In this special summer edition Year in Review episode, we are joined by our friends Lafayette and Carlos from the Nerds Talking Podcast. We take a take a look back at the critical issues of 2023: streaming services, the rise of ‘content’, and the potential return of sailing the high seas for Australians.
This episode we take a deep dive into what worked and didn’t work for us this year. From poor adaptations of IP, to pumped up series that fell flat, to new games that we loved. We take on studio amalgamations, the loss of mid budget films, discuss the rise of ‘content’, let our American friends know about the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification and how they censor and ban games and films, and fill them in on the friendly Australian and New Zealand rivalry.
Then we turn our gaze to take a bit of a look at what is ahead in 2024, and what we are looking forward to in gaming, tv, and film and (in one notable case) in literature.
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Guest Hosts: Lafayette and Carlos, Nerds Talking Podcast
[Studios] saw it as a, as a chance to exploit toys. Like their next venture is Polly Pocket…definitely the wrong message, you know, cause when Connect 4 comes out, I’m guessing it’s going to be a kind of like human centipede.
Carlos
Timestamps:
- 0:00 – Introduction
- 2:08 – Overview of 2023
- 17:36 – Spots of brilliance in 2023
- 47:52: – Profound disappointments of 2023
- 1:23:56 – What we are looking forward to in 2024
- 1:33:09 – Wrap up & Outro
“you know, the kind of falling, the falling professional Hollywood producer meets the rising streamer basically”
Nick
Books we discuss:
- Adina, Shelley. Mysterious Devices series.
- Anthony, Piers. Macroscope
- Anthony, Piers. Xanth series
- Eddints, David. The Belgariad
- Eddings, David. The Elenium series
- Lovecraft, H.P At the Mountains of Madness
- Martin, George RR. A Song of Ice and Fire
- Miller, Mark. The Big Game
- Stoker, Bram. Last Voyage of the Demeter
- Weiss, Margaret and Hickman Tracy. Dragonlance Chronicles
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ronin
Movies & TV shows we discuss:
- 300
- Ahsoka
- Asteroid City
- Banshee
- Barbie
- Beatlejuice 2
- Blue Eyed Samurai
- Bodies
- Casablanca
- Deadpool 3
- The Diplomat
- Doctor Who
- Dune 2
- Evil Dead Rise
- The Exorcist: Believer
- Extraction
- Fallout TV series
- Fall of the House of Usher
- Furiosa Mad Max
- Frasier
- Ghosted
- House of the Dragon
- Inglorious Basterds
- The Invitation
- John Wick 4
- The Killer
- Knives Out
- Knives Out: Glass Onion
- Last Voyage of the Demeter
- Lessons in Chemistry
- The Little Mermaid
- Lord of the Rings – Rings of Power
- Napoleon
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Oppenheimer
- Outlaws
- Past Lives
- The Periphery
- Peter Pan
- Polly Pocket
- The Pope’s Exorcist
- Prometheus
- Rambo
- Rebel Moon
- Rick & Morty
- Saw
- Scavengers Reign
- Schitt’s Creek
- Sense8
- Slow Horses
- South Park
- Spiderman: Beyond the Spiderverse
- Starwars: Clone Wars
- Stranger Things
- Talk to Me
- Taskmaster
- Ted Lasso
- Tetris
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Top Kill a Mockingbird
- Undead Girl Murder Farce
- Warrior Nun
- Westworld – tv show
- The Witcher
- The X Files
Games we discuss:
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Call of Duty
- Carmageddon
- Disco Elysium
- Fallout 3
- Fallout 76
- Grand Theft Auto 3
- Grand Theft Auto 5
- Immortality
- Jedi Survivor
- JFK
- Max Payne
- Mudrunner
- Phasmophobia
- Red Dead Online
- Rimworld
- Risk of Rain 2
- Sniper Elite
- Snowrunner
- Starfield
- The Witcher 3