Loose Canon

All Episodes 2014 - 2016

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  • 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z
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  • 8h 48m (24 episodes)
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24 episodes

Season Premiere

2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

2014x01 Starscream

Season Premiere

2014x01 Starscream

  • 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z22m

Time to talk about my transformers bae... Starscream. (I'm an adult.)

Season Premiere

2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

2015x01 Hades

Season Premiere

2015x01 Hades

  • 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z22m

From shorthand for Satan to a wisecracking lord of the Underworld, the many iterations of the Greek god Hades are worth a-plunderin'.

2015x02 The Wicked Witch of the West

  • 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z22m

From your earliest childhood nightmare to a tragically misunderstood intellectual, let's take a look at how the Wicked Witch of the West has changed over the years.

2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

2015x03 Captain America

2015x03 Captain America

  • 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z22m

Captain America vs. Captain America vs. Captain America

2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

2015x04 Mad Max

2015x04 Mad Max

  • 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z22m

On this Mini-Canon, we take a look at a character that gets not one, but... two whole iterations in film: Max Rockatansky, a.k.a Mad Max.

2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

2015x05 Death

2015x05 Death

  • 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z22m

Love it, hate it, but there's no getting around it... death! Strap in as we explore the many ways the imminent and unavoidable death has been characterized throughout pop culture.

2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

2015x06 King Kong

2015x06 King Kong

  • 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z22m

It was beauty killed the beast.... or was it, really? Let's explore one of the oldest, non-book based film franchises: King Kong.

2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

2015x07 Nightcrawler

2015x07 Nightcrawler

  • 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z22m

It's time to explore the best (THE BEST) character in the X-Men canon! Let's take a look at everyone's favorite acrobat-turned-super-hero-turned-priest-turned-super-hero... Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. Nightcrawler! YAY!

2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

2015x08 The Jedi

2015x08 The Jedi

  • 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z22m

Season Premiere

2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

2016x01 The Jacks of King Kong

Season Premiere

2016x01 The Jacks of King Kong

  • 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z22m

Jack Driscoll: Young, handsome, annoying?... and not a gorilla. Let's explore how one of film's oldest franchises third triangle point changes over time.

2016x02 "Oscar Bait": A History

  • 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z22m

Every year we reaffirm our vows about how much we don't care about the Oscars because the Oscars don't matter because the Oscars only care about Oscar bait - but when did Oscar bait start to become a Thing in the first place?

Phantom of the Opera, the horror classic, based on the not-so-classic book that was okay, I guess, and then Hollywood-ified into a string of increasingly out-there adaptations, and all before the Broadway musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber changed the game, but here is a look at poor Erik before Lord Andy.

And all of a sudden, there were half-masks everywhere. From Robert Englund to a Phantom that haunts malls, this public domain musical underwent a huge facelift after the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical. Also, Gerard Butler can't sing.

2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

2016x05 Queen Elizabeth I

2016x05 Queen Elizabeth I

  • 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z22m

One of European history's most famous monarchs has, throughout the ages, always begged a single question: who was she schtupping? From Doctor Who to Blackadder to the lunatic fever dreams of Roland Emmerich, we know she was doin' it with someone (or trying to).

Before Batman vs. Superman and Civil War, there was a proud history of superheroes fighting each other for mostly contrived and not very good reasons.

2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

2016x07 Aphrodite

2016x07 Aphrodite

  • 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z22m

The goddess Venus (née Aphrodite [née Turan {née ???}]) has been a popular subject to depict in pop culture, and her depictions have been all over the plac... probably because she has no defining personality traits.

2016x08 X-men Dying (and un-dying)

  • 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z22m

A brief run-down of all the ways your favorite X-men who died and then had their heroic deaths retconned.

2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

2016x09 Marilyn Monroe

2016x09 Marilyn Monroe

  • 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z22m

As voted by patrons on my Patreon page - the A brief discussions on the depictions of Marilyn, the symbol of (???) who has ceased to be a person.

2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

2016x10 9/11 - Part 1

2016x10 9/11 - Part 1

  • 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z22m

One of the great turning points in modern history - how does pop culture depict it? Awkwardly, for the most part.

2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

2016x11 9/11 - Part 2

2016x11 9/11 - Part 2

  • 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z22m

A few years out from 9/11, the jingoism started to fade, and we started to talk about our ~*~feelings~*~.

2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

2016x12 Mystique

2016x12 Mystique

  • 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z22m

She's the embodiment of evil feminine archetypes and fears about feminine sexuality (and also is my favorite X-villain so nyeh)

2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

2016x13 Hillary Clinton

2016x13 Hillary Clinton

  • 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z22m

Odds are pretty good that one person's imitation of Hillary doesn't sound much like anyone else's.

2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

2016x14 Jack the Ripper

2016x14 Jack the Ripper

  • 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z22m

Hope you like shots of feet in the dark and women being brutalized! One of the greatest serial killer unsolved mysteries (and conspiracy theories apparently?) of the modern era has been adapted many times into film and television.

2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

2016x15 Santa Claus

2016x15 Santa Claus

  • 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z22m

Possibly the most inevitable installment of Loose Canon ever.

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