annihilation minute

the structure of everything that lives

lemming drops studio — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:00:00 -0800

the first of three flashbacks before we begin

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how long did you think you were in there?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:00:03 -0800

the second of three flashbacks before we begin

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the rhythm of the dividing pair

lemming drops studio — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:00:05 -0700

our third and final flashback before we begin

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a confirmation of something on the printed page to which one returns, fortified and satisfied

lemming drops studio — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:00:15 -0700

a reading list and a little controversy before we begin

#annihilation

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if you look from a mountain-top down

lemming drops studio — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:00:02 -0700

the paramount pictures logo and skydance logo offer us stars while lena (natalie portman) sits in a room with scientists looking on in annihilation, minute 1 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

yet even in the moment of discovery

lemming drops studio — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:00:03 -0700

character names, the ship of theseus paradox, knowledge, identity, life, and the themes of annihilation, minute 2 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

from the worst possible direction for landing at the lighthouse

lemming drops studio — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:00:02 -0700

objects falling from space, self destruction, subjectivity, alien lifeforms within and without in annihilation, minute 3 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one

lemming drops studio — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:00:00 -0700

a distracted professor, sonoya mizuno as student katie, falling stars, dividing cells, and our relationship with nature in annihilation, minute 4 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the question being one of the relation of masses, of light and shadows

lemming drops studio — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:27:47 -0700

the importance of living, professor sir john sulston and gene sequencing a nematode, david gyasi as daniel, and lena has weekend plans in annihilation, minute 5 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the house would become so shabby that something must be done

lemming drops studio — Thu, 02 May 2019 18:00:00 -0700

crosby, stills, & nash's 'helplessly hoping', photographs, poetry, and the play of memory and time in annihilation, minute 6 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

one could not say what one meant

lemming drops studio — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:00:00 -0700

grief, memory, self-destruction, oscar isaac, and the return of kane in annihilation, minute 7 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

his own house, full of comfort

lemming drops studio — Thu, 16 May 2019 18:15:05 -0700

madness, girl interrupted, ptsd, odysseus, and the sum of our experiences in annihilation, minute 8 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman

lemming drops studio — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:00:01 -0700

emotional numbing, doppelgangers, fingers tapping, and the quality of insanity in annihilation, minute 9 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the symbolical outline which transcended the real figures

lemming drops studio — Thu, 30 May 2019 18:00:02 -0700

infidelity, a dimly understood fear, the character of kane, and whether anything matters in annihilation, minute 10 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

for he had slipped into his glass at lunch a few drops of something

lemming drops studio — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:00:03 -0700

#bloodfromthemouth, ambulances, kane as he has changed, the staff of aesculapius, obsessing about a location, and the meaning of well in #annihilation minute 11 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

wake up and find the sun shining and the birds singing

lemming drops studio — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:00:01 -0700

#tvtropes, #vaninblack, #meninblack, #unmarkedhelicopters, and waking up in a secret government facility in #annihilation minute 12 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

subduing all her impressions as a woman

lemming drops studio — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:00:01 -0700

a strange hospital room, lena meets #drventress and we meet #jenniferjasonleigh in #annihilation minute 13 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she was tyrannical, domineering, masterful

lemming drops studio — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:00:00 -0700

in area x ventress questions lena, as i discuss the political purpose of film, and the unsettling purpose of #annihilation, minute 14 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she knew the end of that story

lemming drops studio — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 18:00:04 -0700

fbi, cia, what is ventress and why is she questioning lena in #annihilation minute 15? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she must escape somehow, be alone somewhere

lemming drops studio — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:00:04 -0700

#sciencefiction eschews stereotypical heroes and extra-terrestrials, as #annihilation minute 16 eschews an escape attempt. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

ruin approached, chaos approached

lemming drops studio — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:00:01 -0700

when did the shimmer come to earth? what are ventress' plans? is she recruiting lena or will lena volunteer? what about hypnosis? and, why this film does not take place in florida, in #annihilation minute 17. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

to be on a level with ordinary experience

lemming drops studio — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:00:03 -0700

tattoos, foreshadowing, black bears, motivations, and dying husbands in #annihilation minute 18 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

dissevered yet somehow belonging

lemming drops studio — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:00:03 -0700

Lying in bed, LENA and KANE talk about God's mistakes (or not), and the #HayflickLimit and cellular aging. #Annihilation minute 19. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral

lemming drops studio — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 18:00:00 -0700

Still lying in bed, LENA wonders about KANE's upcoming mission, as un bel di vedremo interrupts #Annihilation minute 20. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

and the butterfly sun itself on the faded chintz

lemming drops studio — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:00:01 -0700

in bed, lena mocks kane's suggestion that she pines for him longingly while he is away, and we drift into #madamebutterfly before returning to the present in #annihilation minute 21 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the self-surrender she had seen on so many women's faces

lemming drops studio — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:00:04 -0700

LENA meets the other women on a firing range in a cut scene, #AlexGarland steals character names from #JGBallard but doesn't mention it, and THORENSEN invites LENA to join the other women at their table in #Annihilation minute 22. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

sit at table with them like a person in a dream

lemming drops studio — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:00:01 -0700

Lena, Thorensen, Sheppard, and Radek compare jobs as we take a look at Gina Rodriguez and this all-female team in #Annihilation minute 23. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

it was all edges and angles; it was all uncompromisingly plain

lemming drops studio — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 18:00:02 -0700

We explore the reasoning behind an all-woman team and take a look at Tuva Novotny as we learn these women are about to enter the Shimmer in #Annihilation minute 24. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

it was all a blur to her. what was he thinking now?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:00:02 -0700

We take a look at Tessa Thompson as the conversation between the four women ends and LENA goes to visit KANE in his isolation tent, a mission into the Shimmer imminent. in #Annihilation minute 25. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

you're not planning to go to the lighthouse, are you?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:00:03 -0700

Lena questions Ventress' motives for entering the Shimmer as she herself readies to volunteer, and we take a look at those who returned from Area X in the novel. #Annihilation minute 26. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

do take me to the lighthouse with you

lemming drops studio — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:00:02 -0700

as Lena volunteers for the mission into the Shimmer, let us take a look at her childhood curiosity from the novel. #annihilation minute 27 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

ah, but what beautiful boots you wear!

lemming drops studio — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:00:04 -0700

Lena finishes her conversation with Ventress, talks to Lomax in the future, then the five women approach the shimmer as we take a look at their uniforms and equipment in #annihilation minute 28. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life

lemming drops studio — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:00:00 -0700

As the women approach and finally enter the Shimmer, we drift into #sunshine, #doctorwho, #lost, #eventhorizon, #tvtropes, and other directions. #Annihilation minute 29. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

that it was all ephemeral as a rainbow

lemming drops studio — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:00:02 -0700

Flashback to Lena's affair, then enter the Shimmer in Vandermeer's novel and enter the Zone in the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic before Lena wakes up inside her tent, and something is wrong in #Annihilation minute 30. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another

lemming drops studio — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:00:04 -0700

Lena gets her bearings after waking inside the Shimmer, and editing mistakes, production mistakes, or maybe a Shimmer-fueled #timeloop makes the geography of the campsite a little confusing in #Annihilation minute 31. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

and making the world reflect the compass of the soul

lemming drops studio — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:00:00 -0700

The women orient themselves as they decide what is next after none of them can recall setting camp, in #annihilation minute 32. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

could not remember the whole shape of the thing

lemming drops studio — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:00:03 -0800

As the women strike camp and head south in #Annihilation minute 33, we drift into a passage from J G Ballard's The Drowned World. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge

lemming drops studio — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:00:02 -0800

We venture behind the scenes and into Chernobyl as the women approach a half-sunken fishing hut and find the local fauna to be quite unusual in #Annihilation minute 34. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

putting a yellow against a purple, a curved shape against a round shape

lemming drops studio — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:00:00 -0800

Lena examines the flowers, Thorensen finds transport, Shepard takes some samples, Radek finds something lurking in the fishing hut, and Ventress does nothing in #Annihilation minute 35. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

something they had picked up in the garden

lemming drops studio — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:00:03 -0800

As the women get away from the fishing hut only to have its occupant come after them, we have visible production equipment, continuity errors, and some great behind-the-scenes details in #Annihilation minute 36. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

stalked some fantastic leviathan

lemming drops studio — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:00:04 -0800

A boar attacks in reality and in the novel, a gator attacks in the film, #Annihilation minute 37. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

some deep, some buried, some quite speechless feeling

lemming drops studio — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:00:02 -0800

in the novel, the biologist begins to describe the tower, in the film, lena finishes examining the gator and we flashforward to lomax questioning her in #annihilation minute 38. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the effort of merging and flowing and creating

lemming drops studio — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:00:01 -0800

The film slows down to show us some strange fish and Sheppard and Lena start to talk in #Annihilation minute 39. Meanwhile, in the novel, we begin to venture into the tower. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

as if her own weariness had been partly pitying people

lemming drops studio — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:00:01 -0800

Sheppard and Lena continue to have a more personal conversation in their boat, #Annihilation minute 40. Meanwhile, in the novel, we learn what is on the walls within the tower. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she could remember it as if it were yesterday—going on the river, feeling very cold

lemming drops studio — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:00:03 -0800

We leave the crawler and the tower and the novel behind (for now), and approach a guard tower as Sheppard tells Lena everyone's secrets in #Annihilation minute 41. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

for she did not listen to the words

lemming drops studio — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:00:04 -0800

The women enter Fort Amaya, in a location real-life aliens may be familiar with, in #Annihilation minute 42. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

and pick out one particular thing

lemming drops studio — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:00:04 -0800

The women enter the mess hall at the abandoned Fort Amaya, and we have one more note on the closed RAF Bentwaters, in #Annihilation minute 43. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions

lemming drops studio — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:00:00 -0800

Thorensen finds a machine gun and Lena finds evidence that the previous expedition stayed at Fort Amaya in #Annihilation minute 44. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself

lemming drops studio — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:00:04 -0800

Instead of respite in the abandoned mess hall, the women find a guard rota and video that may reframe what is going on, in #Annihilation minute 45. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

something alien to the processes of domestic life

lemming drops studio — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:00:02 -0800

The video plays and the women start to see what horror befell the previous expedition, in #Annihilation minute 46. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

laying his knife down for a moment

lemming drops studio — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:00:00 -0800

In the found video, Kane cuts own Mayer's abdomen to reveal that his internal organs are not what they should be. After watching the video, the women separate in Annihilation minute 47. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

until she became the thing she looked at

lemming drops studio — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:00:01 -0800

Lena rejoins the group as they come upon the deformed and exploded body of Mayer in #Annihilation minute 48. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

one could not help attaching oneself to one thing

lemming drops studio — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:00:01 -0700

Lena, Sheppard, and Ventress move closer to Mayer's exploded body while Radek and Thorensen back away, in #Annihilation minute 49. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures

lemming drops studio — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:00:00 -0700

Before we flashback to Lena and Kane on his day of departure, we get sidetracked by Orpheus and Eurydice in #Annihilation minute 50. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

how could any lord have made this world?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:00:03 -0700

Kane leaves, Orpheus fails to retrieve Eurydice, Lena awakens in the middle of the night. #Annihilation minute 51. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

there was a sense of things having been blown apart, of space, of irresponsibility

lemming drops studio — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:00:03 -0700

Lena is troubled by what she sees in the microscope, then she and Sheppard share a quiet moment in the guard tower in #Annihilation minute 52. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

and the lives of all the people in the world

lemming drops studio — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:00:00 -0700

Lena finds Ventress alone with a map in #Annihilation minute 53, and we sample J G Ballard on cataclysmic science fiction. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

for ever, to nothingness

lemming drops studio — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:00:01 -0700

Lena asks Ventress about why Kane volunteered for a suicide machine and they (and I) discuss self-destruction, in #Annihilation minute 54. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

they kept their heads very low, and said things shortly and gruffly

lemming drops studio — Thu, 07 May 2020 18:00:05 -0700

Lena's and Ventress' conversation about self-destruction is interrupted in #Annihilation minute 55. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

like god himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures

lemming drops studio — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:00:02 -0700

Something comes through the fence, and it takes Sheppard away, in #Annihilation minute 56. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

and then took her hand away suddenly

lemming drops studio — Thu, 21 May 2020 18:00:01 -0700

Sheppard is gone. Thorensen and Radek want to turn back. Ventress wants to go forward. And, we look into the death of the anthropologist in the novel, in #Annihlation minute 57. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

how they would retreat into solitude together, and walk on and on

lemming drops studio — Thu, 28 May 2020 18:00:04 -0700

Thorensen wants to turn back, Ventress wants to go ahead, even if she is on her own, and Lena must decide what happens next in Annihilation minute 58. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

as they turned by the cross roads

lemming drops studio — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:00:04 -0700

Lena convinces Thorensen and Radek to keep going, and we flash forward to Lena in the interrogation room, in Annihilation minute 59. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

like a pair of boots that has been soaked and gone dry

lemming drops studio — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:00:00 -0700

Back within the Shimmer, Ventress leads the way through the forest and they come upon a boot, in Annihilation minute 60. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the still space that lies about the heart of things

lemming drops studio — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:00:00 -0700

Lena separates from the other women to see if Sheppard is still alive, she finds a deer, and we look at Pokemon, Baron Munchausen, and Pere David's Deer, in Annihilation minute 61. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

but into what sanctuary had one penetrated?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:00:03 -0700

The strange deer run away and we delve into the story of Actaeon and Diana before Lena finds Sheppard's body in Annihilation minute 62. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

and such vast spaces lay between them

lemming drops studio — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:00:00 -0700

Lena looks at Sheppard's body then returns to the other women in Annihilation minute 63. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

what power could now prevent the fertility, the insensibility of nature?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:00:03 -0700

Lena wonders if something is wrong with Thorensen and the four remaining women arrive at Ville Perdu in Annihilation minute 64. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she could see her now, stooping over her flowers

lemming drops studio — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:00:03 -0700

Thorensen fumes, Lena examines a topiary child, Radek begins to figure things out, and we get sidetracked by Swamp Thing, in Annihilation minute 65. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

here she was, she reflected, feeling life rather sinister again

lemming drops studio — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:00:01 -0700

Radek figures out what is happening in the shimmer, but neither Lena nor Thorensen are happy about it, in Annihilation minute 66. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

with its shiny walls and its confusion

lemming drops studio — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:00:03 -0700

The remaining women enter a familiar, but strangely different, house, in Annihilation minute 67. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

then there it was, suddenly entire shaped in her hands

lemming drops studio — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:00:04 -0700

Settling into a familiar house, Thorensen sees something in her own hands and Lena starts a secret examination in Annihilation minute 68. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

at the other end of the table her husband

lemming drops studio — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:00:00 -0700

Lena examines her own blood, and we examine modern manipulation of DNA before finding Lena in bed with Daniel in Annihilation minute 69. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

he went to the heart of things

lemming drops studio — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:00:02 -0700

More DNA poetry and Orpheus begins to blend with Odysseus as Daniel challenges Lena regarding their affair in Annihilation minute 70. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she knew it was poetry from the rhythm and the ring of exaltation and melancholy in his voice

lemming drops studio — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:00:02 -0700

Echoes of Daniel, echoes of Kane, as Thorensen lashes out in her moment of pain. Annihilation minute 71. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

whispering in her ear, 'women can't paint, women can't write...'

lemming drops studio — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:00:04 -0700

Lena, Radek, and Ventress tied to chairs and gagged. Women silenced. Annihilation minute 72. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

wishing to dominate, wishing to interfere, making people do what she wished

lemming drops studio — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:00:01 -0700

Thorensen continues to rant, the other three women bound and gagged, and we explore more on Penelope, on Homer being female, and what constitutes women's work. Annihilation minute 73. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

how did she exist in this portentous atmosphere

lemming drops studio — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:00:00 -0700

We run from Penelope to alcoholism as Thorensen's last prayer comes to its end in Annihilation minute 74. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

it was that horrid skull again

lemming drops studio — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:00:02 -0700

the women hear sheppard screaming and the bear enters the house in annihilation minute 75. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

so he bent his head courteously in her direction

lemming drops studio — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:00:02 -0700

The bear enters, and we explore behind-the-scenes details and what the bear means, in Annihilation minute 76. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

she had it on the tip of her tongue to say

lemming drops studio — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:00:03 -0700

Lena struggles with her bindings, Thorensen battles with the bear, and we get sidetracked by Ungnyeo and the Korean origin myth in #Annihilation minute 77. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

lemming drops studio — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:00:00 -0800

Radek kills the bear, the bear has a name, and Ventress prepares to leave on her own, in Annihilation minute 78. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness

lemming drops studio — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:00:01 -0800

Ventress leaves. We linger on plant people. Radek settles in. Annihilation minute 79. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

why take such a gloomy view of life

lemming drops studio — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:00:02 -0800

Lena sits beside Radek and we look into the Tao of water and self harm in Annihilation minute 80. IN A CRISIS? Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor Free 24/7 support at your fingertips US and Canada: text 741741 UK: text 85258 | Ireland: text 50808 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private

lemming drops studio — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:00:02 -0800

Lena and Radek talk, and we delve into the calm before ending things in Annihilation minute 81. We can all help prevent suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. 1-800-273-TALK. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time

lemming drops studio — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:00:04 -0800

Radek gives in to the shimmer and Lena is left alone in #Annihilation minute 82. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

what was the spirit in her, the essential thing, by which, had you found a glove in the corner of a sofa, you would have known it, from its twisted finger, hers indisputably?

lemming drops studio — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:00:04 -0800

Lena, future, past, present, alone. And we discuss the inclusion of #HenriettaLacks in #Annihilation minute 83. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

her horizon seemed to her limitless

lemming drops studio — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:00:02 -0800

From Lena's past to her present, alone on the shore, samsara, dukkha, and the crystalline structures that connect us together. Annihilation minute 84. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

which curved and welled and broke upon the beach

lemming drops studio — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:00:02 -0800

In the novel, Lena sees a pair of dolphins; in the script, she picks up a skull at the scene of a massacre; in the film she marches past crystalline trees and a makeshift graveyard to reach the lighthouse. #Annihilation minute 85 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep

lemming drops studio — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:00:02 -0800

Lena enters the lighthouse and finds something unexpected in #Annihilation minute 86. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

watching it with fascination, hypnotised

lemming drops studio — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:00:02 -0800

Lena finds camcorder footage of the previous expedition, and in the script we see a lot more of what happened to them, in #Annihilation minute 87. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

her husband spoke. he was repeating something

lemming drops studio — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:00:03 -0800

From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Aristotle to the Tao, from infant recognition of self to depersonalization, and from Kane to Kane to Lena, #Annihilation minute 88. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

when life sank down for a moment

lemming drops studio — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:00:02 -0800

One Kane sits contemplating his self, another Kane waits out of frame to be revealed, and we begin to explore the Jungian shadow self in #Annihilation minute 89. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be

lemming drops studio — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:00:01 -0800

From Cain & Abel to phosphorous grenades, the birth of elements within stars to Buddha on a lotus flower, Kane burns, Lena watches, and others linger nearby in #Annihilation minute 90. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

this core of darkness could go anywhere

lemming drops studio — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:00:03 -0800

In the script, Lena finds strange living sculptures beneath the lighthouse, flashback to the biologist finding the living writing in the tower in the novel; in the film Lena enters the biomechanical space where a transformed Ventress waits. #Annihilation minute 91. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

there was always a woman dying of cancer even here

lemming drops studio — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:00:04 -0800

An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated

lemming drops studio — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:00:04 -0800

Beneath the lighthouse, Ventress (as solificatio, as death's head, as the sun) speaks for the last time as the shimmer takes over. #Annihilation minute 93. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

a wedge-shaped core of darkness

lemming drops studio — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:00:00 -0800

Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.

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in the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing

lemming drops studio — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:00:05 -0700

As Lena stares into the alien light in #Annihilation minute 95, we delve into Ballardian fiction, the history of fractal geometry, plus Groundhog Day and masculine vs feminine quests.

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and it seemed to her like her own eyes meeting her own eyes

lemming drops studio — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:00:03 -0700

We start to delve into details from the second #SouthernReach novel, #Authority, as the mandelbulb transforms into a featureless humanoid and Lena reacts violently in #Annihilation minute 96.

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stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood her with delight

lemming drops studio — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:00:05 -0700

The dance between Lena and the Humanoid begins, Doctor Who interrupts, and it's all very straightforward in #Annihilation minute 97.

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their eyes met for a second; but they did not want to speak to each other

lemming drops studio — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Lena strikes the Humanoid, the Humanoid strikes Lena, Lena tries to escape, the Humanoid pins her against the door, and we look at choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and the dance language Gaga in #Annihilation minute 98.

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making the weight fall in a different direction

lemming drops studio — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Lena and the Humanoid fall to the floor in Annihilation minute 99.

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it brought them into sympathy momentarily

lemming drops studio — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Lena and the Humanoid get up and face one another; depression, self, and suffering; #Annihilation minute 100.

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but now and again we rise to the surface

lemming drops studio — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:00:00 -0700

The Humanoid becomes Lena but Lena tricks it into destroying itself in Annihilation minute 101.

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giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past

lemming drops studio — Thu, 06 May 2021 18:00:00 -0700

from goblin market to a burning lighthouse, Lena exits and the Humanoid turns to Kane's burned body in Annihilation minute 102.

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searching as she alone could search into her mind and her heart

lemming drops studio — Thu, 13 May 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Lena leaves, the Biologist finds herself in an empty lot, and the Humanoid is left behind to burn. Annihilation minute 103.

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not weighed down with all the greatness of his labours and the sorrows of the world

lemming drops studio — Thu, 20 May 2021 18:00:00 -0700

We look at the biologist's relationship with her husband in the novel as Lena walks away from the burning lighthouse and collapsing crystalline trees. #Annihilation minute 104.

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saying quite casually and naturally what had been in her mind

lemming drops studio — Thu, 27 May 2021 18:00:00 -0700

As Lomax questions Lena, we start to look at what happened to the biologist in the novels. #Annihilation minute 105.

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and again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist

lemming drops studio — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Lomax questions Lena and we explore more of what happened to the biologist in Annihilation minute 106.

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from the lake of one's being, a mist, a bride to meet her lover

lemming drops studio — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Lena goes to see Kane, the biologist finds a mutation, the lighthouse keeper records his daily goings on. Annihilation minute 107.

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they were both wild creatures now

lemming drops studio — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Saul experiences something strange in the local bar, Lena and Kane question one another, and the Biologist explores the island. Annihilation minute 108.

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how once the looking glass had held a face, had held a world hollowed out in which a figure turned

lemming drops studio — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:00:00 -0700

Saul's lighthouse discovery, Lena's bright eyes, and the Biologist's owl friend. Annihilation minute 109.

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the place was gone to rack and ruin

lemming drops studio — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

The above-the-line credits continue, Saul's transformation continues, the biologist's last will and testament continues. And we look at the environmentalist messaging of the book and the film, the Anthropocene, and the hyperobject climate change. Annihilation minute 110.

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as if the link that usually bound things together had been cut

lemming drops studio — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

A different transformation comes over Saul. The above-the-line credits and the Biologist's last will and testament conclude. Annihilation minute 111.

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impossible to resist the strange intimation

lemming drops studio — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

The credits roll and we look back on how Garland adapted the the story like a dream. Annihilation minute 112.

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that good triumphs, happiness prevails, order rules

lemming drops studio — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

The credits roll and we make an effort to tie Garland's themes into Vandermeer's. Annihilation minute 113.

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it will end, it will end, she said

lemming drops studio — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

as the credits roll, we take one last look at climate change. annihilation minute 114.

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and that's the end

lemming drops studio — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:00:00 -0700

the credits end, the script ends, and finally our host speaks of himself. annihilation minute 115.

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