For All Intents and Purposes

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Week in Geek: Andrew starts watching the latest entry in the CW’s shared universe, The Flash, while Dan starts reading She Walks in Shadows, a collection of Lovecraftian fiction all written by women. Check it out here.

Armello: Dan pointed Andrew toward what is basically a clever, fun board game on the PS4 called Armello. Click here for the Giant Bomb “Unfinished” look at the game that got Dan interested in the game in the first place.

Who Wants To Live Forever?: Andrew and Dan tackle immortality as it presents itself in nerdy fiction. It turns out to be much more complicated than originally anticipated.

Next Week: Be prepared for a Shortcast as we lay low for Thanksgiving. 

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“A Realm Reborn” by Michael Allen & Lisa Gerrard (from Armello)

-“Princes of the Universe” & “Who Wants to Live Forever” by Queen

 

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Week in Geek: Andrew watches Bond 24, also known as Spectre, and has thoughts about it! Dan talks about a series of videos Polygon has been making of game developers making levels in Super Mario Maker.

Bethesda, Bethesda Never Changes: Dan and Andrew briefly talk about the wobbly––but successful––release of Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 4.

Warcraft Hopes: Andrew and Dan use the recent trailer for Duncan Jones’ upcoming fantasy, video game film, Warcraft, to reintroduce the topic of video game movies.

Next Sunday AD: Many nerds rejoice as Joel Hodgson announced a Kickstarter campaign to make more Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Dan and Andrew discuss the viability of such a plan––can we look beyond pure nostalgia?

Next Week: Immortality! Never-ending life is a popular aspect of nerd fiction that deserves much investigation as only two over-educated, co-dependent nerds can bring you.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Atom Bomb Baby” by The Five Stars

-“I’m A Medieval Man” from Warcraft II

-“Love Theme from Mystery Science Theater 3000” by Joel Hodgson & Josh Weinstein

-“Toothless People” by “Weird Al” Yankovic

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SPOILER ALERT: This week’s episode thoroughly discuss the endings of the Mass Effect series, Red Dead Redemption, and Braid. Listen at your own risk.

Week in Geek: Andrew starts playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain while a piece of fanart Dan drew for Crimson Peak went mildly viral for the first time in his life and it freaked him out a little. 

Metroid – The Sky Calls: Dan and Andrew talk about the recently released short film by Rainfall Films and how it works not only as a fan film, but as a Metroid story.

Game Over: Andrew and Dan sit down to ponder the nature of endings in video games. What are they for? What do gamers deserve? How do they serve the gameplay and/or the story?

Braid: Dan and Andrew sit down to discuss a really controversial, poignant, and impactful ending in recent history, that of Jonathan Blow’s Braid.

Next Week: Video Game Movies. Are there any good video game movies? What are the worst of the worst? Let us know! 

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Brinstar (from Metroid)” by Isac Saleh (from Game Themes Cover Mix Vol. 1)

-“The End (Reprise)” by Jack Wall & Sam Hulick (from Mass Effect)

-“Downstream” by Shira Kammen (from Braid)

-“It’s All Over Now” by Willie Dixon

-“A One-Winged Angel” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VII).

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It’s time for the great Spookytober Celebration! For your own safety, listen with the lights on.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays the ludomodular board game, 504, while Dan wraps up Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Cthulhu Called, No One’s Home: In the interest of Spookytober, Dan and Andrew return to famed horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, and one of his most revered (and culturally important) stories, “The Call of Cthulhu,” as well as discuss the really fun silent film version made by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

The Horror Returns: Andrew and Dan discuss what is likely the scariest of all horror movies: the not-very-good-but-hey-at-least-they-tried-something-different sequel! WARNING: contains discussion of Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

The Doctor is IN: In light of the news that David Tennant would be returning to the role of the Doctor in audio form with Big Finish, Dan and Andrew discuss the interesting implications.

Next Week: THE END! Video game endings, that is. Good ones, bad ones, weird ones, lack-of-ones. Endings are all over the place and, with games especially, carry a lot of emotional and narrative baggage with them so that it’s nearly impossibly to please everybody.

What are your thoughts about video game endings? Leave a comment at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to also join the official Facebook and Google+ pages for updates and discussion. You may also e-mail the show at forallpod [at] gmail [dot] com.

Help spread the word of the show by leaving a review on iTunes.

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Cthulhu Clock” by D. Bethel

-“Triangles” by Reber Clark

-“Halloween Theme – Main Title” by John Carpenter

-“I Am the Doctor” by Jon Pertwee

-“Halloweenhead” by Ryan Adams

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Spookytober is halted, briefly and partially, to address the time-traveling elephant in the room: October 21, 2015! Er, I mean, Back to the Future Day!

Week in Geek: Andrew got a Playstation 4 and played Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and shot a lot of dudes while Dan saw Crimson Peak.

BttFP2: To introduce Back to the Future Day, Dan and Andrew spend some time to talk about the overall legacy of Back to the Future, Part II.

Predicting the Future: Andrew and Dan, in honor of the moment, spend some time talking about science-fiction predicting not only the far future, but the near future and what that tells us about…us.

Dead By Dawn: Because it’s Spookytober, Dan and Andrew discuss the first two films of the venerated Evil Dead franchise because, basically, they’re the same movie told through two very different lenses. And that’s weird.

Next week we bring Spookytober to a close, so tune in for scary stuff, no doubt.

Please leave any comments to the content of this episode at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to also join our official Facebook and Google+ pages. You may also e-mail the show at forallpod [at] gmail [dot] com. If you want to help the show out, be sure to leave a review on iTunes to help spread the word.

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Main Title” & “End Titles” by Alan Silvestri (from Back to the Future Part II)

-“Back in Time” by Huey Lewis and the News

-“March of the Dead” by Danny Elfman (from Army of Darkness)

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Spookytober kicks off with Episode 68! Grab your grimoire and your notebook and let’s find some demons to fight!

Week in Geek: In a twist, Dan talks about Transformers plans with “Titans Return” while Andrew plays Super Meat Boy.

Feel the Hurt: It was announced that acclaimed actor, John Hurt, would be reprising his role as The War Doctor from his appearance on Doctor Who in licensed Big Finish audio dramas. While Andrew and Dan talk about how cool this idea is itself, they also ponder what this could mean for the future of Big Finish Audio.

Paranormal Investigation: Dan and Andrew dig into the implications, origins, and general coolness that is paranormal/supernatural investigative fiction.

The Last Laugh: It was recently made public that Warner Bros. is totally cool with the upcoming animated adaptation of the DC comics Batman/Joker story, The Killing Joke, being Rated R. What does this mean?!

Next week: Since the future has been foretold by the gospel of Back to the Future, Part II, we’ll be talking about the reality versus the fiction of October 21, 2015.

If you have any comments about any of the topics discussed in this episode, feel free to leave a comment on the page for this episode at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to also join our official Facebook and Google+ pages for exclusive discussion and content. You can also e-mail the show at forallpod[at] gmail [dot] com. Feel free to rate and/or review the show on the iTunes store. Doing so will help spread the word to new potential listeners across the globe (and subscribes to iTunes).

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“I am the Doctor” by Jon Pertwee

-“X-Files: Theme from X-Files” by Mark Snow (as performed by Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra)

-“Batdance” by Prince

-“Fringe Main Title Theme” by J.J. Abrams

-“Carry On Wayward Son” by Kansas

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Even though this show is about spoilers and how nerd culture responds to them, there are no spoilers in this episode whatsoever.

Week in Geek: Andrew played Breath of Fire IV and ponders the choices of this rather forgotten series while Dan started playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and wonders how the hell it even exists.

The Dimensions of Lego: Dan and Andrew discuss the recently released toy-to-life game, Lego Dimensions; one of them is rather excited about it, another is, um, not.

SPOILERS (no spoilers): Andrew and Dan disagree a lot as they wend their way through a discussion on spoiler culture, its origins, our reactions, and how studios use them as marketing tools.

RIP PS VITA: According to this Kotaku article, Sony honcho, Shuhei Yoshida, makes a bold argument as to why the PS Vita hasn’t fared so well in the market––pointing fingers (some justified, some not) at everyone but Sony itself.

Geeking Forward: Next week we’ll be discussion supernatural/paranormal investigative fiction and how rad it is––all in the name of introducing Scarytober! 

If you have comments about the content in this episode––or of next week’s topic) leave a comment at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to also join the conversations at our official Facebook and Google+ pages. You may also e-mail us at forallpod [at] gmail [dot] com. If you subscribe to the show on iTunes, be sure to leave a review to help spread the word to new potential listeners through the magic of Apple’s algorithms.

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Everything is Awesome” by Tegan & Sara (feat. The Lonely Island) (from The Lego Movie)

-“Main Theme” by John Ottman (from The Usual Suspects)

-“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie” by William Elliot Whitmore

-“Fanfare” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI)

 

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As was warned last week, this new episode is mostly about the Series 9 premier of Doctor Who. Be warned discussion of the episode will result in SPOILERS, so turn away from the podcast (take off your headphones first) if you want to avoid such discussion.

Week in Geek: The boys were playing video games this week as Andrew finished playing Suikoden on his PS Vita while Dan wrapped up Mad Max and ponders open-world console games in the process.

The Redemption of Bill Finger: By the end of the recently started second season of Fox’s Gotham as well as in the credits for the upcoming Superman v. Batman: Dawn of Justice it has been announced that Bill Finger will be co-credited, along with Bob Kane, as the creator of Batman. Dan and Andrew discuss the relevance of this announcement.

The Magician’s Apprentice: SPOILER WARNING Andrew and Dan discuss––in frightening depth, the series 9 premier of Doctor Who. 

Let’s Kill Hitler: At the heart of “The Magician’s Apprentice” is a long-standing thought experiment, of which Dan and Andrew dive into its history and use in fiction (and its cultural relevance). *features audio taken from Doctor Who, “Genesis of the Daleks”

Next Week: We’ll be discussing Spoiler culture––why do we like spoilers and why are we so afraid of them? That and more in episode 67.

Leave a comment on the page for this episode at ForAll.libsyn.com. Be sure to join our official Facebook and Google+ pages for exclusive content and listener discussion. Also, if you subscribe to the show on iTunes, please leave a review of the show in the iTunes store; it’ll help spread the word of the show through the magic of Apple’s algorithms.

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Doctor Who Theme (Series 8)” by Murray Gold

-“Jeeves and Wooster” by Anne Dudley

-“How’s It Gonna End” by Tom Waits

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Week in Geek: Andrew finally plays a WiiU with the Nintendo title, Super Mario 3D World, while Dan discusses his time at this year’s Crocker-Con at the Crocker Art Museum.

Group Gaming: Before the internet connected people worldwide, the solitary world of video gaming was often perforated by moments of playing a single game with a group of people. Dan and Andrew discuss this nostalgic (and still present) method of playing games with people in the room rather than online.

Game & Watch: With the rise of televised (or streamed) eSports and the success of things like Twitch Plays or Let’s Plays, gaming is more connected than ever. However, with the addition of a passive gaming experience does bring up interesting questions and ideas to what gaming is and how it’s changing.

Doctor Who Series 9 Prologue: If you haven’t seen it, watch it here. Once that’s done, listen to Andrew and Dan talk about Doctor Who if only to prepare for a full episode about Doctor Who next week.

Question of the Geek:

To celebrate the return of Doctor Who, what are your thoughts about the show, what questions do you have about the show, and (if necessary) why don’t you like the show? Looking outward, what is other British Sci-Fi that you feel deserves more attention?

Leave your answer as a comment at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to join the official Facebook and Google+ pages, as well. You may e-mail us any questions, comments, or concerns at forallpod [at] gmail [dot] com. Be sure to leave a review of the show on the iTunes store in order to help spread the word.

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Comradeship” by Norihiko Hibino (from Metal Gear Solid 2: The Other Side)

-“Watch It Die” by Bad Religion

-“(The Majestic Tale of) An Idiot With a Box” by Murray Gold (from Doctor Who: Series 8)

-“The Candy Man Can” by Aubrey Woods (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)