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Comments Show 2 - The Pelican Gaze (Patreon)

Published:
2018-06-21 19:32:48
Edited:
2019-01-04 03:39:45
Imported:
2021-07

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We're commenting on the comments on our last comments show, as well as more Bartleby, Mimic & more! Tune in!

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Anonymous

Honestly, Catch A Deadly Spell is Peak Pulp (TM). There's a hard-boiled gumshoe detective, The Old Ones are there, there's Dangerous Dames and people with big guns, and magic! And yeah, the special effects are questionable at best, but for a 90s direct-to-vhs movie, it could be a damn sight worse. Would love to hear your takes on it!

MortalGlare

Love these little episodes, I know these quite a few of us but they do feel a little more personal which is pretty cool. Like chatting with friends. I don't usually have any insightful comments but i always like showing my appreciation for the awesome content.

Anonymous

Lovecraft/weird fiction in video games for a topics show? I feel like the Lovecraftian literature scene is missing out on some good stuff. Especially Bloodborne which I feel is one of the most significant Lovecraftian works in years

Anonymous

Great show! I heartily endorse the idea of doing an episode just about Cast A Deadly Spell.

Anonymous

The quote about Japan reminded me of a joke one of my professors in college told.Jimmy Carter went to do a speech in Japan and he had a quite long joke about a farmer’s daughter he would tell at the end of the speech.He told the joke to the translator and asked if the Japanese people would get it.The translator told him it would be fine he only needed to make a slight change to the joke,so at the end of the speech he told the joke.The translator then spoke only for a few seconds,but the crowd broke out into laughter.Afterwards one of the Secret Service agents asked his Japanese counterpart what exactly did the translation work out to.He said “President Carter just told a joke,laugh very hard now.”

Anonymous

I actually sought out Cast A Deadly Spell after that episode and watched it. I really enjoyed it.

Anonymous

Lovecraftian anime is not something I had thought of, and now that I've heard about it I just need it in my life. Can anyone suggest a few?

Anonymous

Oh my goodness, you guys read my comments! This is a peak experience for me! The person who mentioned the extra arms and male privilege thing deserves some sort of cash award or something though. That was brilliant.

Anonymous

For the Topics Show: +1 for specific topics, and I have to admit, I think covering specific entries in media is a good place to pull from for that. There are some things I may not be interested in, but hey, it's a "topics show," that's gonna happen. Obligatory caveat: too much of any one thing... yada yada yada. Also, for the topic suggestions, are do people just leave comments for them?

Anonymous
>>13265194

I'm actually pretty interested in people suggesting these, as well. I recently re-watched Outlaw Star, which was on Toonami when I was a kid. It's one season long, and the episodes ending it felt super weird fiction/Lovecraftian to me. But the whole show itself was not that way. Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood has some Lovecraftian aspects. The Berserk trilogy of movies culminate in an insane Lovecraftian god mindscape type thing. Devilman: Crybaby has Lovecraftian themed monsters, I felt. Keep in mind, the last two, Berserk and Devilman, are some heavily "adult" material, and some people may be put off by that. I don't know of any series I felt specifically tried to embody Lovecraft though.

Anonymous
>>13263294

I remember Carter telling that story on television. Carson, I think.

Anonymous

No joke about the Head of the Class episode, gents. Some additional Googling leads me to believe it is Season 4, Episode 20 "The Quiet Kid" - but I could be mistaken. I can't find a place to stream it for confirmation. My eternal gratitude to whoever might locate the episode. Until then, my gratitude remains dreaming beneath the waves.

Anonymous

I want to say Cast A Deadly Spell is in Amazon Prime.

Anonymous

I think you guys could do topic shows about the various board, card and role-playing games based on the mythos. Not one show for all of the games, mind you, but each game you're familiar with is probably due it's own chat. My two cents.

Anonymous

A suggestion for future special topic shows: some of the themes that come up repeatedly in Lovecraft’s work or in horror or weird fiction in general. Maybe you could pick one theme and talk about it and why it seems to show up so often, and talk about a few other major works that also focus on that theme. Maybe you could get someone who is knowledgable about psychology to talk about that aspect of it. I’m thinking of things like Lovecraft’s preoccupation with hereditary horror or madness etc. What themes from Lovecraft's stories that still show up a lot in modern weird and horror works? What makes them relevant still today? Also, I wish people talked more about the 80s movie Prince of Darkness. Just throwing that out there.

Anonymous

So I'm a little late to the party as I've only listened to the show for the past couple years and just got a copy of Deadbeats. It'd be fun to hear about the collaboration process between you two and also working with Culbard about the illustrations. I haven't started it yet, but flipped through it when it arrived and I'm excited to get to it!

Anonymous
>>13276382

+1 here, I play Eldritch Horror about once a month and love it.

Anonymous

I really enjoyed the show about film - I kept wanting you to go into more detail about each film, but I think maybe that's cause we're so used to the research and effort you put into each story.

Frederic

How do I listen to these on my iphone? Can I access these via Apple Podcast? Any app to play these ?

witchhousemedia
>>13413114

You can use your unique feed URL to subscribe with an app, such as the Podcasts app on iPhone. Your feed URL is on the right of the Patreon page, listed under AUDIO RSS LINK. In the Podcasts app, click Library on the bottom, Edit on the upper right, then "Add a Podcast by URL..." There is also a Patreon app you can use to listen. Thanks!

Anonymous
>>13296709

I agree, I missed more detail on each, but maybe the movie makers wouldn't want their plots given out?

Anonymous

Part of my OU English lit course talked about the uncanny and its root from the German “unheimlich”, translated as unhomely. It was presented in the text book as something that on the surface is familiar but contains strange unfamiliar elements. We discussed it in reference to Wuthering Heights and Hoffman’s the Sandman. Both of these can be seen as rooted in reality and the supernatural elements debatable but there is definitely an element of the uncanny much like Bartleby.

Anonymous

Awww you guys actually read my comment :) Seriously, that made my day. I’ve been listening to you since episode 11, so it’s kind of the best thing ever to be “in” the show. Thank you! Would you consider the movie A Quiet Place to be a “weird” film? When I saw it, it really rang “weird” to me - unsettling, eerie, something is wrong, you don’t know where anything has come from or what has happened (until maybe the last 5 minutes of the film). I wouldn’t say it’s exceptionally Lovecraftian in that no one faints or loses their mind immediately after facing something terrible; it is, however, a focused narrative with a buildup to terror involving (spoiler) creepy things that fall from the sky (hello Old Ones and your servants...). It’s almost like a Harlan Ellison story. Take a man and put him in a pressure-cooker at a crossroads in his life and write about what happens. I guess my point is lost now, but I like weird media and I think that A Quiet Place should be talked about more than it is. Because weird.