Babes in the Woods

Treat yo self to a solid forty seven minutes of spooooooky lady nerd chats. In this episode we talk about the history of Halloween, horror movies and teenage girls, our top five horror heroines, and tell you our plans for the holiday. Happy Halloween, babes!

Relevant Links:

1. Samhain

Essential Horror Movie Final Girls*

5. Sally Hardesty – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

* Ellen Ripley über alles. She’s disqualified for being just too damned good at final girl.

Babes gotta eat and so do superheroes. In this episode, we talk about the shittiest day jobs in genre. Turn in your time sheet, grab your cold cup of coffee, and join us at by the water cooler for a chat.

Relevant Links:

1. Buffy’s Day Job at the Doublemeat Palace (not the chicken shack, mah bad)

2. Bryan Fuller’s array of shitty jobs- Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls

3. Beloit College’s insightful yearly mindset list

4. Sam and Dean Winchester

5. Buffy Season Eight

6. Making the case that Ring Bearer is the worst job ever

7. Game of Thrones kills my sex drive

8. Westeros is the shittiest job market

9. Bad jobs in Harry Potter- being Filch, being Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, being a Horcrux

10. Sean Bean has played both the Hand of the King and the Steward of Gondor, two tough ass jobs. We salute him.

10. Katniss Everdeen

11. Dawn Summers is the worst at her job.

– Linds

Our third episode finds us focusing on Batman! We’re not trying to cover all bases, here, so before you dig out your Detective Comics #27, please breathe deeply (in space). We had all just seen The Dark Knight Rises, so there’s a lot of that, and a lot of the Nolan trilogy in general. We love these movies, and I think it shows in our discussion.

My YouTube-fu is inferior to Lindsay’s, and TDKR doesn’t seem to be parceled out into the internet yet, so I’m not going to be able to make most of these things into clips. I’ll do my best though! Here’s some of the things we talk about this time around:

1. Bane’s voice

2. Post 9/11 Batman as lens for the economic crisis

3. House Greyjoy’s sigil as evil ovaries:

4. The prison chant, “deshi basara”

5. Thematic echoes across Nolan’s Batman universe

6. Talia al Ghul/Miranda Tate vs Selina Kyle

7. More of No. 2 – Batman and Capitalism, TDKR predicting #Occupy, the theme of consequences

8. 80’s/ Recession chic

9. We Commissioner Gordon

10. Anne Hathaway: the shoes, the body, the best Catwoman

11. Batman as reflection of his time

12. Gotham City = Cancer City

13. MFK Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale Batmans (Batmen?)

14. MFK Scarecrow, Bane, Joker

15. MFK Rachel Dawes, Talia al Ghul, Selina Kyle

– Nissa

PS No really – how can I marry Bane? I want this to happen to my life.

In our second episode, we turn our babely attentions to princesses in genre and contemplate their roles and portrayals across genre media. Disclaimer- we do not want bad things to happen to Sansa Stark, we just don’t get how she has avoided greater misfortune given the company she keeps. Also, we totally forgot Mulan even though she is THE BEST Disney Princess by far.

Here’s your typically incomplete list of media discussed in this podcast.

1. The Little Mermaid

2. Sleeping Beauty

3. Cinderella

4. Beauty and the Beast

5. Pocahontas

6. A Song of Ice and Fire

7. Game of Thrones (TV)

8. Disney Princess Power Rankings

9. Brave

10. Tangled

11. The Princess and the Frog

12. Xena, Warrior Princess

13. Star Wars

14. Ponyo

15. Princess Mononoke

– Linds

PS I decided, upon review of this podcast, to save my vision statement writing for the prestigious and exclusive Evil Queen fellowship program.

In our inaugural episode, we Babes work through our issues with modern vampirism. Fangs will penetrate, bosoms will heave, heads will roll.

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1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2. Nosferatu

3. The Vampire Chronicles

4, Twilight

5. The Vampire Diaries

6. Let the Right One In

7. Vampire Hunter D

8. Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland

– The Babes