Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date October 27, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-podcast-335-lore-olympus-and-random-reviews/

We joke about how Lore Olympus moves at a glacial pace, but we sometimes forget that the story jumped forward TEN ENTIRE YEARS and now the pieces need to be filled in. So, minor spoiler warnings for episodes 215 and 216, because we got a lot of backstory for Kronos and Thanatos, but we still don't know what Apollo's been up to and WE'RE REALLY IMPATIENT TO FIND OUT.

After the recap go over a bunch of stuff that's about to be reviewed on the site (the final book of the Scholomance, the latest Magic Order, and Skottie Young's return to I Hate Fairyland), discuss our repeat watchings of Haunting of Hill House, and get into a weird tangent about gas prices because why not?

This week's outro is a clip from Re-Energize by TeknoAXE.

Correction: At one point Elizabeth says Apollo is Hades's son, she meant Zeus. (If we're not screwing up Artemis and Athena's names we're screwing up Zeus and Hades, it's officially a thing.)

Elizabeth got the Aliens Watch Party posted! https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-watch-party-aliens/

Kathryn's review The Golden Enclaves (final book of the Scholomance trilogy) is here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/review-the-golden-enclaves-the-scholomance-book-3/

Here's more info on the Pirates' Christmas Weekend at the Carolina Renaissance Festival! https://www.carolina.renfestinfo.com/special-event-weekends/pirateschristmas

Basic coin packages in the WEBTOON coin shop range from 10 for 99 cents all the way up to 1000 for 99.99, with specials on free coins all the time.

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Original broadcast date October 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: 

Ten years ago we loved it every time Cecil on Welcome to Night Vale ranted about how much he hated his stupid brother-in-law STEVE CARLSBERG. If you’d told us back then that, come 2022, we’d be 100% on Steve’s side, we’d have told you that’s about as likely as Hollywood greenlighting a Sandman series.

Funny thing…

Listen in as we spoil everything about Welcome to Night Vale episode 216 (also known as “Steve Carlsberg Is The Best Coach Ever”) and then spoil everything about The Sandman “The Sound of Her Wings” (both the episode and the comic book) and Hob Gadling’s friendship with Morpheus, which will never stop being awesome.

Of course there’s also random tangents into the latest Scholomance book, the Aliens series, horror movie picks, and how so many things we love got started over thirty freaking years ago: this is Binary System Podcast WE OLD.

This week’s outro is a clip from Kaleidoscope Light by Policy.

If you want more info on Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series, Kathryn’s reviewed both Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth.

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Original broadcast date October 13, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-podcast-333-lore-olympus-and-the-sandman-episode-4/

So what's Apollo up to? How is Demeter going to mess things up for Hades and Persephone? Did Aphrodite get married to Hephaestus when she threw over Ares, or someone else? And where's Psyche been this entire time that the mortal realm was cut off from Olympus?

You'd think we'd be happy with the story progression we got in episodes 213 and 214 of Lore Olympus (not to mention the character development for a certain river nymph; do we actually like Minthe now?), but all we keep doing is asking a lot more questions.

After that we...you know what? Let's just throw up a trigger warning for our recap of the latest episode of The Sandman. Episode 4 had a much gentler start than original comic issue it's based on, and obviously some elements had to be toned down for TV. But there are still instances of torture, and violence, and child abuse, and sex that we're not entirely sure was consensual. So while it's an excellent episode, in many ways this adaptation is even more disturbing.

This week's outro is a clip from Skyrise for Tomorrow by TeknoAXE

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Original broadcast date October 6, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-podcast-332-wtnv-215-sarah-sultan-explained-and-sandman/

The only thing we've got to say about this week's Night Vale episode is Doctor Lubelle MUST BE STOPPED. (Also watch out for the murals. They're probably fine. But let's just evacuate the area anyway.)

After we finish spoiling the heck out of that episode, we switch gears to spoil the heck out of Sandman (both the Netflix show and the original comic) and finish up with Nona the Ninth and some Lore Olympus thoughts.

This week's outro is a clip from Tides by Mindseye.

We said Josh Cranor is the shapeshifter in Night Vale, it's actually Josh Crayton. (We were almost certainly thinking of Night Vale creator Jeffrey Cranor.)

If you want more info on Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series, Kathryn's reviewed both Gideon the Ninth https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/review-gideon-the-ninth/ and Harrow the Ninth. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/review-harrow-the-ninth-the-locked-tomb-trilogy-book-2/

Etrigan's complicated pre-Sandman history can be found here. https://sandman.fandom.com/wiki/Etrigan

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Original broadcast date September 29, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-331-lore-olympus-and-the-sandman-episode-3/

So Kathryn has finally watched another episode of The Sandman (Elizabeth: I've watched a bunch more.) (Kathryn: Yeah, thanks, I know that.) so this week we're going into detail about everything we loved about the episode and how this series keeps surprising us. We also talked about Jodie Whittaker's first season of Doctor Who (Elizabeth: Eh.)(Kathryn: Aww.) and Tamsyn Muir's book Nona the Ninth is out so that's next up on the reading list.

But we know what you're really here for, the latest episodes of Lore Olympus. And this is the spoileriest of spoiler-filled episodes, because Demeter finally confronts Hades and Persephone in episode 211 and Persephone totally stands up for herself so we're gonna spoil that. And we get some backstory about Minthe in episode 212 so we're gonna spoil that. And we absolutely couldn't resist looking at the preview images for episodes 213 and 214 and omg whatshername shows up and she has a baby with her and everyone has tons of theories and we're gonna spoil every bit of that. So, you have been warned.

This week's outro is a clip from Head Storm by Policy.

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Original broadcast date September 15, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-330-lore-olympus-and-an-update-on-loki-season-2/

This week we're spoiling all the things about Lore Olympus episodes 209 and 210, but if you want the short non-spoiler version: Hades and Persephone are freaking adorable. You already knew that. When are they not adorable?

Also if we could please find out what Demeter's going to do to mess it up that'd be GREAT.

Next up is the most important (to us) news to come out of D23 Expo: we got an update on Loki season 2! We go over what we know (not much) and what we're speculating (a lot) and the random connections between Loki, Indiana Jones, and Rick & Morty.

This week's outro is a clip from Trick My Heart by Policy. (We don't usually go for pop vocals in the outro, but this one was so cute.)

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Original broadcast date September 8, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-329-wtnv-213-murals/

It's no secret that the Binary System Podcast team is always finding moments that would be perfect for fan art (we do love us some fan art). This week's episode felt like the Welcome To Night Vale writers were throwing down multiple challenges to fan artists.

Listen in as we recap the City Council's latest attempt to bring in some sweet, sweet tourist bucks by commissioning a dozen or so new murals by a not-so-anonymous artist. (Who's name would have been a cute joke that we whiffed by not pronouncing it consistently. BANsky? BANKsy? Is that how it's spelled? No way to know...)

It's kind of a short episode this week since we still haven't watched more Sandman (bad fans, no cookie), so after the recap we ramble a little bit about speakeasies, multi-purpose bars, the Hugo Award winners, and the vagaries of streaming services (Starz, why DO you only have season 1 of American Gods anyway?)

This week's outro is a clip from Midnight Drones by Psychadelik Pedestrian.

Hugh's review of Moonfall can be found here, and Leland's review of Star Trek Mission Las Vegas 2022 can be found here.

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Original broadcast date September 1, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-328-lore-olympus-and-the-sandman-episode-2/

We're back with an actual audio episode this week as Kathryn's on the mend from the "NOT COVID Thank You Very Much But Still Pretty Annoying" Plague, and thank goodness, because we've got to talk about the first two episodes of the third (and final!) season of Lore Olympus. Will Hades and Persephone figure out exactly what they are to each other? Will Zeus leave them alone? Is this the calm before the storm? WHAT IS APOLLO UP TO YOU KNOW IT'S SOMETHING.

(Major spoilers for episodes 207 and 208, obv.)

After that it's even more spoilers for The Sandman, because we've both watched episode two and we love everything they're doing EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE THING. NEIL.

This week's outro is a clip from Relay by Psychadelik Pedestrian.

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Original broadcast date August 18, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-327-the-sandman-and-trainwreck-woodstock-99/

No Lore Olympus this week while the webcomic is on a brief hiatus, but fortunately there's a little show out there called "The Sandman", and we've both watched the first episode already instead of waiting for a few months like we usually do.

Probably not necessary to say, but SPOILERS for both episode one and quite a bit about the source material. We've been big fans of everything Neil Gaiman for a while now, so we go into detail about what we loved about the episode (which was everything. One minor exception.), and basically marvel at the fact that Gaiman has once again adapted a story that was already perfect, and made it better.

Then we talk about the documentary that our sister Hannah recommended: "Trainwreck: Woodstock '99", which we really enjoyed because we're both suckers for a convention/festival disaster story. (This one's a bit darker than the Fyre Festival documentaries, so content warning at about 17:55 for a brief discussion of sexual assault.)

This week's outro is a clip from Dance of the Doomed by TeknoAXE.

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Original broadcast date August 11, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-326-wtnv-211-howl/

Welcome to Night Vale returns this week, and you know what? Until now we never knew how much we wanted a romance between a cartoon dog and a sentient patch of haze. (Yes we can and will ship just about anything and no one is surprised.)

After that we discuss the 2020 sci-fi sleeper Archive which we refer to as “a kinder Black Mirror" and “three tropes in a trench coat.” (In all seriousness, we loved it. We stayed spoiler free so you can watch it too.)

We did NOT stay spoiler free when talking about Arcane, because the second rewatch hits way harder, wow.

And then we briefly touch on the dance numbers in Umbrella Academy, and how Kathryn’s on her third rewatch of Loki because of course she is.

This week's outro is a clip from Memoria by AKMV-18.

Here's Lauren's interview with the creators and cast of Solar Opposites and Koala Man. https://youtu.be/B3FF5A4iYcY

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