Episode 1: March 2, 2010 - Doctor Who & Russell Davies; The Russell Davies years on Doctor Who examined and discussed by Christopher, Steve and Floyd.
Episode 2: March 6, 2010 - Scifi and the Oscars; It was a good year for genre films (Scifi/Fantasy/Horror) last year and many of them have been nominated for that little golden statuette, the Oscar. This episode we talk with our good friend Dave Minkus from ScreenGeeks.com and make our Oscar predictions.
Episode 3: March 15, 2010 - Ocsar Post-Mortem; They’ve rolled up the red carpet for another year. So, just how did all those nominated Sci-fi films do this year? This episode we’ve invited back Dave Minkus from ScreenGeeks.com to help us sort out where our prognostication went wrong and why we’re not all that unhappy about it.
Episode 4: March 22, 2010 - Our Favorites of Sci-fi and Fantasy; Floyd joins us once again to talk about some of our favorites of genre TV and movies. We discuss what makes these shows so special and how some of them had so much influence over the way sci-fi and fantasy stories are told - even half a century later.
Episode 5: March 31, 2010 - Doctor Who: Season 5, Cautiously Optimistic; Steve and Chris spend some time discussing the upcoming 5th season of Doctor Who. We talk about the little tidbits of information that has filtered through the cracks and our hopeful expectations of Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Steven Moffat.
The phrase used most often by both… cautiously optimistic.
Episode 6: April 5th, 2010 - B-Movies; Christopher, Steve and friend Barry sit down and have a chat about one of their guiltiest of pleasures, the B-movie! They talk about what it takes to makes one, what is a “good” B-movie, and in the end they may just stumble on the ultimate definition of what _is_ a B-movie.
Episode 7: April 19, 2010 - New Star Trek: Trek or Wreck? Live from Starfest; Just back from this year’s Starfest — Chris, Steve and John host a lively round table discussion about J.J. Abrams reboot of the Star Trek franchise. Was it a success or utter failure? Did it make you want to see more? And ultimately was this new incarnation Star Trek or something else entirely? Many thanks to all our new friends and Starfest participants for helping with this week’s episode.
Episode 8: May 17th - Summer Movie Time!; Christopher and Steve discuss a little Doctor Who and give their thoughts on some of the upcoming summer movies, including
The A-Team,
Predators,
Splice, Romero's
Survival of the Dead and the sure to be instant classic,
Piranha 3D!!. (Yes, that is sarcasm...mostly)
Episode 9: June 2nd - Things to Come & General Randomness; Christopher goes it solo to bring you some news of what has been going on at Jonja.net as well as things to come including; Interviews such as Summer Glau and Vincenzo Natali, and forum discussions, including
Doctor Who,
V, and
Fringe. Plus a few ideas about what you might be hearing in future episodes. Please send us your feed back! Tell us what YOU want to hear.
Episode 10: July 1st - Doctor Who, Season 5 discussion; It’s our 10th episode! We made it to double digits!
Since we started our podcast with a Russell Davies era retrospective, had a very popular 5th episode where we talked about our expectations a hopes of then upcoming 5th season, we thought it only right that this milestone should be all about the good Doctor once again!
John Jackson, founder of Jonja.net, joins Steve and Christopher this time around to talk about the highs and lows of this years
Who. Some great stuff and some surprisingly critical discussions from two of us that came in to the ‘cast thinking we would be defending it!
Episode 11: July 17th - Planet of the Apes 1968 brought us a movie like nothing anyone had seen before. "Planet of the Apes".
Steve and Christopher take a look back at this creative, imaginative and groundbreaking film and it's many sequels.
Episode 12: August 1st - Movie Monsters. The Good, The Bad and the Awful - Movie monsters have been with us since the earliest days of film. Some have been incredible, some have been scary and some have been absolutely horrible and down right bad.
A recent viewing and discussion of the film “Splice” brought on a larger talk about what exactly makes a good movie monster.
Not surprisingly “Alien” comes up a lot.
Episode 13: August 16th - A Little of This, A Little of That. Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica, Super-hero movies, DC audio dramas…just a lot of “stuff”!
Steve and Christopher do what they do best and shoot the breeze on all kinds of things that jumped on their geek radar.
Episode 14: August 29th - Star Wars 101 and TV Talk Floyd introduces the next generation to the Star Wars universe, (and we immediately get off on a tangent about and the merits of Episode 1,2 & 3, Sorry.) we finally get a chance to shoot the breeze over SyFy originals, Warehouse 13, Eureka & Haven.
Episode 15: September 12th - Inception Perceptions We finally got around to seeing “Inception”. (Friends Katie and Shonda got there long before us as you will hear in the beginning) We talk about this creative film and its allure to viewers that are not so geeky as well the sci-fi lovers among us and that leads us to a brief discussion on what brought us into the science fiction world and what we think is a good entry level show or movie for the uninitiated.
As if that were not enough the new “V” gets a going over!
Episode 16: September 26th - C-11 HIT! You sank my video store! Battleship, the movie? The return of
Caprica, and
Doctor Who does the splits. Plus Blockbuster's "drowning man" grasp with Chapter 11.
Episode 17: October 10th - What's My Line? Steve, Floyd and Christopher talk about the Cincinnati Comic Expo, including the full interview with Michael Uslan; Executive producer for all of the
Batman films, the news on
Doctor Who DVD release dates, and then share some of their favorite moments and lines from genre TV and movies.
Trust me, this is a fun one!
Episode 18: October 24th - Fright-cast! TV talk; Warehouse 13, Haven, SGU, and The Event. Then we get into some of our favorite Halloween TV & film treats as well as some suggested by others! Got any to add that we didn’t mention? Drop us a line!
Episode 19: November 7th - The influence (and the absurdity) of Sci-Fi Tech. Technology, love it or hate it, we use it everyday. How much did science-fiction influence the tech. we use today? How much did it attempt to prophecize and get completely and utterly wrong? We discuss the hits and the misses. (Oh..and we talk a little TV too.)
Special Edition!: November 13th - AMC's "The Walking Dead" Warning!! Spoiler filled! If you haven’t been watching AMC’s The Walking Dead, First off, Why?! Secondly..Steve and Christopher discuss the first two episodes in some detail. So be forewarned and beware.
Episode 20: November 21th - The Return of the Random Cast! Oh boy! Did we cover the map on this one! Everything from Doctor Who rumors to a SyFy reality show that doesn't completely S***, AND we remember a few more pet peeves of TV technology.
We'll try to have an actual topic next time. Promise!
Special Edition #2!: November 13th - AMC's "The Walking Dead" This time it’s a discussion on episodes 3 and 4, “Tell it to the frogs” and “Vatos”.
As before, spoilers can be found if you haven’t already caught these two great episodes. You have been warned!
Episode 21: December 5th - That Special Kind of Turkey As promised we are back WITH a topic, but no Floyd, (apparently we can’t have both) So Steve and I discuss a little genre news, including the possible big screen reboot of
The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the long delay for season 2 of
The Walking Dead, and the
Doctor Who Christmas special, then we get down to business and talk some turkey! (Bad movies that is!)
Special Edition #3!: December 12th - AMC's "The Walking Dead"“Wildfire” and “TS-19″ are the episodes at hand this time as well as our final thoughts on the entire season.
Spoiler filled as usual.
Check out our regular podcast for more genre discussions and news and stay tuned for more possible “special editions” about The Walking Dead.
Episode 22: December 19th - Has anyone seen Floyd? He's off the grid Still Floyd-less, we bid a fond farewell to Leslie Nielsen and without any good segue jump into some casting news for the sci-fi series
V. After a brief discussion on the “instant reviews” that come with social media and how they can effect a performance,
Spider-man on Broadway for instance, we review the film
Tron:Legacy. SPOILER ALERT!!! then we have a little chat about the arsenic munching germs of California’s Mono Lake. (OK so that is a little bit of “non-news” now, but it was still a interesting thing to talk about.)
Episode 23: January 2nd - The Return of Floyd?We finally found Floyd! He was lost in the ether and suffering from dropping packets, OUCH! Speaking of being lost, documentarians Douglas Trumbull and David Larson happened to find seventeen minutes of deleted footage from Stanley Kubrick’s
2001. Floyd and I finally have a good long talk on
Stargate:Universe and it’s impending cancellation. (Steve even chimes in!) Plus a little chit-chat on a few favorite episodes from some of our favorite sci-fi series and a few that we think are a little unappreciated and under-rated. (Floyd’s
Space 1999 may fall into both categories.)
Episode 24: January 16th - Print is Dead? - A couple of years ago we hosted a panel discussion at the Denver Starfest convention. The topic was the evolving landscape of the printed word. New e-books had just recently come onto the scene and I was curious what the authors thought of this new medium and whether or not they saw a new beginning or the beginning of the end.
We thought this panel was lost to time due to some severe technical problems.
After much jiggery-pokery we are happy to announce that the audio survived!
Authors in attendance were…
Jeromie Carr & James Dunn,
Carrie Vaughn,
Julia Phillips,
Jeanne Stein, &
David BoopEpisode 25: January 30th - The Green Horrible Alien of V The scrapping of the Alien prequel in favor of an "original" sci-fi film from Ridley Scott, the movie we wish was scrapped, The Green Hornet, more evidence that SyFy has little interest in the science-fiction it airs, and why we all really like V!
Episode 26: February 13th - The Movies of 2011, Part OneDo we really want more Red Dwarf? Kiosks rentals over brick & mortar stores. (There are still brick & mortar stores?) Lots of sci-fi/fantasy/horror films coming out in 2011. Wanna know what WE are a looking forward to?
We discuss some of the upcoming films that are filling the first half of the year.
(Oh, in case your curious as to what we were watching in relation to the film “Apollo 18″, you can take a look here….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqR8zDGIwMo )
