Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date August 1, 2019. The original podcast post is here: 

Back on episode 182 https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/binary-system-podcast-182-start-with-this-episode-1/ we talked about the Night Vale Presents Podcast "Start With This," and mentioned the creators assigned the listeners two homework projects: write one story that you destroy immediately, and one story that you share with everybody. To the surprise of everyone, including ourselves, we actually did both.

(Finishing an assignment? Has Binary System been taken over by Pod People?? Hang on, did they finally watch How To Train Your Dragon 3? No? Then this was just a fluke.)

Listen in as we each read aloud the two-minute story we wrote about birds, and what we think they're thinking. And, because we never can keep to one subject, we also talk Neon Genesis Evangelion, the dubbing in Howl's Moving Castle, and Max Gladstone's Empress of Forever.

This week's outro music is a clip from Above All the Chaos by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/4svHIJ3WQ3g

This is the poem Elizabeth liked from the Performance Poetry Podcast. http://podbay.fm/show/120373332/e/1436943600?autostart=1

Here's that Star Trek Enterprise April Fool's Day story Kathryn and Elizabeth wrote together yeeeeaaaars ago. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1798121/1/April-Fools-Day

Original broadcast date July 25, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/binary-system-podcast-185-san-diego-comic-con/

We've got a slightly longer episode this week, since there was a slightly big event going on in California last week. You may have heard about it...San Diego ComicCon 2019, which also happened to be the big convention's 50th anniversary! Elizabeth went to all five days, and she's got details about upcoming movies and TV, fantastic cosplay, fascinating items on sale, and the new Doctor Who VR game!

Of course we never stick to an agenda (just like we never plan ahead. Or do research. Or follow a schedule. What day is it again?) so we also talked about the latest Neil Gaiman short story adaptation, the latest book by Yahtzee Croshaw https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/review-differently-morphous/ (of Zero Punctuation fame), our tenuous connection to the Pinter play "Betrayal", why we hope "Carnival Row" will be better than "Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets (but may have to settle for it being pretty) and why we're just not speaking to the creators of ElfQuest right now.

This week's outro music is a clip from Retro Future Nights by TeknoAXE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_jQLR6zq30

Jeremy Renner posted a video of teaser trailer for the new Hawkeye TV show to his Instagram account here. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Kn_FlDUas/

A lot of people have posted recaps of the Marvel panel that introduced Phase 4, the EW article is as good as any. https://ew.com/movies/2019/07/22/marvel-phase-4-every-movie-and-tv-show/

The recap of the Doctor Who VR game is here https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/sdcc-2019-doctor-who-the-edge-of-time-vr-game-demo/, and if you want to go straight to the source you can check out www.doctorwhotheedgeoftime.com. https://www.doctorwhotheedgeoftime.com/

Original broadcast date July 18, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/binary-system-podcast-184-the-blair-witch-project-20th-anniversary/

After 20 years we know everybody has already said just about everything that can be said about this movie. And that certainly isn't going to stop us from fangirling all over it some more. (I mean, that never stopped us before, right? Does anything stop us from fangirling all over the place? Don't answer that.)

Listen in as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project and go over all the tidbits we turned up in our research ("research" meaning the director's commentary and the imdb trivia) about the ultimate (as far as we're concerned) shaky-cam movie.

And because we never can stay on topic for very long, we also touch on: the first episode of Stranger Things season 3, the first three episodes of Jessica Jones season 2, The Great British Bake-Off, The Crown, The Wicked and the Divine, Motor Girl, and Starscream in gym shorts.

This week's outro music is a clip from Invading the 80s by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/mEXKWV6xHME

The Starscream Gym-Rat fanart by Sara Pitre-Durocher we mentioned is here. It's glorious. https://twitter.com/SaraLePew/status/885194669864497158

Original broadcast date July 11, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/binary-system-podcast-183-the-travel-edition/

Because of all the travel plans this summer, the East Coast and West Coast branches were in the same time zone for almost twelve hours, so we spent a few minutes recording a quick episode about what geek stuff we got into this week: Kathryn's watching Love Death and Robots (problematic sometimes, but so, so pretty) and Elizabeth read the last two issues of ElfQuest: the Final Quest (which turns out to be one: not final, and two: not great.)

This week's outro music is a clip from Covered in Oil by Broke for Free. (We used this one about fifty episodes ago, we're using it again because travel, also because we always liked this one.) http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Slam_Funk/Broke_For_Free_-_Slam_Funk_-_10_Covered_In_Oil

Original broadcast date July 4, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/binary-system-podcast-182-start-with-this-episode-1/

Happy 4th of July! (Or, if you're somewhere that doesn't celebrate the 4th, happy Thursday!) We recorded this on Monday and forgot it'd drop on the 4th, so this podcast makes no mention of holidays or politics and instead is a last-minute recap of the Start With This podcast because we didn't know there wouldn't be a Welcome To Night Vale episode to recap.

...did everyone else know they were on hiatus this month? It's just this month, right?

You can find the Start With This podcast here. http://www.nightvalepresents.com/startwiththis

This week's outro music is a clip from Emerging from the Lights by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/hEYC7DabpBk

Original broadcast date June 27, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/06/binary-system-podcast-181-good-omens/

So Good Omens hit Amazon Prime, and even though Neil Gaiman is probably our favorite author ever, you know it's going to take us a while to watch all the episodes. KIDDING! We already finished. It's GOOD OMENS, we've been waiting for this show for decades, of course we watched it.

Massive spoiler warnings ahoy, as we talk about David Tennant yelling at plants, the amazing CGI on the wings, the Easter eggs, the flirting, the soundtrack and everything else about Good Omens.

After that we briefly go into Constantine, Legion, and Supernatural (on account of the wings), why we stopped watching Broadchurch (season 2), Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Wicked and the Divine, the Hugo Awards, and why Transformers #8 is late (we have no idea, but we got seven issues in four months and now we're totally spoiled.)

This week's outro music is a clip from the Good Omens opening theme by David Arnold. https://youtu.be/BsrPO8qslBE

If you loved the animation in the opening credits as much as we did, you should check out this Polygon article about the making of it. https://www.polygon.com/tv/2019/6/12/18659708/good-omens-opening-titles-making-of-details-amazon-prime?fbclid=IwAR1Bu5qhvEvj4MEw8TFYTy-4KDks5hr8VE1wuLQKQnz7pLxI-HKBVcrjKHo

Original broadcast date June 20, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/06/binary-system-podcast-180-welcome-to-night-vale-150-the-birthday-of-lee-marvin/

On this week's Night Vale recap it’s time to grab a plate of imaginary corn with some theoretical butter and celebrate the birthday of Lee Marvin and...wait, hang on....we've been here before. TWICE.

https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/12/binary-system-podcast-156-wtnv-139-the-birthday-of-lee-marvin/

Night Vale gave us a treat for their 150th episode, and we got to hear a lot of familiar voices. But other than some shenanigans on the radio, everything seems back to normal in town. Just in time for Lee Marvin to do...something...

After that we sort out our pop-culture calendars and tally up the things we’ve watched (some of Good Omens, most of Black Mirror) and the things we need to watch (Jessica Jones, Toy Story 4, Men in Black 4, How To Train Your Dragon 3 NO WE HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET WHAT’S WRONG WITH US?)

This week's outro music is a clip from String Theory by Andre Jetson. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/binary-system-podcast-173-welcome-to-night-vale-146-the-birthday-of-lee-marvin/

Original broadcast date June 6, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/06/binary-system-podcast-179-wtnv-149-the-general/

On this week's Night Vale recap we talk about lost loves who start to reconnect, about fate and destiny and having to go to every living creature in the universe one by one by yourself in order to save existence and exactly how long that might take and OKAY THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT WE'RE HIDING UNDER THE BED AGAIN.

After that we fangirl about Good Omens and how we'd happily watch David Tennant read the phone book if he's also mugging for the camera in his demon contact lenses, and then we touch on the new Terminator: Dark Fate trailer, before finishing up with Snowpiercer because it only took Elizabeth five years to watch that one.

This week's outro music is a clip from Synthetic Stratosphere by TeknoAXE.  https://youtu.be/qcPfOuQvqy4

Yes iTunes as we know it is going away, but Apple will have a podcast app to replace it, which we're sure will include Binary System episodes automatically. (*crosses fingers*) But just in case, you can also find us on acast, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, our RSS feed, and podcatchers like podbay and Player FM.

Original broadcast date May 23, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/05/binary-system-podcast-178-wtnv-148-the-broadcaster/

The latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale features the triumphant return of radio host Leonard Burton, all on his lonesome in the radio booth.

And the town.

And possibly the universe.

Get yourself something comforting to drink - and possibly a night light - because the side-effects from the Blood Space War are really, really bad.

Needing a distraction after that, the twins share a theory they found about how the switch from a character-driven to a plot-driven story may have made this last season of Game of Thrones a completely different creature from the previous seven seasons. This led to a discussion of another character-driven story (Adam Warren's "Empowered" series), and a quick review of some artists who's styles have evolved over the years, some successfully, others...less so.

This week's outro music is a clip from Subspace by RAQIA. I highly recommend buying the song on Bandcamp; it's just as lovely as the one featured on the WTNV episode, but it also has an added violin track! https://raqia.bandcamp.com/track/subspace

The (spoiler-free) Twitter thread that gives a point-by-point argument for why the final season of Game of Thrones is making people angry starts here. https://twitter.com/DSilvermint/status/1125856091261136896

Original broadcast date May 16, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/05/binary-system-podcast-177-spider-man-homecoming/

The Binary System crew has finally caught up with all the Marvel movies! We...no, not Endgame, we watched that weeks ago. No, we finally watched Spider-Man: Homecoming! TWO YEARS after it came out. Honestly, we don't have an excuse, some kind of Toby Maguire burnout?

Anyway, it's a better-late-than-never episode, as we geek out over Tom Holland, the Vulture suit, MJ, and Ned "The Guy In The Chair" Leeds. After that we go over the  My Dad Wrote a Porno HBO special, Altered Carbon, the Hugo-nominated Record of a Spaceborn Few, and a possible short story involving diamonds, dirt, and zombies.

This week's outro music is a clip from the Spider-Man Homecoming theme by Benjamin Squires, hear the full song on his youtube feed. https://youtu.be/c2rgrqEFVKc