The Mercy of Pods

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast that is normally about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, but today we are covering The Churn, a novella in the Expanse series, also by James S.A. Corey. This episode is spoilers for the entire Expansiverse!    In this episode: We cover the origin story of everyone's favorite babygirl sociopath, Timothy Amos Burton Brigid detai...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 9 is a recap and overview coverage of the ENTIRETY of the published narrative for The Captive's War to date.   In this episode: We talk about the overall themes and symbols of the work, including what does it mean to be human and how much of your hum...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 8 covers the second and FINAL half of The Captive's War's first novella, LIVESUIT.   In this episode: We watch the futuristic noir crime drama Silent Horses through the eyes of our loveable dingbat Kirin, and we compare it to the Maltese Falcon...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 7 covers the first half of The Captive's War's first novella, LIVESUIT.   In this episode: We meet Kirin and Piotr, our Very Special Supersoldiers who are definitely certainly of course going to be just fine at the end of this cosmic sci-fi horr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 6 covers the sixth and FINAL part of The Mercy of Gods, SMALL BATTLES IN THE GREAT WAR.   In this episode: Dafyd sells out the resistance in exchange for that sweet swarm lovin'. We say goodbye to Synnia, Jon Bernthal, and the rest of the resistance...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 5 covers the fifth part of The Mercy of Gods, FISSURES.   In this episode: we meet all the new people that our group has discovered, including Jellit, Merrol, Dennia, and good old Llaren Morse.  Dafyd and Else interview the weird and diverse alien menager...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 4 covers the fourth part of The Mercy of Gods, TURNABOUT.   In this episode: we take note of the various turnabouts that happen between our heroes, the Night Drinkers, the Carryx and other various sundry folks Dafyd and the Swarm finally make whoopee, and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 1 covers the first part of The Mercy of Gods, BEFORE.  In this episode: we analyze the central conflict of the series, the fact that the funding colloquy is going to split up the research group! Brigid hearts Ekur-Tkalal Clint goes googly eyed over Campar...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 2 covers the second part of The Mercy of Gods, CATASTROPHE.  In this episode: we cover the conquest of Anjiin by the Carryx and their menagerie of horrible animals of violence, it is not pretty lots of people die, but thankfully not Campar (<3) speakin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Mercy of Pods, a podcast about The Captive's War by James S.A. Corey, hosted by Brigid & Clint. Episode 3 covers the third part of The Mercy of Gods, PUZZLES.   In this episode: your hosts take credit for manifesting the upcoming TV show we break down some of the social and biological darwinism philosophies of the Carryx the team gets a new task - be useful...