Trash & Treasures

Not to be contained by the first of April, Go Crows returns! We're making a proper go of it, but the title stuck. Apologies to all the other theoretical podcasts about Smallville that might have come before us.

Our three-episode spread this time leads us on a merry chase through The Fly, an episode that's just about Good, Actually; and an evil lesbian to serve as immediate punishment for enjoying ourselves.

As always, Lex is our special boy. Because somehow this show fucked up so hard that the billionaire business owner is the most sympathetic character.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, misogyny, homophobia, incest, bullying, stalking, and abuse.

1:00 Last Time, on Smallville

6:00 Monsters of the Week

25:00 The Heart of the Show

30:00 And That's Terrible

37:30 The Boombox

44:00 Serial Numbers Filed Off

48:00 Final Thoughts

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Our intro is "Slow Burn" by Kevin McLeod.

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This documentary was delivered right to our doorstep with a stamp that said "your brand": the tale of a late-night comedy writer and how he stumbled into the enormous and yet nearly lost world of the industrial musical, multi-million dollar shows put on for corporations and never meant to be seen by society at large. Which is a crime, because "My Bathroom" is a work of aural genius.

"Design for Dreaming" MST3K short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91GELINmKo

1:00 Documentary Dive

7:00 The Industrial Musical

11:00 The Hunt for Records

17:00 Big Names in the Game

20:00 Bursting Your (Economic) Bubble

24:00 Living the Small Fandom Dream

32:00 Preservation Across Mediums

38:00 On Brand

43:00 Should You Watch This

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In which a longtime Phantom fan and someone who doesn't even go here read a published fanfic that hits all the notes of being BAD fanfic, including: a sequel that the original didn't need, killing off characters for no reason, magically adding babies that make no sense, and turning the canon love interest into an asshole because they're in the way of your preferred ship. And then there are the GENERAL bad book problems, like bad pacing and a complete disdain for women.

Anyway, then it got made into a multi-million dollar musical. Because Andrew Lloyd Webber gets away with that kind of shit. Oh, and Forsyth is a pro-Brexit shitstain going back over a decade so y'know, fuck him in general outside of the bad book.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child sexual exploitation, gaslighting, ableism, misogyny, racism, and antisemitism

Feminist Analysis of Christine: https://ninjagiry.tumblr.com/post/119216381093/christine-daae-an-actual-feminist-critique-by

“Man’s Hatred Has Made Me So”: Freakification and the Shifting Gaze in The Phantom of the Opera(1925): http://bsuenglish.com/dlrOLD/past/issue3_hampshire.pdf

"Pitiful Creature of Darkness": The Subhuman and the Superhuman in The Phantom of the Opera: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=music_books

1943 Claude Rains Adaptation: https://archive.org/details/PHANTOMOFTHEOPERANtsc

Fantomestein Comic: http://fantomestein.com/

1:00 The History of Published Fanfic

11:00 No True Phantom

21:00 The Overlooked Christine

28:00 The World's Pettiest Foreword

34:00 Erik, Coney Island Clown

45:00 Saga of the Busted Dick

51:00 POV Hell

55:00 THAT Romance Novel Plot

61:00 Love Refuses to Die

71:00 Should You Read This

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"Wait, wasn't this week supposed to be Good Manners?"

Weeeeeeell, we ran into a little trouble. Mostly in that Good Manners isn't about LADY werewolves.

Instead, we decided to take a look at Blood & Chocolate, a movie based on a popular proto-YA novel in that it shares some character names. It might not be a GOOD movie, but it managed to surprise us with its rejection of toxic masculinity in a genre known for dickweed alpha males.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of stalking, sexual assault, animal death, racism and incest/pedophilia.

Good Manners Article: https://www.themantle.com/arts-and-culture/horror-motherhood-and-brazilian-manners-boas-maneiras

0:30 About Good Manners...

4:00 The Source Book

7:30 Creepy Incest Uncle

15:00 This Nice Art Boy

20:00 Pack Drama

34:00 Checking in on Bookland

41:00 Wish Fulfillment vs. Toxic Masculinity

48:00 Should You Watch This

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Entry two in our exploration of the werewolf genre is a big ol' puberty metaphor and a fantastic celebration of being weird, goth, and just a little bit pretentious as a teenager. Not to mention the great acting.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, queerphobia, animal death, and mass shootings

1:00 Production Info

7:00 The Role of Women in Horror

10:00 Here's to Weird Girls

18:30 Werewolf Puberty

20:30 Columbine's Effects

24:00 The Horror of Bodies

30:00 Men as Predators and Victims

39:00 Oops, It Escalated

49:00 Lost and Buried Threads

54:00 The Longest Final Battle

58:00 Should You Watch This

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It's that time of year again, where we put our spookiest foot forward and our horror history hats on. And since we're a podcast full of vampire fans, we thought we'd step out of our comfort zone and try out some of those werewolves we've heard so much about.

This week we're joined by media critic Jourdain Searles to shine a light on the horror classic that was unfortunately overshadowed by An American Werewolf in London when it came out and makes stellar use of the werewolf as a metaphor for grappling with trauma.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, misogyny, violence toward women and body horror

Jourdain's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jourdayen

Bad Romance Podcast: http://badromance.libsyn.com/

1:00 Werewolves and Movies

11:00 The Plot

18:00 Werewolves and Sexuality

32:00 Ripped from the Headlines

38:00 The Dearth of Queer and Female Werewolves

47:00 Should You Watch This

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It's our third anniversary! We decided to celebrate by talking about Hannibal Lecter's (excuse us, "Lecktor") first appearance on film. And if that gives us lots of opportunities to also talk about a certain Bryan Fuller...well, that's just a lucky coincidence, isn't it?

But seriously, Manhunter is pretty great, and responsible for the aesthetic of forensic dramas as we know them today.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of misogyny, sexualized violence/stalking, homophobia, and animal death

Cleolinda's Hannibal Recaps: https://cleolinda.dreamwidth.org/1006235.html

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0:30 The Legacy of Hannibal

12:30 The Big Crew Names

22:30 Sad Profiler Man's One Last Job

27:30 Noonan's Dollarhyde

31:00 Freddy v Freddie

36:00 WIlgram

39:30 Hannibal: Walking Intrusive Thought

47:00 Deviant Sexuality and the Family Unit

55:00 BEST DEATH

59:00 Reba

65:00 Finale Roulette

72:00 Should You Watch This

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Every bad book club eventually succumbs to the allure of Crichton, so we picked ourselves a doozy: a seafaring adventure about how everything would be better if all those minorities would just calm down and let a rational straight white man make all the decisions.

Anyway, Dorothy insists this is the least eye-melting title she could've chosen. But we did remember to recommend some nicer, better things at the end this time.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, misogyny, victim-blaming, fat-shaming, and homophobia.

1:00 The Crichton Oeuvre

7:45 Drink Menu

9:00 The Deceptively Fun Hook

15:00 Assembling the Crew

24:00 Spooky Shit at the Bottom of the Sea

33:00 And the Real Boogeyman was Identity Politics

38:00 When Even English Majors Know Your Technobabble is Bad

45:00 One Last Narrative Middle Finger

50:00 Crichton Fuckery Round-Up

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This week stumbled into yet another production oddity--the 2000 film that was meant to promote World Championship Wrestling (WCW) but ended up effectively bankrupting it instead, leaving the WWE as the only big-name player in town. Now, we think wrestling is pretty neat but our knowledge of it is...uh. Limited, shall we say. So we had to call in a ringer to tell us all the cool wrestling history facts and references in this Arthurian quest narrative.

Or: wow, this held up so much better than the last movie from the turn of the century movie we tried to rewatch!

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of homophobia, transphobia, and anti-worker practices

Last Week Tonight on Wrestling('s lack of) Insurance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs

History of the Golden Lovers: https://medium.com/we-need-to-talk-about-wrestling/that-one-tweet-thread-about-the-golden-lovers-annotated-e9fc604e3a7f

2:30 Why Wrestling is Rad

9:00 FUCKIN LUSK, WY

17:00 Wrestling History Corner

25:00 A Noble Quest

32:00 When It's Good...

38:30 Women Nominally Existing

46:00 TRIPLE CAGE MATCH

54:00 Should You Watch This

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The post-LOTR fantasy boom was a strange time. It inspired Hollywood to pick up dozens of fantasy novels and cram them into three-act Hollywood adaptations whether or not much remained of the original work by the end. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it...really, really didn't.

Wow, this movie hates women more than we remembered, huh?

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, slavery and misogyny

That Good Omens Meta Dorothy Threatened: https://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/186064839073/funny-if-we-both-got-it-wrong-the-thematic

1:00 Gaiman History

9:00 The Mid-00s Fantasy Boom

18:00 Nice Guy Tristan

23:00 Wacky Murder Shenanigans

27:00 All Bicker, No Charm

37:00 So....Shakespeare

47:00 Third Act Misunderstanding

53:00 Brand New Ending

60:00 AND ONE MORE THING

67:00 Should You Watch This

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