Episode 22: Streaming, content, and sailing the high seas
“You know, the kind of falling, professional Hollywood producer meets the rising streamer basically.”
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.
You can listen to this episode on our website, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
“Studios saw it 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.”
Guest Hosts: Lafayette and Carols, Nerds Talking Podcast
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
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
