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In more “Hugh and Wade watched a thing” we cover the Amazon streaming show based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s book Good Omens.
Did we like it? Who was the junior partner in this book collaboration? How did Neil do adapting this to screen all by himself? Should you watch it, or should you be elitist and just read the book? Is Beck the Neil Gaiman of music?
It’s the final countdown y’all. Worf gets lost. Sisko gets some land and also engaged. Plus there’s a war on.
They’ve dabbled with serialization, how does DS9 kick off the longest arc any Star Trek had attempted? What approach did the writers take to assembling the story?
What mandates and rules did they have to adhere to?
It’s all led up to… this?
Continue reading “Penumbra”Hugh and Wade watch some Netflix.
We went cold turkey into a time travel film the movie blogs were talking up.
We might not be the best equipped to talk about cultural pain, but we can catch a Back to the Future or an Octavia Butler reference when we see it.
We cover the movie, why it was buried so deep on netflix, and why some websites seem to rate it lower than others.
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In times of war the law falls silent. WE DO NOT.
Julian is contacted by Section 31 to run some spy shenanigans at a conference. We end up discussing more than just this episode, and trying to decipher if DS9 overall is portraying a hard moral philosophy or not.
Continue reading “Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges”We got holodeck shenanigans. Sisko has good reason to not want to go to not visit the 60s. We revisit the career of beloved actor Mike Starr.
Waitaminute. Do people not like Vic? Finally: An episode not based on an old movie, right?
Continue reading “Bada Bing Bada Bang”Odo meets one of his people, and their intimate relationship causes some tension with Kira.
Sex vibes for days.
For all that creators have acknowledged in the DS9 doc and elsewhere that the show could have done better with LGBTQ issues, is this episode an example of exploring those questions? Or more about marginalized identites in general? We may not be the best equipped to talk about it, but we’re gonna try.
Continue reading “Chimera”
We watched the highest grossing movie in the history of China, the second highest non English language film in history, and one of the 20 highest grossing scifi movies of all time. How come no one talks about it? It just came out in February.
Is this the Michael Bay movie of Chinese sensibilities? Is this even propaganda? We may or may not agree with each other. Surprise Surprise
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We read and covered Watchmen for patrons. The book Alan Moore will probably be remembered for (sorry, Jerusalem). Here we cover our own history with the comic, and then some details and history of the book and its creators.
All four in depth bonus episodes, covering three chapters a piece is available on the patreon. In episode 4 we go into further details of what we might expect from the upcoming HBO show.
Episode One (issues 1-3)
Episode Two (issues 4-6)
Episode Three (issues 7-9)
Episode Four (issues 10-12)
A killer is on the loose, but does it take a killer to catch a – oh this is something we’ve seen before.
What is the bad part of this episode? Is there any part of it that isn’t just a take on Silence of the Lambs?
Continue reading “Field of Fire”