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The Incomparable Mothership

297: The Ohm Whisperer

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Our survey of director Hayao Miyazaki’s work continues with 1984’s “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,” in which a post-apocalyptic world (of the 1980s nuclear armageddon variety) is populated by princesses, bugs that can’t help but be buggin’, a bunch of flying vehicles, and a suspicious fall through quicksand.

Transcript

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0:34.9

The incomparable.

0:37.1

Number 297, April 2016.

0:40.3

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable. This is one of our episodes where we are walking through all of the films of Haya Miyazaki, the great Japanese animation director. We have talked about, of course, Kiki's

0:56.3

delivery service and my neighbor Todoro. We are talking in this episode about 1984's Nossica

1:04.3

of the Valley of the Wind. Now again, we did back when the incomparable hadn't done almost 300

1:09.3

episodes and we thought we could do like all of the Joss Whedon TV shows in one episode.

1:14.6

We did an episode about Miyazaki.

1:16.8

Yeah.

1:17.2

I thought we were young and stupid.

1:18.4

Just an episode.

1:20.0

And we talked about it briefly then, but now we're going back because, you know, these podcasts aren't going to post themselves.

1:25.8

And we're going to talk about them individually, you know, a couple of years. So, Nasca, the Valley of the Wind, is what we talked

1:30.7

about this time. Let me tell you who's on the Miyazaki Club. You heard him. He's complaining

1:36.5

already. It's Steve Lutz. Hi, Steve. I'm not complaining. I'm just pointing out how, how

1:40.4

naive we were to think we could get through such fine works in a clump.

1:45.7

It's true.

1:46.3

Also, this nut tastes really weird.

1:48.6

That was my favorite line.

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