images from podcasts past

[deflective]

when you think of escape pod what images jump to mind? a world populated by trees and genetic hybrids? an entire people seeing a night sky for the first time?

think about ep right now (without looking at episode titles, before looking at other people's posts) and note the first six or seven images that come to mind. my list surprised me a little, it isn't always your favourite stories that you think of first.

they were doing something like this over at the drabblecast, seemed like a good idea. =)

[deflective]

1) a fairy trapped under a coffee can with a knife
2) a burning bush
3) santa clause fighting the heat death of the universe
4) a golem fighting nazis
5) a group of modified punks approaching a scorched crater in post-apocalyptic britain (i'm not even sure this actually happened)
6) a huge man sitting in a jail cell, careful not to damage the bars
7) Barnaby in the jungle, signing to an unresponsive female
8. a disguised alien with an orange

Mur turned up more often than i expected (twice as a reader, once as an author). i never thought i was big fan but apparently she sticks with me. like pod fungus.

[Swamp]

1) children eating the pied piper
2) a toy bear climbing an alien hill to save the children
3) children floating down a river on their beds
4) a withering alien riding on a slug while reading a wall
5) an alien with a liking for cowboy paraphernalia at a garage sale
6) a barber talking to a disembodied head hanging from wires

[stePH]

3) children floating down a river on their beds

Anna Eley totally won me over with that one.  As a reading, I think it's her personal best.

[deflective]

oh yeah, friction. that was one of the first things i thought of too (though the slug had morphed into a beetle for me), it must have slipped my mind as i wrote the intro.

[JoeFitz]

1) Steve's intro voice / geek dad
2) Steve's lecturing voice
3) Steve's big scary / angry voice
4) Steve's woman sarcastic voice
5) Steve's dog / dragon voice

As for stories:
1) a burning bush
2) a human salesman realizing he's the alien
3) a clown lawyer beating Satan
4) robots in love
5) Anna voicing a squirrel
6) An Australian giving lectures on starting a business

[Russell Nash]

1) Messing with time in the name of sexual experience, but instead you get love.
2) A Brave bear of very little brain.
3) There are so many stars I can't take it.
4) Superheroes with drug problems.
5) A pint sized Santa and his time bubble.

[Heradel]

The most indelible image for me is a toss-up between the nightfall in Nightfall, and the sentient gas mask in How Lonesome a Life Without Nerve Gas.

[wintermute]

In no particular order:
The 43rd Antarean Dynasty
Aliens Love Oranges
Squonk the Apprentice
Now +n, Now -n
The Trouble With Death Traps
The Great Old Pumpkin
Friction
Tk'tk'tk

[Russell Nash]

In no particular order:
The 43rd Antarean Dynasty
Aliens Love Oranges
Squonk the Apprentice
Now +n, Now -n
The Trouble With Death Traps
The Great Old Pumpkin
Friction
Tk'tk'tk

What are the images that bring up those episodes?

[wintermute]

In no particular order:
The 43rd Antarean Dynasty
Aliens Love Oranges
Squonk the Apprentice
Now +n, Now -n
The Trouble With Death Traps
The Great Old Pumpkin
Friction
Tk'tk'tk

What are the images that bring up those episodes?

The architecture, with the spiral ramp to heaven, and the temples big enough for God to fit in.
The bar scenes, with people talking about how to recognise an alien.
Squonk making a wizard's hat for himself.
Business meetings with your future self.
The arguments over traps to include.
The Cththulu Pumpkin itself.
The great desert, made up of worn-away corpses.
The distinctly alien attitudes towards hospitality and business.

[deflective]

3) a clown lawyer beating Satan

you think something like this would stick with you but i can't place the story

[stePH]

3) a clown lawyer beating Satan

you think something like this would stick with you but i can't place the story

"Chuckles Mulrooney, Attorney for the Damned" by Scott Sigler.

[Russell Nash]

3) a clown lawyer beating Satan

you think something like this would stick with you but i can't place the story

"Chuckles Mulrooney, Attorney for the Damned" by Scott Sigler.

Wow, A response time of a minute and twenty seconds.  Not bad.

[deflective]

ah, Sigler. that would explain it.

[Bdoomed]

lesbian zombies

but most of all, pots containing the bits and pieces of the deceased

[Planish]

Hmm.... images.

Two from EP123: Niels Bohr and the Sleeping Dane
1: The dad and son sitting and talking in the train
2: The Sleeping Dane (Holger Danske) himself:


3: the mixed crowd of people gathered in a very mundane suburban home, discussing what to do in EP130: What We Learned From This Morning's Newspaper

4: the pot in EP022: Don Ysidro

5: the masks that Daikaiju wear (every episode, of course)


6: the hilltop in EP102: The Angle of My Dreams

I was going to include the eponymous "Flat Diane", but that's a Pseudopod ep 26

[sayeth]

Thanks for the pictures, Planish. Now I see why the stone golem kicked so much Nazi ass. He's huge! And ripped!

[GreenDude]

1> Chinese dinner over a video store counter
2> An endless wall of knowledge
3> An alien weapon system made of people parts
4> A woman arguing with her robot about clearing the path of snow
5> Asquirrelwhotalkstoofast
6> A father, son, and scientist discussing metaphysics in a train.

Funny how some of my favourite stories have left no single, defining image, yet stories that I didn't like or creeped me out (#3) spring almost immediately to mind.  Oh, and one more.

7> Swish, swish, goes the tail of the woman at the bar.