Episode 46 - Bleriana's Bucket
Added 2019-06-17 18:05:51 +0000 UTCThis is now an all Bleriana, all the time podcast. Our favorite unseen character, who may or may not still be a sex slave when this book ends in fifty pages, makes another appearance, as Alessia finally recounts the story of her evil Betrothed and her journey to England. Despite her saying "I love you" dozens of times and being DTF no matter what recent trauma has happened, Maxim remains uncertain of their relationship's standing. We examine the possible causes of this idiocy.
We'll also examine the relationship between Maxim and his headmates, pause for a brief ad for Jameson Irish Whiskey, and speculate on exactly what the hell Maxim was uploading to his Instagram from the airport. We'll also speculate on the odds that certain events happen in the book's final fifty pages.
For next time, there's nothing left to do but finish the damn book!
Comments
She waited until the last sentence of the book to put an actual good sentence in the book.
Kerry S.
2019-07-01 11:07:57 +0000 UTCI just blazed to the end of the book in anticipation, and it is stunning how uninteresting the obligatory final climactic arc is. There are a few things I hope CL and MJN pick up on, I don't want to spoil it for other Patreon folk. But Conor, please for the love of Zot, can you have the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" theme song queued up for the final resolution? Of all the ways James could have ended it, 90's sitcom was not what I would have guessed.
Erik Flowers
2019-06-26 02:52:58 +0000 UTC1:25:xx "Their problem is they both lack Relationship Object Permanence." Conor Lastowka, winner of the Internet on this day, 24 June 2019.
Kerry S.
2019-06-25 01:06:28 +0000 UTCI hope the epilogue is just Megan, Bleriana, and Karo Nut Pie all sitting around a table conducting a seance to resurrect Kit and have him haunt Maxim to death.
Heather
2019-06-24 14:29:29 +0000 UTCWait, will Google Pompeii thing being a fraud, but where did you hear this first? I am intrigued.
Emily Brown
2019-06-24 04:55:28 +0000 UTCSpit take at "business end" discussion. For real.
Emily Brown
2019-06-24 03:38:45 +0000 UTC"Bleriana's Bucket" also sounds like some kind of philosophical thought experiment
Riley Weckbacher-Robeck
2019-06-23 01:46:24 +0000 UTCMike, any update on the Death Rat sequel?
Gary
2019-06-20 22:52:36 +0000 UTCMike complains about 'repeat beats' in this one and that's... well, entirely fair. James got her start writing serialized fanfiction, where it's not uncommon for an author to accidentally hit similar beats multiple times due to the nature of the publication schedule, and for the audience not to notice for the same reasons. In published fiction it's less tolerable because you're generally reading a book all the way through over a relatively short period versus getting a new chapter every week or two (which was about her pace for most of Master of the Universe, I believe), where some of the repetition is less obvious or even part of the texture of the work. But James definitely needed an editor to divest the narrative of that nonsense because that just isn't how a fully-conceived novel should be paced. That said, I think the repetitive beats would work if she hit different beats. For instance, seeing these constant sitcom-level misunderstandings makes the characters utterly insipid, and these are the beats she uses to build tension. But imagine instead the entire book were actually a Perils of Pauline-style sequence of events where Alessia is constantly being kidnapped in progressively sillier ways by progressively sillier villains while Maxim is off doing something mundane. Checking on a burglary? Going to the bar? Maybe next time he walks off to buy a fish pie and when he turns around four minutes later she's been kidnapped. Alessia goes out to check the mail and gets kidnapped. Maxim bends down to talk about the capabilities of his dual-stone system and she gets kidnapped. And every time it comes with him running off to see the car pulling away as he shouts "Not again!" and yanks at his hair (which, for me, was a moment of comedy gold). I think you'd improve the experience by several orders of magnitude.
Chaos Shadow
2019-06-20 13:34:36 +0000 UTCJust wanted to add: Not only does Maxim leave her, not only does he stop for a drink on the way, not only does the recently trafficked, even-more-recently assaulted go to the Tesco—freakin' Anatoli is WAITING for her there. Was he just hanging out all hoping she'd need some Albanian capers? I mean, if he was staking her out, why would he be IN the store?
Moviegique
2019-06-19 21:27:10 +0000 UTCYou're correct; though "Melanie" is how you pronounce "Melody" when you have a bad cold, so I was mostly right..?
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-06-18 14:01:18 +0000 UTCI believe the folk singer Mike has in mind is Melanie, not Melody. Melody was...the drummer in Josie and the Pussycats?
Moviegique
2019-06-18 02:22:52 +0000 UTCIf you're trying to make Alessia laugh, please dumb it down to Mister Maxim-level humor. Do that and I'll also put you in my next book. -- mjn
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
2019-06-18 02:08:19 +0000 UTCZot!
andrew
2019-06-17 18:40:39 +0000 UTCFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I must be the protagonist in an E. L. James novel.
Zach Dewoody
2019-06-17 18:26:47 +0000 UTCWait, shouldn't this be episode 46?
Fubuki
2019-06-17 18:20:13 +0000 UTCBleriana... Isn’t that the George Clooney movie where his vision is blurry? Haha! Because.. you see... heh heh... well, anyway...
Taylor Conner
2019-06-17 18:11:17 +0000 UTC
