#001 - A Birthday, A New Year, and A New Podcast - 2021 TV & Movie Recap

Welcome to Fandom Variables! :) I am your host, Todd, and this inaugural episode was recorded on December 31, my birthday, on a whim & without even having a name decided during recording (I had one in mind; more on that below). And, maintaining my superpower of procrastination, I'm still not publishing it until six days later.

I'm a geek & really like talking about TV shows & movies in the sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero genres. I'm already one-fourth of The Discerning Geeks Portal podcast (check that out) and one-half of the upcoming Discerning *Lurkers* Portal: A Babylon 5 Podcast (be on the lookout). But, here, at least for now, I'm all three-thirds of a one-person show. My other two podcasts will always be my higher priorities, but this podcast will be for those things that slip between the cracks -- things that maybe only I want to talk about or can talk about in the moment.

In this episode, I took a look back at TV & movies from 2021, including...

WandaVision

Lost In Space

Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Loki

Hawkeye

The Might Ducks: Game Changers

For All Mankind

Superman & Lois

Legends of Tomorrow

The Blacklist

4400

Marvel's What If?...

Wheel of Time

Invincible

Foundation

Mythic Quest

Dickinson

The Flash

Batwoman

Stargirl

Book of Boba Fett

Leverage: Redemption

The Witcher

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Looking forward to The Orville season 3 and a possible Babylon 5 reboot in 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Eternals

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

No Time To Die

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Black Widow

Zack Synder's Justice League

Godzilla vs. Kong

Matrix Resurrections

Yep. All that...one episode.

If you'd like to contact me, the podcast e-mail is [email protected]. I might have a Facebook and/or Twitter account eventually.

Obviously, I thought of a name after recording. Actually, it's a name I've been "sitting on" for over 1.5 years. It was one of a myriad of un-used suggestions for the name of the podcast I do with my friends. I hesitated to use it because, since then, another podcast I listen to also has the word fandom in it. But, I couldn't think of a name I liked better (Fandom Variables is a play on words for Random Variables). So, I'm explaining here, to ensure that I'm not half-copycatting.