Nat plays what is arguably the best of the Silent Hill games, Silent Hill 3. LaughingMan and Nat devolve the theory that Heather’s dark descent in Silent Hill 3 was never originally supposed to be a sequel to Silent Hill 1, but was instead set up to be a psychological horror of a young woman, but instead a much darker story of a young girl growing into a woman… and possibly getting an abortion. Such themes still present in the cultist re-visitation that support these theories are the presence of allusions to rape, pregnancy, terminating unwanted pregnancies, motherhood, and a religious reverence towards motherhood. But hey! That’s just a theory… a game theory.

Original Air Date: July 16, 2019

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LaughingMan and Nat notice a frequent use of reflections and mirrors during the course of the game: from the bathroom scene in the introduction, to the Angela in front of the wall mirror with a knife. Perhaps there is some Alice Through The Looking Glass symbolism? Or perhaps it’s a metaphor for a self-reflective journey.

LaughingMan fawns over Pyramid Head as he compares the plot of Silent Hill 2 to the Criterion Collection Russian film, “Solaris”. Not so much the George Clooney Solaris (2002), but the 1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Both touch on the subject of a mysterious place where it seems that one’s own conscience, past, and personal demons become manifest. Both involve a husband who encounters his wife, who has been dead for years.

Additionally there’s a Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called “Portrait of Jocelyn” that shares many similarities with Silent Hill 2. The husband has an ex-wife who has gone missing, but he believes she’s still alive. He receives a letter from her to go back to the resort town that she disappeared from, and many of the inhabitants are odd, and it’s revealed that the husband killed his wife in the town.

Masahiro Ito confirms that Mary’s body is in the back seat of James’ car, not the trunk.

Pyramid Head only strangles and attacks the straight-jacket and mannequin monsters with his hands until you get Angela’s knife, and then it has the Great Knife as a weapon. A more interesting question to ask: how large is Pyramid Head’s “weapon”? Is it the same size as James’, or is it larger?

Original Air Date: July 22, 2019

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Nat resumes her Silent Hill marathon from the previous night by picking up where she left off. She accidentally missed Annie’s Bar and saving Dr. Kaufmann from a Mumbler, resulting in not being able to get the good ending to Silent Hill. Nat decides to proceed onward to the Lakeside Amusement Park.

After the game begins to mess up and she loses her save data, she decides to do a half-hearted speed-run of Silent Hill, this time being sure to pick up the map, go to Annie’s Bar, save Dr. Kaufmann, kill the demon, and get the good ending of the game. Except she doesn’t get the good ending, she gets the second-worst ending because she forgot a handful of the requirements. So Harry is dead, and that makes a Silent Hill 3 paradox.

Nat is joined by our Patreon friends, Minnesota_Fatts and MagicBased. Conversation Topics include:

The 2019 Lion King live-action remake looks horrid, and we hope it crashes and burns so Disney stops making their live-action remakes. The redone “Long live the king” scene where Scar pushes Mufasa off the cliff looks and sounds horrible. Additionally, John Oliver sounds terrible in comparison to Rowan Atkinson. All of the animals look emotionless (realistic?), and the remade music sounds off-key and hollow. But our criticisms are invalid in the eyes of Disney fans because “it’s a film for kids”.

Speaking of the Beauty and the Beast starlet, Emma Watson, looking uncomfortable in photos with Harvey Weinstein:

The Hollywood sex abuse scandals regarding Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein are an open secret now, after years of it being swept under the rug for years. Even Corey Feldman was silenced by Barbara Walters on The View regarding his own experiences with abuse. However, the new Leaving Neverland documentary leaves Nat skeptical about whether the recent (or any of the) Michael Jackson sex abuse claims are valid. The Leaving Neverland documentary is full of holes and chronological inconsistencies, and it was so lambasted by the British press that about an hour of the documentary was removed for British audiences.

Hollywood is pandering to the leftist ideologies of Millennials because of their supposed disposable income, when in truth their generation is one of the least wealthy generations in history.

Never watch good bad movies, like Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”, by yourself. Bad movies should be watched in a group of friends who like to rib bad movies, Mystery Science Theater 3000 style.

Original Air Date: July 16, 2019

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The lost let’s play of Silent Hill 1. Complete with all the crashes, and all kinds of crap that made the stream pretty bad. So was it luck that the game crashed and we got a better let’s play from the second attempt?

Original Air Date: July 15, 2019

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