Hello traveler! Welcome to A Vault Hunter's Guide to the Borderlands! The best Borderlands Podcast on the Echonet. We cover everything and anything Borderlands related. Enjoy your stay and don't get killed!
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Survival guide meets feminist horror analysis, brought to you by Emily and Sammy of the It's Become a Whole Thing podcast. They're here to talk about surviving the monsters of everyday life through a feminist breakdown of horror movies, literature and pop culture tropes. It's a look at horror tropes for the girls, gays and theys from myths and fairy tales to horror movies. Themes include: Hagsploitation, Pussy Panic, Final Girls, Creepy Kids, Women vs Women, Family, Killer Robots, Women as h ...
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On Hyperspace Theories the team from FANgirl Blog discuss elements that impact Star Wars storytelling. Each month hosts Tricia Barr, BJ Priester and Kay Serna take a deep dive into creative individuals who impact the franchise, from George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy to William Shakespeare and Hayao Miyazaki, then break down storytelling from worldbuilding to character development. Tricia Barr is co-author of Ultimate Star Wars, the definitive guide to Star Wars from DK Publishing, featured w ...
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From the archives of our Patreon vault from 2023, before Final Girls Club was birthed into the world. It’s our review of Pearl, starring Mia Goth! For 300+ more episodes including weekly pop culture hot topics, show and album reviews, check us out on patreon.com/itsbecomeawholething We love you and see you next week! Support the pod + get an extra …
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What happens when holiday cheer collapses under resentment, grief, and unmet expectations. We break down Krampus as a dark fairy tale about family, shame, and punishment, looking how the film turns Christmas tradition into a horror story about what happens when kindness and connection disappear. Support the pod + get an extra pop culture episode ev…
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It wouldn't be Family Is Hell Month without Ari Aster's Hereditary. We look at the film from an academic, analytical and personal lens from Toni Collette's genius to the metaphors for generational trauma passed down. This episode is brought to you by Paimon. Support the pod + get an extra pop culture episode every week: 🎃 Patreon — It’s Become a Wh…
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The Shining: Here's Generational Trauma!
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Continuing Family Is Hell Month with Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a domestic horror masterpiece where addiction, resentment, and generational violence turn a winter isolation job into the world’s worst family retreat. We break down the plot, the psychology of the Torrances, and why the Overlook Hotel feels less like a haunting and more like an ex…
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Welcome to 'Family is Hell' month. No better way to kick off this month's trope with an analysis of 2015's The Witch. A Puritan family unravels in the wilderness as grief, paranoia, and patriarchal terror turns home into hell. Beyond the movie, we look at the history of witchcraft and the roots of puritanical religious culture. Support the pod + ge…
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A year after Part I, the Wicked movie franchise returns with For Good, an adaptation of the second act of the Broadway musical. In this episode of Hyperspace Theories, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester examine how Wicked: For Good takes advantage of the movie format, and the passage of time since the original musical was written, to strengthen the char…
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Ready or Not: Billionaire Ritual Sacrifice
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For Final Girl month, we're diving into Ready or Not (2019). It's a blood-soaked, dark horror-comedy where a new bride, Samara Weaving, becomes the ultimate Final Girl. We break down the full plot, the film’s class-war satire, cursed family traditions. We explore class consciousness, how the movie skewers the ultra rich and evolves Final Girl trope…
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This week we’re diving into Scream (1996), the genre-defining slasher that mixed gore with postmodern humor and created a new rulebook for horror. From Casey Becker’s devastating opening to Sidney Prescott navigating survival, we explore how Scream turns teen girl vulnerability into power and why its commentary on sexuality, violence, technology, a…
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I Know What You Did Last Summer: Time Capsule 1997
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The hosts dive into 1997 horror film 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' They discuss the film's plot, its cultural impact, and its place in the Final Girl patheon. They also delve into the movie's trope of the 'final girl,' and offer insights on how the film reflects the social anxieties of its time. Support the pod + get an extra pop culture episo…
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Final Girls Club revisits John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the low-budget indie that carved the path for modern slasher cinema. We break down how this film gave us both the unstoppable masked boogeyman and the original Final Girl: Laurie Strode. Inspired by Carol J. Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws, we trace the birth of the “Final Girl” and w…
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Death Becomes Her: Hagsploitation x Camp Comedy Classic
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Final Girls Club explores how Hollywood turns aging women into horror villains through Death Becomes Her (1992), the cult-favorite dark comedy starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis.This feminist analysis of the hag archetype, plastic surgery culture, and female rivalry spotlights the film’s camp satire of eternal youth, beauty standa…
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The Substance: The Violence of Control and Decay
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Emily and Sammy take on 2024's "The Substance," exploring the grotesque, hilarious, and haunting sides of beauty, aging, and self-destruction, perfectly depicted by its stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. From body horror to pop culture, they unpack what it means to chase perfection, and the real cost of chasing the idea of youth. Support the po…
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: The Child Star to Hag Pipeline
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As part of their 'Hag Month' series, hosts Emily and Sammy discuss the portrayal of child star trauma, sibling rivalry, and the societal expectations placed on women through the 1962 psychological horror thriller 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'. They dive into the cultural and historical context of the 1960s, the shift in horror from monsters to …
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Fairy Tale Hags as Mentor, Monster, Mother: From Baba Yaga to The Little Mermaid's Ursula
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Weapons: Hagsploitation 101 & Aging Panic
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Why are the most terrifying concepts that horror movie directors can come up with are often older women? We're breaking down the concept of hagsploitation, a horror genre that examines the campy and grotesque horror of aging women, and the terrifying lengths they’ll go to take back what they’ve lost. We explore the origins of this trope and the way…
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Final Girls Club 101: Membership Initiation
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Welcome to our brand new podcast, Final Girls Club, by the hosts of It's Become a Whole Thing podcast, Emily Rose and Sammy P. Join us in breaking down the horrors of everyday life through tropes found in horror movies, literature and pop culture. Examining everything from the concept of a hag to family trauma to being the final girl, emerging from…
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In a matter of weeks, the Sony-produced animated movie K-Pop Demon Hunters became the all-time most-viewed original title on Netflix. A limited-release theatrical run of the sing-along version of the film, for two days on fewer than two thousand screens after it had been available on streaming for two months, was the #1 movie at the box office for …
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For our third episode of Hyperspace Theories podcast discussing the second season of Andor, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester examine how the series portrays characterization through the use of point of view in its writing and visual imagery. Although prose fiction Star Wars usually relies upon third-person limited storytelling, only revealing to the r…
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On the latest episode of Hyperspace Theories, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester continue their analysis of Season Two of the Disney+ streaming series Andor: A Star Wars Story with a discussion centered on the Ghorman storyline heavily featured across Episodes 4 to 8 and culminating in the eighth episode focused entirely on the the tragedy of the Ghorma…
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One Year Later: ANDOR Kicks Off Season 2
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Beginning immediately on the heels of Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025, the second season of the Disney+ streaming series Andor, now carrying the same A Star Wars Story subtitle as Rogue One, kicked off its four-week run with its first trio of episodes. The premiere and its title, "One Year Later," sets the framework for Season Two: as each "a movi…
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On the latest episode of Hyperspace Theories podcast, hosts Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester report from Star Wars Celebration Japan on the latest news and happenings. Highlights from key panels - The Mandalorian and Grogu, Andor Season 2, Ahsoka, Star Wars Animation 25th Anniversary - are discussed. Let's celebrate Star Wars!…
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The Curious Case of Kathleen Kennedy's Retirement
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On this episode of Hyperspace Theories podcast, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester detour from our usual focus on fictional storytelling to discuss an instance of real-world events and surrounding narratives in the form of journalistic coverage of the upcoming retirement of Kathleen Kennedy from her current role as president of Lucasfilm. On February 24…
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Hyperspace Theories: SKELETON CREW Ahoy!
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Ahoy, mateys! Pirates, pirate ships, and a search for lost treasure have returned to Star Wars – and so has the familiar story structure, complete with a boring home planet (A New Hope) and ten-year-old (The Phantom Menace) protagonists flung into a very unexpected adventure in the wider galaxy. On this episode of Hyperspace Theories, Tricia Barr a…
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Continuing our recent witchy trend on Hyperspace Theories alongside our discussion of Agatha All Along, this episode discusses the movie Wicked: Part I, which broke box office records in its first week of release. Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester begin with a common focus of the podcast: the storytelling structure of the movie, and how it compares and…
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In this podcast episode, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester consider the recently released MCU Disney+ series Agatha All Along from the perspective of long-running themes at FANgirl Blog and Hyperspace Theories: the influence of myth and heroic journeys on contemporary storytelling and how contemporary storytelling is evolving those ideas, especially in…
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Hyperspace Theories at 10: The State of Star Wars
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It's been ten years since FANgirl Blog launched the Hyperspace Theories podcast. On the latest episode, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester look back on the podcast's evolution from its origin in discussing how to speculate wisely on upcoming Star Wars stories to a broader consideration of storytelling, character arcs and the Hero's Journey, and franchis…
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The Heroine's Journeys of the MCU's Echo and What If? Series
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe accomplished an unprecedented track record of box office earnings, followed by an uneven phase that included a few box office miscues and a mixed reactions to its span of Disney+ streaming series. In this episode of Hyperspace Theories, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester discuss two MCU series that had lower profiles in fan…
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On this episode of Hyperspace Theories, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester examine the Disney+ live-action series Star Wars: The Acolyte through the lens of recent Lucasfilm's brand management struggles, especially with the Star Wars franchise. We begin with the strengths of The Acolyte that we want to praise, including the fight choreography, the perfo…
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Metamorphosis and Sacrifice in The Bad Batch Season Two
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Before turning to the currently releasing third season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Hyperspace Theories podcast returns to the concluding episodes of Season Two. Having previously analyzed the first ten episodes, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester discuss episodes 11 through 16, starting with "Metamorphosis" and "The Outpost" and ending with Tech's (app…
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Hyperspace Theories kicks off 2024 with a new episode analyzing recent developments that appear to chart a new course for the future of Star Wars. Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester begin with the November 2023 news, first revealed in a Vanity Fair article by longtime Star Wars and entertainment journalist Anthony Breznican, that Dave Filoni has been pr…
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Ahsoka and the Allegories of Mortis
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The epilogue montage of the recently concluded Ahsoka series on Disney+ included a surprising and exciting image: former Jedi turned antagonist Baylan Skoll standing amid colossal statues of the Father, Son, and (partially destroyed) Daughter of Mortis. These mysterious and powerful "Force Wielders" have a long connection to Ahsoka mastermind Dave …
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AHSOKA Tackles the Jedi, the Force, and the Future of Star Wars
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The Ahsoka series on Disney+ has reached its finale. On this episode of Hyperspace Theories, Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester analyze the storytelling in Part Six "Far, Far Away," Part Seven "Dreams and Madness," and Part Eight "The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord" and consider what Ahsoka establishes for the future of Star Wars tales. We begin by ex…
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Tricia Barr and B.J. Priester return for another episode of Hyperspace Theories discussing the Ahsoka Disney+ series, specifically the second act of the story: Part Three "Time to Fly," Part Four "Fallen Jedi," and Part Five "Shadow Warrior." Often Star Wars is at its best when it advances not only the character arcs of its principals, but also the…
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