Binary System Podcast #297: Lore Olympus and the Black Widow Movie

<p>Original broadcast date January 13, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/01/binary-system-podcast-297-lore-olympus-and-the-black-widow-movie/</p> <p>Okay, when we say we're talking about the Black Widow movie, we mean we're talking about the first forty-five minutes, because Elizabeth was juuust a little better at movies this week and Kathryn still needs to catch up.</p> <p>First though we have to talk about <em>two </em>episodes of Lore Olympus, one of which happens to be the penultimate episode before the upcoming four-month hiatus. There was a lot of information dropped in this one about Persephone's origin, and who the heck Eris is and why everyone is so terrified of her. But there's still no news about Apollo and we <em>need </em>to know what horrible thing he's done that we need to brace for (or if this next episode is when everyone <em>finally </em>finds out what a monster he really is.)</p> <p>This week's outro is a clip from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_FO1CxHcKQ">Zen the Year Away</a> by TeknoAxe.</p> <p><em>Correction the first: Poseidon's seahorse-shaped son in Lore Olympus is definitely Demeter's son, because Persephone referred to him as her brother in a previous episode. No word on how that hook-up happened, I'm sure there's a story there.</em></p> <p><em>Correction the second: The Grand Asia store is actually in Cary, not Raleigh. And the drink Kathryn bought there is a carbonated beverage called </em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune"><em>Ramune</em></a><em>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune The bottle it's in is a Victorian-era invention called a </em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle"><em>Codd Neck bottle</em></a><em>, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle and one of the extra clips at the end of this episode is a little more of Kathryn's struggle to OPEN THE DAMN THING.</em></p> <p>Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in