After a brief pause and replacing Cal's spouse for Marika's, we are talking about the second arc of season two of Andor. This is a strange arc that started weird but stuck the landing very well despite what it did to Vel and Cinta.

Minors spoilers for the rest of season two of Andor.

Episodes We Mentioned:
Andor: Season 2 Arc 1
Republic Commando: Triple Zero Part 1
Chapter Nineteen: The Convent
Rogue One
Chapter Sixteen: The Rescue
Andor: The Prison Arc
Andor: The Finale Arc
Andor: The Aldhani Arc
Chapter Eleven: The Heiress
Castlevania: The Netflix Series

Hyperfixation returns to Star Wars to talk about the first arc of season two of Andor. Cassian gets trapped by some disorganized rebels, which is saying something. Mon and our Ferrix crew are going through a lot. And we focus too much on our queer women and their limited screen time.

Episodes We Mentioned:
Andor: The Premiere Arc
Andor: The Aldhani Arc
Andor: The Prison Arc (the original)
Andor: Finale Predictions
Andor: The Season One Finale
Rogue One
Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1
Yellowjackets Season 1
Aftermath: Part 1

In anticipation for season two of Andor, we are re-releasing our episode about the Prison Arc of season one of Andor from back when we were Briikasak: A Mandalorian Podcast. There isn't much queerness for how our podcast is now but Marika was still too focused on the lesbians.

Our Andor Episodes:
Andor: The Premiere Arc
Andor: The Aldhani Arc
Andor: The Prison Arc (the original)
Andor: Finale Predictions
Andor: The Season One Finale
Rogue One

The gang expresses our views about musicals as we talk about Epic: The Musical, an online, musical adaption of The Odyssey. Cal and Marika make lots of connections to modern era musicals as Bret has extensive knowledge of The Odyssey and Greek Mythology.

Episodes We Mentioned:
The Song of Achilles
Carmilla: The Web Series
Kaos
Patience and Sarah
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1
Nimona
Dragon Age: Redemption and Absolution
Imperial Commandos: 501st
Republic Commando: Order 66: Part 1

In possibly Hyperfixation's most lesbian episode, Marika makes the gang talk about Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller. It's a historical fiction novel from 1967 about two lesbians, loosely based on real women, in 1816 who fall in love and attempt to navigate that. There is a lot of early American history, religion, and feminist overtones.

TW: Domestic violence, sexual assault

Episodes We Mentioned:
The Spectrum of Queer Representation in Movies
Castlevania: The Netflix Series
Mulan
Interview with the Vampire
Song of Achilles

A theme emerges eventually but for most of the episode enjoy Cal smashing two seemingly unrelated queer movies together, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope from 1948 and The Birdcage from 1996 starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. Rope is fun and strange. We all have strange and conflicted childhood memories about The Birdcage, but we know Val sucks.

Episodes We Mentioned:
Interview with the Vampire
Song of Achilles
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Ep. 1-4
Din(cinnatus) vs. Cincinnatus (We are a Cincinnati based podcast)

Hyperfixation continues our book club moment with Cal's favorite book Song of Achilles from 2011. These Ancient Greek gay boys are horny and fighting in the Trojan War. Cal and Bret know a lot about The Iliad and Marika was a lesbian about the Troy movie from 2004.

Episode We Mentioned:
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1
Kaos
A Day of Fallen Night
Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1
Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2
A Strange and Stubborn an Endurance
Baldur's Gate 3
Interview with the Vampire
Castlevania: The Netflix Series

The gang talks about the new season of Castlevania: Nocturne. Our hero team is mostly split, but the animation is amazing, Maria gets multiple dads, our straights get together, and we talk a lot about Olrox and Mizrak despite their incredibly limited screen time.

Episode We Mentioned:
Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1
Castlevania: The Netflix Series
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Interview with the Vampire
Mutant May: Marauders (2019), to get any of Marika's X-men references