We’re back, Babes!

After spending a few months in our Summer jungle, we have lumbered back to the Jungle of Death to bring you our thoughts on the not-quite hit of the Summer — Pacific Rim.  Hear our thoughts on Mecha Anime, the future of blockbusters, and Australians!  Just make sure you listen at a lower volume level this time as our first podcast recorded on my poor little Mac is a little crackly.

Take care, listeners!

–Rachel

– Nissa

]]> https://thebabesinthewoods.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/episode-14-rains-of-castamere/feed/ 0 1949 thebabesinthewoods catelyn stark louis.mclane@gmail.com (LTM)noIn preparation for the season finale, and another TEN MONTHS with no Game of Thrones, the Babes present [SPOILERIFIC] reactions to the episode everyone’s (still) talking about, and predictions for what came next. We will react to the season finale just … Continue reading →LTMIn preparation for the season finale, and another TEN MONTHS with no Game of Thrones, the Babes present [SPOILERIFIC] reactions to the episode everyone’s (still) talking about, and predictions for what came next. We will react to the season finale just … Continue reading →science,fiction,scifi,fantasy,horror,feminism,ladies,aliens,monsters,dragons,critique,women,s,issues,sexism https://thebabesinthewoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/episode-13-primer/ https://thebabesinthewoods.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/episode-13-primer/#respond Wed, 29 May 2013 14:12:46 +0000 http://thebabesinthewoods.wordpress.com/?p=1864

With the release of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, we revisit his first effort, the dark and cerebral time travel film, Primer. Join us for 50 odd minutes of critique and discussion.

Back to the blog,

Linds

Certain classics of genre are peerless, like Star Trek. Join your babes for about an hour of diatribes and discussions on the latest JJ Abrams offering, Star Trek Into Darkness, a riveting journey into the dorkest parts of the human psyche.

Ramming speed,

Lindsay

The Babes are back in the Jungle of Death with a solid hour of fangirl flutterings about the master, Neil Gaiman. Do you want to know what made us love the Gaimanverse first? Do you want to hear our thoughts on his work in comics, novels, and on-screen? This podcast is for you. And by “podcast,” I mean “love letter.” By “you” I mean “Neil Gaiman.”

Be my valentine,

Linds

Team Brienne,

Lindsay

We’re back in the Jungle of Death with a terrific, rambling, and sometimes insightful episode about Young Adult Heroines. Join us as we chat about the explosion of YA and the rise of the introverted YA heroine. Thrill as we critique Katniss for the umpteenth time! Recoil in terror as we talk about the merits of Stephanie Meyer’s writing! Rise up as with us as we join together to demand more complete heroines!

And well, just give it a listen. There’s a lot going on in there.

Best,

Linds

Because we love you.

Love,

Linds

Bitches, man,

Lindsay

This Thanksgiving, escape any familial awkwardness and spend 57 glorious minutes traveling through time with the Babes. We discuss the logistics of time travel, offer you an overview of the great works, and ultimately devolve into Whovian free-for-all. Your safety is not guaranteed, but your enjoyment is.

Relevant Links:

1. Wikipedia’s Time Travel Literature Timeline

2. Brigadoon

3. Our Contentious Christmas detour- It’s a Wonderful Life, The Great Escape, and James Bond

4. Mainstream Time Travel Romances- Kate and Leopold, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Somewhere in Time, Groundhog Day

5. Stargate SG-1 – Wormhole X-Treme

6. The Time Machine

7. Back to the Future

8. The Terminator

9. Looper

10. Our Doctors- Eccleston, Tennant, Smith

11. Dr. Who – Love & Monsters

12. Rose Tyler

13. Donna Noble

14. Martha Jones

15. Sarah Jane Smith

16. Amy Pond

17. Mickey Smith – Ricky Smith is Stephan Urquelle.

18. K-9

19. Cybermen and Daleks

20. Project Pegasus

Relevant Links:

1. Samhain
2. Pinterest Fail
3. Devil’s Night
4. Radiskull- Hella Weenie
5. Sinister is awesome!
6. Paranormal Activity 4 is exactly what you expect it to be. Which is to say nowhere near as good as Paranormal Activity 3.
7. The Sixth Sense scared Flumpy because she is a wuss.
8. Men Women and Chainsaws
9. The Amherst Rape cover-up
10. The Descent
11. Cabin in the Woods
12. Wolf Creek
13. The Ring
14. John Saxon, not James Mason, in Nightmare on Elm Street.
15. Hocus Pocus
16. Tim Curry as Pennywise.
17. Adventure Time is the best show on tv.

Essential Horror Movie Final Girls*

5. Sally Hardesty – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Nancy Thompson – Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Sarah Carter – The Descent
2. Sydney Prescott – Scream
1. Laurie Strode – Halloween

* Ellen Ripley über alles. She’s disqualified for being just too damned good at final girl.
– Lindsay

Relevant Links:

1. Buffy’s Day Job at the Doublemeat Palace (not the chicken shack, mah bad)

2. Bryan Fuller’s array of shitty jobs- Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls

3. Beloit College’s insightful yearly mindset list

4. Sam and Dean Winchester

5. Buffy Season Eight

6. Making the case that Ring Bearer is the worst job ever

7. Game of Thrones kills my sex drive

8. Westeros is the shittiest job market

9. Bad jobs in Harry Potter- being Filch, being Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, being a Horcrux

10. Sean Bean has played both the Hand of the King and the Steward of Gondor, two tough ass jobs. We salute him.

10. Katniss Everdeen

11. Dawn Summers is the worst at her job.
Back to work, Babes!

– Linds

My YouTube-fu is inferior to Lindsay’s, and TDKR doesn’t seem to be parceled out into the internet yet, so I’m not going to be able to make most of these things into clips. I’ll do my best though! Here’s some of the things we talk about this time around:

1. Bane’s voice

2. Post 9/11 Batman as lens for the economic crisis

3. House Greyjoy’s sigil as evil ovaries:

4. The prison chant, “deshi basara”

5. Thematic echoes across Nolan’s Batman universe

6. Talia al Ghul/Miranda Tate vs Selina Kyle

7. More of No. 2 – Batman and Capitalism, TDKR predicting #Occupy, the theme of consequences

8. 80’s/ Recession chic

9. We Commissioner Gordon

10. Anne Hathaway: the shoes, the body, the best Catwoman

11. Batman as reflection of his time

12. Gotham City = Cancer City

13. MFK Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale Batmans (Batmen?)

14. MFK Scarecrow, Bane, Joker

15. MFK Rachel Dawes, Talia al Ghul, Selina Kyle

– Nissa

PS No really – how can I marry Bane? I want this to happen to my life.

Here’s your typically incomplete list of media discussed in this podcast.

1. The Little Mermaid

2. Sleeping Beauty

3. Cinderella

4. Beauty and the Beast

5. Pocahontas

6. A Song of Ice and Fire

7. Game of Thrones (TV)

8. Disney Princess Power Rankings

9. Brave

10. Tangled

11. The Princess and the Frog

12. Xena, Warrior Princess

13. Star Wars

14. Ponyo

15. Princess Mononoke

– Linds

PS I decided, upon review of this podcast, to save my vision statement writing for the prestigious and exclusive Evil Queen fellowship program.

Here’s a brief and incomplete list of  media discussed in this episode. Enjoy the relevent YouTube clip.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2. Nosferatu

3. The Vampire Chronicles

4, Twilight

5. The Vampire Diaries

6. Let the Right One In

7. Vampire Hunter D

8. Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland

– The Babes