Through The Wind Door

Welcome to Part 2 of our Whitescarves Team-Up with the Horror Hulk, Nick Ord!

In this episode, we go into why he feels Let Them Go was heavily influenced by the Night of The Living Dead movies, talk some more about connections to other narratives and tropes, and honestly, laugh a lot along the way as we have fun letting our geek flag fly. Laughter is needed now.

Content Warning: State violence against black people are touched on briefly in the conversations due to elements of some of the movies. I feel its important to highlight this due to the ongoing protests involving real state sanction violence in the here and now, even if we don't delve too deeply - one bit from the original conversation was excised due to potentially insensitive and triggering content. #BlackLivesMatter

Potential spoilers for Night of the Living Dead '68, Night of the Living Dead '90, The Evil Dead '2013 and spoilers for most New Century novels excluding Uncivil Outlaw.

Midnight Movies Online can be found here:

https://midnightmoviesonline.wordpress.com/

Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire:

The Avengine Feminine - Introduction by Innuendo Studios:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes:

Intro is "The Avengers" by Alan Sylvestri

Outro is "Come With Me Now" by KONGOS

As promised, someone besides just us talking about New Century!

A longtime fan of School of Movies, but someone who only recently dove headfirst into the New Century Multiverse, Nick Ord has been on a creative kick doing his own writing and reviewing on a personal blog called Midnight Movies Online. Between that and being a very verbal fan as he tore through the New Century collection even faster than I did - plus a penchant for dicussing all things horror - I shone the image of a big White Scarf into the sky, and he answered the call!

This entry is part 1 of that conversation, and includes spoilers for Let Them Go and most of the other Phase 1 New Century stories (excluding Uncivil Outlaw).

Potential spoilers also for The Mist, The Shining, and Pitch Black.

Midnight Movies Online can be found here:

https://midnightmoviesonline.wordpress.com/

Intro is "The Avengers" by Alan Sylvestri

Outro is "Outro" by Evgeny Teilor

"If a weapon could be said at all to be haunted, this weapon could easily qualify. Haunted by memory, if not by spirits."

If you need a mental break from everything that's going on, join Greg and Toby for further discussion on the book Let Them Go, a story that brings us heroes that do triumph over the dark and don't give in to despair. Me? I'm fighting my despair by putting the episode out on time.

This episode may include more edits than usual: there were several vocal distortions that I don't yet know how to clean up properly, and a bunch of rambling that I replaced with more succinct passages. There's a number of heavy subjects we discuss along the way, but also get into the symbolism of a shotgun, the power of emotions and logic, and how our heroine prepares herself for the final showdown. Episode covers Chapters 10-12.

Trigger warning: this episode also discusses physical and emotional abuse on a personal and societal level.

#BlackLivesMatter

The New Century Multiverse Website:

https://www.newcenturymultiverse.com

The New Century Multiverse Podcast Feed:

https://newcenturyshow.podbean.com/

Fireside Alliance: https://firesidealliance.squarespace.com/

Intro is "Moonrise" by Chad Crouch

Outro is "Outro" by Evgeny Teilor

Used under Creative Commons Licence

"... because this story acts as the starting point for this whole series, it kind of has to convey the breakdown of everything."

Greg and Toby continue their analysis of Let Them Go, with the first four chapters of Part 2 of the novel. Here we do some more analysis of our heroes, discuss the importance of titles and how you meet or subvert expectations, the use of both diegetic sound and background music... and how in a horror narrative, it can always get worse before the end.

Spoilers for chapters 6-9. Potential spoilers for Harry Potter, Pitch Black, Aliens, and John Wick.

The New Century Multiverse Website:

https://www.newcenturymultiverse.com

The New Century Multiverse Podcast Feed:

https://newcenturyshow.podbean.com/

Fireside Alliance: https://firesidealliance.squarespace.com/

Intro is "Moonrise" by Chad Crouch

Outro is "Outro" by Evgeny Teilor

Used under Creative Commons Licence

"They made the everything go differently!"

Long after React World (who?) has come and gone, people are still making "X Reacts!" videos and posting them on YouTube.

We're not on YouTube, thank god. But we are massive geeks, and when Alex posts artwork online to whet our appetites for more New Century Multiverse, you bet your bones that we are going to have opinions!

Featuring the artwork of Antonio Torresan, Vicky Kuhn, Diogo Lopes, and Dios Revoredo, as well as the font skills of Alex himself, we are going to speculate the shit out of what comes next in Phase Two of New Century. We're here, we're nerds, and we're over 9000!

(Spoilers for all of New Century, including Uncivil Outlaw)

Art book (includes Stonespring Maidens cover) : 

https://twitter.com/NewCenturyShaw/status/1259789385198899201?s=19

Panther Man Speed Draw: 

https://twitter.com/NewCenturyShaw/status/1256223055774392324?s=19

Titles: 

https://twitter.com/NewCenturyShaw/status/1255256974545084416?s=19

V Kuhn and D Lopes: 

https://twitter.com/NewCenturyShaw/status/1259788659437568001?s=19

New Century Multiverse Timeline : 

https://www.newcenturymultiverse.com/exploring-the-worlds/2017/7/13/new-century-timeline

"In describing gods and monsters, we are describing our values."

Greg and Toby begin their deep dive into Let Them Go, the New Century Multiverse prequel published in 2018. Analysis includes a brief dip into the gothic genre, mythology archetypes, analysis of our primary characters, and much more. Spoilers for Prologue and chapters 1-5.

Trigger warning for new readers: the inciting incident of the story involves a brief depiction of suicide. This episode does not discuss this topic in depth, as the conversation was excised to be uploaded separately to be considerate to others.

Audio excerpts taken from:

https://newcentury.bandcamp.com/album/new-century-let-them-go

The New Century Multiverse books and audio dramas can be found on:

https://www.newcenturymultiverse.com

Outro is "Outro" by Evgeny Teilor

Both are available on:

http://freemusicarchive.org

Toby is @TJungius on Twitter

This episode explains the impetus for Through The Wind Door, the history of hosts Greg and Toby with the New Century Multiverse, a brief explanation of the series, and what we hope to accomplish.

https://www.newcenturymultiverse.com

Intro is "Moonrise" by Chad Crouch

Outro is "Outro" by Evgeny Teilor

Available on http://freemusicarchive.org

Greg is @MightyGregDoge on Twitter

Toby is @TJungius on Twitter