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CENK podcast #23: "Change The Ending: The Dark Knight Rises"

21/9/2020

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4everInElectricDreams · C.E.N.K. #23: "Change The Ending: The Dark Knight Rises"

​Welcome to the final part of our three-part series which will see the Close Encounters team each select a piece of genre fiction and alter the ending to their own satisfaction.  With past episodes revolving around Battlestar Galactica and The Watchmen, this episode sees Imran tear into the closing moments of Christopher Nolan's revered Dark Knight Trilogy.  Despite professing to love the film, find out what it is about the movie that just grinds his gears and what he would have done differently to bring this incredible series of movies to a close.
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The Trouble with Ren & Stimpy

11/9/2020

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In the summer of 1991 two cartoon characters premiered on US TV channel Nickelodeon that would change the way we watch cartoons forever. Starring a near psychopathic chihuahua (Ren) and lovable yet dimwitted Manx cat (Ren), the chaotically weird duo became an integral part of must see 90s television. The Ren & Stimpy Show was the cartoon the cool kids watched, it was the show most parents wanted to ban. With strangely surreal adult themes, blatant homosexual undertones, wilful parody and deconstruction of American capitalism (especially aping the 'made to sell toys' cartoons of that era). Ren & Stimpy riffed on 1950s society, whole chunks of each episode were done in black and white, with nods to the slap stick comedy stylings of The Three Stooges and many more. It used the most wonderful back catalogue of movie sound FX and sonically comedy and gross out set pieces ever used. As well as having it's own zany and original score, gut churning close up stills, mind numbing repetition, brain worm quality songs, gross out story lines and characters that pushed every boundary and taboo to the very limit. Nickelodeon even had to heavily edit and cut episodes sent to them (often late) by its producers Spumco, in order to keep the cartoon 'family friendly' before eventually pulling the show from Spumco and its creator altogether for its second season.

It would later turn out that creator and original voice of both characters John Kricfalusi was a deeply troubled genius, with multiple unsavoury accusations surfacing about his private life and even that of one of his Spumco associates. Not to mention the later released (then swiftly cancelled) Adult version of the show, which finally stepped over every line and boundary the original series merely hinted at, ripping out subtext in place of bludgeoning the viewer to death with in your face gross out adult themes and soft porn in cartoon form.

Rich Roth and Dan Collacott sat down to discuss their love of the original cartoon, best moments and episodes and the controversial plans for a reboot. Whilst trying their level best to avoid discussing the cult of personality that is the shows incredible yet deeply flawed creator. Listen below.
4everInElectricDreams · C.E.N.K Minicast #03: The Trouble with Ren n Stimpy
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CENK podcast #22: "Change The Ending: The Watchmen"

7/9/2020

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4everInElectricDreams · C.E.N.K. #22: "Change The Ending: The Watchmen"
Welcome to part two of our three-part series which will see the Close Encounters team each select a piece of genre fiction and alter the ending to their own satisfaction. This week sees Tee-J place The Watchmen in his firing line - a movie already fairly well-known for its divisive conclusion. Tune in to hear what Tee-J would do differently as we discuss the film, how the movie ending played out and what Tee-J would do differently.
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    The 4Ever team...

    Welcome to 4ever in Electric Dreams which is the virtual HQ and home to our burgeoning podcast network spearheaded by our flagship series, Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind (C.E.N.K.).

    Emanating from London, UK, and hosted by Dan Collacott, Tee-J Sutherland and Imran Mirza, this site is designed to help us celebrate the things we loved growing up and the things that continue to excite and inspire us today.  By covering a range of media including film, TV, comics, books and music, early episodes see us delve into the realms of Ghostbusters, Tron 2, pro-wrestling, the Transformers Movie from 1986 and Richard Grieko's 'Teen Agent' (Remember that? Oh, you don't?).

    With C.E.N.K. episodes due on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, and episodes of our Minicast and 90s State of Mind podcasts, there's lots of reasons to visit us again and again, and to join us in our ongoing celebration of the things we can't leave behind.

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