Episode 18: Roaring Anachronisms and Where to Find Them
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Greetings from the Roaring Twenties, witches!
In this excitingly lengthy new beast of an episode, Marcelle and Hannah are joined by your favourite Guy with a Film Degree: Neale Barnholden! Your hilarious hosts FINALLY talk about that new venture into the Wizarding World by money machines JK Rowling and Warner Brothers: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!
Get cozy, because this episode is fantastically long!
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's amazing that we've been talking for an hour and two minutes and we're only in the first segment. |
| 0:06.0 | Well, fuck, I have to pee and then we're going to move much more quickly through the rest of this. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, kiddo be. Oh, kiddo be. Hello and welcome to Which Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Marcel Kausman. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Hannah McGregor. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm Neil Barnholden. Hold on it. We are back in full force today to talk about the indie sleeper hit of fall 2016. Fantastic beasts and where to find |
| 0:46.4 | them. That's right witches. JK Rolling keeps pumping out the material and we just won't stop talking about it. |
| 0:55.0 | A quick note, since this is a new beast, |
| 0:58.0 | neither a book nor a filmic adaptation but a rolling authored original film, |
| 1:04.4 | we're going to be splicing and dicing our book and movie segments into one great big |
| 1:08.5 | episode. Now, I don't know about you too, but I have a lot of feelings about this movie, and I need to talk |
| 1:15.9 | about them in the sorting ceremony. |
| 1:19.2 | For Schitts and Giggles, we're going to double up on this one and talk about both our general impressions and our thoughts about casting. |
| 1:27.0 | So let's start with some impressions. Marcell, you want to take us away? |
| 1:31.0 | I would love to. |
| 1:33.5 | I gave this movie a 75% good and a 25% offensive. |
| 1:40.5 | So I would argue that the enjoyable parts were very enjoyable, but overall the average is like me. |
| 1:50.0 | It felt so much to me like a first-time screenwriter was trying to tell a story, but that's amazing because that's literally what it was. |
| 1:58.0 | This is sort of how I remember the movie. We are getting off of a ship. We are in America. |
| 2:08.4 | America is different from England. Here is a crisis. Here is a love interest, here is a sidekick, now we have a movie, here |
| 2:16.5 | is a climax, here is a cliffhanger. |
| 2:19.8 | Yeah, I mean it's like she read a book about how to write a screenplay before she wrote the screenplay, right? |
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