After last week’s Easter special took a little detour into the history of Easter eggs, ‘Geekstorians’ is now back properly for Season 2, and the official opener starts with a story that still sounds completely mad even though it actually happened.
This week’s episode is about ‘Toy Story 2’ nearly being wiped out… Not delayed or reworked. Not messed up by some executive note.
Properly, almost deleted…
The new episode, ‘The Film That Nearly Deleted Itself’, looks at how one of Pixar’s most famous films came dangerously close to vanishing during production thanks to a routine command, a broken backup system, and the kind of technical disaster that makes you instinctively want to check every file you’ve ever saved. What follows is panic, confusion, and a frantic scramble to work out whether the film can be saved at all.
It also makes a very strong starting point for the new season, because Season 2 of ‘Geekstorians’ is about the moments where geek culture nearly fell apart.
The first season was about how fandom built itself. This time, the focus shifts to how geek culture survived. The glitches, the collapses, the bad decisions, the money problems, the production disasters, and the near-misses, hiding behind things we now talk about like they were always going to exist. As the opener makes clear, geek culture does not survive because everything runs smoothly. It survives because people keep dragging it back from the edge.
That is why Pixar feels like such a good place to begin.
The story behind ‘Toy Story 2’ is not just a great bit of behind-the-scenes chaos. It gets right to the point of what this season is doing. So many of the films, games and shows people now treat as untouchable classics were, at some stage, hanging together by luck, stubbornness, and somebody trying very hard not to let the whole thing collapse.
Also, this is probably a good point to mention that ‘Geekstorians’ is currently Webby-nominated and up for the People’s Voice Award. So if you’ve been enjoying the podcast and want to support it, you can vote here.
So yes, the Easter special was a fun bonus episode. This is the proper start of Season 2. And this run looks set to dig into the chaos, accidents and near-disasters that helped shape geek culture into what it became.
‘Geekstorians’ Season 2 is available now below, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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