Oh no, there's flesh on the gunpla too...Tanner's taking it back to the 00s with their requel of Custom Robo, which had one game famous for the massive plot twist halfway through and another game that...was also released in the states. But maybe we can combine these things, use the lesser-known plot elements to bridge the gap, and make it a little …

Content Warning in this episode, and Drakengard by extension, for violence, war, mutilation, death, incest, cannibalism, and pedophilia. In this episode, Raena's here to explain Drakengard and the greater DrakenNieR franchise to us. It's...a lot. But the main thing is that she'd like to see if the first Drakengard game can be made fun to play, even…

Do you have any idea how hard it is to reboot something with no TV Tropes page, no AO3 presence, and seemingly no fandom whatsoever? Well, Lindsay's trying her best with the Maisie Dobbs mystery series, which she definitely didn't fully imagine herself. She and Tanner will outline some ways to translate the first three books into a brief British mi…

It's time to reboot an edgy, hard-hitting teen mystery/medical drama...that aired on the Canadian equivalent of Nickelodeon? Yeah, Open Heart never had a chance, even with it's solid cast and cool (admittedly half-baked) ARG companion app. Lindsay's gonna help Tanner flesh out the good parts like it's inherent Gothic melodrama, a surprisingly good …

What's the secret of The Secret History? It's that these characters all think they're the main character of a grand sweeping narrative, but in reality they're just rich kids who aren't as clever as they think they are, sucked into the vortex of an egomaniac language professor. But Lindsay's put together a plan for a miniseries that highlights just …

Am I wrong though? Am I? It's the night before Christmas and we're taking on the classic tale of a special snowflake reindeer who's being barred from society because of certain physical aspects...huh, I wonder what the conservatives would think of this. Still, we can smooth some of the edges off of this - make it more applicable to today, stop Sant…

In our newest CHALLENGE EPISODE, Tanner's given Lindsay the task of creating the Cruella sequel we...don't really need, but we might deserve, even if Disnopolis would never let us take this close a look at 80s Cold War Fashion Authoritarianism. We also discuss what makes a punk a punk, the artist and their muse, and the umpteenth gay character. Our…

You ready for some FOOTBALL? Tanner wasn't, but Ryan and Lindsay are actual jocks so they're here to help them remake their second-favourite sports movie The Replacements. How can we keep the heartwarming idea of second chances and glory for glory's sake, while also making sure this movie doesn't hate Unions the same way that the original does? Lis…

It's time for a CHALLENGE EPISODE! It's Tanner's birthday today, and they were given a topic by Lindsay to tackle on their own, and the challenge was 2000's Romeo Must Die! The film that turned Jet Li and the late Aaliyah into stars, a loose retelling of Shakespeare that can be tightened up...by stretching it out into a miniseries. We discuss how t…

What's one to do with a cursed film made by a nazi occultist? Stick it in your freezer! Or write a book about it, and Silva Morena-Garcia's Silver Nitrate is a super awesome read. But it's a book about film, and Lindsay really wants to make a film about film, so we're doing an adaptation of it! We discuss how to smooth over the few bumps we found, …

Oh naur! There's a slasher loose in this Australian film and Kylie Minogue is right in their crosshairs! As Tanner and Lindsay combine their creative energies, they'll make some kind of ghost who's terrible at acting and remembering its cues. Also discussed are a head budget, cursed films, and a sharp orange. Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, a…

Years ago, Once Upon a Time reached it's happy ending. But now we need a new show to annually reboot, season by season. A show with a plethora of public domain characters given a bit of a twist. Something spooky, something slimey, something a little bit gayer than the original (but doesn't wanna f***in' COMMIT!). We need something like...PENNY DREA…

It has been nearly THREE YEARS since we did a Q and A episode! That's bonkers. We wrote a play, we left, we came back, we left again...but now the podcast has solidified, and what better way to cap things off than discuss our reboot white whales, who we're selling out for, and our breakfast hot takes. Did I mention my mother is here? Our cover art …

With 30 years of complicated backstory and powerful cards, it can be a little daunting to get into Magic the Gathering from any angle these days. Fortunately, Hasbro has just gone belly-up and we bought the entire IP for $20, and Sam has some ideas on how to start everything from scratch. He's going to make the story more approachable and play with…

HAHAHA NIIRYF, WELCOME...TO DIE! Ryan tags in to help Tanner and Lindsay put together the next Marvel vs Capcom game, regarldess of the disc space. It's a long hard road to assemble this roster...so much so that this podcast took two sessions to record and we did end up dumping a chunk of audio. But that's okay, because we only have the good stuff …

Pirates of the Caribbean is dead. Pirates of the Caribbean will never die. But also, we can do whatever we want with pirates, and the Caribbean, and also lesbians! Disney means nothing! So join Lindsay and her first mate Tanner as they wreck some ships, make some mandatory Bond jokes, do a bit of a Bridgerton, and possibly get banned from Italian W…

Kit Walker returns for this episode on Murder by Death! It was a 70s pastiche of 40s detective cliches, which means our reboot has to update the setting and the satire! Which brilliant minds are bumbling their way through a weird house (or office building?) Which weird author is using this film to get performer and dream-weaver on their wikipedia p…

In 1975, 2004, and the not too distant future of today, Rollerball is a blood sport run by corporations to distract the masses. In 1975 it was a well-made film that came in too early to do interesting things with cyberpunk and the idea of celebrity, and in 2002 it was so mindless that the director was arrested. But if we can synthesize the themes, …

We've been studying spiders in the amazon with Jake, an we decided the best way to fix Madame Web is...well, the best thing about this episode is that you haven't listened to it yet, so we won't spoil it for you. What we can say is that Jake and Tanner got Stockholmed by this movie and Lindsay was just along for the ride as they talked about old mo…

Step off Richard Rich, this is our show now. Swan Lake! A great ballet (if you're not a pleb like Tanner) with a lot of interesting backstory, and allegedly it was turned into an animated musical but that thing didn't have any of the original music so what's even the point? Lindsay's rebooting it into a new film that gives more agency to Odette and…

Cherry 2000 is the story of a man who's robot girlfriend breaks down, and only a cool action girl can help him get a new exactly the same one. Lindsay thinks this whole script was written on 80s divorced-guy brain, but Tanner thinks there's something in here about forced obsolescence. Also discussed are a vibes-based apocalypse and Korok torture ma…

Content Warning in this episode for suicide. There's been a murder! Fortunately it was in the idyllic English countryside, which means we can call on Hercule Poirot and his mustache to solve it! Lindsay's grabbing Kenneth Branagh straight from Venice and handing him her pitch for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. There's a new framing device too, which …

This episode is shorter and a little half-baked, but at least it's not deconstructed, and it's not like we added capers to a desert for no reason. Anyway, remember Fighting Foodons? Of course not, which is why we're throwing out basically everything and starting from scratch. We gotta ask questions like "What if Yu-Gi-Oh was The Menu?" "Was there a…

Oh what poddings and moddings! It's time for another rebooting and scooting as Lindsay takes The Black Cauldron to task. Specifically she's putting all the parts of the Chronicles of Prydain that Katzenberg cut back in and finessing it so that there's a cool and dangerous fantasy film for tweens to watch. That means more fights, more blood, and a s…

Well howdy wanderer, it seems you've stumbled upon a guest episode of the podcast. Theo's come round to tell us about the triumphs and failures of Fallout 3, from Moira and her wasteland survival guide to the multitude of pitfalls surrounding the game's morality system. We're gonna drop most of the plot and focus on the faction politics of this set…

The apocalypse has been cancelled, uncancelled, recancelled, but it's about time we reboot it. Pacific Rim Uprising isn't as good as the sum of its parts, but Tanner thinks with better worldbuilding they can come together into a worthy sequel. Lindsay's got ideas to beef up the themes of legacy and homages to mecha classics. Also discussed are a ki…

We might all be apples and oranges, but in the end we're all podcasts. Podcast Freshman Ris is here to reboot the My Big Fat Greek Wedding sequels, but they've got so many notes we only had time for one. They discuss the emotional ups and downs and coming from diaspora families, how the entire plot can't happen under the watchful eye of GOArch, and…

Ilya x Solo x Gabby OT3! We can all agree that's the most important part of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the only thing in our way is, you know...THAT casting situation. But once we choose a man who is tall or short as our new Russian agent we're off to the races! Lindsay threads together several major elements of the classic TV show, Tanner helps …

We're back! Again! And we're treading old water as we take another crack at Star Wars, this time looking at the Sequel Trilogy - specifically Force Awakens because it sets up some decent themes but surely we can make it not such a rehash of A New Hope, right? Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our theme m…

Eddie Kingston is coming for the title this week! Bryan has returned to tell Tanner and Lindsay all about wrestling again, but instead of re-writing the past he's changing the future. Eddie Kingston is pursuing the AEW title, but what will he give up to get there? On this dark path we'll encounter Cinderella Stories, the Thunderdome, and a bit of a…

You gotta fight! For your right! To Polly! And Mighty Max is here too, even though Jake's the only person who's heard of them. With Tanner and Lindsay's help he'll figure out what these pocket-sized siblings can do, the monsters they'll face, and the lessons they'll learn about each other - and also who's on the soundtrack. We also discuss Lemuria,…

Listen, ok, listen, this was originally gonna be a straight sequel to Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) but Tanner realized they really missed the mark on Cassie Cain and they kind of have to rebuild the movie from the ground up. Fortunately, they have an idea of letting the girls hit the town and hit a bunch of C…

This week Lindsay is getting right into it with an all-ladies reboot of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. She spends the first chunk of the episode explaining how she's expanding the events of the movies and several novels into full seasons with dramatic arcs, and then at the end Tanner reminds her that it needs to be funny too. Along the way they discus…

We pod for our friends this week! Garmore has arrived to give us the lowdown on Fire Emblem - specifically Awakening, which they feel is the strongest game and only needs a few key changes to make it excellent. This episode we also engage in tactical shipping, unfreeze a protagonist, and time travel with scene kids. Our friendship promo this week i…

Let's keep going with the RTS train, but we're gonna stay in-genre this time when Tanner reboots Impossible Creatures! It's a game about slamming two animals together to make something charmingly bizarre and sending it off to fight, but Tanner wants to improve on that with environmental bonuses, side missions, and a plot about aliens! As long as we…

We've crashed landed on Planet U! Fortunately we can RAID some ROCKS to get shiny green power crystals, but at what cost? Or is this all just a game to teach kids why destroying an environment in the name of colonialism is bad? The only way she and Tanner can learn is by rebooting Lego Rock Raiders! Our friendship promo this week is @ChampsMaking! …

What's the Secret of NIMH? It's that there's an element added to the movie that truly makes no sense to Tanner, it's NOT just a nit. They're gonna tell Lindsay about how they'll reinforce the themes of the story without relying on plot devices, as well as Bluth's Mormon money and why Jeremy isn't a real name. We will NOT be talking about the sequel…

I only hope this episode is as nice as Rebecca's was...wait, this episode is ABOUT Rebecca! Lindsay needs to steer this adaptation in a more sensible direction than the recent one, while still modernizing the concerning overlap regarding sapphic undertones and toxic mother figures. Along the way she'll also talk to Tanner about Jimmy Stewart, Reba …

Tanner decided to reboot A Knight's Tale but the problem is that it's almost a perfect movie. But we established over our last hiatus that the best way to improve something perfect is to stick it on stage, and fortunately this thing seems custom built to become a Jukebox musical! Lindsay and them will look at alleged 70s songs, ignore historical ac…

Too many cool middle grade fantasy series were swallowed by Pottermania, and this week is one of them: The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine. Lindsay wants to make it a heartfelt pastoral adventure where a young girl learns to believe in herself! We also yell at Disney for causing good art to happen, despite the horrors. Our friendshi…

Wise Girls is allegedly a film with a multitude of twists, but there's really just one and it's pretty mid...so Tanner's twisting it up even more! Secret murders, police corruption, a grandma with a shotgun, Italian food?! Not to mention brief appearances from Green Lantern and Marvin the Martin Manhunter (but those aren't important right now). Our…

It is NOT time for the terrible mobile game ads cinematic universe, but the Merge Mansion is such a Resident Evil puzzle catastrophe that it just makes sense for someone to build their Last Fortress underneath it. Lindsay has been inspired by Pedro Pascal joining the Merge Mansion cast to do something with it - a shady soap about a secretive neighb…

We're back and so are the X-Men! Yes we already did an X-Men episode, but this is different because this time it's a Kart racing game! Tanner and Lindsay are gonna pick characters to race, moves for them to unleash on competitors, and what kind of outfits they're gonna wear. And fortunately Tanner's only a little bit of a New Warrior's Head at the …

The 200th episode special: William Shakespeare's Jurassic Park, written by Tanner and Lindsay. CAST Dramatis Personae Narration - Ryan (@VagabondHaunted) Alan Grant - a paleontologist - Tanner (@SparkyUpstart) Ellie Sattler - a paleobotanist - Lindsay (@LindsayM476) Ian Malcolm - a chaos theorist - Lava (@LavaBees) John Hammond - a visionary - JD (…

It's finally time to close the book on Once Upon a Time. We fought Cora, we redeemed Regina, we killed Rumple, we ended and brought back magic, we found the treasures, and we unleashed an ultimate evil. Now in this final season all we gotta do is rotate our blorbos, give scritches to the first dalmation, and schwoomp some hearts in order to get eve…

*kchow* It's a lightning round! We're going through our ideas lists and just throwing out whatever we think could get a good reboot but we don't know how to do a full episode on them yet! Historical Epics! Forgotten YTV sitcoms! Weird anime satires! All this and more in today's episode! Our friendship promo this week is @WaywardOCPod! Our cover art…

This week Crest is back to tell us about Get Ed, a Disney show that only lasted one season before exploding - literally! We also discuss adding lore, clown rivals, and waitresses on jetboots. Our friendship promo this week is @ReachThePodcast! Our cover art is by Alex aka @ptchew, and her work can be found on ptchew.com. Our theme music is by Shawn…

Nya! It's time for feline violence this week because Panda has taken control of the show and has a list of demands for making a Warrior Cats animated series, including making the girls better and making the cats queer (good for them). While Lindsay and Tanner are trapped in here, these three will discuss poor little meow-meows, Cat Heaven and Hell,…

There's not much to reboot here because, as returning guest Rem finds out, ReVice is actually a pretty good show (even if Tanner thinks the title rider's palette sucks and Lindsay thinks the Remixes look like weird yoga poses). But that's okay, because we're shipping it off to Aotearoa to remake it for the Power Rangers fans, and as we do we'll dis…

One time Sam played Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 and the ending blew his little kid mind, and also turned him against Mario. So now he wants to make a game where Wario can get everything he deserves - his house, his vengeance, etc - but also slowly lose his mind as the game falls apart around him. Along this buggy path we also discuss completioni…