Casual Trek

34. Kelpien Folk Horror Monolith

It’s November, so our Casual Explorers have novels to write, but we also want to bring you the innovative Casual Content you crave, so we’re going to go through all of Short Trek in a two part binge. We’ve make some new friends alongside Tilly as we discover that Ice Cream isn’t a universal constant like Sweedish Meatballs (Babylon 5 fans will get that one) in Runaway while in the far-future, things feel a bit like the opener to most RPGs with FPS mechanics in Calypso. After that, things go a little bit folk horror for the Kelpians as we get Saru’s secret origin in The Brightest Star while Miles becomes disturbingly obsessed with saying ‘Jippers on a Beach’ like he’s Harry Mudd in The Escape Artists. Next episode will see us wrap up the Short Excursion with the second season of Short Treks!

Timecodes:
8:01 ST: Runaway
19:21 ST: Calypso
29:21 ST: The Brightest Star
39:17 ST: The Escape Artists

Talking points include: Harlan Ellison’s aggressive tendencies, The Exorcist II: The Heretic, Wes Anderson and The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Charlie hates Maroon 5 (But when pressed on this, he simply replied ‘Who Doesn’t?’), we had a LOT of music on this one, Asteroid City, folk horror, Bioshock and RPGS with First Person Shooter Tendencies, Classic Doctor Who fans having very obsessive tendencies, every time Charlie talks about Delgrassi Junior High, he paints an ever more disturbing image of a Canadian Teen Drama written and directed by Sam Peckinpah, Quinton Review’s Long YouTube Videos about Carly 101 and VicTORIous, Rick and Morty and apparantly the British being unable to pronounce anyone’s names correctly.

Pedants Corner: Miles is editing the two Short Trek episodes and that has inspired him to take some of the editing load off Charlie giving them both one episode a month to edit, there may be a few spotty edits, but there we go. The Quinton Review discussion went in a few tangents dealing with personal stuff that both Miles and Charlie decided were best left out of the episode itself.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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