Giant Bomb Presents: The 10 Year Screened (Virtual) Reunion - Video Version

I remember those awesome days. Quite an undertaking which I loved to be part of.

I was kinda late to the party in regards to the whole Whiskey/Giant Bomb family. I didn't get involved until just a few years ago. So when I went Premium and saw there was an archive of 'All That Has Gone Before' it was invaluable for getting caught up and understanding what and who this was (I went through the whole archive :I )

It is kinda sad that those whole section of Whiskey just up and disappeared. I might have to go and look into these arcane corners that supposedly hide some parts of 'Screened'.

Screened was my only exposure to Whisky Media for basically it's whole existence. I found it through some Harmonix person talking about someone's interview with Neil Cicierega (I'm a BIG Lemon Demon fan) about Brody Quest. To this day I don't know why I never checked out GB or the other sites (despite being more into games and comics), but it was still a blast and I'm still here now. Hell, I think the reason I started going to GB after the sale was because Alex was doing stuff there.

Thanks for everything guys!

Truly loved that site. The arthouse goon in me wrote so many (bad) movie summations from Dances with Wolves to The Thin Red Line and Idi i Smotri (on Criterion now!). I would painstakingly look for the best screenshots of the most memorable moments and add them to my write ups.

@rorie As a western junkie Deadwood was a masterpiece of television. I've been watching David Milch since the Hill Street Blues days. So happy to see people admiring his work. Thanks for all your hard work. Honestly appreciated.

@gazel_ministry: It was great up and down except for a few oddities now and then. Every once in a while Milch's FLAIR FOR DRAMA would pop up and you'd have a character delivering a monologue to themselves in an empty room - those scenes always felt forced (e.g. Farnsworth trying to clean the blood stains, Auntie talking about Hearst). But few and far between, happily.

Catching up on this now (thanks!) and wanted to also point people to this YouTube channel that has other stuff from Screened that the Archive channel doesn't have: https://www.youtube.com/user/untitledproductions1/videos

Also, here's that aforementioned archive of the BTSD podcasts (sans episodes 50, 81 and 90): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-nXMepriHp7MjcwbTE5eFdGV3c

While 50 and 81 seem to be gone, I managed to find episode 90 (the last episode): https://web.archive.org/web/20130831045728/http://media.screened.com/podcast/BTSDEp90a.mp3

But I've managed to scrap together a summary of the lost episodes so you don't totally miss out!

Episode 50 show notes:

'Tony and Sara drop by for a discussion of THORRRR! We try not to spoil anything, but if you're interested in skipping that discussion, head to around the 29:12 mark, wherein Rorie starts talking about the San Francisco International Film Festival, Dylan Dog, and sundry other items! It's a rambling mess!'

(Community notes: Also had a discussion of Troll Hunter and, following the Comic Vine discussion, Rorie was totally on his own for a solo ramble!)

Episode 81 show notes:

'A slow movie weekend can't stop the BTSD train from rolling through, with discussion of The Artist, Shame, and My Week With Marilyn! We intended it to be an hour long but couldn't restrain ourselves!'

(Community notes: Rorie was tired, complained of being tired, discussed a secret, sad email and continued to pronounce 'Edgar' as 'Edger' to the chagrin of one member. Talk included 'OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies', best fight scenes, day after Thanksgiving theatre-going, heterosexual men being weirdly uncomfortable with male nudity, Alex's 'Fassboners' and his [then] belief that 'best actor' and 'best actress' awards should just be 'best performer').

A small contribution to the archival work, but I hope it's helpful to someone in years to come! Thanks for the reunion!