The End of the Beginning from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. Tell me if you’ve heard this before: the heroes all join together into one body to confront evil. At least it goes better for them this time than it...
GC13 and David discuss A Love’s Last Light from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. Things are getting heavy. You thought Unicorn was just about stopping a little monster rampage every couple hundred years? Well, what Unicorn fights for is no less than the protection...
GC13 and David discuss Darkness Before the Dawn from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. When things kick into high gear, things kick into high gear. When Merlin shows up and starts acting suspicious, it’s time to ignore his warning that deception is the Evil’s...
GC13 and David discuss The Heart of Kings from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. Edred’s homeland! His backstory! Merlin finally gets some face time! The Heart of Kings was packed to the gills, running longer than an ordinary episode in order to have enough space. And...
GC13 and David discuss The Mystery of Secrets from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. As redundant as a mystery of secrets may be, we’ve come across another exciting episode of Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. The Inspector finally realizes that magic is real, and we meet...
GC13 and David discuss The Past Within from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. This was definitely a memorable episode—inside Melinda’s memories, no less! While the events probably didn’t take place with Emma’s involvement, we have every reason to believe what we saw accurately described...
GC13 and David discuss What Lies Beneath from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. It’s the middle episode of a trio of closely linked episodes. We start off with a chase through the London city streets, but we end up on a haunted/living ship that...
GC13 and David discuss A Fateful Encounter from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. It’s the third of ten episodes and it’s when the mystery really picks up: what is going on with this combination Emma and Melinda? But we don’t have time to worry...
GC13 and David discuss both parts of The Awakening from Unicorn: Warriors Eternal. They’re the first two episodes of a whole new property, so they have a lot of setup to do. We’re introduced to our eternal warriors, and learn that this...
GC13 and David discuss I Won’t Leave You Alone from Bee and PuppyCat. Well, hopefully there’s another season because there’s no way they can end the storyline there. There are so many new questions for us to answer, and so many new questions...
GC13 and David discuss Now I’m Really Alone from Bee and PuppyCat. When Moully shows up on the Island, there’s a sudden increase in accidental property damage. Cas doesn’t mind though, so long as she has things she wants. And with Moully...
GC13 and David discuss Why Don’t You Help Me from Bee and PuppyCat. PuppyCat spent this episode being ice cold; Tempbot and Sticky probably think so, at least. It was all done in the name of love though—and hunger. But as the...
GC13 and David discuss Golden Eyes from Bee and PuppyCat. Well, that’s how we expect a Bee and PuppyCat episode to end, isn’t it? Utterly baffled, and yet feeling as though it’s the only ending we could have got. Still, that ship...
GC13 and David discuss Two Clown Noses from Bee and PuppyCat. Ah, it’s nice to return to the series on such a kind and charming episode. Two Clown Noses ships Bee and Crispin, in a way that makes much more sense than Toast...
GC13, Soren, and David discuss King’s Tide from The Owl House. It’s finally been all put together: Belos (Philip?), the Collector, King, the door, and all on the Day of Unity. An arm was nobly sacrificed, but at least everyone made it...
GC13, Soren, and David discuss Clouds on the Horizon from The Owl House. If there was anyone out there who didn’t know why Luz’s palisman started out as an egg, well, now you know! You also know why the Owl House crew...
GC13, Soren, and David discuss O Titan, Where Art Thou from The Owl House. Okay, if you had Steve Face Reveal on your season two prediction card, it’s time to take your victory lap. He was the perfect guide to take King...
