Binary System Podcast #277: WTNV #191 "The Many, Many Lives of Frank Chen"

<p>Original broadcast date August 5, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-277-wtnv-191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen/</p> <p>We may have mentioned this before, but the Binary System Podcast team <em>loves </em>a good time-travel story. We especially enjoy it when the writers use the side-effects of time travel to really mess with longtime fans who know that <em>none</em> of what's happening is normal. (Sheriff Pamela Winchel? Michelle Nguyen is marrying Sara Sultan, the fist-sized river rock? <em>Cecil likes Steve Carlsberg's scones?)</em></p> <p>After we recap the wibbly-wobbly, timey wimey story of poor doomed Frank Chen we move on to the weekly SitRep which is, well, the news of the world could honestly be a little better. (The sounds of sirens and the helicopter life-flights coming from the hospital near Elizabeth's apartment were particularly active this week which seems PRETTY DARN APPROPRIATE.)</p> <p>To distract ourselves from all of THAT, we discussed Lore Olympus for a little while, along with a bit of Penny Dreadful, a smidge of John Varley, and Kathryn's "meh" review of the space horror movie "High Life". The bulk of the episode was devoted to episodes 1-7 of Beastars Season 2, and if you're not caught up then you probably better skip from minute 19:00 to 35:54 because we spoil ALL THE THINGS.</p> <p>The outro music this week is a clip from <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/linn-friberg/single/finally-free?fbclid=IwAR2s8RGTx-fcymGJa0HzBH6LnTNz1j33egydZhFdRBRHKPSQh_bCe4xmFNs" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Finally Free</a> by Linn Friberg.</p> <p><em>Corrections: According to the </em><a href="http://www.nightvalepresents.com/welcome-to-night-vale-transcripts/2021/8/1/191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen"><em>transcript</em></a><em> http://www.nightvalepresents.com/welcome-to-night-vale-transcripts/2021/8/1/191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen for this week's Night Vale episode, Frank Chen traveled to Constantinople