Frithcast Episode 116 - Grettir gets Glam

Episode 116 Grettir gets Glam

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

 

· "The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea." - Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (and his mushrooms)

· The X-Files and Lost - two very long-running TV shows.

· Thor gets hangry - Thor and Loki's Journey to Utgardr/The Tale of Utgarda-Loki

· The alien Predator deploys its last-ditch get-even device, a wrist-mounted nuclear charge, to kill Dutch Schaefer - Predator (1987)

· "Tick tock, Mister Wick" - opening scene from John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019)

· The Hero's Journey; Joseph Campbell - a book analysing the ancient archetypal adventure storyline as followed by more or less every film you've ever seen. Including Star Wars.

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The bit in Blackadder about the rabbit, which Kate spectacularly failed to remember. It's the First World War. Lieutenant George St Barleigh's commanding officer and kind-of friend has been captured behind enemy lines. George wants to mount a rescue attempt. General Melchett doesn't think there's any point...

 

MELCHETT: Now, George. Do you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit. Beautiful little thing. Do you remember?

GEORGE: Flossy.

MELCHETT: That’s right. Flossy. Do you remember what happened to Flossy?

GEORGE: You shot him.

MELCHETT: That’s right. It was the kindest thing to do after he’d been run over by that car.

GEORGE: By your car, Sir.

MELCHETT: Yes, by my car. But that too was an act of mercy when you would remember that that dog had been set on him.

GEORGE: Your dog, Sir.

MELCHETT: Yes, yes, my dog. But what I’m trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossy was in after we’d scraped him off my front tyre is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now. If not very nearly dead, then very actually dead.

GEORGE: Permission for lip to wobble, Sir?

MELCHETT: Permission granted.

George's bottom lip wobbles. Melchett slaps him on the shoulder

MELCHETT: Stout fellow.

 

- Blackadder Goes Forth - Episode 'Private Plane'; BBC Television (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder_Goes_Forth)

 

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· The Witcher series of novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, and TV adaptation on Netflix

· Althing - a parliament or decision-making assembly; the Icelandic Parliament is today called the Althing or Althingi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

· The Operative and Mal Reynolds; Serenity (2005)

· "No disassemble Number 5!"; Short Circuit (1986)

 

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