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Now how does a show manage to have us care about side characters we've never heard of like Shining Knight and his code of honour and make us a laugh out loud because of them turning adults into children. Both ends of the super hero spectrum are presented in this show but did they really manage to make both work?

This is the best Batman and we will not be taking questions at this time. But what exactly makes this rendition voiced by the incomparable Kevin Conroy the best? We break it down beat by shining character beat and delve into the greatest bat themed detective put to screen.

For a character that is seemingly easy to present to the masses why does the ball get dropped so frequently? Especially when the best example is drawn, written and crafted out that all you have to do is follow the example set forth by this series. We will be showing exactly how well done this outing of the character is and why it is free of most sins that plague Wonder Woman adaptations.

Longer than average episode but we have opinions and Superman deserves to be talked about and given proper representation. So using the best Superman (animated Justice League and Unlimited) we will through and show who this character is and why this show was, and is, the best DC outing for all of its heroes.

Birds, emotions, things that are not human reducing us to emotional messes. Pixar shorts are BACK! We're out of the weakest shorts and back to prime Pixar but these one's are less known is that due to not being as memorable or something else?

Another batch of shorts with stories of justified revenge, the pains of creative endeavours when you can't work the same as your peers, propaganda for a rival company, and the terrors of living inanimate objects in an otherwise regular city. Now we see how Pixar continues as a company with a well established reputation and if they can continue moving upwards or if there is a downturn at any point.

The next set of shorts are up for discussion we see through the release that take us form Bug's Life to Ratatouille. We see old men engaging in illegal gambling, children extorting creatives and the truest horrors of all....nakedness and driving tests.

An episode dedicated to the shorts before the main features? No only the first of a series of episodes cataloguing the rise of the Pixar shorts and the highs, lows and terrors they inflicted upon people. These have left their marks for better and in one particular case worse.

Laika's first foray into production as themselves. This film defined them in the popular consciousness for better or worse, how does it stand up after all this time? Could they have done better? What fingerprints that later come to define the company can be found here? All this and a serious discussion about fictional houses in this episode.

So how does Laika do on a contract job for a auteur that can at times forget that film needs a story and can't coast by on visuals alone. Is this a good merging of creators or is it better that death parts this union quickly.

The magnum opus of Laika productions but is it without flaws? Is stop motion a viable medium for samurai stories? Is origami a valid form of ques marker? All the questions asked and answered as we look at Kubo.

The oft maligned and deemed lesser of Laika's productions is now getting a good look in through our eyes and like a judge of fine cheese (I assume there are cheese judges and competitions) we shall pour over all of the details and find deeper meaning than others maybe thought was there.

Stop motion, horror and a moral about acting out in fear. Just a small portion that makes this Laika film what it is and we are digging it up, casting a spell and seeing if their is magic in this film or if we should just leave it alone to its visions.

Elementary wins goodnight. There are reasons we list out and we try to not devolve into just listing the bungling of one of the most popular detectives in known fiction but we don't need to be Sherlock to figure out it's just Elementary our dear Watsons.

Finally we hit the mid point of any character story to archetype pipeline, when we start making our own stories with characters that are only vaguely reminiscent of the book characters. Who handled this changed better Guy Ritchie with RDJ playing the well known detective or Disney with their small rodents in a hidden world that looks like ours?

The clues are being uncovered in the murder of the Sherlock Holmes character and his stories. We found the first set here with Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett's filmed adaptations. How will this connect to the larger picture if at all? Let's begin to unravel this mystery.

Now in a trend we accidentally started last year we look at another character archetype borne from a popular English literature character. Using deductive methods we will find out how this character was murdered in public knowledge and those who are responsible. But before we find the guilty parties we must start at the beginning....with Arthur Conan Doyle's books.

TW: Talk of dead animals from 34:34 - 36:00 The final offer of reality TV and it focuses on the home and whether or not it is acceptable. From home improvement to hoarders, from purchasing a fixer upper to getting the dream home over a wedding the home is something we all have but not always own for yourselves.

Sometimes we need help improving ourselves physically and mentally, and sometimes people make shows about beating all the individuality out of you for the approval of rando's on the street who you have never met nor care about. We look at the reality phenomenon that may have lead to an uptick in social anxiety for fear of being told you are wrong and should feel bad despite harming no one and bein...

One of the eternal issues we all face at some point that has now been monetised and exploited by networks while claiming possible educational purposes. Some walk this tightrope better than others and some are just cruel, but can any show in this genre be slightly redeemable?

*Quick correction it's Filmrise Television who are the producers who have the show on YouTube and Fuji Television were a producer as well* Iconic, often replicated never duplicated and game changing, all these are just the beginning of describing Iron Chef. we try to surmise not only the appeal of this cooking show but how it changed the landscape of cooking shows and all the children it spawned.

Now the avatar for girlhood and the other icon sacrificed on the alter of pop feminism. Her legacy is long and many have come for her crown but still she stands as a beacon of high femme power. We try to brief and run through all of her histories and relevance to both us and pop culture at large.

TW: Talks of SA, non-consensual sex relations and sexual violence from 45:46 - 51:55 A nice easy, breezy, beautiful, Covergirl style topic, that in no way is a mine field of a Gordian knot topic can lead to tripping on words as we try to empathetically explain the complicated relationship real life women have with sexuality and how media's exploitation and then demonization of it, is confusing and...

One of the most rapidly changing forms of storytelling and capacity for telling stories gets a look at how it handles feminine presenting characters. Does the young one of media forms do better or is it following in the well worn footsteps of those that came before?

Changing social norms, expectations from our stories and the surprise entry of a disguised villain, all the ingredients that went into making the marketable ideas of femininity presented in the renaissance era princesses of Disney. There is a tangent none saw coming but the discussion of complexity when creating the new heroines must be had as we will not be just brushing over them like some pop c...