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Jan. 24th, 2025 08:11 pmI have a podcast problem, which is that I need a steady podcast diet of fifty minutes a day for my walks to/from work, and my favorite kind of podcast is a (good!) media discussion podcast, but I can't listen to most media discussion podcasts even if they are good because I often will want to make sure I experience the media first and I simply don't have time. Anyway, here's some podcasts that I listened to this past year.
A More Civilized Age: As someone who only got really into Star Wars as an adult via the medium of watching The Clone Wars at the same time as I was involved in a tragic clone-centric Star Wars-themed RPG campaign, I am exactly the target audience for this Star Wars critical discussion/analysis podcast, which started with Clone Wars and has now moved onto Rebels with occasional detours to Andor, KOTOR, and the Thrawn trilogy. It is currently the reliable mainstay of my podcast diet and I'm very excited for them to eventually get to The Bad Batch, which appears to have become my favorite piece of Star Wars media after Rogue One and the approximately three Clone Wars arcs I really care about.
Re:Adapted: Usually I have a bit of a hard time with podcasts in which One Person Reads Out a Scripted Lecture (I prefer more freeform conversation) but I make an exception for things as directly relevant to my interests as this show, which traces the various ways that Phantom of the Opera has been readapted since the original Gaston Leroux novel came out and which pieces of each adaptation then got carried on, picked up, put down, pushed back against, etc. in subsequent adaptations after that. This is the kind of thing I find most interesting and I think Phantom is an incredible starting point. I think the Phantom season is complete at this point, but the creator has suggested that she might do subsequent seasons with other frequently adapted narratives and I hope that she does!
Jim Gordon Must Die: this is a podcast about the TV show Gotham, done by friends of mine who drop an update at complete random when the muse strikes them. As a result, every episode is always an exciting surprise! A rare and precious exception to my usual podcast problem, because I do not and will never want to see the TV show Gotham but I am curious about adaptations generally and so having all the most absurd parts of the show explained to me by my very funny friends is frankly an ideal way to experience it.
The Big Dig podcast: I wrote this up already, but in short, just a great piece of audio documentary storytelling about Our Beloved Local Nightmare Infrastructure Project. The producers have a follow-up coming about the lottery called Scratch and Win and I will be listening to it!
Shelved by Genre: This is a book discussion podcast ft. Austin Walker of Friends at the Table and A More Civilized Age plus some other guys who are new to me; I am not an archive completionist with this one and I'm not trying to read along with it, but![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kate_nepveu alerted me to the vital and important fact that they were reading the Vanyel trilogy and it has been both funny and fascinating to listen to people who have never experienced Mercedes Lackey seriously analyze The Vanyel Experience as a standalone piece of media. (I've also listened to a couple of their Earthsea episodes, but only for the books I recently reread.)
Friends at the Table: Currently airing FatT has become a show that I listen to socially withgenarti rather than a show that I listen to solo on my walk from work, which is delightful but is also part of the reason that I have been looking for more podcasts to fill up the daily fifty minutes ... anyway, as has been the case from the beginning, I'm into FatT less because I think it is always one hundred percent satisfying storytelling and more because I am fascinated by the ways that the actual play format lets the listener see how cool ideas and personalities and impulse and chance come together to structure the narrative, and as such I find the show's successes and failures equally interesting. The most recent season, Palisade, I think, is an incredible object lesson and illustration in this; unfortunately it's also a terrible place to pick up the show as it's more of a sequel to all of their previous stuff than they've ever done before. ( a little more nattering on this under the cut )
I am as always open to podcast recs! though as you may have gathered I'm quite picky about what specifically works for me and so I reserve all rights to ignore them.
A More Civilized Age: As someone who only got really into Star Wars as an adult via the medium of watching The Clone Wars at the same time as I was involved in a tragic clone-centric Star Wars-themed RPG campaign, I am exactly the target audience for this Star Wars critical discussion/analysis podcast, which started with Clone Wars and has now moved onto Rebels with occasional detours to Andor, KOTOR, and the Thrawn trilogy. It is currently the reliable mainstay of my podcast diet and I'm very excited for them to eventually get to The Bad Batch, which appears to have become my favorite piece of Star Wars media after Rogue One and the approximately three Clone Wars arcs I really care about.
Re:Adapted: Usually I have a bit of a hard time with podcasts in which One Person Reads Out a Scripted Lecture (I prefer more freeform conversation) but I make an exception for things as directly relevant to my interests as this show, which traces the various ways that Phantom of the Opera has been readapted since the original Gaston Leroux novel came out and which pieces of each adaptation then got carried on, picked up, put down, pushed back against, etc. in subsequent adaptations after that. This is the kind of thing I find most interesting and I think Phantom is an incredible starting point. I think the Phantom season is complete at this point, but the creator has suggested that she might do subsequent seasons with other frequently adapted narratives and I hope that she does!
Jim Gordon Must Die: this is a podcast about the TV show Gotham, done by friends of mine who drop an update at complete random when the muse strikes them. As a result, every episode is always an exciting surprise! A rare and precious exception to my usual podcast problem, because I do not and will never want to see the TV show Gotham but I am curious about adaptations generally and so having all the most absurd parts of the show explained to me by my very funny friends is frankly an ideal way to experience it.
The Big Dig podcast: I wrote this up already, but in short, just a great piece of audio documentary storytelling about Our Beloved Local Nightmare Infrastructure Project. The producers have a follow-up coming about the lottery called Scratch and Win and I will be listening to it!
Shelved by Genre: This is a book discussion podcast ft. Austin Walker of Friends at the Table and A More Civilized Age plus some other guys who are new to me; I am not an archive completionist with this one and I'm not trying to read along with it, but
kate_nepveu alerted me to the vital and important fact that they were reading the Vanyel trilogy and it has been both funny and fascinating to listen to people who have never experienced Mercedes Lackey seriously analyze The Vanyel Experience as a standalone piece of media. (I've also listened to a couple of their Earthsea episodes, but only for the books I recently reread.) Friends at the Table: Currently airing FatT has become a show that I listen to socially with
genarti rather than a show that I listen to solo on my walk from work, which is delightful but is also part of the reason that I have been looking for more podcasts to fill up the daily fifty minutes ... anyway, as has been the case from the beginning, I'm into FatT less because I think it is always one hundred percent satisfying storytelling and more because I am fascinated by the ways that the actual play format lets the listener see how cool ideas and personalities and impulse and chance come together to structure the narrative, and as such I find the show's successes and failures equally interesting. The most recent season, Palisade, I think, is an incredible object lesson and illustration in this; unfortunately it's also a terrible place to pick up the show as it's more of a sequel to all of their previous stuff than they've ever done before. ( a little more nattering on this under the cut ) I am as always open to podcast recs! though as you may have gathered I'm quite picky about what specifically works for me and so I reserve all rights to ignore them.
