Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date August 18, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/08/binary-system-podcast-48-wtnv-92-if-he-had-lived/

This week's episode of Welcome to Night Vale was so wonderfully weird, such a jewel of strangeness, we're just going to dance around the details in the recap because we really really want you to listen to it yourself. Instead we discuss the additional weirdness that is The Last Days of New Paris, and Saga, the beautiful art of Civil War 2, and how last month's issue of Transformers More Than Meets The Eye ripped our hearts out. Seriously, IDW, how could you? (We don't want you to stop, but seriously. Ow.)

You can listen to episodes of Welcome To Night Vale here. http://podbay.fm/show/536258179

Original broadcast date August 11, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/08/binary-system-podcast-47-wtnv-91-the-1237/

If all the news stories about travel delays are getting you down, you'll be happy to hear that the 12:37 to Night Vale has arrived right on time! Well, one hundred years late. On tracks that don't exist anymore. At a station that was torn down and turned into a baseball field decades ago. Oh, and no one who goes inside has been heard from since. All aboard!

Listen in as the twins dissect the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale, then ramble some rambles about Stranger Things, Suicide Squad, Zootopia, Batman v Superman, Inception, Niagara Falls, fan art, and maybe just a little bit of Pokemon Go, and how to pretend that's not what you're doing with your phone.

Also the day after recording Kathryn found this amazing Huntokarr fan art by hisclockworkservants on tumblr.

You can listen to episodes of Welcome To Night Vale here. http://podbay.fm/show/536258179

Original broadcast date July 28, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/07/binary-system-podcast-46-sdcc-2016-debrief/

Elizabeth's back from San Diego Comic-Con and Kathryn's had a cold kicking her butt for a week so we're both brain dead and rambling. That's the kind of podcast we like best. (No one who knows us is surprised.)

Listen in as we debrief on Nerdigras (Nerd Mecca if you will) and spaz out about Civil War II, Dave McKean, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Doctor Strange, Moffat, and more.

Original broadcast date July 21, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/07/binary-system-podcast-45-alice-isnt-dead-10-thistle/

It's the season finale of "Alice Isn't Dead" and as much as we liked it, what we REALLY liked was the Disparition song they used at the end (we put a clip at the end of this podcast, it has a hammer dulcimer, we love it.)

After that we had to address this whole ridiculous Pokemon Go thing. Yes, we both created accounts. Don't judge. Also if you're going to cheat while incubating your eggs, please don't put your phone in bad places. Just saying.

And if you've been taking photos of your pokemon sitting on people's heads or eating their food, you're a very silly person, and we'd like to see your pictures.

You can listen to episodes of Alice Isn't Dead right here. http://podbay.fm/show/1088978354

Original broadcast date July 14, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/07/binary-system-podcast-44-within-the-wires-1/

Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus for the whole month. And since none of the Night Vale people know what the word "hiatus" means, they gave us a whole new series to recap. This week the twins listened to the first episode of Within the Wires, which seems to be a guided meditation for a mental institution. In the future? Hard to say. Apparently we were turned into a bug.

Then we went over the finer points of Doctor Who costumes, Pacific Rim, Battle Angel, Penny Dreadful, and that scary subsection of the internet that believes Hiddleston and Cumberbatch are victims of a giant conspiracy to put them in fake relationships to...make them..more popular? Or something? No, don't explain, we don't want to know...

Oh, and turns out we don't have to pay $99 for a sonic screwdriver. Hot Topic to the rescue. http://www.hottopic.com/product/doctor-who-the-eleventh-doctors-sonic-screwdriver/146515-000.html?cgid=pop-culture-shop-by-license-doctor-who#srule=sortingPriceHighToLow&sz=120&start=40

You can listen to episodes of Within the Wires right here. http://podbay.fm/show/1121391184

Original broadcast date July 7, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/07/binary-system-podcast-42-an-alice-isnt-dead-twofer/

Because we're two episodes behind in our recap, this week you get two recaps for the price of one. And since each episode of Alice Isn't Dead was heavy on atmosphere and light on plot, that takes about 15 minutes. We fill up the other 13 minutes with Luther, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, designer toys, and the scary (but strangely familiar) (if you've ever tried to get SDCC tickets) process of buying New York Comic-Con tickets. (Spoilers: we're going to NYCC! Woo!!)

Original broadcast date June 30, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-42-the-answer-to-wait-what-was-the-question/

No recap this week because...well, because excuses, but Night Vale is on hiatus and Time Warner's dropping half of North Carolina into an internet black hole and California is still (last time we checked) three hours behind the East Coast, so scheduling and technical difficulties and are you still reading this? We love you. Have 15 minutes of random ramblings.

And, for your comparison, the Luther intro:

https://youtu.be/m_Qg1pQSOa0

and the Jessica Jones intro:

https://youtu.be/oBb--vPwEho

(Mind you, many many people have noticed this already. But we're notoriously bad at TV and it took us till now to see it.)

Original broadcast date June 23, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-41-wtnv-90-whos-a-good-boy-part-2/

The chaos in Night Vale comes to a crashing finale as the whole town joins in the battle. In the end, what happened? We can't tell you. Seriously. We have no idea. Lots of opinions though.

After the recap we were all over the place, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Civil War II, Saga, Cowboy Bebop, Lucifer, the Fall, and any other distraction we could fit in a half hour.

Original broadcast date June 16, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-40-wtnv-89-whos-a-good-boy-part-1/

"Who's a good boy?" Not really a question that you'd expect to strike fear in the hearts of podcast listeners. But it does.

Once we shook off the Welcome To Night Vale heebie-jeebies we talked about Daredevil and The Fall, and then about the final seasons of Hannibal and True Blood, which we haven't watched yet because some streaming platforms are biding their time. And by biding their time we mean stingy and by some we mean Amazon Prime.

You can listen to episodes of Welcome To Night Vale here. http://podbay.fm/show/536258179

Original broadcast date June 9, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-39-alice-isnt-dead-6-lets-break-into-a-police-station/

This week we recap the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead and ask the question: if you're not a criminal mastermind, how do you break into a police station? (Answer: loudly. Before you can change your mind.)

We also discuss how season two of Hannibal is just amazing, and how season six of True Blood is just godawful.

You can listen to episodes of Alice Isn't Dead here. http://podbay.fm/show/1088978354