Expounded Universe

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/expounded-universe-184-making-balls-blue.mp3 We made it!  Time for the attack on the mall, the witch fight, the obvious method by which Juliet’s endless story finally reaches some manner of end, all that stuff. Come along for the end of the ride! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/expounded-universe-183-your-dad-has-impressive-rack.mp3 Animal fight!  Harmon and Dean start the long walk to Elizabeth’s house as Sam wanders around a mall for two chapters (which would be 20 seconds in an episode, easy).  Do we check in with Juliet too and nothing really changes?  You bet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/expounded-universe-182-the-titular-canyon.mp3 Holy cow, not only are they finally finding out who the bad guy is, but they even finally said “Witch’s Canyon!”  It’s happening!  Anyway, they walk around, remember their dad, and are antagonized by Harmon Baird, rapidly becoming the best character in the canon of the show. Learn more about your ad cho...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/expounded-universe-181-mr.-terrific-and-booster-old.mp3 We’re back!  Both of us are off various vacations and ready to get through this here Supernatural ghost story.  So what happens?  Well the brothers finally see some action while everything else remains in the sort of vaguely pre-opening credits thing where we meet a character and they die. Lea...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/expounded-universe-special-edition-sham-bone-la-1.mp3 Jon’s out of town but Jef and Claire are making content now?  And holy cow is this ever some content warning content.  Instead of trying to catch up on Witch’s Canyon, Claire provides some classic Supernatural fanfic as a springboard for a rousing discussion on fic, pairings, Wincest (that’s cap...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/expounded-universe-180-the-baird-necessities.mp3 As tensions rise and the body count increases, the boys finally find an ally that knows anything at all!  Will the not especially mysterious Harmon Baird, survivor of two ghost cycles, be the key the boys need to solve the puzzle once and for all?  And do we have time for the what… seventeenth flashb...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/expounded-universe-179-sneaky-preev.mp3 Okay, now the killing has started in earnest.  But the brothers are still busy thinking about hotel keys, gun cleaning, girls, just anything but the haunted town scenario.  Can they get onto the right track?  Can we?  This episode is, to put it politely, shaggy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/expounded-universe-178-werewolf-out-there-juliet.mp3 Jon seems fairly confident that this is all right on track, but as far as I can tell this book so far is like a lawnmower that won’t start.  But hey, let’s pull the cord again! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/expounded-universe-177-gazpacho-maleficus.mp3 These chapters are just more tension building, so we went sorta crazy trying to fill the space by ourselves.  Fair warning, I guess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/expounded-universe-176-chopping-mall-1.mp3 There’s trouble down by the old mall!  But first there’s a bunch of flashbacks to Jeffrey Dean Morgan being mean to children, because this is based on season 1 stuff.  Also Juliet is destined to be a major character since she’s back and… well she thinks based on nothing more than timing coincidence that th...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/expounded-universe-175-the-big-fuckin-hole.mp3 What the hell is this.  Stock photo of first season Ackles and Padalecki, photoshopped into Joshua Tree?  Jon is grabbing the reins and there’s nothing we can do about it now.  Join us on a brand new adventure, as the Winchester Boys encounter a 40-year ghost story in a tiny Arizona town where a new ma...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/expounded-universe-174-maul-wrap-up.mp3 Questions, answers, thoughts, prayers, and also the announcement of the next book.  Oh the next book.  Why did I do what I did? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/expounded-universe-173-zestfully-sheev.mp3 And just like that it ends, not with a bang, but with a lightsaber twirl and a resounding “meh.”  Not sure what we expected, everyone killable was dead already!  But hey, we visit with Sheev again and you know how much we like that, I suppose. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/expounded-universe-172-a-league-of-his-own.mp3 Just one more chunk of book left after this!  People are dying at a pace I’d call impressive, but Maul and Eogan are still going strong, now on the lookout for new player Komari Vosa, who Maul needs to kill, or give a nuke to, or both?  Hard to say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/expounded-universe-171-the-blind-fighting-feat.mp3 Great set of chapters if you love pieces being moved around a board, I suppose!  We learn a little about the worm, Sadiki is moving to a retreat stratagem, and Maul, well he’s just doing the sort of stuff he does.  Maul stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/expounded-universe-170-kell-dragons-love-orange-soda.mp3 Jabba is making his move!  The collapse becomes ever more dramatic as new players enter with the same speed that old ones are dispatched.  Maul meanwhile is the man in the box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/expounded-universe-169-divesto-slipher.mp3 The dizzying spiral of decay and chaos that perpetuates the writings of Joe Schreiber continues ever downwards.  Characters are now dying left and right.  We near the end as Maul just stomps around killing people and being dour.  It’s great. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/expounded-universe-168-kick-in-the-kabals.mp3 Well, Maul finally finds his way to the “inner circle” but everyone in there is just commanding everyone else in there to kill everyone else in there, so that’s fun times.  Also Jabba makes the scene!  In the gross flesh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/expounded-universe-167-iram-so-far-away.mp3 Is it me or do these fights get less interesting over time instead of more?  We started with like a Yuuzhan Vong and a monster Wampa and now we’re fighting a Weequay and his shoulder bird?  If I wanna get into fights with shoulder bird guys I’ll just go to any street festival and fight recumbent bike guys...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/expounded-universe-166-smight-walks-with-rhythm.mp3 Time for a bit of the old “surprisingly goopy for Star Wars” violence as gang leaders start tearing guards to bit.  Meanwhile Maul just keeps cleaning up loose ends.  Is this book the original escape room? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/expounded-universe-165-hootkins-and-the-blowfish.mp3 Lots of setup this time, but we do meet an exciting new character.  Or maybe just some nameless bruiser?  Who knows at this point?  It’s like 90% red herrings in this prison by weight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/expounded-universe-164-hot-darth-flavored-water-and-the-chocolate-aqualish.mp3 The big fights just keep coming, and this time we’re diving into some filth water with Darth Maul (at this point I’d frankly be surprised if there were even one Maul-less match in this book) and discovering yet more secrets about the mysterious Iram Radique. Learn more a...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/expounded-universe-163-bone-bird-is-the-word.mp3 Things are about to get cryptic.  Turns out our Chadra-Fan buddy Coyle is some sort of statue-crafting bone mystic, and things are just devolving into riddles and puzzles.  But even as things slow down briefly, there’s promise of a cool battles soon to come! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/expounded-universe-162-warden-caught-me-jagganath.mp3 The story is in high gear now!  Artagan and his son begin to effect their daring escape but it sure goes wrong!  Also there’s spies all over, so that’s sorta cool.  Who is this Iram Radique, and why is everyone so worried that he keeps making grenades?  Aren’t grenades pretty easy to buy?  Well,...

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/expounded-universe-161-danger-danger-ghost-voltage.mp3 One thing about these books, they move along.  The last episode ended with Maul promising to deal with the gangs, this one starts with him doing it.  Then a bunch of other stuff happens too.  Guard intrigue, hacking, and holy crap we leave the prison to see some other characters you might know...