Annihilation Minute: Recent Episodes
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the credits end, the script ends, and finally our host speaks of himself. annihilation minute 115.
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as the credits roll, we take one last look at climate change. annihilation minute 114.
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The credits roll and we make an effort to tie Garland's themes into Vandermeer's. Annihilation minute 113.
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The credits roll and we look back on how Garland adapted the the story like a dream. Annihilation minute 112.
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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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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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Saul's lighthouse discovery, Lena's bright eyes, and the Biologist's owl friend. Annihilation minute 109.
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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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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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Lomax questions Lena and we explore more of what happened to the biologist in Annihilation minute 106.
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As Lomax questions Lena, we start to look at what happened to the biologist in the novels. #Annihilation minute 105.
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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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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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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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The Humanoid becomes Lena but Lena tricks it into destroying itself in Annihilation minute 101.
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Lena and the Humanoid get up and face one another; depression, self, and suffering; #Annihilation minute 100.
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Lena and the Humanoid fall to the floor in Annihilation minute 99.
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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.
The dance between Lena and the Humanoid begins, Doctor Who interrupts, and it's all very straightforward in #Annihilation minute 97.
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.
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.
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.
An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
From Lena's past to her present, alone on the shore, samsara, dukkha, and the crystalline structures that connect us together. Annihilation minute 84.
Lena, future, past, present, alone. And we discuss the inclusion of #HenriettaLacks in #Annihilation minute 83.
Lena and Radek talk, and we delve into the calm before ending things in Annihilation minute 81.
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Lena sits beside Radek and we look into the Tao of water and self harm in Annihilation minute 80.
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Radek kills the bear, the bear has a name, and Ventress prepares to leave on her own, in Annihilation minute 78.
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.
The bear enters, and we explore behind-the-scenes details and what the bear means, in Annihilation minute 76.
the women hear sheppard screaming and the bear enters the house in annihilation minute 75.
We run from Penelope to alcoholism as Thorensen's last prayer comes to its end in Annihilation minute 74.
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.
Lena, Radek, and Ventress tied to chairs and gagged. Women silenced. Annihilation minute 72.
Echoes of Daniel, echoes of Kane, as Thorensen lashes out in her moment of pain.
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More DNA poetry and Orpheus begins to blend with Odysseus as Daniel challenges Lena regarding their affair in Annihilation minute 70.
Lena examines her own blood, and we examine modern manipulation of DNA before finding Lena in bed with Daniel in Annihilation minute 69.
Settling into a familiar house, Thorensen sees something in her own hands and Lena starts a secret examination in Annihilation minute 68.
The remaining women enter a familiar, but strangely different, house, in Annihilation minute 67.
Radek figures out what is happening in the shimmer, but neither Lena nor Thorensen are happy about it, in Annihilation minute 66.
Thorensen fumes, Lena examines a topiary child, Radek begins to figure things out, and we get sidetracked by Swamp Thing, in Annihilation minute 65.
Lena wonders if something is wrong with Thorensen and the four remaining women arrive at Ville Perdu in Annihilation minute 64.
Lena looks at Sheppard's body then returns to the other women in Annihilation minute 63.
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.
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.
Back within the Shimmer, Ventress leads the way through the forest and they come upon a boot, in Annihilation minute 60.
Lena convinces Thorensen and Radek to keep going, and we flash forward to Lena in the interrogation room, in Annihilation minute 59.
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.
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.
Something comes through the fence, and it takes Sheppard away, in #Annihilation minute 56.
Lena's and Ventress' conversation about self-destruction is interrupted in #Annihilation minute 55.
Lena asks Ventress about why Kane volunteered for a suicide machine and they (and I) discuss self-destruction, in #Annihilation minute 54.
Lena finds Ventress alone with a map in #Annihilation minute 53, and we sample J G Ballard on cataclysmic science fiction.
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.
Kane leaves, Orpheus fails to retrieve Eurydice, Lena awakens in the middle of the night. #Annihilation minute 51.
Before we flashback to Lena and Kane on his day of departure, we get sidetracked by Orpheus and Eurydice in #Annihilation minute 50.
Lena, Sheppard, and Ventress move closer to Mayer's exploded body while Radek and Thorensen back away, in #Annihilation minute 49.
Lena rejoins the group as they come upon the deformed and exploded body of Mayer in #Annihilation minute 48.
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.
The video plays and the women start to see what horror befell the previous expedition, in #Annihilation minute 46.
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.
Thorensen finds a machine gun and Lena finds evidence that the previous expedition stayed at Fort Amaya in #Annihilation minute 44.
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.
The women enter Fort Amaya, in a location real-life aliens may be familiar with, in #Annihilation minute 42.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A boar attacks in reality and in the novel, a gator attacks in the film, #Annihilation minute 37.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The women orient themselves as they decide what is next after none of them can recall setting camp, in #annihilation minute 32.
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.
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.
As the women approach and finally enter the Shimmer, we drift into #sunshine, #doctorwho, #lost, #eventhorizon, #tvtropes, and other directions. #Annihilation minute 29.
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.
as Lena volunteers for the mission into the Shimmer, let us take a look at her childhood curiosity from the novel. #annihilation minute 27
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.
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.
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.
Lena, Thorensen, Sheppard, and Radek compare jobs as we take a look at Gina Rodriguez and this all-female team in #Annihilation minute 23.
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.
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
Still lying in bed, LENA wonders about KANE's upcoming mission, as un bel di vedremo interrupts #Annihilation minute 20.
Lying in bed, LENA and KANE talk about God's mistakes (or not), and the #HayflickLimit and cellular aging. #Annihilation minute 19.
tattoos, foreshadowing, black bears, motivations, and dying husbands in #annihilation minute 18
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.
sciencefiction eschews stereotypical heroes and extra-terrestrials, as #annihilation minute 16 eschews an escape attempt.
in area x ventress questions lena, as i discuss the political purpose of film, and the unsettling purpose of #annihilation, minute 14
a strange hospital room, lena meets #drventress and we meet #jenniferjasonleigh in #annihilation minute 13
tvtropes, #vaninblack, #meninblack, #unmarkedhelicopters, and waking up in a secret government facility in #annihilation minute 12
bloodfromthemouth, ambulances, kane as he has changed, the staff of aesculapius, obsessing about a location, and the meaning of well in #annihilation minute 11
infidelity, a dimly understood fear, the character of kane, and whether anything matters in annihilation, minute 10
emotional numbing, doppelgangers, fingers tapping, and the quality of insanity in annihilation, minute 9
madness, girl interrupted, ptsd, odysseus, and the sum of our experiences in annihilation, minute 8
grief, memory, self-destruction, oscar isaac, and the return of kane in annihilation, minute 7
crosby, stills, & nash's 'helplessly hoping', photographs, poetry, and the play of memory and time in annihilation, minute 6
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
a distracted professor, sonoya mizuno as student katie, falling stars, dividing cells, and our relationship with nature in annihilation, minute 4
objects falling from space, self destruction, subjectivity, alien lifeforms within and without in annihilation, minute 3
character names, the ship of theseus paradox, knowledge, identity, life, and the themes of annihilation, minute 2
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