Through The Wind Door

Before The Voyage - Part 6 (Steamheart)

Our final thoughts on Chapter 7! (and 5 and 6, but mostly 7.)

• More on the blending of narrative styles!
• The Shamanic Voice
• Miguel's Heroic Journey
• There are no happy endings...
• Imminent Atonement with the Father
• Subverting Tropes
• The real treasure was the friends we made along the way!

Next week, no more recap chapters! It's all brand new stuff!

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "In The Air Tonight" by State of Mine

Before The Voyage - Part 5 (Steamheart)

More talking points for Chapters 5 and 6, and a tiny bit of 7!

• Everyone telling the story of Secret Rooms!
• "There was an idea..." The origin of the decision to find heroes.
• Thomas Arlington: Threat or Menace?
• Steamheart: It Doesn't have Stealth Mode!
• Through The Musical Wind Door!
• Storyboarding the Steamheart miniseries!

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Midroll is "Thunder Dreams" by Kevin Macleod

Outro is "Precious Illusions" by Alanis Morissette

Before The Voyage - Part 4 (Steamheart)

Today, part 1 of our thoughts on the Recap Chapters! (mostly chapters 5 and 6)

• James and Abigail noticing Harry
• The response of the Arlingtons to our Secret Rooms protagonists
• Metatext in New Century, as regards storytelling
• Development of new dynamics between our ensemble protagonists
• And the balance of text and subtext

I am going to try not to sprawl too much, but it may be unavoidable. This week's episode needed a lot of cleaning up, which means some of our first Skype conversation was removed to get it done on time. But I don't want to take up too much space, so if possible, I'll try to get our shows done in as few episodes as we can.

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "I Love You's" by Hailee Steinfeld

Before The Voyage - Part 3 (Steamheart)

The conclusion of looking at chapters 1-4, with our focus being on the events of Chapter 4 itself. In this week's episode, we get into:

• How Abigail, James, and harry interact with people, both people they know, and people they don't...
• Reflections on how elements from Secret Rooms start making themselves known in this chapter (something we'll talk about even more as we proceed)
• A deep discussion on Harry, and what is revealed though her first person narration
• Comparing and contrasting Harry and James's neuro-atypical brains
• Outtakes, and much, much more!

Next week, we begin our look at chapters 5-7, since we ended up having much more to talk about than expected with the 'Previously On New Century' chapters...

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "Unwell" by Matchbox 20

Before The Voyage - Part 2 (Steamheart)

Okay. Now we actually cover more than one chapter of Steamheart: 2, 3, and the beginning of 4.

Topics today:

• (Re)introducing Annie and Frank
• The Meet-Cute
• Introducing (more thoroughly) Jeremy Pines!
• A discussion of the neurodiverse spectrum and Jeremy's place on it
• The beginning of Jeremy's arc
• How Chapters 2 and 3 keep worldbuilding
• Team Steam begins to assemble!
• How it feels to return to James and Abigail

Gotta say, it feels good to finally talk about Steamheart. But boy, is there a lot of ground to recover. Thank goodness we have a nice vehicle to do it in.

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "I Choose You" by Sara Bareilles

Before The Voyage - Part 1 (Steamheart)

Eleven days till our anniversary. Exactly the right time to begin the Retrospective on the Culmination of Phase 1 of New Century.

Steamheart.

Today, we discuss:

• Emily Dickenson, and her poem
• The larger theme of journey narratives
• An unusual digression on the Tarot
• How our first introduction is framed, and by whom
• And much, much more

Today covers only chapter 1 in detail, but the arc of this and the next two episodes will be referring to chapters 1-4. So be prepared, for those to whom Spoilers matter.

 

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Intro is "Together We Stand" by Scott Holmes of Free Music Archive

Outro is "We Said Hello Goodbye" by Phil Collins

The Abyss Stares Back (Arlington)

The spoiler episode promised. Here's what you need to know:

• Part 1 is about Mr. Wight. Do not listen to this section unless you have finished listening to or reading Stonespring Maidens.
• Part 2 is about Seth, starting at the 33 minute mark, and requires you to have read through Nightfall of the Wendigo.

More I cannot say and still avoid spoilers. But those of you that can enjoy it, I hope you do. Next week: Century Tails.

 

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Intro is 'Bother' by Stone Sour

Midroll is 'Anthem of our Dying Day' by Story of the Year

Outro is 'Prayer for the Dying' by Seal

In A Mirror, Darkly (Arlington)

Our final ruminations on Seth. Toby and I reflect on what we know and what we guess, based alone on how he is depicted in this novel. Further discussion on how he might see Thomas and humanity itself, as well as discussion on narcissistic tendencies, potential past rejection, and similarities to another famous movie monster that has some connection to the world of New Century.

Many more discussions to come, obviously. The book is only closed for now, and we must wait till more is revealed (Though if you want some spoilery discussion, that is all coming next week!) Outtakes after the outro!

 

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Intro is "Fuck tha Police" by N.W.A.

Outro is "Prince of Darkness" by Indigo Girls

Crossroads (Arlington)

We've made it to the end of the 5th book. One more to go before we can look back on Phase 1 of New century as a whole, but coming to an end, always makes us reflect on what has been. What this ending means in context with the other endings. What new beginnings will spring from it.

We wanted to discuss this story from the perspective of classical tragedy, and so we do. But we also question if it really fits, given the greater context of what kind of tragedy this is. How in some ways it is too real, too raw, too modern for us to view at a remove, as purely fiction.

There is a certain poetic asynchronous feel to the fact that even though we've already covered so much New Century that this feels like a strange midpoint in the story. Steamheart, of course, will be huge and wide spanning. But it also makes sense if we put it in the right context. Secret Rooms was A New Hope , Arlington is The Empire Strikes Back, and Steamheart is the Return of the Jedi. Let Them Go - after all - is a separate prologue to the world, not this story. And Tiger's Eye, as wonderful as it is, is it's own self contained narrative that will just happen to be relevant to Steamheart.

All this and more we will discuss, in our last three shows on Arlington.

 

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Intro is 'This is America' by Childish Gambino.

Outro is 'Prelude in E Minor (Op. 28 No. 4)' by Chopin

Point of No Return - Part 7 (Arlington)

The speech, and the aftermath. The conclusion

• Tragedy and Hamartia
• The role of race relations in the final calculus.
• Wight - A New Player
• plus outtakes!

We've come to the end of our story. Next time... final thoughts, and some spoiler heavy concluding looks at two of our major players.

 

Linkara - Holy Terror:

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Intro is "One Person, Listening Now" by Doctor Turtle of FMA

Outro is "All This Time" by Sting