Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date May 19, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-315-wtnv-208-cecil-in-the-big-city/

It's been a long time since Cecil and Carlos have been able to take a vacation (I'm sure we all know what that's like) so this week they dropped Esteban off with Cecil's sister and headed off to the Big City! No, not New York, the other Big City, the one with Middle Park, and a big lake where you can feed the ichthyosaurs, and the obligatory political protestors throwing rocks at the sun.

But in amongst the boring old tourist stuff is a solution to a mystery that's been bugging Cecil for six months: where has his cat gotten to?

After the Welcome To Night Vale recap we mention a few things that we're utterly failing to keep up with (Arcane, Russian Doll, the new Doctor Strange movie that we've only been waiting to see for months) since we're too busy watching Beastars. Again. And we also briefly discuss a 1980's comic book property that we used to be rabid fans of and now we're sadly letting go because it's just not appealing anymore. (No, not Transformers, the other one.)

This week's outro is a clip from 12 Forever Moments by Ketsa.

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Original broadcast date May 12, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-314-wtnv-207-lost-cat-plus-lore-olympus-and-doctor-who/

First up we're recapping the latest Night Vale episode, as Cecil searches for the lost cat ("...cat? Probably a cat.") Khoshekh, with the help of a pet psychic and random people who say vague and upsetting things.

Then we jump into two episodes of Lore Olympus, one of which (episode 194) doesn't come out till Saturday so if you're not Fast Passing the episodes, spoilers ahoy! (It isn't a spoiler to say Zeus is a JERK, we already knew that.)

Finally we go over the biggest nerd news of the week: we have a new Doctor! https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61371123 Congrats to Ncuti Gatwa, and welcome back to Russell T Davies, we're so excited to see what the two of you get up to. Now we've gotta play catchup on all the episodes we missed YES WE KNOW. Bad Whovians, no cookie...

This week's outro is a clip from Stomp by Mr Smith.

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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Original broadcast date May 5, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-313-spider-man-no-way-home-finally/

Yep, you read that right. We'd usually be recapping the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale at this point, but instead we decided to spend an entire episode discussing Spider-Man: No Way Home which we FINALLY watched after, what, three months of saying we were going to?

And boy, do we have a lot to say, about the stuff we loved (cool fights, big surprises, and every scene with Doctor Strange's magic), the stuff we didn't quite think worked (wait, how do you even erase the memory of an entire person without leaving really big gaps?) and everything we hope gets talked about in Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness (short summary: Doctor Strange was being a great big jerk and everything that went wrong was his fault).

Gigantic spoiler warnings, since we're going to spoil all the things about this movie. Heck, we even spoil things from a ten-year-old movie franchise, some of which we haven't even seen.

This week's outro is a clip from Here Comes The Ice by Matt Oakley

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Original broadcast date April 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-312-the-return-of-lore-olympus/

It wasn't even four months but it felt like forever! That's right, this week we're recapping the triumphant return of Lore Olympus! Chaos in the courtroom! Familiar faces! Tears! Rage! Heartbreak! Was it worth the wait? OF COURSE IT WAS.

(Short version: Zeus is a jerk and we can't wait for the CONSEQUENCES.)

And we splurged on the Fast Pass (you knew we would) so giant great big spoiler warnings for both Episode 191, which dropped on April 23, and Episode 192, which drops for the non-fast-pass people on April 30. (We'll give you a big spoiler warning before we talk about 192, promise.)

This week's outro is a clip from Shot in the Dark by Beat Doctor.

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Original broadcast date April 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-311-wtnv-206-the-great-librarian-of-the-western-sands/

Our favorite podcast is getting all-out literary as this week's episode takes a few pages from Moby Dick and spins a tale about a hunt for a gigantic Librarian roaming the desert, occasionally pausing to reflect about the wisdom of accepting others as we learn to accept ourselves and...

...OMG, you guys? They didn't play the intro music this episode! And Cecil never said "Welcome to Night Vale"! What does it all mean?! (It doesn't mean anything. OR DOES IT.)

We also talk about the Netflix animated series "Arcane", because we're all about the pretty. And our loyal listeners will get to peer behind the curtain as we discover some news about "Spider-Man: No Way Home", mid-recording.

This week's outro is a clip from Darkest Before Dawn by TeknoAXE

Correction: The adaptation of "Murder On The Orient Express" that Kathryn saw was released in the 1970's, not the 1960's. And the new movie "Death on the Nile" is in fact made by the same people who made the 2017 adaptation of "Murder On The Orient Express", which we really should have already known because they're both starring AND directed by Kenneth Branagh.

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Original broadcast date April 14, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-310-raised-by-wolves-and-beastars-in-spanish/

Since Lore Olympus and Peaky Blinders aren't back yet and the next issue of Saga doesn't drop till next week, we're going to catch up on Raised By Wolves, finish up some fan art, and watch Beastars with the Spanish audio for funsies, how's that sound to you?

This week's outro is a clip from Council of One by Eaters.

You should definitely check out Kathryn's Lore Olympus Fanart. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJGYV4vGdp/

Here's the instagram post where Superman photobombs the Bat Family. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcEJSxcP6h5/

Correction: Elizabeth said The Hollow Places was written by Ursula Guin. She meant Ursula Vernon! (Ursula says that happens a lot.)

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Original broadcast date April 7, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-309-wtnv-205-the-moon-is-gone/

The title of the episode pretty much says it all. The moon has gone missing (it's always in the last place you look for it), and catching a glimpse of the static-filled hole in the Night Vale sky where it used to be is really unpleasant.

But do you know what other Earth-shattering events have happened? For the first time in two years, Kathryn was able to go to a live Welcome To Night Vale show, and Elizabeth was able to go to WonderCon! We've got the deets on cosplay, panels, last-minute cast changes, and a motel in LA that, honest, was nicer than it looked.

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

Correction: Lauren's friend who photographed for us at WonderCon is ROBERT, not Roger. Sorry, Robert.

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Original broadcast date March 31, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-308-how-bout-them-oscars/

Hey, remember that one year at the Oscars when they screwed up the envelopes and announced La La Land as the winner when it was really Moonlight? Gosh, was that uncomfortable, sure hope we never have to watch something that awkward ever again.

OH NO. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-03-29/will-smith-slaps-chris-rock-at-oscars-2022-aftermath

Listen in as we break down the nominees and winners of the 2022 Oscars, our delight at Windshield Wiper winning Best Animated Short, our approval at a happy film like CODA getting the Oscar and OH YEAH WILL SMITH SLAPPED CHRIS ROCK.

After we finish calling the both of them a bunch of names, we move on to more fun subjects, like the latest issue of Saga, the travel plans for WonderCon, and the April return of Lore Olympus yaaaaaay!

This week's outro is a clip from There Ain't Nothin by HoliznaCC0.

Our list of all the Oscar nominees and winners, along with links to all the reviews we had on the site, is right here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/02/oscar-2022-nominations-announced/

You can watch the Oscar Award-winning animated short The Windshield Wiper on youtube. https://youtu.be/i8MQl7vCkMQ (It is NOT completely safe for work, but so pretty.)

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Original broadcast date March 24, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-307-wtnv-204-the-audition/

Auditions are open for the Night Vale Community Players production of Our Town, and Cecil is trying out for the part of The Stage Manager. The director's going for more of a traditional interpretation (not like her Tartuffe in the nude, or The Iceman Cometh in space). But after growing up inside and adjacent to the theater, we can pretty much say that any live performance of a classic - even a really weird interpretation - counts to us as a "traditional" theater experience.

Except Cecil's interpretation of Equus. Good God. No, Cecil, Equus is not just a story about "a little boy who likes horsies", the heck is the matter with you?

The theater-centric episode lets us wander off into tangents like Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights. Elizabeth's also seen all of season 2 of Raised By Wolves, and we have to talk for a bit about the endless creativity of Transformers fan artists. (Mermaid variants are optional, crossovers with Gargoyles are fairly common, smut is pretty much mandatory.)

This week's outro is a clip from notchpeak v2 by Tea K Pea.

The artist doing the Bumblebee/Charlie artwork is YoukaiYume and can be found here. https://twitter.com/YoukaiYume_Art/status/1168357992942559232?s=20&t=flKC8D6Ry5M_7RcCtl44tw

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Original broadcast date March 17, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-306-the-return-of-saga-killing-eve-and-transformers/

After three years one of our favorite comics is back from hiatus! Massive great big spoiler warnings because we go into all kinds of detail about Saga (both the most recent issues and just about everything before the hiatus) and why this comic ripped our hearts out. Aaaaaand it looks like it's going to continue to rip our hearts out because when things go sideways in this series it happens really freaking fast.

To keep with the theme of love, death, and dismemberment, Elizabeth started watching Killing Eve,  a great show with action, humor, and a very high body count; Kathryn's rewatching Peaky Blinders in preparation for more violence and heartbreak in the final season; and we're both not completely sorry that we missed TFcon LA because our Transformers love is at a lull and we're very sad about it. (We'd drown our sorrows by putting together a Flame Toys Windblade model kit IF WE HAD ONE.)

This week's outro is a clip from Head-In-Clouds by Ketsa.

Crap: Alex Milne introduced himself on an interview here https://youtu.be/Aux-2HJDP00 and it's pronounced "Miln." Sorry Alex.

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