Save vs. Awesome
The summer of superheroes is over. We talk about the movies we didn’t watch, what our dinner plans are, as well as what the next Spoiler Club theme will be.
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Cliches often get a bad rap. But they can also be shorthand for cool stories. We discuss some of the cliches we like, and since we can’t avoid it, some that we hate as well.
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We’ve got plans for another Spoiler Club series, this time on superheroes. Unfortunately, the mastermind behind this can’t narrow down his list of superhero films. We take him to task over the course of an hour, spitting in his face and generally breaking his will until he does what we say. At least, that’s the [...]
We’ve done 74 episodes and never once had a deep, meaningful conversation about that most mainstream of all geek activities - videogames. After this episode, we still haven’t.
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I hope you like lists. Because we have another list episode, in which we discuss the major artifacts, items, and thingamajigs of fiction. Did we name your favorite?
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We’ve already done the best of the decade, so let’s rewind a bit and touch on the best geek media of 2009. It was a banner year - no, who are we kidding? 2009 was adequate. We express our adequateness of the year.
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It happens once every ten years - a best of list of end all best of lists. We discuss our favorite moments from media from the last decade. This includes roleplaying games, TV shows, books, and movies. It’s an extra special long episode for Christmas.
NOTE: The sound is not very good on this one. I [...]
What movie properties need our help? What awesome ideas exist somewhere in our lizard brains that want, nay need, to be exposed to the world? Where’s our budget, Hollywood?
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Blade Runner - one of the most celebrated films in all of science fiction. We delve deep beneath its surface, fail the Voight-Kampff test, and talk about the influence and themes of the movie in exhaustive detail.
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Props. We like them. So we talk about them. At length. Mark mentions Fantasy Cartography but he also meant to mention the Cartographers Guild.
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