OSPod 116 After-After Show-Show!
Added 2025-04-02 13:00:14 +0000 UTCThe gang chats about the joys of taking classes on purpose, how to build a dead hamster, patreon's billing changeover finally being done, the multitudinous crimes of Kraven, our sincere hope that Sony won't ruin Beyond The Spiderverse, the joys of Robert Pattinson entering Full Freak Mode, and Blue's adventures muddling his way through Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood!
We found the link to Fun-eral!
(Slight correction to one of Red's grievances with Kraven: Papa Legba is most well-known as a Haitian deity, but he originated in West African Vodun, so it's technically not a plothole that Calypso's grandma namedropped him from her home in continental Africa. That said, I would bet real money that the Kraven writers didn't google this even once and only got that part half-right by accident, in large part because the movie uses Papa Legba's vévé to represent him, and as far as I can find, vévés are a feature only of the diasporic religions like Haitian and Louisiana voodoo, not the original West African Vodun they're derived from. Not to mention that using Tarot for occultism is a late-1700s french invention. It's just a mess all the way down. Don't watch this movie.)
Comments
1. Comment for the main podcast: The way that I speak is built up thru years of being conditioned to believe that people will not understand me, resulting me speaking like a Wikipedia article in the sense that I have to clarify and disambiguate every word that I say. All this to say: yes, silent protagonists can be a form of wish fullfillment in the form of being understood. 2. Comment for the AASS: *What the fuck is a Malamar?!* (Not the Pokémon, the thing they keep bringing up in the AASS.)
OtherworldManeki
2025-04-14 19:26:53 +0000 UTCOn the topic of Robert Patterson and Mark Hamill, I watched The Boy and The Heron last month, and I was 100% convinced that the heron was Mark Hamill for the entire movie, only to find out during the end credits that he was Robert Patterson the whole time, and Mark Hamill was playing the mysterious old dude instead. They got me twice in one movie! Anyway, a suggestion for a future Detail Diatribe: metaphors in superhero stories, perhaps touching on the X-men. I'm of the opinion that the X-men as an oppressed minority metaphor really doesn't work when so many of them are so dangerous [last I checked I can't shoot lasers out of my eyes, thankfully], but if you guys have counter-arguments, I'd love to hear it. Also a video for Blue's thoughts on FMA: B once he's finished, please and thank you.
Kura
2025-04-11 01:26:57 +0000 UTC
