For All Intents and Purposes

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Things seems lightly off in this alternate/parallel reality-themed episode. However, the show must go on, evil goatee or not.

Week in Geek: Andrew peruses the lesser Star Wars movies for trivia and finds some newly poignant scenes while Dan plays Shovel Knight on his WiiU and Terra Battle on his phone.

Original the Series: Taking another look into the original Star Trek series, this week Dan and Andrew watch the classic episode, “Mirror, Mirror,” to great effect. Goatees and gold sashes!

Discussion: Having watched “Mirror, Mirror,” the idea of parallel or alternate realities, as they’re presented in various fictions, seemed to be the right avenue for discussion this week, and they certainly go all over the place.

Breaking News: With this week’s announcement of popular American tabletop game designers, Fantasy Flight Games, merging with major European tabletop distributor, Asmodée, Dan asks the podcast’s resident tabletop guru what this means for tabletop fans.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite use of alternate reality in a story?

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For all intents and purposes, that’s an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Old Metal Gear” by Starry.K (from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)

-“Beat It” by Pomplamoose

-“Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In)” by Children of Bodom

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For All Intents and Purposes has hit the quarter-centennial mark! That is, if by “centennial” we mean a hundred episodes rather than a hundred years. However, is it going to be a celebration…or a crisis?! To find out, you’ll have to listen! Do you dare?!

Week in Geek: Andrew watches more Star Wars: Rebels while Dan buys his first Nintendo home console in what is likely over two decades.

Star Trek: Taking another dip into the Original Series, this time Dan and Andrew watch and discuss the classic “I, Mudd” featuring everybody’s favorite scallywag, Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

Discussion: As if it’s a big surprise, with Series 8 of Doctor Who––the first featuring Peter Capaldi’s 12th Doctor––having come to an end, they discuss not only the final episode (SPOILER ALERT), but Series 8 as a whole and its place in the oeuvre of Doctor Who.

The Art of the Season Finale: With the closing of Doctor Who in mind, Andrew and Dan discuss season finales in general. Specifically, they discuss what they are and what they have been and how and why they’ve changed over time.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite season finale to a television show?

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It’s the first post-October episode. Instead of focusing on a month of thanks, it’s just business as usual.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays some more Civilization: Beyond Earth and also finally gets his mitts on a copy of Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS. Dan, on the other hand, talks about the new album from his newest favorite band, Dawnbringer, called Night of the Hammer. m/

30 Years of Busting Ghosts: As children of the ’80s, Dan and Andrew decide that this is as good a time as any to discuss why Ghostbusters is still so amazing.

Ladies Second?: Speaking of Ghostbusters, with the recent announcement of a likely all-female reboot of Ghostbusters––as well as the troubled all-female Expendables spinoff, The Expendabelles––Andrew and Dan discuss this very interesting version of the reboot––recasting nerdy franchises with a completely female cast. They discuss the pros and cons and the possibilities as well as any pitfalls that could come with such decisions.

The Master and The Mistress: As Series 8 of Doctor Who draws to a close, Dan and Andrew discuss one of the Doctor’s most famous and notorious adversaries––The Master! Consider this discussion a primer for all things Master, just in case you need it.

Question of the Geek:

Who is your favorite villain, in any medium?

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

Music From This Episode:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker, Jr.

-“Main Title Theme (Ghostbusters)” by Elmer Bernstein

-“I am the Doctor” by Jon Pertwee

-“Master of Puppets” by The Scorched Earth Orchestra

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And with Episode 23 (on Halloween, no less) we bring the month of horror to a close, in a way that only For All Intents and Purposes can.

Week in Geek: Andrew played Civilization: Beyond Earth while Dan talks about his comic but also watched Shadow of the Vampire in honor of the Halloween episode.

The Dead That Started It All: In celebration of the scariest month of the year, Dan and Andrew decided to sit down and watch the original 1968 George Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead, and they were really impressed for being the movie that basically established the genre.

Love the Craft: Dan gave Andrew homework to read what he feels is one of Lovecraft’s creepier stories, “The Thing on the Doorstep.”

Boasts of Bethel: The Boasts return with a rather serious contemplation of monsters both real and imaginary and how they seem to be much closer than we thought, given recent events among nerds and geeks.

Question of the Week: Since Halloween is over, they leave the horror behind and, instead, jump onto another favorite topic of theirs.

With DC and Marvel making all kinds of announcements all over the place, is there some superhero product (game, book, movie, music, etc.)––that doesn’t necessarily have to do with the Big Two––that you feel deserves more attention?

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Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

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

-“Journey into Darkness” by Steve Henefin (from Eternal Darkness)

-“Death in the Darkness” by Jeremy Soule (from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

-“Thriller” by Michael Jackson

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It’s a week before Halloween and For All Intents and Purposes does its best to help you keep your wits about you.

Week in Geek: Andrew does not buy a popular video game––which makes him sad––and Dan gets a shirt (that you should all buy at robinshirt.com) that makes everybody simultaneously happy and sad. Sorry for the feels.

I Know Those Notes: After thoroughly trashing a game this composer was involved with last week, Dan and Andrew spend a few minutes singing the praises of Nobuo Uematsu, speaking completely of his work with the Final Fantasy series.

Discussion: With the announcement and release of the Resident Evil HD and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers remakes this week (respectively), Andrew and Dan discuss HD remakes, reboots, and all the good and bad about them.

In Space No One Can Hear You Podcast: Jumping back onto the Halloween bandwagon, Dan and Andrew discuss a seminal work of sci-fi horror, Ridley Scott’s Alien.

Weekly Question: 

What horror fiction (any medium) do you feel is underrepresented?

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Music Featured:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“The Lonely Man Theme” by Joe Harnell and performed by Dennis McCarthy

-“The Prelude” & “Terra’s Theme” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy IV & Final Fantasy VI, respectively)

-“Alien (1979) – Main Theme” by Jerry Goldsmith

-“Main Titles (Gabriel’s Theme)” by Robert Holmes (from Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers)

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Kicking in the door of its third set of ten episodes but instead of blazing bold new trails, For All Intents and Purposes continues reveling in the fright and horror that comes with October.

Week in Geek:  Andrew watches new Star Wars television while Dan plays the full version of a game he has already talked about on the show. Dan also wrapped the first chapter of his western webcomic, Long John, this week, which means it’d be a great time to check it out (and to tell your friends about it if you like it)!

What’s in a Villain: In a new segment, Dan and Andrew discuss the villainy of Beauty and the Beast‘s main antagonist, Gaston.

Discussion: Are supernatural monsters as scary now that we have a tendency to rationalize or––as Andrew and Dan say in the episode––”sciencificate” them into the realm of possibility? Why do we do that? What’s the point? Can we stop?

What’s in a Game: In a spinoff to the “video games people should play” segment, Dan and Andrew discuss a game that should be knocked off its pedestal in their estimation. This time, they discuss the much venerated Final Fantasy VII.

Question of the Week:

What is your favorite Halloween episode of a television show?

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For all intents and purposes, that’s an episode recap.

Music in this Episode:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Gaston” by The Bad Plus

-“Some Kind of Monster” by Metallica

-“Fanfare” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI: Original Sound Version)