E205-"The Geometry of Shadows" vs. "Second Skin"
Uncanny Treks
English - October 18, 2021 08:23 - 33 minutes - 45.3 MBScience Fiction Fiction TV & Film TV Reviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Geometry of Shadows S2E3 (16 Nov 94) vs. 2nd Skin S3E5 (24 Oct 94)
-Technomages don’t reappear in B5 but do play a big role in the spinoff Crusade (1999) & a novel trilogy (2001)
-Much to Bob’s distaste, Lord of the Rings & Power Rangers come up
-Michael Ansara plays the technomage as well as Kang in TOS & DS9 & Mr. Freeze in Batman TAS
-René Descartes entertains questions about the first principles of reason & the possibility of deception & error in Discourse on the Method (1637) & Meditations on 1st Philosophy (1641)
-Philip K. Dick’s narratives often engage w/ questions of Cartesian doubt, for example Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) & the film adaptation Blade Runner (1982) & “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (1966) & the film adaptation Total Recall (1990)
-Bob’s example of Cartesian doubt this time is the Hitchcock thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938)
-Matt makes grim Purge & Jonathan Swift references