Talking about how seemingly trivial things are in fact crucial to our lives.
This episode wraps up the length discussion of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 1 - Water. This episode touches the remaining chapters, including many many spoilers! Make sure you listened to episode 012 first!
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This episode begins the temporary conversion of the podcast to one primarily discussing Avatar: The Last Airbender. This episode touches the first 8 "chapters" of Book 1 of the series. Spoilers abound! Take heed! Do not enter without watching the series first!
Book 1's discussion will be completed in the next episode of the podcast, so be ready!
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Also covered: many other small topics, including a bit of what's coming for the podcast.
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Welcome to our 10th episode! In this, Michael and Mandy finally wrap up the 3-part Harry Potter discussion. Lots of music, lots of discussion, and Michael getting tired, thereby resorting to using the word "like" way too many times.
So sit tight and enjoy this conversation about the finale of the Harry Potter series:
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This week, Mandy and Michael continue the Harry Potter discussion with nothing but Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth and middle entry in the series. Make sure to listen to episode 008 first!
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This week's episode begins our 3-episode spoiler-filled high level discussion on the Harry Potter series. We start with our thoughts on the series as a whole, then proceed to discuss the first three entries:
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In this week's spoiler free episode, Mandy and Michael spend an hour talking about children's media: why it's important, why its quality matters, and what some good stuff is.
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This week we do a lot of talking about barriers to entry in approaching different media. Lots of non-spoiler conversation about comics, video games, books, movies, and television.
At ~1:23, Mandy mentions her blog post: Where to Start: Epic Fantasy
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This week's episode is all about Time Travel.
In it we talk about all these things:
And eventually we stop talking because the episode would have continued until the end of time .
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This week is a 2 hour discussion about Superman. This may seem a much more focused topic than our other episodes so far, but Superman as a character is a very broad subject.
This episode is a special treat, and Michael doesn't want to spoil any of it here. One thing: The episode is Man of Steel spoiler safe until 1 hour, 11 minutes in, and it's made very clear that the movie is about to be discussed. You're safe to listen that far if you still haven't watched the movie yet.
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This week, Mandy and Michael discuss continuity in stories: when it's done well, when it should not be attempted, and the costs of doing it poorly when you could have just not bothered with it at all.
Media covered in this topic:
And probably a bit more scattered throughout.
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This week Mandy and Michael talk about sympathetic villains, by which they mean villains with which we can sympathize.
It's a major topic for the pair, so brace yourselves for over 70 minutes of audio!
In this episode, the pair discuss:
They also hit a few tangents and offshoots of conversation along the way.
Dive in, and pack your magic hammer!
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This is the premier, inaugural, introductory, and very first episode of Trivially Crucial. Consider this a meta-episode in which Michael and Mandy introduce themselves, the general ways in which they think about media, and discuss the importance of stories to normal life.
Also discussed:
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