Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date April 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-325-lore-olympus-205-and-206/

The Binary System Podcast team is taking it easy this week, talking about finishing up the most recent season of Star Trek: Picard (meh), and a couple of upcoming books we're looking forward to, and a little about the SDCC photo galleries and omg who are we kidding IT'S TIME FOR THE SEASON FINALE OF LORE OLYMPUS!

*Ahem*. The season actually ended on episode 206, which at the moment is only available for WebToons Fast Pass. But you should treat yourself because it's highly worth it and Persephone's showdown with the former tyrant Kronos is everything that we wanted.

This week's outro is a clip from Simple Stomp by TeknoAXE.

The artist who made the lovely Loki drawing that Elizabeth sent Kathryn from SDCC is Céline Chapus, and you can find her artwork at purpletophat.com. The artist who made the stunning Loki Variant story is Mya Roy-Royer. Her twitter handle is Keiid, and you can read the whole twitter thread here. https://twitter.com/keiidakamya/status/1466821108234170369

Correction the first: According to the Lore Olympians Instagram recap, Hypnos isn't Morpheus's brother, he's her father.

Correction the second: The weapon Hades carries, the one that's like a trident except with only two points, is called a bident. BECAUSE THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE, WOULDN'T IT?

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Original broadcast date July 28, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-324-peaky-blinders-russian-doll-and-the-return-of-sdcc/

It's been a long three years, but San Diego Comic-Con is back! This episode we do a quick recap (masking was good, cosplay was light, Marvel was interesting, IDW was innovative, and DC is copying what Marvel's doing AS USUAL) before spoiling all the things about the Peaky Blinders finale and Russian Doll season one. (We haven't watched season two yet. No one is surprised.)

Along the way we also gripe about Stranger Things, congratulate Lore Olympus, and comment on how difficult it would be to see the pretty waterfalls in Yosemite when it's currently ON FIRE.

This week's outro is a clip from Another-Day by Ketsa.

Absolutely all of our San Diego Comic-Con 2022 coverage can be found here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/tag/sdcc-2022/

Correction: Elizabeth mentioned the amazing 2014 Secret Wars event. She meant 2015.

The Russian Doll interview that Elizabeth was trying to remember was Brett Goldstein's Films to be Buried With, he was interviewing Leslye Headland, the co-creator of Russian Doll. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/russian-dolls-leslye-headland-films-to-be-buried-brett/id1408585620?i=1000431250814

You can see the Emojibot 2.0 cosplay (with Kathryn's new helmet and Elizabeth's new legs) in this Instagram reel. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgXhGTBBlmW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This is the How2Drink tweet we were talking about. https://twitter.com/How2Drink/status/1549571678363160576?s=20&t=Cm6krOIZJnedE9YUhPiwKA

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Original broadcast date July 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-323-and-getting-ready-for-sdcc/

It's a short-ish episode this week since we're mostly talking about episodes 203 and 204 of Lore Olympus and the pace is moving fast. No spoilers, but one of our predictions at the end of the last episode was right, and we're both very glad that Persephone is facing down a stupefyingly powerful insane god and former tyrant and not, you know, Apollo.

Welcome to Night Vale is still on hiatus, which means next week we'll probably have a TV catch-up episode. To get ready for that we talked for a bit about where we are with The Umbrella Academy, Peaky Blinders, Russian Doll, and then digress for a bit about the Red Letter Media guys and why we think a re-watch of Twin Peaks: The Return is always a good idea.

Oh, and as of time this episode drops we'll be a day into THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF SAN DIEGO COMIC CON. So definitely be on the lookout for some posts about that because the Pixelated Geek team is going to be taking all the photographs.

This week's outro is a clip from Dear Mr Super Computer by HoliznaCC0.

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Original broadcast date July 7, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-322-lore-olympus-peaky-blinders-stranger-things-and-more/

Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus this month, so now's our chance to get caught up on everything else!*

*Disclaimer: by "caught up" we mean "a couple episodes" and by "everything else" we mean two shows. Maybe three.

First up we're recapping Lore Olympus episode 201 and 202 (spoiler warnings ahoy, but basically that is NOT who they want us to believe it is NO SIR.) Then we jump into the gut-punch that is season six episode three of Peaky Blinders, the final episode of Stranger Things (which Elizabeth has not finished because it's over two hours long), Kathryn's attempt to finish Russian Doll season one, and random episodes of Rick & Morty because that show is so completely wrong and we can't look away.

This week's outro is a clip from Atum/Mirror Hour. 

Correction: the pendant that Tommy Shelby thinks is cursed is indeed a sapphire.

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Pop the champagne and throw the confetti, Welcome to Night Vale celebrated their ten year anniversary...two weeks ago. Two weeks and a day, actually. *tiny noisemaker sound* Yay?

We started out the podcast this week with a discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision (if you don't know where the Binary System Podcast falls on this issue after more than three hundred episodes then you haven't been paying attention) but after that we recap the gloriously fanservicey ten year anniversary episode from the weird little town in the desert. Then it's off to the races with all of the TV shows we're trying to catch up with (Peaky Blinders , Stranger Things, The Umbrella Academy, Love Death + Robots) and then we list a couple of reasons why re-watching Arcane: League of Legends is really worth your time.

This week's outro is a clip from Days-of-Life by Ketsa.

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Original broadcast date June 23, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-320-lore-olympus-arcane-and-peaky-blinders/

We're back on schedule this week, talking about Lore Olympus episodes 199 (nobody's buying the crap you're selling, Zeus) and 200 (for the fast-pass folks only, but wow, "runt of the litter?" Really?)

After that we squee about the final episode of Arcane (so pretty and VIOLENT) and the second episode of Peaky Blinders season six (Tommy's having seizures now GREAT).

Side note: a lot of stuff that we'd usually put in the outtakes was left in the episode this week, just to demonstrate that even when we google things we still get every name wrong. (Okay, not every name, but we sure forget a lot of them)

This week's outro is a clip from Back in the 80s by HoliznaCC0.

Corrections:

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Original broadcast date June 16, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-319-wtnv-209-the-black-coat-and-peaky-blinders-season-six/

Let's start out this podcast by wishing Welcome To Night Vale a very happy ten year anniversary! One day late! 'Cause that's how we roll.

The episode that came out before the anniversary is bringing back an old adversary, and Cecil soon finds himself on the Crooked Path to the Narrow Place to meet a man who wears a black coat and who never existed. And no, we don't know what any of that means.

If a ten year anniversary of a podcast isn't enough excitement for you, we also watched the first episode of the final season of Peaky Blinders! Listen in as we have an error-prone recap filled with random noises (car engines, computer fans, the TV in the next room being too darn loud), snafus about character names and locations, random asides that we normally wouldn't include in the final cut, and a few digressions to discuss Stranger Things and dueling reviews of Jurassic World: Dominion.

This week's outro is a little different from our usual fare, but since we're talking about Peaky Blinders we just couldn't resist something named Peak Beak by Doctor Turtle. The song itself is pretty irresistible too.

Correction: We forgot to mention the name of the Twin Peaks singer who passed away recently. It's Julee Cruise, and she'll be missed.

Here's the link to Hugh's glowing review of Jurassic World: Dominion https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/review-jurassic-world-dominion/. And here's David's review where he calls it garbage. https://letterboxd.com/leninhawk/film/jurassic-world-dominion/ You decide!

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Original broadcast date June 9, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-318-lore-olympus-stranger-things-board-games-and-roller-coasters/

Hey look at that, we're back on schedule! Let's see how long that lasts JUST KIDDING we know it won't last long.

First up we're spoiling all the spoilers for Lore Olympus episodes 197 (out now) and 198 (only available with the fast pass) and long story short, Ares is a sex pest, Zeus is a lying liar, and Rachel better not do something bad to those dogs.

After that we take a lightning-quick run through the first couple episodes of Stranger Things season 4 (body horror and mean girl bully drama ack), Arcane (so freaking pretty), Love Death + Robots (Night of the Mini Death hee hee hee), the Raised by Wolves cancellation (screw you, HBO Max), and the first season of Umbrella Academy (no surprise, Klaus is our favorite.)

Then we take a deeper dive into board game awesomeness and exactly which roller coasters are still giving us nightmares.

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

Here's a link to the game Kathryn played at game night, Quacks of Quedlinburg. tinyurl.com/bd7xddrf

Here's the video Elizabeth sent Kathryn of the Electric Eel roller coaster. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cec3jwjDM4V/

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Original broadcast date June 2, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-317-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness/

Yes, the Binary System Podcast team has done the unthinkable, we've watched a new movie while it's still in the theaters, so there's a chance that a spoiler warning might actually be necessary.

"Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness" is one heck of a ride, and we're both still giddy about it. Really giddy. If you're looking for a well thought-out review where we discuss the intricacies of plot, character arcs, and various themes then this recap...is probably not for you. For everyone else, listen in as we fangirl about each and every one of the things we loved about the movie in no particular order.

This week's outro is a clip from Glitch Experiment 2022 by TeknoAXE.

Correction: Elizabeth said "Army of the Dead" a couple times or more. She meant "Army of Darkness."

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Original broadcast date May 26, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-316-lore-olympus-love-death-robots-arcane-and-more/

For once we had a plan! We talked about the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, and asked the important questions: WHAT is happening to the ruling gods, and HOW is it all Zeus' fault? (Because you know it is.)

After that we set out to recap the "Three Robots" episode of Love, Death + Robots season 3, and maybe discuss a couple episodes of the deliciously gorgeous Arcane. And then we promptly veered off into tangents about World War Z, layoffs, tech billionaires, Jeff Smith, surviving the apocalypse with a desk job, that series of Dinotopia books from the 90s, and Dr. Strangelove. Nobody is surprised.

Anyway, giant spoiler warnings for episodes 195 and 196 of Lore Olympus, episodes 3 and 4 of Arcane, the Three Robots episodes of Love Death + Robots, and the ending to Dr. Strangelove.

This week's outro is a clip from Electrolyte by Nul Tiel Records.

James Gurney's prints of his Dinotopia artwork are always worth a look. https://jamesgurney.com/collections/prints

Here's Jeff Smith's tweet about the Bone cartoon not working out. Again. Sigh. https://twitter.com/jeffsmithsbone/status/1517640535233769472?s=20&t=_M0gBWDWhFnkDZ6WLbAEzw

We mention the Lore Olympians fan group all the time, they're a great source of info about the episodes, you can find them on instagram. https://www.instagram.com/loreolympians/

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