Kids these days don’t understand traditional TV, and the reason for that is the mass adoption of online streaming services,

Kids these days don’t understand traditional TV, and the reason for that is the mass adoption of online streaming services, and with all of the new geeky shows out there it would be impossible to watch all of them without the streaming services. Everyone has different methods and on this episode we share ours. After the news and scheduling we talk about the Good, bad and ugly of cord cutting; the quick, cheap, and good philosophy and the difference between Cord Cutters, Nevers and Shavers. We also talk about a couple of kids who didn’t understand how watching movies from the internet actually works.

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Celebrity Deaths David Bowie, Alan Rickman and Others

Jessica Jones Season 2 From Jeff

Doctor Who not on Netflix after Jan

Comic Shop selling ALL marvel books for $200,000

http://www.newsarama.com/27520-got-tony-stark-money-you-could-own-every-marvel-comic-book-ever.html

Scheduling

CW TV Shows back this week (Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow)

Trogdor is 13 years old

Batman 66’s 50th anniversary

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/12/entertainment/batman-50-anniversary-burt-ward-feat/index.html?linkId=20289039

Follow up

Heroes Reborn Cancelled – Jan 21 last episode

Feedback

Teen Wolf – Last week we asked what your Favorite Geeky soap operas were and we were put in our place for dismissing Teen Wolf. Check out the comments at http://www.FandomPodcast.com/46 for some great reasons to watch the show 

We asked for a Youtube Video of how to pronounce Kevin Feige’s last name and Jeff Dumas delivered, it is pronounced Figh – Gee. Now you will never have to hear me make my dumb pronunciation jokes about his name ever again.

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How and Why we Cord Cut

Watch what you want, were you want on whatever device you want, just make sure you have good internet to do it on.

Our Hardware

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-Computer / Windows 10

-Apple TV

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-iPhone

Pros and Cons of Services

-Netflix

-Hulu

–Amazon

-Vudu

-YouTube/Google Play

-Disney Movies Anyhwere

-CBS All Access

-HBO Go/Now

-Plex/DLNA

-Danger of Torrents and P2P file sharing (No Pro does not make it legal)

-VLC

-WWE / Sports

Bandwidth Considerations, Make sure to keep an eye on your data caps and usage.

Other Resources

Cord Killers Podcast – www.CordKillers.com

Call for Feedback: What’s in your setup?

 

Have you ever made fun of Soap Operas? How about Professional Wrestling? If so you might be a little shocked when you listen to this episode and discover how many of our favorite geeky tv shows are essentially soap operas. We go over what makes a soap opera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera) and then see if those characteristics apply to many of our favorite TV shows such as The Walking Dead, The Flash, The Arrow, Gotham, Agents of SHIELD and even Doctor Who. Which shows are basically Soap Operas with Ninjas and which ones brush off the tired tropes? Well for the answer you will have to listen to the episode, but we will give you one free hint … “You Have Failed This Genre!”

Our Trivia Question for this week is, which classic TV show and Movie does Nik get the name “August Christopher” from for many of his video game characters. Reply to this episode post for a chance to win!

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1 – Netflix Plans to do clean edits of material http://flip.it/sB4Je

2 – Steven Moffat on the lookout for new Doctor Who show runner http://flip.it/68K3p

3 – Chronicles of Shannara premiered on MTV http://www.mtv.com/shows/shannara

What did you think? Do you have any news stories that you would like us to discuss? How about your shows, did they make the Soap Opera Cut or do they stay something unique? We want to know! Get in touch with us!

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Top news

Star Wars News – George Lucas White Slaver Comment http://geektyrant.com/news/george-lucas-apologizes-for-comparing-disney-to-white-slavers

 

Star Trek Axanar getting sued http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/crowdfunded-star-trek-movie-draws-851474

 

Black Panther will be geo political

http://geektyrant.com/news/kevin-feige-says-black-panther-will-be-a-big-geopolitical-action-adventure-film

 

Support us / Value for Value (Not All support is monetary)

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Changes / Feedback

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2015 A Look Back

Memorial – Leonard Nimoy, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Yvonne Craig & Wes Craven, Sir Christopher Lee

Best Movies – The Martian, Inside Out, Star Wars, Ant Man

Best Video Game – Batman Arkham Knight & Kings Quest Chronicles, Elder Scrolls Online

Best Series TV – Netflix Series (J.Jones & Daredevil) Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Doctor Who. Heroes Reborn

Best Book / Comic Book – Ms. Marvel, Way of Kings

 

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Thanks for listening to the Fandom Podcast. Just as a reminder we are working on the schedule for the new year. If you have any suggestions head over to FandomPodcast.com/contact and let us know what you think we should cover.

 

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Hey and Thanks for listening to the Fandom Podcast! This Announcement is to let you know that with the New Year we want to make some changes. One of those changes is moving the date that we drop our podcast to Tuesday or Wednesday. Let us know what you think of the New Bat Time, Same Bat Channel, because we do this for you.

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Hello Sweeties! Christmas Day has come and gone and all good Whovians knows what that means! It’s the Doctor Who Christmas Special. This year that special is named, “The Husbands of River Song” and so you’ve guessed it we are going to talk about the notorious Professor River Song and then after the Spoiler Alert goes off we will be talking about what we thought about this episode.

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Star Wars the Force Awakens makes a billion dollars internationally

Buzz Aldrin is coming to Salt Lake City Comic Con FanX

Nik tries to explain the appeal of Deadpool to Branden

League of Legends designs their characters with cosplayers in mind

The Timeline of River Song 

A Good Man Goes to War (2011) – Melody Pond is born

The Impossible Astronaut (2011) – young Melody is raised in an orphanage

Day of the Moon (2011) – Melody regenerates into Mels

Let’s Kill Hitler (2011) – Mels regenerates into River

Closing Time (2011) – River gets her doctorate, is kidnapped by the Silence

The Wedding of River Song/The Impossible Astronaut (2011)– River breaks time, marries the

Doctor and then helps heal it for the events of The Impossible Astronaut

First Night (minisode, 2011) – River is incarcerated for the murder of the Doctor, but goes

on her first evening trip with him

Last Night (minisode, 2011) – a version of River from five years in the future interacts with her younger self

A Good Man Goes to War (2011)

The Impossible Astronaut (2011)

Day of the Moon (2011)

The Pandorica Opens (2010)

The Big Bang (2010) – River helps the Doctor save the universe

Time of the Angels (2010)

Flesh and Stone (2010)

Wedding of River Song (2011) – River visits her parents Amy and Rory in their garden

Last Night (minisode, 2011) – an older version of River is heading to the towers of

Darillium with the Doctor, but he apparently later backs out

The Angels Take Manhattan (2012) – River sees her parents trapped in the past

The Husbands of River Song (2015) – River teams up with the Twelfth Doctor but doesn’t recognise him

Silence in the Library (2008) – River meets the Tenth Doctor, who hasn’t met her yet

Forest of the Dead (2008) – River dies, but the Tenth Doctor “saves” her as a data ghost

The Name of the Doctor (2013) – River’s data ghost finally says goodbye to the Eleventh Doctor

The Husbands of River Song (2015) – The First time River meets the 12th Doctor.

Star Wars Episode 7 came out on Thursday and in this episode we go full on Spoiler Zone.  DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS UNITL YOU HAVE SEEN Star Wars Episode 7.  You have been Warned!  And in order to keep you spoiler free these show notes will be extremely vague.  So in this episode we talk about some crazy fan theories, and talk about why we love this little space drama.  To help explain more of the finer points of this story we recommend getting the Novelization free from Audible by using the link www.FandomPodcast.com/Audible.

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In this world there are some things that we should let others experience for themselves.  One of the things is Star Wars Episode 7.  Come join us  at www.Facebook.com/groups/StarWarsChat to discuss Star Wars without accidentally Spoilering your friends and family.  Let us know what you thought!

Star Wars Episode 7 comes out in less than a week and so we spend some time nerding out about Star Wars. Did you know that George Lucas almost cast Freddy Kreuger? Or that Alec Guiness was not the first choice to be Obi Wan Kenobi? We talk about some of the actors and actresses that almost got cast and then committ Heresy by recasting the sacred works known as Star Wars. Who did Betty White get cast as? You’ll have to listen to find out!

Top News (https://fandompodcast.com/FlipBoard)

1. LucasFilm claims copyright infringement over picture of toy that was sold early

2. Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is the company’s first Box Office Flop.

3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King is being adapted to television by Hulu and is first Airing on President’s Day weekend (Get A Free copy of the book from Audible)

It’s getting close to Christmas, avoid the holiday crowds and help support our show by shopping at Amazon. Make sure to bookmark www.FandomPodcast.com/Amazon and with all the time you saved enjoy some free Christmas videos streamed from Prime such as Batman the Animated Series Season 1 Episode 2 (Christmas with the Joker)

We live in a Golden age of media and three TV Shows just wrapped up that we dive into. We go full spoiler mode and talk about Doctor Who (23:15), Jessica Jones (52:39) and The Walking Dead (1:19:02). We could have probably dedicated an entire episode to each show, but wanted to get our reviews out for you. We talk about where Doctor Who comes from and where he’s going and how do Timelords keep track of who is who, and then in Jessica Jones we have a few fan theories to explain how things end up, and with The Walking dead we discuss whether the comics are spoilers, Alexandria, the dumpster and of course NEGAN!

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Our Top News Stories can be found on www.FandomPodcast.com/Flipboard and are

1 – Batman V. Superman trailer dropped and left most of us wanting for a better trailer.

2 – Samurai Jack is Returning to the Cartoon Network for New Episodes

3 – George Lucas finally finds a PR person who doesn’t let him just say what he wants

On This Episode

Branden Ushio

Nik English

Jeff Dumas

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