Spin-off! Your hosts talk boy bands of the '90s and 2010s, the storied career of Sebastian Stan, and Franchesca Ramsey's musical takedown of bigots. Also: comics Captain America's gay best friend, music genre revival, and a looot of Game of Thrones.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of homophobia and queer erasure, Nazism and supremacist ideals, pedophilia (and ephebophilia), racism, and sexism.

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Chapters:

(00:05) - Boy bands of the '90s and 2010s

(03:40) - Sebastian Roche, Fringe, Once Upon a Time

(04:40) - The storied career of Sebastian Stan

(07:05) - Captain America's gay best friend, Arnie Roth

(08:45) - Franchesca Ramsey and the "Leopards" song

(10:32) - Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Heads Will Roll"

(13:43) - Jessica Jones, CA: Winter Soldier, enchanced people in the MCU

(15:21) - The Drifters' "Save the Last Dance" and musical genre revival

(17:22) - Doctor Doom and Kylo Ren unable to keep a disguise

(18:59) - Game of Thrones: Race and Ethnicity

(20:12) - More Game of Thrones: Infidelity and Nobility

(22:08) - Even more Game of Thrones: Layers of Evil

(23:30) - Game of Thrones for the last time but it's just Cersei slander

(24:30) - The CW and relationships with a concerning age dynamic

(25:30) - Pretty Little Liars' various imported actors

(26:30) - Shay Mitchell, Trese, and the Hi Nay Podcast

(27:30) - Covers of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

(28:38) - Southern African names in Western context

(30:44) - Daniella Monet's "Chicago" and North American geography

All in the family! Fadzai and Sandile peer into the reunion of The Mikaelson siblings, aka The Originals.

Introduced over seasons 2 and 3 of The Vampire Diaries, the Originals are the children of Esther (a witch from 10th-century Norway) and Mikael (her Viking husband), who brought them to far-back America in hopes of a better life. After their youngest sibling dies in an accidental werewolf attack, their parents make the fateful decision to turn them into the first ever vampires, from which all others would thereafter be descended.

In present day, the Originals become antagonists to the Mystic Falls Gang - primarily through Klaus Mikaelson, and his pursuit of Elena Gilbert as a magical doppelganger - and are further embroiled as more powerful figures come along. On the back of their immense popularity as characters, they exit the show by the end of its fourth season to star in their own eponymous spin-off series.

(This episode focuses on Elijah, Rebekah, Klaus, Finn, and Kol in season 3B.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of emotional abuse, ethnic erasure, homophobia, mental coercion and manipulation, misogyny, misogynoir, physical abuse, racism, sexual abuse and assault, stalking, suicidal ideation, supremacy, and torture.

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Fadzai and Sandile embrace immortal family dysfunction with The Mikaelson siblings, aka The Originals.

Introduced over seasons 2 and 3 of The Vampire Diaries, the Originals are the children of Esther (a witch from 10th-century Norway) and Mikael (her Viking husband), who brought them to far-back America in hopes of a better life. After their youngest sibling dies in an accidental werewolf attack, their parents make the fateful decision to turn them into the first ever vampires, from which all others would thereafter be descended.

In present day, the Originals become antagonists to the Mystic Falls Gang - primarily through Klaus Mikaelson, and his pursuit of Elena Gilbert as a magical doppelganger - and are further embroiled as more powerful figures come along. On the back of their immense popularity as characters, they exit the show by the end of its fourth season to star in their own eponymous spin-off series.

(This episode focuses on Elijah, Rebekah, and Klaus in seasons 2 and 3A.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of emotional abuse, ethnic erasure, homophobia, mental coercion and manipulation, misogyny, misogynoir, Nazism and supremacist ideals, physical abuse, racism, sexual abuse and assault, stalking, suicidal ideation, and torture.

Questions, queries, or just to say hi!

E-mail: animalattackpod@gmail.com

Refs and Links: IWAA S1

All our online stuff!

Podcast: It Was an Animal Attack

Twitter: @animattackpod

Instagram: @animalattackpod

Tiktok: @animalattackpod

YouTube: @animalattackpod