Thinky Thoughts: A Multi-Fandom Podcast

Thinky Thoughts: A Multi-Fandom Podcast

Fascination & Frustration's Ruth and Michelle are London based fandom aficionados, having thinky thoughts about TV, books, movies, and all things fandom. We would love you to join the discussion, via our website fascinationandfrustration.com or on social media using #TTpod

Episodes

August 28, 2018 93 mins

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In the maiden voyage of Fascination and Frustration's 'Thinky Thoughts' podcast, Ruth and Michelle geek out about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 

"We're not ready? They're not ready."

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In this episode we talk about the Warner Brothers Studio Harry Potter Experience, for around 10 minutes, before spending the rest of the episode discussing our Harry Potter experience, including how and when we got into the books, the madness of midnight book releases, working in bookshops during the time of the Harry Potter craze, Rowling’s writing and how we feel about Harry Potter now. 

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October 8, 2018 45 mins

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Here is a very special live episode, reporting from Manhattan (and away from our usual recording set up), to give you a full run down on our recent weekend at New York ComicCon. 

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October 22, 2018 85 mins

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In today's episode we are playing the Fic Bracket Game, in which well loved fanfiction tropes battle it out against each other and we see who is left standing at the end of the day, as the ultimate fanfic we want to read! 

This is part 1 of 2, due to a very long list of multi fandom fic recommendations! We wanted to give you time to actually read all this, before we recommend even more fic!

You can find ...

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November 19, 2018 85 mins

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In today's episode we are playing the Fic Bracket Game, in which well loved fanfiction tropes battle it out against each other and we see who is left standing at the end of the day, as the ultimate fanfic we want to read! 

This is part 2 of 2. We hope you've made your way through the last list, which can be found here, and are ready for more!

You can find the second recs list here on our website!

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We discuss The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, what worked for us, what didn't work and whether we are going to continue watching this TV show, when it returns in 2019. 

Spoilers for the first 10 episodes, so if you have not seen Sabrina yet and want to remain completely unspoiled, please watch the show first! 

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December 18, 2018 56 mins

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We discuss the first 5 episodes of season 1 of Wynonna Earp, what worked for us, what didn't work and whether we are going to continue watching.

Spoilers for the first 5 episodes.

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January 4, 2019 85 mins

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In which we answer the 30 Day TV Challenge questions and also campaign heavily for Supernatural to donate some of its episodes to Shadowhunters – we would call it ‘Supernatural: The Shadowhunter Years’ – How about it Misha Collins?

Mild spoilers for Buffy, The West Wing, Angel, Shadowhunters, Six Feet Under.

Huge spoiler for Serenity, so if you have not seen it and are planning on doing so, watch it now! ...

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January 17, 2019 58 mins

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We kick off our discussion on TV pilots with an old school TV sitcom classic. Friends! Not a dragon, warlock or demon in sight, but don't think that's going to stop us from discussing every moment of the first ever episode of Friends, and how it holds up, compared to the rest of the series. 

Minimal Spoilers. 

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January 31, 2019 99 mins

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We continue our discussion on TV pilots, today we are talking about Glee!

Minimal Spoilers. 

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February 15, 2019 75 mins

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We head back to our Sci-fi/fantasy roots in our pilots series, this episode we discuss the first official aired episode of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

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In the second of our discussions about Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, this week we discuss the OTHER pilot, the unaired version.

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We watched the first 4 episodes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand this week - another Show We Hadn't Seen. 

Jury remains out on this one, but we would love to know what you think about this show. 

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So we recently watched 4 season of Shonda Rhimes and Peter Nowalk's 'How to Get Away with Murder' in about 3 days. This is what we thought about this show we hadn't seen.

Spoilers for seasons 1-4 of HTGAWM.

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April 26, 2019 79 mins

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In the first of our new run of episodes about finales we talk about the delights of Neal Caffrey in White Collar.

Spoilers for White Collar.

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May 13, 2019 99 mins

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We're talking about one of our favourite finale Episodes of all time this week. Yep, we're talking about Buffy again.

Spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer... and a little also for Angel.

 

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May 30, 2019 75 mins

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It's here. Armageddon has reached us. The end is really really bloody nigh. We're talking all about the upcoming BBC/Prime mini series Good Omens, how we came to the book, and the talk we attended with Neil Gaiman and Aziriphale and Crowley themselves. We are very very much looking forward to Good Omens...

 

 

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June 3, 2019 93 mins

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It's here. Armageddon has reached us. We're discussing the BBC/Prime mini series Good Omens in six episodes. Join us for episode 1 - In the Beginning. 

The Crystal Palace Dino team is adorable HERE

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June 10, 2019 81 mins

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We're discussing the BBC/Prime mini series Good Omens in six episodes. Join us for episode 2 - The Book. 

 

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June 17, 2019 106 mins

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We're discussing the BBC/Prime mini series Good Omens in six episodes. Join us for episode 3 - Hard Times. 

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