Binary System Podcast

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Special guest Hannah Wallace returns this week as we break down everything we loved about Fleabag! Massive spoiler warnings of course, because we can’t talk about all the fourth-wall breaks, the horrible Godmother, the sex, and most definitely the Hot Priest without spoiling everything. Along the way there’s also tangents into British podcasts, Irish television, and Scottish castles.

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Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

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This week’s intro music is a clip from the Fleabag soundtrack written by Isobel Waller-Bridge. The outro music is a clip from Flea Circus by Lemur.

The actress Elizabeth was trying to think of, the one who looks like Fleabag’s sister? She was thinking of Indira Varma, who keeps dying in shows we like. (Fleabag’s sister is played by Sian Clifford, who also looks like Michelle Evans-Fecci from Great British Baking Show.)

Here’s links to Pop Culture Happy Hour and Guilty Feminist, which Hannah highly recommends.

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Last week we made a plan for catching up on all the amazing content out there, and this week? We got caught up! KIDDING. Of course we didn’t, but we watched some things, and liked them a lot. Listen in as we talk about Fleabag Season 1, Doctor Who, The Crown Season 3, James May: Our Man in Japan, the Oscar Noms, and why on EARTH did they cancel Limetown?

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This week’s outro music is a clip from XXV by Broke For Free.

Correction: we mentioned that we hadn’t watched the first episode of Picard. At time of recording, it wasn’t out yet. But by the time you listen to this episode, it will be, and we can almost definitely guarantee we haven’t watched it yet. BUT WE WILL.

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The holidays are over, and convention season doesn’t get geared up for a few weeks, so now’s the time for us to get caught up on all the things we’ve been meaning to watch because we are so, so bad at TV and movies.

Listen in as we set up our homework for the next month, including the Mandalorian, Fleabag, Toy Story 4, Frozen II, Ad Astra, Parasite, Devs, Doctor Who, and the Repair Shop from the BBC, plus some random comments on Reylo fan art, Great British Bake Off, 3D printers, and the Harleen series. (We also mention Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, both of which we know we should watch, but we’re just not feeling it, so we probably won’t. Is that bad?)

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This week’s outro music is a clip from Love Is Not by Broke For Free.

 

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Okay this is disconcerting: we actually managed to watch a major motion picture within three weeks of the release date, instead of waiting three months (or years. Sometimes it’s years.) Have we turned over a new leaf or have we been replaced by alien pod people YOU DECIDE.

Major spoilers ahoy as we recap Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker, spending an equal amount of time nitpicking the things we didn’t like and fangirling over all the things we did.

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This week’s intro music is a clip from Far Out’s remix of the Force Theme. The outro is a clip from ShiryuGL’s “Star Wars Episode IV: A Chiptune Home” and you guys seriously you have to go listen to the whole album, it’s glorious. It’s also available for purchase on bandcamp! Go throw money at them!

 

Out of all the accidental noises in this episode (bumped mics, cats, distant planes, etc) the most noticeable was the fan on Elizabeth’s laptop, which always managed to kick on while she was speaking so it couldn’t be cut out, and was so close to the mic it picked up every time. Elizabeth’s making a note to put the mic someplace else.

And for anyone wondering, Elizabeth did check in with Andrew: he still dislikes The Last Jedi, and he enjoyed The Rise of Skywalker much more than he thought he would.

 

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It took us a month to finally watch the How To Train Your Dragon holiday special, but since it took us the better part of a year to watch the final movie, that’s, like, practically on time for us. Yes? No? Hello? Is this thing on?

Listen in as we recap How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, and then break down the whole fake holiday trope that fantasy/sci-fi writers like so much, and then admit that while we haven’t seen Rise of Skywalker yet we totally will we’re just very nervous because the reviews are all over the place.

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This week’s outro music is a clip from Auld Lang Syne by Lovebyte.

 

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We knew this was going to be a crazy episode of Welcome to Night Vale when Cecil said he was going to take us to the weather…and then he talked about the weather! ISN’T THAT CRAZY? (And don’t even get us started on the sports section…)

After a chilling Night Vale episode (literally chilling. It was cold.) we also talked about the final issue of Stjepan Šejić’s Harleen, and the very specific reason why Elizabeth won’t be going to see Knives Out.

 

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This week’s outro music is a clip from Christmas on Mars by Spinningmerkaba. (We used it exactly a year ago, but until we find a sci-fi Christmas song we like more than this one, we’re gonna keep using it.)

Correction: we said Dad wasn’t admitted after the treatment for a subdural hematoma where they drilled into his head. They totally admitted him. For like, two days. In our defense, it’s getting hard to keep track…

 

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Night Vale’s annual Cat Show is here and there’s really no competition because everybody knows Khoshekh is THE BEST CAT EVER. (Though one of the competitors is named Dumpster and we’ve gotta admit that’s a cool name for a cat.)

Listen in as we gleefully recap all the havoc, followed up by some quick thoughts on the newest season of The Crown, Martin Scorsese’s Irishman, and the wrap up of the November Dragonfall Drawing Challenge.

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This week’s outro music is a clip from Bachelor of Hearts by Aurora Borealis.

The first DesignerCon 2019 photo gallery by Elizabeth is here, and the second photo gallery by Stephanie is here.

You can find the info on Kathryn’s #Dragonfall drawing challenge here!

 

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The three-part Night Vale story of cryogenics and robots comes to a close this week, with an ending that was surprising, abrupt, and intensely creepy. We loved it. (Probably goes without saying but just in case SPOILERS AHOY!)

After the recap we debriefed on this year’s DesignerCon, and the final few days of Kathryn’s #DragonFall drawing challenge.

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This week’s outro music is a clip from Asset House by Six Umbrellas.

The first DesignerCon 2019 photo gallery by Elizabeth is here, and the second photo gallery by Stephanie is here.

You can find the info on Kathryn’s #Dragonfall drawing challenge here!

 

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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

200 episodes in and WE FINALLY HAVE A PLAN! (For one episode. Enjoy it while it lasts!)

If you know us, you’ll know we love us some shippy goodness. For the non-nerds (or anyone who hasn’t listened to this podcast) (or met us) that means we’ll decide that two characters in a movie, network TV show, book, comic book, webcomic, or 1980s cartoon are meant for each other and we’ll obsessively track down fan art and fan fiction about them, and if we can’t find any, we’ll make some ourselves.

If that sounds like your cup of tea, buckle up, because in this episode we discuss over thirty of our favorite pairings, from Star Trek, Star Wars, Transformers, X-Men, Doctor Who, ElfQuest, Vampire Diaries, West Wing (yes really), MacGyver (YES OKAY SHUT UP) and a lot more. Trigger warnings for vague references to cartoon smut, and the blatant objectification of several handsome male celebrities.

And whether you’ve listened to 200 episodes or just the one, thank you for stopping by, you’re awesome.

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This week’s outro music is a clip from Underground Revolution by TeknoAXE.

A good companion to this episode is the Lost in Sci Fi “Fan Fiction” episode we recorded with Leland and Jada.

All our obsessive thorough coverage of Friday the 13th the series is here, here, here, and here. (Or you can go to the Friday the 13th tag on the site, but that’s going to get some Jason stuff in there too.)

The New Teen Titans issue we talked about was #39 from 1988, with art by Eduardo Barreto (pencils), Romeo Tanghal (inker), and Adrienne Roy (colors.)

The Mazikeen/Beatrice fanfic Kathryn was talking about can be found here.

You can find the info on Kathryn’s #Dragonfall drawing challenge here!

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That’s right, it’s one of our favorite movie series, about one of our favorite things, the movie we waited five years for them to make…and it only took us eight months to watch it. FINALLY.

Massive great big SPOILERS ahoy as we break down everything we loved about How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. (The animation! The cave world! The romance! The fight scenes! The bit where Toothless does the dance!)

And then, once we started repeating ourselves, we switched gears to talk about Bojack Horseman, Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea, North Carolina Comicon, and what the heck do you call a four book series? 

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This week’s outro music is a clip from the Hidden World soundtrack by John Powell.

Here’s the Kit Harington/Toothless promo, because it’s the best.

Here’s a link to the Ruffnut/Fishlegs fan art Elizabeth was talking about, which the artist drew back in 2010.

Turns out you call a four book series a “quartet” or a “tetralogy” if you’re feeling fancy. 

Here’s a link to the Tea Dragon Society Kathryn was talking about.

Correction: Elizabeth mentioned Fishlegs crying at the funeral. She meant wedding! She always does that!

You can find the info on Kathryn’s #Dragonfall drawing challenge here!

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