Word of The Witnesses: 12 Monkeys Rewatch Podcast

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Word of The Witnesses: 12 Monkeys Rewatch Podcast episodes

November 18, 2019 Nothing is Written - 12 Monkeys 3.10
Beep & CC are joined by Meagan to discuss 3.10 “Witness”
Finales & the element of surprise
Hopeful hopelessness
How Athan mirrors Cassie & Cole
Witnesses
Then all that we do matters
The finales collectively tell a story
You can never go home again
Psycho Gypsy Pirate
The clues in red tea vision
We are not watching the hands
She has never been anywhere that she didn’t want to be
Mother, Father
God save the king!
December 26, 1959
You were nothing
Whoever you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow
The Jones family reunion
The only failure is giving up
You can’t have him
The witness has returned
I beat you
Save the dying man
Mother Jennifer
The cycle of save the one
The symbolism of a broken clock
When you return to Titan…
“Holy sh*t”
I wish I could have known you
Another Life
Nothing is written
Surely you’ve realized by now
That is why you will lose
You are better
She has
There once was a serpent
2 hr 26 min
November 04, 2019 Stealing Time with Terry and Sean - 12 Monkeys 3.09
Join CC & Beep as we discuss Thief with Terry Matalas and Sean Tretta.
1 hr 21 min
October 21, 2019 Nothing Bad Could Come From This - 12 Monkeys 3.08
Beep & CC are joined by Alisha to discuss 3.08 “Masks”
The dream combo of sci fi & period drama
This is when we flail about the production values
What period dramas & 12 Monkeys have in common
An ode to Rupert Graves & James Callis
Literal & metaphorical masks
Raising Athan
The creation of the Word of the Witness
Athan’s visions
Just another loop
Two Coles are better than one
Deacon could use a hug
Jennifer is the monkey in the middle
Debate Club: Team Casserole vs. Team Jones
Super Nay!
Casserole Victorian date night
Art eternal
Nothing bad could come from this
James Cole finally got game
Hello Constance!
The waltzes of the ball
So mad and so fancy
Family Jones… assemble!
Apologies issued in blood
We haven’t done anything that you wouldn’t have done
I’ve known in my life two great agonies
This is the part when you run
Locking Jennifer up...again
Two pence for a pauper
Athan Cole unmasked!
Edgar Allen Poe & other rabbit holes
What we are watching right now
3 hr 5 min
October 07, 2019 Nurture with Christopher Monfette - 12 Monkeys 3.07
CC & Beep are joined by Christopher Monfette to discuss 307 Nurture.
2 hr 11 min
September 23, 2019 I’m Still Stuck In That Moment - 12 Monkeys 3.06
Beep & CC are joined by Selina to discuss 3.06 “Nature”
The perfect set up for Cassie’s arc
The significance of how we meet Athan
Nature & nurture
Cassie & Cole’s moral dilemma
Free will & the power of change in a time travel show
Reconsidering Agent Gale’s loop
Time as a thief
Why Cassie idealizes her perfect moment
A very different Christmas in the 1950s
The power of allowing a couple to struggle together
Foreshadowing Project Charon
Eliza!
Your name is on there. Mine’s not.
The Word of the Witness as a Rorschach test
Jennifer, Deacon & the missing piece
No one is gonna lock you up
Exploring primary powers
This is when we flail about Jennifer’s visions
The magic of watching S3 now that we know the puzzle from above
The whole family’s here
Could be read as platonic but why would you
We are what we were meant to be
I am not a redshirt
The tragedy of an encounter story
Does it make a difference?
The character based Casserole divide on Agent Gale
Saving the two dying men
The visuals of The Winter of Ash & Blood
Choosing the followers
The nurture of Pallid Boy
The many, many layers to the cemetery scene
I’m still stuck in that moment
The empathy of the salesman
Every faith promises something beyond this
People just want to believe that they have control
Cassie makes a change
Because to you he’s just an idea
The performative evangelism of the cult
The tragic childhood of Athan Cole
The Athan & Jennifer connection
“Fate”
“I can’t.”/”I can.”
Historical rabbit holes
2 hr 40 min
September 10, 2019 We've Been Here Before - Interview Highlights
Catch up on some of our past interview highlights with Terry Matalas, Amanda Schull, Alisen Down, Todd Stashwick, and Sean Tretta.
29 min
August 12, 2019 This is a robbery... finally - 12 Monkeys 3.05
Beep & CC are joined by Erin to discuss 3.05 “Causality”
An ode to “If I Could Turn Back Time”
The importance of letting the audience breathe
Different kinds of cause & effect
Fate, prophecy & free will in 12 Monkeys & Good Omens
Causality and nature vs. nurture
Secrets & their effect
His house of cedar & pine was about him
That’s a remarkably cogent plan, Ms. Goines
The episode that launched Jeacon (Dennifer?)
The machine can’t be moved
The ferryman’s one way trip
A celebration [i.e. tangent] of late 80s/early 90s power ballads & film
1989 NYC
The epic lobby entrance
Dad...dad...daddio
I don’t know who I’d be if not the kid whose mom tried to kill her
I find myself missing the talks we never had
I didn’t think you had it in you
Sam would’ve turned out the same way
The rare emotional honesty of the Casserole reunion
If there’s something wrong with him, he got it from me
You’re a good man
These are my steps!
What is a cotillion anyway?
Can’t you just be normal for once, Jennifer?
Your damage is not your destiny
And that will be the day she really starts to live
Ok, chicken
Your dad is an asshole
Jennifer’s choice
Love is the secret weapon
An ode to Christopher Lloyd
2 hr 42 min
July 22, 2019 I'll See You Soon - 12 Monkeys 3.04
Beep & CC are joined by Sarah to discuss 3.04 “Brothers”
Sarah enters the gauntlet
This was a long time coming
Flipping the script on one vs. the many
The missing page
Secrets are delicate & tenuous
A spiritual successor to The Sopranos & The Wire
The other great love story of this series
The vision of the dying man
Stop talking like a supervillain
Olivia has never been anywhere she didn’t want to be
The rest of us have to juggle eventualities
Nope, just me.
What the hell happened to you?
A lesson for Cole about sacrifice
The return of the butterfly
The Cassie & Ramse cycle of hope
The first time you called me brother
A tragedy in the classical sense
This whole thing could be a trap
When you’ve lost everything...
Baking puns when you yeast expect it
Two brothers feeding the wrong wolves
A lottery scratch card conversation
And you always let me down
The missing page is forgiveness
That’s bullshit, that’s crazy
True sacrifice
Why couldn’t you have just trusted me
We just go about it the wrong way
I need you to come home, Cassie
This is my reward?
I’ll see you soon
I’m home
When there are no words
2 hr 34 min
July 08, 2019 Random John: Interview with Alisen Down & Terry Matalas
CC & Beep get the chance to chat with Alisen Down and Terry Matalas, or as you know them, The Witness and her creator.
1 hr 31 min
June 24, 2019 Don't You Forget About Me - 12 Monkeys 3.03
Beep & CC are joined by Dark Aimee & Jo of May We Geek Again for part one of our discussion of 3.03 “Enemy”
The disarming enigma of Olivia
Who is the “enemy”?
Trojan horses
The fable of Dr. Grim
Golems
Always listen to Jennifer!
Clues in plain sight
Which Ramse is in there?
I know I’ve got it coming to me
You have to be a little bit crazy to be human
One last run
Whatever the future, you are my family in all of them
You were never meant to be a mother
Tragic cycles of “nurture”
Our “good” guys do bad things
The “greater good” & partialism
This is not the way
Selling the lie with truth
The Jolivia ship sets sail!
Women like us
A critical moment for Deacon’s arc
Deacon’s scars
Trauma & the “parts work” theory
My father gave me scars
But that doesn’t make you me
An authentic exploration of trauma
You kept him weak
The devil always tells you what you want to hear
Don’t you forget about me
2 hr 24 min