Garhdo Goes Geek

Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. I just wanted to drop another blog update for you all, as its been a few months since my last content update, and I feel like I really am getting my rhythm back as I am not only hitting deadlines that are allowing me to publish new episodes regularly, but I am also getting ahead of myself, and having fun planning new ideas, so I thought I'd talk a bit about all of that, and give some teases of what is coming next. Firstly as I said I have released two new episodes recently. My Commission episode was released two weeks ago, and an episode giving my thoughts on Toxic Fandom premiered recently. I am hoping to maintain this fortnightly schedule as I am actually ahead of myself, having gotten the recent episode made well in advance, and already being ahead for many of the upcoming ones. I've found in the past this two weekly schedule has worked quite well for me, allowing me to be productive while not rushing my content. However I am ...

Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. I thought for today's blog, I might offer a peek behind the curtain as it were, and show how I make my podcast, taking you all step-by-step through every part of my process from the conception of the idea all the way through to the finished product. I decided to do this with my first commission episode, on the Skibidi Toilet series, in part because its a series I am approaching for the first time, and so I think it will serve best to illustrate every part of my process. So let's get started shall we? Step 1: The Idea All of my podcast episodes start with an idea of what content I wish to approach, and often with an idea on how I want to tackle it. For example I may wish to review a film or series, talk about why I love a franchise, discuss an industry shaping event, contrast parts of a franchise with each other, or analyse a classic from a modern perspective.  With the Skibidi Toilet series the idea I had going into the original Ap...

Hello my friends. I've recently gone past my fourth anniversary for the podcast, meaning I'm now onto my fifth year of creating content, and so as a result I thought it might be time to post another update, as its been a bit of time since I've uploaded anything new, which I am very sorry about.  So on that topic first of all and more than anything I want to apologise to everyone for the lack of content over the past year, especially when contrasted to the year before. There's been a few reasons for this, but things are a lot better now, and I hope to get a more consistent schedule in the near future. I especially want to apologise to Dan, one of the earliest supporters of my podcast and the gentleman who purchased my first commission. It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to actually produce this episode and all I can do is apologise. I just hope that you enjoy the final episode when it arrives in the near future. Once we are past the Easter Holidays here in the U...

Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. Today I wanted to talk about several topics that have been on my mind for several months now, but have all kind of come to head and coalesced after an article from Variety last year that seems to have highlighted just how prevalent these issues have become, and how long they have been an issue.  The article published by Variety in October 2024, titled " Toxic Fandom: How Hollywood Is Battling Fans Who Are ‘Just Out for Blood’", and available  here , starts by discussing some prominent examples of recent toxicity levelled by fans towards some high profile shows, before exploring several steps that studios are taking in order to prevent these vitriolic pushbacks, with one idea specifically cited being that of special "superfan" focus groups to assess marketing materials for major franchise projects, in addition to standard focus testing groups.  Now focus group testing is a important part of any film and television pro...

Hello my friends. Welcome back to my blog. Today I'm sharing something similar to my previous watch orders, and that is a timeline for the combined universe of the Alien , Predator and Prometheus films.  This is a universe I've been a fan of for a long time, and I did a very in-depth episode (one of my longest in fact) on the then twelve films in this combined franchise. Since then however more films, video games, comics and novels have continued to add lore to this universe, and as it now stands this is a series that spans a timeframe of over a thousand years, from the early 18th Century to deep into the far future, with a variety of comic series and novels from several different publishers all building on this world.  As a result this turned out to be one of my most complex projects to date, as while I was always planning to add the available video games, all of the recent short films, as well as certain comics and novels to this list, I instead found that many of the newer...