Anya and Alan talk about Fake News, Metronomes, Retcons, and the meaning of snails. Can you use boot-contaminated blood in a potion? Anya lays out why this finale is just like a Buffy finale. We wrap up Season 2, thank all of you for listening, and speculate about what comes next.
Buffering the Vampire Slayer just wrapped up Season 4 of the classic 90’s TV show.
The War of the Worlds started as a novel by HG Wells and has been adapted many times in different media.
Even Fox News had to drop their slogan of “Fair and Balanced” as they slid into propaganda.
The Sinclair Broadcasting Scandal was a “forced read” of a script that many “local” news anchors read live on the air to bolster the Trump administration.
The problem with women anchors on Fox News.
What is a Ret-con??
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Faith is the last Slayer called in Buffy the Vampire Slayer- and she’s the best.
Angel was a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gnosticism was a heresy of early Christianity.
Elon Musk made a submarine that was never needed.
Hello World is a thing.
Quantum Computing might be cool- but we don’t know much about it.
Schrodinger’s Cat is a thought experiment that helps non-scientists imagine quantum reality.
Diegetic Sounds link the fictional world and the real world for an audience.
Snails have many magical meanings.
Iktomi is played by Julian Richings and Gnaskinyan is played by Stephen R. Hart neither of whom are Native- which is very disappointing.
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Deus Ex Machina is a trope that trips up Fantasy stories sometimes.
Brandon Sanderson’s Laws of Magic in Fantasy.
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