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Disappointments, Canon in Fiction, Entertaining Guests, Cold Cuts | Constellation, Episode 74

It's me, Colin, and I come bearing bad news: Dagan is going to be gone for a few weeks. His work demands his presence over the next several Fridays, and thus I've slid (!) back into the host's chair. Joining me this week are LSM executive producer Dustin Furman, coordinator Micah Moriarty, and special guest Rick Hoeg of Hoeg Law. As always, topics vary wildly. Micah begins by talking about throwing parties and entertaining people at our home. Do we enjoy the process, or is it stressful? I go next with a deep cut (literally): Cold cuts, the glorious sliced meat that make the finest sandwiches imaginable. What are our go-tos? From there, we welcome Dustin's topic, all about our respective lives' biggest disappointments, from games, film, and TV, to work, love, and life in general. Finally, Hoeg brings up the rear with what ended up being our most-explored inquiry of the week: How we deal with fictional canon when we don't like all of it. Are we able to divorce ourselves from some of it and embrace the rest? Is "The Death of the Author" the true law of the land, or is authorial intent everything?

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drumlord

I gotta say, I agree with Hoeg about the death to the author interpretation, and I believe Neil’s view on the TLOU ending actually illustrates that. He made a game that takes place in our reality, where you don’t have to kill a subject to gather tissue samples to create a vaccine, and where vaccines don’t exist for fungal viruses. To say that a vaccine was guaranteed is just wrong.

Timothy

If we want to apply logic, the fungus wouldn't affect humans at all lol.

Halph Pint

Ending of Sopranos is by no means clear…sure when you watch the YouTube video pointing out bread crumbs here and there you come to a conclusion, but no one saw all that their first time through lol

James Pies

Colin, if you still have HBO, I highly recommend The Leftovers for some existential dread. "See the forest for the trees"