the credits end, the script ends, and finally our host speaks of himself. annihilation minute 115.find links to my other shows at http://www.lemmingdrops.com/ and support lemming drops studio at https://www.patreon.com/lemmingdrops★ Support

it will end, it will end, she said

Jul 30th, 2021 12m 41s

as the credits roll, we take one last look at climate change. annihilation minute 114.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

that good triumphs, happiness prevails, order rules

Jul 23rd, 2021 16m 10s

The credits roll and we make an effort to tie Garland's themes into Vandermeer's. Annihilation minute 113.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

impossible to resist the strange intimation

Jul 16th, 2021 11m 46s

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

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

Jul 9th, 2021 20m 35s

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

the place was gone to rack and ruin

Jul 2nd, 2021 39m 1s

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 chang

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

Jun 25th, 2021 37m 6s

Saul's lighthouse discovery, Lena's bright eyes, and the Biologist's owl friend. Annihilation minute 109.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

they were both wild creatures now

Jun 18th, 2021 16m 18s

Saul experiences something strange in the local bar, Lena and Kane question one another, and the Biologist explores the island. Annihilation minute 108.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

Jun 11th, 2021 14m 8s

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

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

Jun 4th, 2021 14m 30s

Lomax questions Lena and we explore more of what happened to the biologist in Annihilation minute 106.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

saying quite casually and naturally what had been in her mind

May 28th, 2021 20m 9s

As Lomax questions Lena, we start to look at what happened to the biologist in the novels. #Annihilation minute 105.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

May 21st, 2021 20m 16s

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

May 14th, 2021 16m 5s

Lena leaves, the Biologist finds herself in an empty lot, and the Humanoid is left behind to burn. Annihilation minute 103.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

May 7th, 2021 37m 33s

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

but now and again we rise to the surface

Apr 30th, 2021 18m 47s

The Humanoid becomes Lena but Lena tricks it into destroying itself in Annihilation minute 101.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

it brought them into sympathy momentarily

Apr 23rd, 2021 17m 45s

Lena and the Humanoid get up and face one another; depression, self, and suffering; #Annihilation minute 100.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

making the weight fall in a different direction

Apr 16th, 2021 35m 3s

Lena and the Humanoid fall to the floor in Annihilation minute 99.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

Apr 9th, 2021 20m 26s

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.★ Support this podcast

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

Apr 2nd, 2021 18m 37s

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

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

Mar 26th, 2021 16m 16s

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

Mar 19th, 2021 23m 22s

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.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

a wedge-shaped core of darkness

Mar 12th, 2021 10m 48s

Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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

Mar 5th, 2021 18m 54s

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 ★

there was always a woman dying of cancer even here

Feb 26th, 2021 15m 5s

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

this core of darkness could go anywhere

Feb 19th, 2021 20m 19s

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. #An