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  • This episode originally broadcast on March 21, 2024, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-403-wtnv-244-a-multiplicity-of-kevin/

    On the latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale, Kevin the Younger is determined to kill Kevin the Older, so he’s used Carlos’ lab to open a portal to the Desert Otherworld. Cecil wants to tell the story, Tamika wants to stop the bloodshed, and Carlos wants everyone to PLEASE be careful of the beakers they’re fragile and can we oh COME ON what did I JUST SAY?

    After the recap we talk about The Crown, both the Netflix show that just wrapped up and the ridiculous goings on with the Royal Family in the real world. (Not to make light, we hope everyone’s okay, but maybe for the sake of the empire we could have fewer crappy Photoshop images and people screwing around on their spouses, kaythnxbye.)

    In addition to all that we have the usual tangents into Pie-in-the-Sky cosplay plans, reading summaries of horror movies you're too chicken to watch, catching up with Marvel TV, Legends and Lattes, Paul Atreides being more of a tragic figure than a villain in the book, and whether or not greek yogurt on hot dog buns would be nice.

    This week's outro is a clip from Blade Rider by Beat Mekanik.

    The ghost-story author we were trying to think of is Kathryn Tucker Windham.

    This is the Vox article that compares The Royal Family to pandas.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on March 14, 2024, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-402-lore-olympus-episode-268-and-269-spider-verse-and-the-2024-oscars/

    There's a great big ceremony that happens every year, you may have heard of it? The Oscars? Anyway, the Binary System Podcast didn't watch it, but they do have lots of opinions about the winners. (And some of the ones that didn't win. You guys, have you seen Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?)

    And of course we also recap two episodes of Lore Olympus. Apollo's plot to force Persephone to marry him is basically The Patriarchy in its purest form. Fortunately Persephone has someone on her side: EVERYONE. (Bonus: Hera throws a "yo mama" at Apollo and it's perfect.)

    This week's outro is a clip from Subroutine Confirm by TeknoAXE.

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  • Originally broadcast on March 7, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-401-wtnv-243-lost-and-found-and-more-of-the-oscar-nominations/

    On this week's Night Vale episode, we highly approve of Cecil devoting an entire broadcast to Lost and Found submissions, because writer Brie Williams is very good with lists of random weirdness, unexpected sweetness, and things with TEETH.

    From there we jump into three more Oscar nominated films we finally watched, namely Oppenheimer (brilliant but a bit too long, with "the most unnecessary nude scene ever"), Elemental, and Nimona. While we think Pixar usually has the better shot at winning the Animated Feature award, we're really pulling for Nimona.

    Along the way we wander off into tangents like the Hot Ones show, Florence Pugh, Redbox, nerd underwear, and the REALLY STUPID ADS in Amazon Prime.

    This week's outro is a clip from Keepsake by Beat Mekanik.

    Clarification: Redbox is 2.25, but that's just for one night, once you double it it's about the same as most of the 2-night rentals from Prime.

    Correction: Elemental did have a theatrical release, but according to the New York Times it had "the worst opening in Pixar history." It's since become a lot more successful.

    Correction #2 - Annapurna Pictures is the production company that took over from Blue Sky Studios when Disney axed Nimona.

    Kathryn got her Soot Sprite undies from All Teh Smol Things.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on February 29, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-400-start-from-the-beginning/

    Happy 400th episode! Time flies, right? About ten years ago we started recording our Night Vale discussions because we're giant nerds and nerds gotta podcast. But here's the thing: we started with the Night Vale episode that'd just been released, "Renovations," number 48 in the series. We've discussed every episode since then, but not once have we gone back to the beginning.

    The same goes for Saga, Transformers, and (our current favorite thing) Lore Olympus, we started talking about them way after they'd started. That just won't do. TO THE TIME MACHINE!

    In addition to a deep dive into issue/episode #1 of several of our favorites, we also discussed the first episode of THIS VERY PODCAST. As well as #266 and #267 of Lore Olympus, since we can't wait even a week to discuss the latest two episodes because we're obsessed. Stick around until the end of the episode to hear more than a minute of name flubs and cats deciding to cat.

    This week's outro is a clip from Voyageur by Monkey Warhol.

    You can find Kathryn's review of the first few months of IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye here.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on February 22, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-399-wtnv-242-the-new-branch-and-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/

    On the latest episode of Night Vale the Librarians broke out of their cages but some heroes saved the day andnoweverythingisfineTheEnd SO! HOW ABOUT THOSE OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS?

    (Kidding, it was a fun episode of Night Vale, we're just really excited to talk about cartoons.)

    Anyway, massive spoiler warnings as we discuss our favorite Oscar-nominated animated shorts, which were as surprising as they were upsetting, just how we like them. (This episode of VagueCast is brought to you by the 2024 Oscar Animated Shorts Collection: yiiiiikes.)

    And before we wrap up, we also have to go over the latest Hugo-Award-Clusterf*ck news, which was outdated even before we finished recording because it KEEPS GETTING WORSE.

    This week's outro is a clip from Illusion by Darkfluxx.

    Correction: we said passenger pigeon several times, when we meant carrier pigeon. Homing pigeon would’ve been even better.

    Correction 2: War Is Over isn’t a Beatles song, John Lennon released it outside of the band. Elizabeth apologizes to all the John Lennon fans out there. For that and for saying the cartoon would've been better if the song wasn't in it.

    In case you're curious, here's the list of all the Oscar Winning Animated Shorts. Turns out yes, some years the winner wasn't particularly family-friendly (2021's "The Windshield Wiper" has a lot of sexy content) but 2015's "Bear Story" beat "World of Tomorrow", and 2016's "Piper" beat "Pear Cider and Cigarettes" and that's when Elizabeth decided family-friendly beats edgy-and-cool most years.

    As of today the Oscar-nominated animated feature Nimona is still up for free on YouTube!

    Here's a good write-up of the Hugo Awards debacle. (Short version: the board self-censored anything they thought MIGHT upset the Chinese government, and were as stupid about it as you can possibly imagine.) (And the post doesn't mention the fact that the board did business with a Chinese company that's been sanctioned by the US Government, but we're still waiting to hear how all that turns out.)

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  • This episode originally broadcast on February 15 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-398-lore-olympus-episode-264-and-265/

    In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely is one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation used to be, not sure who). That was episode 264, and the theme of 265 can be summed up even more briefly: asking for consent is SEXY.

    In our ongoing attempt to at least see some of the Oscar nominees, Elizabeth watched Poor Things this week and she was highly impressed. It’s gorgeous, surreal, rather dark and very, very sexy. (If you go, prepare for much nudity.) Kathryn also finished reading R.F. Kuang’s Babel this week (you can find the review here), but couldn’t see why it was singled out by the Chinese government to be disqualified from getting a Hugo Award nomination. If that is, in fact, what happened. Still not much information about the whole Hugo debacle, but we’ll of course spill all the tea if we hear anything.

    This week’s outro is a clip from Synthwave C by TeknoAXE.

    In our discussion about possible Chinese government censorship, Elizabeth referenced a BlueSky comment that was talking about this article: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on February 8, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-397-wtnv-241-he-is-still-holding-a-knife/

    When we last heard from Night Vale in December, Cecil was being held hostage by a strange boy with a large knife, and this week's episode picks up right where we left off. It's another Brie Williams story so you know there's going to be delightful lists of really weird things. Knives! Trapper Keepers! Field Trip Carnage! Blood Drive cleanup! Door Dash delivery delayed on account of tar and feathers! AND MORE KNIVES DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE KNIVES.

    After the recap Kathryn gives the thumbs up to Oppenheimer, which doesn't need an IMAX viewing because it's a great movie that's going to win a bunch of awards, but aside from the bit with the bomb (...spoilers?..) it is mostly Very Dramatic Scenes of People Talking, so regular screens are fine.

    This week's outro is a clip from Wayside by Hotham.

    Be sure to check out the Black Com!x Day photo gallery.

    The podcast Elizabeth mentioned is the 90-Minute Film Fest, celebrating movies under an hour and a half long.

    Regarding the little outtake clip at the end, Elizabeth was referring to a couple of Supernatural-related podcast episodes she found: we were never huge fans of Supernatural, so we thought the finale was more silly than anything else. But Elizabeth stumbled on an episode of The Fangirl Business: A Supernatural Podcast, and it really sheds light on how traumatized some of the long-time fans were by the finale. (And for some lighter listening, one of their more recent episodes is about how much they enjoyed the season 1 finale of The Winchesters, which seems to have taken some of the sting out of the Supernatural finale.)

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  • This episode originally broacast on February 2, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-396-lore-olympus-episode-262-and-263-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-and-the-oscar-nominations/

    Episodes 262 and 263 feature a Persephone who’s dealing with the uncomfortable reality that the Mortal Realm is dying and it may possibly be all her fault. But for the Binary System Podcast team, that calamity pales in comparison to the fact that Apollo is being a gigantic jerk and it’s stressing us out. The artwork is gorgeous as usual, and there are several ‘lol’ moments (Persephone talkin’ dirty to Hades, you go girl!) But still, Apollo, man.

    Elizabeth also watched the final installment of Guardians of the Galaxy, which she really liked! However, it took her a while to get through it, so that led to a discussion of Marvel Fatigue, the latest on the Hugo Awards debacle, and all the Oscar nominated movies we should be watching, but c’mon Hollywood. Meet us halfway: give us some convenient showtimes, a nearby theater that’s not too far to drive, and maybe throw in an intermission in the middle of these three-hour-plus films, if it’s not too much trouble? Kthxbye.

    This week’s outro is a clip from Encounter of Every Possible Kind by Midnight Commando.

    It turns out it wasn’t Oppenheimer that had some unauthorized intermissions added into the three-hour runtime before the movie producers slapped the theaters down. It was Killers of the Flower Moon, which is even longer.

    The John Scalzi comments we were discussing were about Dave McCarty, who has handled the fallout from last year’s Hugo Awards, well, pretty damn badly. He has since apologized. And resigned his position as a director of W.I.P. (the non-profit that runs the Hugo Awards). Still no word on what’s going on with perfectly good works of fiction getting ruled ineligible for no reason, but it’s a start.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on January 25, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-395-doctor-who-taken-nice-house-on-the-lake-and-the-hugos/

    You’re not going to believe this, but we said we were going to watch the third David Tennant Doctor Who episode this week AND WE DID. Next thing you know we’ll be watching movies the weekend they come out. (Hahahah, kidding, obviously.)

    Anyway, our hearts are still intact after the episode, which was for the most part goofy with a few terrifying images thrown in. It also gave new meaning to the words “self care,” which is just delightful.

    After that Elizabeth talks about how she’s randomly watching 2008’s Taken (which is still a fun watch even if it does lean into the patriarchy) and Kathryn discusses The Nice House on the Lake and how we DARN WELL BETTER get a third volume soon.

    Finally, we go over what we know about the Hugo Awards debacle, which is to say: not much. Several people were disqualified for reasons that can be summed up as “because I said so,” and while there’s a lot of speculation that it was anything from Chinese government censorship to a massive screw up with the math, there’s still no good explanation. If something changes we’ll add a note to this description. I mean, Neil Gaiman’s pissed off so you know it’s not good.

    This week's outro is a clip from 6026 Zenophanes by Midnight Commando.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on January 18, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-394-lore-olympus-episode-259-and-260-and-the-menu/

    It's an extra-long episode this week, although not because of Lore Olympus. The recap for episodes 259 and 260 went pretty quickly, with a little more of Demeter's backstory revealed and one hell of a lot of personal growth. Seriously, we figured Rachel included the bit with Demeter snapping at Hera because otherwise we wouldn't even recognize her anymore.

    The biggest chunk of this week's episode is taken up by our recap of the 2022 movie, The Menu, the tasty (see what I did there) horror/satire that skewers (har) everything that's wrong with restaurant culture and serves up (okay I'll stop) a fantastic performance by Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes. GIGANTIC spoiler warnings on this, since we jump right to how much we loved the ending first.

    This week's outro is a clip from Cruising the Skyline by TeknoAXE.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on January 11, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-393-wtnv-240-he-is-holding-a-knife-and-doctor-who/

    "Fenslaw.
    Coliss.
    Brate.
    Gilvane.
    Stond."

    The latest episode of Night Vale before they went on hiatus (they're always on hiatus in January and we will never remember that) was delightfully creepy in a way we didn't see coming at all, what a fantastic surprise. We can't say more, because spoilers. (This episode of VagueCast is brought to you by Tossed Risotto, Oboe Drinking Straws, and Postage Stamp "Snackables.")

    In other news, it took a while but both of us have finally watched the Doctor Who episode "Wild Blue Yonder" and seriously you guys, it's so good. Joyful, clever, wonderfully unsettling, and it punches you in the feels the way only Russell T. Davies can do.

    This week's outro is a clip from Dance 8 by Magenta 6.

    Confirmation: Steven Moffat did indeed write "The Girl in the Fireplace."

    The website Elizabeth found with free sci-fi and fantasy short stories (not pirated, they all link back to the sites that published them) is links.freesfonline.net.

    You can find Kathryn's review of Lazarus: Volume One here.

    This is the Oboe vs. Clarinet short that Kathryn found.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on January 4, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-392-lore-olympus-episode-258-and-259/

    Happy New Year everyone! We hope all our listeners' holidays were fantastic, and that the return to work wasn't too much of a shock to the system. To ease you back into the work week, have a quick recap of the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, which can be briefly summed up as "sexy good-times and proclamations of love in a pool", and also "Hera finally tells Kronos to piss off."

    We also apparently decided to start off the new year with complaints about first-world problems, so strap in as we talk about how we'd like to kick Amazon Prime to the curb, but we just can't do without all that tasty free shipping. (And also, how screwed are all of us directionally-challenged folks going to be if Google Maps decides to start charging us?)

    This week's outro is a clip from Axiom Tomorrow by TeknoAXE.

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  • This originally broadcast on December 28, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-391-christmas-recap-and-yes-were-watching-skibidi-toilet/

    Happy last-podcast-of-2023! Recorded on location in the wilds of Western Florida (aka our parents' house) we start out this episode with a quick breakdown of Christmas, including successful hospital trips (spoilers: we were NOT stealing babies) and geeky presents, but it all goes by really fast because we've gotta talk about "Skibidi Toilet." Seriously you guys, this series is messed up. It's the weirdest thing we've seen all year, intentionally disturbing nightmare fuel, super upsetting and definitely not the kind of thing we'd like. Which is why we've watched all 69 episodes. They didn't really kill that guy did they? What's up with the lens? Is the Alliance okay? Where are the Titans? Where's the TV Headed Woman? So many questions arrgh when's the next episode??!!

    This week's outro is a clip from Bollywood Dream by Lisa Hammer. (It's not possible to get something quite as weird as the Skibidi Toilet song so we just went with this one.)

    Here's a link to Skibidi Toilet but fair warning, it's some serious nightmare fuel right from the beginning, so if you don't want that living in your brain you can just listen to our recap of it.

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  • This episode broadcast on Wednesday December 20, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-390-lore-olympus-episode-256-and-257-designercon-and-doctor-who/

    Happy last-podcast-before-Christmas! On this week’s Lore Olympus recap we were absolutely gobsmacked that a certain someone gave Apollo a verbal smack upside the head because it was the LAST person we expected. Merry Christmas to us!

    We finished up with a spoiler-free squee about Doctor Who (Elizabeth’s not caught up yet but Kathryn said the second Tennant episode was brilliant), a quick debriefing of DesignerCon (including how fun Amtrak is if you can find the Fancy Car), and confirmation from Hannah that the fourth episode of The Crown season 6 is just as weird and off-putting as we thought.

    This week’s outro is a clip from Christmas on Mars by spinningmerkaba. (Someday we might find a Christmas outro song we love more than this one, but don’t hold your breath.)

    You can find our 2023 DesignerCon photo gallery here.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on December 14, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-389-wtnv-239-sister-cities-vermillion-falls/

    This week's Night Vale episode is a perfect example of distilled weirdness, full of deadly nature walks, supermarket bonfires, and would you PLEASE stop PETTING THE WOLFMEN. GEORGE.

    After the recap we discuss the latest Doctor Who episodes: not that we've watched them but we've heard they're doing well. (Other than one news article that somehow thought 100 people complaining about the trans storyline was more important than the 7 million people who watched it and didn't complain and no we're not linking to the article because that's stupid.)

    Instead we watched some Carnival Row season 2, Mandalorian season 3, and Interstellar, because why wouldn't we watch things that are months and years old when there's perfectly good Doctor Who to watch yes we KNOW we're terribly bad at TV.

    This week's outro is a clip from Autonymous by Beat MeKanik.

    TD Mischke did a great job as the voice of Vermillion Falls, you should definitely go listen to his podcast.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on December 7, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-388-lore-olympus-episode-254-and-255-and-the-doctor-who-60th-anniversary/

    Okay, not gonna lie, the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus that the Binary System Podcast team recaps are causing quite a lot of anxiety. Apollo’s plot to take over as ruler of Olympus is proving once again that Apollo will hurt anyone in order to get what he wants, and it’s stressful to imagine how he’s going to try to force Persephone to become his queen. It’s probably going to make it that much more satisfying when he gets his comeuppance, but still


    Fortunately we follow that up with a recap of the fun, adorable, all-around goodhearted 60th Anniversary Doctor Who Special “The Star Beast”, featuring David Tenant stepping back into the role of the Doctor like he never left, and Catherine Tate with a resolution to an element of the Donna Noble storyline that always bothered us. We get into a big discussion about what we loved, what parts maybe didn’t work as well as we would like, trans representation, and how it’s possible to make mistakes when being an ally but still learn every day how to be better. (We also miffed The Meep’s quote, which we loved. Here’s a link to how it actually went, including the Doctor’s response, which, if anything, was even better.)

    This week’s outro is a clip from Doctor Talos Answers the Door, by Doctor Turtle. (Found this by doing a keyword search on FreeMusicArchive under “Doctor”, if that wasn’t obvious.)

    You can find the Best Pick Podcast where they discuss the Doctor Who episode “The Star Beast” here.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on November 30, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-387-wtnv-238-the-big-dig/

    On this week's Night Vale recap, the Museum of Natural History has made an amazing discovery, the Tomb of the Ancestors! Mummified remains in traditional Soft Meat Crowns (tm) in a perfectly harmless limestone cube that just appeared in the Sand Wastes. Nevermind the floating apparitions that can melt your face off, it's the scientific discovery of the century! In other words AAAAAAAAAAA.

    Anyway, after the recap Elizabeth briefly touches on the first half of the final season of The Crown (very interesting, bit of weirdness in the fourth episode but not bad at all) and Kathryn discusses the A24 film X (it's like a 1970s slasher film if it was done really, really well) and then we wrap up with Disney+'s' acquisition of Doctor Who, bubblewrap-themed photos, Transformers fatigue and "robof*ckers."

    This week's outro is a clip from Insomnia by Beat Mekanik.

    For a month of dragon drawings, check out the Dragonfall Drawing Challenge, or visit Kathryn or Elizabeth's instagram pages.

    We mentioned that "Todd in Shadows" is a great youtube channel, definitely check out his Top 10 Worst Hit Songs playlist for some good snarky fun.

    Elizabeth was right: the guy everybody's shipping Mirage with in Rise of the Beasts is Anthony Ramos, who you'll know from Hamilton and In the Heights.

    And no, ALL of Doctor Who won't be available on Disney+, just the very newest stuff.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on November 23, 2023, you can find the original podcast post here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-386-lore-olympus-back-from-hiatus-episode-253/

    This week the Binary System Podcast team celebrates the triumphant return of Lore Olympus by recapping a brand new episode! To us. Episodes 251, 252, and 253 have been available for FastPass since July, but we wanted to wait until episode 252 (which we already discussed before the hiatus) was available for free on WebToon before we FastPassed episode 253, so spoilers, but only if you haven't already seen episode 253, which we're assuming just about everybody read months ago since it's technically the mid-season hiatus...

    You know what? Time is weird. Enjoy the recap as we squeee about the latest developments (Zeus, poisoned! Apollo, in league with a Titan! Persephone, no longer the goddess of Spring!), and then talk a little about The Book of Boba Fett and the Ms. Marvel TV series.

    This week's outro is a clip from Voyageur by Monkey Warhol.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on November 16, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-385-the-loki-season-2-finale/

    The second season of Loki had its highs (that fourth episode good googaly moogaly) and lows (the bonkers pacing, that weird hot chocolate scene) and for a while there we were worried the series might go out with a thud instead of a bang. But in the end they brought together all the threads and gave us something really special: a surprisingly satisfying ending, and a hell of a redemption arc, not just for Loki but for everyone. (Except Renslayer: your mileage may vary when it comes to her.)

    Helped along by gorgeous effects, timey-wimey trickery, and Tom Hiddleston’s flawless delivery of technobabble at high speed, the finale was just about everything we wanted. (We’re still a little iffy on some of the cause and effect.) Massive spoiler warnings! Obviously!


    This week’s outro is a clip from Softly by Beat Mekanik.

    This week’s outtake is brought to you by the fact that Elizabeth’s Zoom was acting up so Kathryn used her free account, which bumped us out after 40 minutes and was a real pill about starting back up.

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  • This episode originally broadcast on November 9, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-384-wtnv-237-frown-night-and-more-loki/

    This week's episode of Welcome to Night Vale features the surprise return of Kevin from Desert Bluffs! AND Lauren, who's sporting a fashionable set of priestess robes and a permanent frown tattoo, courtesy of an angry mob that was at least partly Kevin's fault. The two frenemies spend the episode telling the story of Frown Night, and prove that while Kevin may have had a redemption arc and Lauren may have gotten her comeuppance, Desert Bluffs is still a terrible place to live.

    After that, of course, we've got an in-depth recap of season 2 episode 5 of Loki. We're not quite sure about some parts of this season; there seems to be two sets of writers with dueling consequences, Loki takes way too long to get up to speed on everyone's new lives, and really? You're serving bourbon in shot glasses?? But there are some satisfyingly twisty things going on with time, the spaghettification effects are mesermizingly gorgeous, and the season just went full-on meta, so how long until the next episode?

    This week's outro is a clip from Curious Satellite by Frau Holle.

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