Episode 18: Fanfic, Trauma, and Cancellations – 2022 in review

Pod Culture Oz Episode 18: Fanfic, Trauma, and Cancellations – 2022 in review

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In this special Summer Edition episode, we contemplate the past year & what we liked and didn’t like.

We look at our current pop culture pet peeves, have a rant or two, and discuss what we are looking forward to in future episodes.

You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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“Batman is not your therapy dog.”

— Nick, Co-host

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Timestamps:

• 0:00 – Introduction

• 0:50 – Best of 2022

• 19:45 – Pet peeve of pop culture in 2022

• 54:31 – What we are looking forward to in 2022

• 1:09:58 – Wrap up & Outro

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“Virality is the real curse.”

— Dave, Co-host

Books we discuss:

• Andrews, Ilona. The Innkeeper Chronicles

• Anthony, Piers – Xanth series

• Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

• Binet, Laurent. The Seventh function of Language

• Cooper, Susan – The dark is rising sequence

• Harris, Charlaine. Gunnie Rose series

• Irigaray, Luce, This sex which is not one

• Lembcke, Jerry – The Spitting Image

• Lovecraft, H.P Pickman’s Model

• Lovecraft, H.P. Dreams in the Witch House

• Tolkein, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings

• Young, Allan. The Harmony of Illusions

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Movies & TV shows we discuss:

• The Babaduk

• Batman movie – new

• Batman movie – Nolan

• Best in show

• Blown Away

• Bubble movie (anime)

• Bubble move (other one)

• Cabinet of curiosities

• Dirty dancing

• Fallout TV Series

• Glow up

• The Great British bake off

• The Great pottery throw down 

• Horizon Zero Dawn tv show

• Inception

• It Follows

• Jessica Jones

• Lord of the Rings – Rings of Power

• Love Death Robots

• Luke Cage

• Metalwork Masters

• Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Night of the Coconut

• Night of the Coconut documentary

• Paprika

• Sense8

• Smile

• Ted Lasso

• Triangle of sadness

• Top Gun

• Warhammer 40k series

• Westworld – movie

• Westworld – tv show

• The Witcher

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Games we discuss:

• Bloodbowl

• Dead by Daylight

• Disco Elysium

• Evil Dead

• Friday the 13th

• Hades

• Hades 2

• Heaven’s Vault

• Horizon Zero Dawn

• Lake

• Pathfinder

• Road 96

• Starfinder

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre

• Valheim

• Warhammer 40 K

• Warhammer Fantasy

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Other resources:

• Shelf Love podcast – Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast: Retellings, Reversions and Subversions