Can I Just Say

This week on Can I Just Say, the last of our dispatches from 2019 Con of Thrones. We discuss fate and destiny for one who is so powerful, our shifting experiences of “Dracarys” the end of Season 8, and conquering vs ruling.

Elizabeth was on a fascinating Con of Thrones panel looking at the arc of Theon Greyjoy from start to end of Game of Thrones. Greyjoy or Stark? Theon’s story ends up being one of the most interesting and heart wrenching story in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire.

This week on Can I Just Say, the second panel dispatch from Con of Thrones: Daphne talked with Michael Monaco from Maester Monthly, as well as Luka Nieto and David Rosenblatt from Watchers on the Wall. We talked about power dynamics of the Common Folk who rose to be in the spheres of the Noble Families in the worlds of A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones and our favorite examples of those types of characters, including Melisandre, Varys, Davos and others.

This week on Can I Just Say, the first panel dispatch from Con of Thrones. In a sequel to last year’s Queendom panel, Daphne joins Kristine Kippins, Lauren Sarner, and Kim Renfro to discuss women and politics in Game of Thrones.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Season 8 of Game of Thrones, for a long long time. Kristine Kippins is back and we are also joined by Petra Halbur who writes for the Game of Thrones dedicated site Watchers on the Wall. Daphne is a bit salty and Elizabeth is (as always) sweet.

This week on Can I Just Say, we look back at Season 7 of Game of Thrones, in our excitement for Season 8. Kristine Kippins joins Daphne for a continuation of our Con of Thrones panel discussions and a preview for our 2019 panel. We discuss Being the Dragon, leadership styes, bending knees, and who will bring the balance of The Force to Westeros (if anyone can)

This week on Can I Just Say, we enter the church of Baseball and find that we believe in belief. If you love something enough it can be profound. Annie and Crash are two of the most fascinating and fun characters you will ever meet, and Daphne proves that you don’t need to know anything about baseball to love this film. 

This week on Can I Just Say, Lindsey Romain of Nerdist joins us to discuss The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos. We chat about shooting, dancing, women in power and men throwing fruit.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1987 film, Moonstruck. We howl at the moon and break our hearts and go to the opera. We both loved this story of a woman’s self-discovery, set in NY but also in a modern fairy tale based on love, family, beauty, and wolves….

It is time to plug in our splitter and wander around New York listening to our playlists and talk about this delightful film that defies tropes and is truly a pleasure to watch.

This week on Can I Just Say, the 1991 film, Impromptu. When discussion of darling film about the 1830’s art world in Paris and a fabulously gender fluid writer (George Sand played by Judy Davis) becomes a grand sweeping debate of arts place in society, democracy, cultural norms.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1994 film, Little Women. Gentlemen of the press. Hear! Hear! We so enjoyed the March family… enough to want to be a part of it (but not in quite the same way as Laurie)

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1985 Merchant Ivory film, A Room with a View. The wonderful Louise Barnes from Black Sails joins us for: Beauty! Joy! And the eternal Yes! 

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View – introspection or the lack thereof, bathing, piano, and fate all wrapped in some of the most beautiful prose. We so enjoyed ourselves! Next episode we discuss the film with actress Louise Barnes.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss the 1996 and 2009 adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma and we will try not to kill Knightly’s dogs….

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen’s Emma, our well meaning and often misguided heroine of a very different sort than we have met up until this point. We talk of responsibility and pride and what may be the true meaning of ‘extensive grounds’

This week on Can I Just Say, culture writer Lindsey Romain joins us to discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi and we had the most fun talking about The Force, the characters, the themes…. and a few things we had not anticipated.

This week on Can I Just Say, Andrew Dyce joins us to discuss the 1995 and 2005 adaptations of Pride and Prejudice. We had a fantastic conversation, a crazy revelation mid-podcast, and sadly some tech problems and not our usual standard of audio quality (sorry!) We find great enjoyment in professing opinions which in fact are our own. 

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. We talk about the beautifully flawed characters of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, the choices (or lack thereof) for women of that time, and who we would choose to go to our Ball and who to our dinner party.

This week on Can I Just Say, our Jane Austen discussions continue with the beloved 1995 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. We sing the praises of Emma Thompson, we have a really hard time picking one favorite thing, and we have a great time discussing the relationship between a book and a well done adaptation.

Special Episode: Dispatches from Con of Thrones – a series of podcasts of Daphne’s panels at the Con. This one is from the Sisterhood of Sansa and Arya Stark panel with Lindsey Romain, Laura Stone, and Kristine Kippins where we talk about loving our Stark girls and how we experience their characterization and arcs as women in the Game of Thrones fandom.

Special Episode: Dispatches from Con of Thrones – a series of podcasts of Daphne’s panels at the con. This one is from the Queendom of Thrones: Women in Game of Thrones panel with Lauren Sarner, Kim Renfro, and Kristine Kippins where we talk about our favorite characters, sexposition, and costuming as female transformation.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the 4-part limited series of Howards End with special guest, Ellie Collins, writer and director of The Blood Crow Stories.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss episodes 1 and 2 of the 4-part limited series of Howards End. We talk of colors, looking in and out of windows, and being in the world (or not)
See our last episode to hear us discuss the EM Forester book, Howards End, and in 2 weeks we will discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the limited series.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss class and gender and art and music and literature and politics and so many things that our heads are full and we also long to see the meadow at Howards End at sunrise with Mrs Wilcox. We cover EM Forster novel this week and will cover the BBC/Starz limited series in the next two episodes.

This week on Can I Just Say, we talk Music and Colors and Beauty and Love (kind of) and being swept away…..and also gender politics. We found the Coca Cola Lamour theme right in front of our faces and discussed Satine’s very good customer service.

This week on Can I Just Say, we go to Fair Verona to discuss Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet with giant drug-fuled parties, stages, violence, fish tanks, and Liz exposes Daphne’s truest aesthetic (hint: it involves Mercutio)
This is Part Two of our three part discussion of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Tryptic with Moulin Rouge up next!

This week on Can I Just Say, we chose to celebrate a favorite film –  Strictly Ballroom, and found ourselves quite moved. Like a certain awkward girl in glasses, there is so much more to this seemingly simple, lovely romance than we expected once we started talking about it.
This is Part One of our three part discussion of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Tryptic with upcoming episodes on Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge.

This week on Can I Just Say, Elizabeth made Daphne an offer she couldn’t refuse…. to watch one of Daphne’s all time favorite films, The Godfather. Join us to discuss what is personal, what is business, and a great story of building a world within another world. 

This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne and Lauren take our very special beauty baths, smack down Capt…oops, we mean Leftanants (we are unfamiliar with the somewhat liberal practices of the Navy), and enjoy our turtle soup. We have much to say about episodes 311-313 of Outlander and about Season 3 as a whole.

This week on Can I Just Say, we discuss three adaptations of Jane Eyre – the 1996 with Charlotte Gainsbourg, the 2006 with Ruth Wilson, and the 2011 with Mia Wasikowska …. and some ok actors play Rochester as well.

This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne is joined by Lauren Sarner and Barrie Hardymon to discuss Outlander episodes 307-310. And we are not gentlewomen.
We can’t wait to get back to Lallybroch even though the reception is…… mixed?
Then we hit the high seas in some very very familiar ships and learn that the 18th century version of millennials are consistently the best.

This week on Can I Just Say, Elizabeth and Daphne discuss Charlotte Brontë’s gorgeous novel, Jane Eyre. We are all Jane and she is the best of us.
In one month we will discuss TV and film adaptations of this story that moves us so.

This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne is joined by Lauren Sarner and Barrie Hardymon to discuss Outlander episodes 304-306. We stare into yet another baby carriage while agreeing that Isobel and Lord John are the best.
Also, you got this, Roger? Ok. Cool. Because Claire has a taxi and a puddle waiting for her. Oh right, also a Print Shop.

This week on Can I just Say, we discuss the woman and the icon that is Cate Blanchett… er, Elizabeth I. We play a Volta, wrinkle our noses at Dukes, and agree that Sir Francis Walsingham is the best.

This week on Can I Just Say, Daphne and Lauren have the first of a series of conversations about Outlander’s Third Season, covering episodes 1 through 3. We discuss Lord John Grey! And also bed configurations, cooking configurations, closed-eyed sex, and the (generally unsuccessful) search for home in this part of the story. But its ok because Joe Abernathy and Jenny are both generous with the drinks.

This week on Can I Just Say, our enthusiasm for this story and ships generally shows, in real time thematic revelations, mispronunciations, and a favorite thing list that grew and grew. Elizabeth and Daphne visit a completely new story with tall ships and many of the themes we loved from Black Sails before we move on to future non-ship oriented stories.

Welcome to Can I Just Say… a podcast about stories we love. A joyous in-depth discussion characters and themes in movies, television, and literature and how they are meaningful for us.