Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on January 25, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-395-doctor-who-taken-nice-house-on-the-lake-and-the-hugos/

You’re not going to believe this, but we said we were going to watch the third David Tennant Doctor Who episode this week AND WE DID. Next thing you know we’ll be watching movies the weekend they come out. (Hahahah, kidding, obviously.)

Anyway, our hearts are still intact after the episode, which was for the most part goofy with a few terrifying images thrown in. It also gave new meaning to the words “self care,” which is just delightful.

After that Elizabeth talks about how she’s randomly watching 2008’s Taken (which is still a fun watch even if it does lean into the patriarchy) and Kathryn discusses The Nice House on the Lake and how we DARN WELL BETTER get a third volume soon.

Finally, we go over what we know about the Hugo Awards debacle, which is to say: not much. Several people were disqualified for reasons that can be summed up as “because I said so,” and while there’s a lot of speculation that it was anything from Chinese government censorship to a massive screw up with the math, there’s still no good explanation. If something changes we’ll add a note to this description. I mean, Neil Gaiman’s pissed off so you know it’s not good.

This week's outro is a clip from 6026 Zenophanes by Midnight Commando.

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This episode originally broadcast on January 18, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-394-lore-olympus-episode-259-and-260-and-the-menu/

It's an extra-long episode this week, although not because of Lore Olympus. The recap for episodes 259 and 260 went pretty quickly, with a little more of Demeter's backstory revealed and one hell of a lot of personal growth. Seriously, we figured Rachel included the bit with Demeter snapping at Hera because otherwise we wouldn't even recognize her anymore.

The biggest chunk of this week's episode is taken up by our recap of the 2022 movie, The Menu, the tasty (see what I did there) horror/satire that skewers (har) everything that's wrong with restaurant culture and serves up (okay I'll stop) a fantastic performance by Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes. GIGANTIC spoiler warnings on this, since we jump right to how much we loved the ending first.

This week's outro is a clip from Cruising the Skyline by TeknoAXE.

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This episode originally broadcast on January 11, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-393-wtnv-240-he-is-holding-a-knife-and-doctor-who/

"Fenslaw.
Coliss.
Brate.
Gilvane.
Stond."

The latest episode of Night Vale before they went on hiatus (they're always on hiatus in January and we will never remember that) was delightfully creepy in a way we didn't see coming at all, what a fantastic surprise. We can't say more, because spoilers. (This episode of VagueCast is brought to you by Tossed Risotto, Oboe Drinking Straws, and Postage Stamp "Snackables.")

In other news, it took a while but both of us have finally watched the Doctor Who episode "Wild Blue Yonder" and seriously you guys, it's so good. Joyful, clever, wonderfully unsettling, and it punches you in the feels the way only Russell T. Davies can do.

This week's outro is a clip from Dance 8 by Magenta 6.

Confirmation: Steven Moffat did indeed write "The Girl in the Fireplace."

The website Elizabeth found with free sci-fi and fantasy short stories (not pirated, they all link back to the sites that published them) is links.freesfonline.net.

You can find Kathryn's review of Lazarus: Volume One here.

This is the Oboe vs. Clarinet short that Kathryn found.

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This episode originally broadcast on January 4, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-392-lore-olympus-episode-258-and-259/

Happy New Year everyone! We hope all our listeners' holidays were fantastic, and that the return to work wasn't too much of a shock to the system. To ease you back into the work week, have a quick recap of the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, which can be briefly summed up as "sexy good-times and proclamations of love in a pool", and also "Hera finally tells Kronos to piss off."

We also apparently decided to start off the new year with complaints about first-world problems, so strap in as we talk about how we'd like to kick Amazon Prime to the curb, but we just can't do without all that tasty free shipping. (And also, how screwed are all of us directionally-challenged folks going to be if Google Maps decides to start charging us?)

This week's outro is a clip from Axiom Tomorrow by TeknoAXE.

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This originally broadcast on December 28, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-391-christmas-recap-and-yes-were-watching-skibidi-toilet/

Happy last-podcast-of-2023! Recorded on location in the wilds of Western Florida (aka our parents' house) we start out this episode with a quick breakdown of Christmas, including successful hospital trips (spoilers: we were NOT stealing babies) and geeky presents, but it all goes by really fast because we've gotta talk about "Skibidi Toilet." Seriously you guys, this series is messed up. It's the weirdest thing we've seen all year, intentionally disturbing nightmare fuel, super upsetting and definitely not the kind of thing we'd like. Which is why we've watched all 69 episodes. They didn't really kill that guy did they? What's up with the lens? Is the Alliance okay? Where are the Titans? Where's the TV Headed Woman? So many questions arrgh when's the next episode??!!

This week's outro is a clip from Bollywood Dream by Lisa Hammer. (It's not possible to get something quite as weird as the Skibidi Toilet song so we just went with this one.)

Here's a link to Skibidi Toilet but fair warning, it's some serious nightmare fuel right from the beginning, so if you don't want that living in your brain you can just listen to our recap of it.

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This episode broadcast on Wednesday December 20, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-390-lore-olympus-episode-256-and-257-designercon-and-doctor-who/

Happy last-podcast-before-Christmas! On this week’s Lore Olympus recap we were absolutely gobsmacked that a certain someone gave Apollo a verbal smack upside the head because it was the LAST person we expected. Merry Christmas to us!

We finished up with a spoiler-free squee about Doctor Who (Elizabeth’s not caught up yet but Kathryn said the second Tennant episode was brilliant), a quick debriefing of DesignerCon (including how fun Amtrak is if you can find the Fancy Car), and confirmation from Hannah that the fourth episode of The Crown season 6 is just as weird and off-putting as we thought.

This week’s outro is a clip from Christmas on Mars by spinningmerkaba. (Someday we might find a Christmas outro song we love more than this one, but don’t hold your breath.)

You can find our 2023 DesignerCon photo gallery here.

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This episode originally broadcast on December 14, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-389-wtnv-239-sister-cities-vermillion-falls/

This week's Night Vale episode is a perfect example of distilled weirdness, full of deadly nature walks, supermarket bonfires, and would you PLEASE stop PETTING THE WOLFMEN. GEORGE.

After the recap we discuss the latest Doctor Who episodes: not that we've watched them but we've heard they're doing well. (Other than one news article that somehow thought 100 people complaining about the trans storyline was more important than the 7 million people who watched it and didn't complain and no we're not linking to the article because that's stupid.)

Instead we watched some Carnival Row season 2, Mandalorian season 3, and Interstellar, because why wouldn't we watch things that are months and years old when there's perfectly good Doctor Who to watch yes we KNOW we're terribly bad at TV.

This week's outro is a clip from Autonymous by Beat MeKanik.

TD Mischke did a great job as the voice of Vermillion Falls, you should definitely go listen to his podcast.

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This episode originally broadcast on December 7, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-388-lore-olympus-episode-254-and-255-and-the-doctor-who-60th-anniversary/

Okay, not gonna lie, the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus that the Binary System Podcast team recaps are causing quite a lot of anxiety. Apollo’s plot to take over as ruler of Olympus is proving once again that Apollo will hurt anyone in order to get what he wants, and it’s stressful to imagine how he’s going to try to force Persephone to become his queen. It’s probably going to make it that much more satisfying when he gets his comeuppance, but still…

Fortunately we follow that up with a recap of the fun, adorable, all-around goodhearted 60th Anniversary Doctor Who Special “The Star Beast”, featuring David Tenant stepping back into the role of the Doctor like he never left, and Catherine Tate with a resolution to an element of the Donna Noble storyline that always bothered us. We get into a big discussion about what we loved, what parts maybe didn’t work as well as we would like, trans representation, and how it’s possible to make mistakes when being an ally but still learn every day how to be better. (We also miffed The Meep’s quote, which we loved. Here’s a link to how it actually went, including the Doctor’s response, which, if anything, was even better.)

This week’s outro is a clip from Doctor Talos Answers the Door, by Doctor Turtle. (Found this by doing a keyword search on FreeMusicArchive under “Doctor”, if that wasn’t obvious.)

You can find the Best Pick Podcast where they discuss the Doctor Who episode “The Star Beast” here.

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This episode originally broadcast on November 30, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-387-wtnv-238-the-big-dig/

On this week's Night Vale recap, the Museum of Natural History has made an amazing discovery, the Tomb of the Ancestors! Mummified remains in traditional Soft Meat Crowns (tm) in a perfectly harmless limestone cube that just appeared in the Sand Wastes. Nevermind the floating apparitions that can melt your face off, it's the scientific discovery of the century! In other words AAAAAAAAAAA.

Anyway, after the recap Elizabeth briefly touches on the first half of the final season of The Crown (very interesting, bit of weirdness in the fourth episode but not bad at all) and Kathryn discusses the A24 film X (it's like a 1970s slasher film if it was done really, really well) and then we wrap up with Disney+'s' acquisition of Doctor Who, bubblewrap-themed photos, Transformers fatigue and "robof*ckers."

This week's outro is a clip from Insomnia by Beat Mekanik.

For a month of dragon drawings, check out the Dragonfall Drawing Challenge, or visit Kathryn or Elizabeth's instagram pages.

We mentioned that "Todd in Shadows" is a great youtube channel, definitely check out his Top 10 Worst Hit Songs playlist for some good snarky fun.

Elizabeth was right: the guy everybody's shipping Mirage with in Rise of the Beasts is Anthony Ramos, who you'll know from Hamilton and In the Heights.

And no, ALL of Doctor Who won't be available on Disney+, just the very newest stuff.

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This episode originally broadcast on November 23, 2023, you can find the original podcast post here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-386-lore-olympus-back-from-hiatus-episode-253/

This week the Binary System Podcast team celebrates the triumphant return of Lore Olympus by recapping a brand new episode! To us. Episodes 251, 252, and 253 have been available for FastPass since July, but we wanted to wait until episode 252 (which we already discussed before the hiatus) was available for free on WebToon before we FastPassed episode 253, so spoilers, but only if you haven't already seen episode 253, which we're assuming just about everybody read months ago since it's technically the mid-season hiatus...

You know what? Time is weird. Enjoy the recap as we squeee about the latest developments (Zeus, poisoned! Apollo, in league with a Titan! Persephone, no longer the goddess of Spring!), and then talk a little about The Book of Boba Fett and the Ms. Marvel TV series.

This week's outro is a clip from Voyageur by Monkey Warhol.

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