Sci-fi Unchained
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Fallout: A Great Success......and What It Could Mean
April 24, 2024 21:16 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBThe latest hit show courtesy of Amazon Prime is out and wild: Fallout! If you havent carved out a few hours to burn through it like the radiation that permeates the wastelands of post apocalyptic America in the series, you definitely need to do so! Though I think the success of the show could potentially lead to something else......
Author Aaron Ryan, Dissonance Volume II: The Reckoning
April 18, 2024 19:12 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBI got to sit down and talk to a great friend of the show, author and voice over artist, Aaron Ryan, about his new book Dissonance Volume II: The Reckoning! Head on over to Amazon and pick it up, it is an absolute GREAT read!
Why We Fear the Dark
April 16, 2024 20:31 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBWe all have some natural fear of the dark. But why? Why are embodiments of fear and darkness so compelling as characters in our stories? Can we overcome them? How?
Sound Creatures
April 09, 2024 20:14 - 14 minutes - 13 MBThere have been all manner of creatures in science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, anime, graphic novels, and cereal box one offs, but I cannot find ANY examples of a being that is completely made out of sound waves.
What Will Our New Sensory Organ Be?!
April 03, 2024 20:57 - 13 minutes - 12 MBONE! SINGULAR SENSATION!!!..........Skipping down our evolutionary timeline, we can imagine pretty easily that the next drastic environmental change will be that our planet will have to contend with is: nuclear fallout. But how will human beings adapt?
Religion in Sci-fi
March 22, 2024 03:58 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBDealing with another foundational cornerstone in the bedrock of science fiction and its tropes, religion plays a HUGE part in whatever story it appears.
Star Wars, the Acolyte: Everythings Riding on This One.....
March 15, 2024 20:57 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBOkay so this show NEEDS TO BE a success or the franchise will be demolished, the fans will be lost, no one will care about Mando season 4 or the movie, people are already turned off about the Rey movie, everything is going to be absolutely WRECKED........so lets talk about it.
Sea Fairing Pirates.....but They're Aliens
March 12, 2024 20:41 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBI really want this story/movie/show to happen. But I would also be SCARRED of it happening because I would not want it being screwed up to an utter oblivion like how so many beloved franchises and projects have been massacred recently.
The Essence of Unrelatable and Unknown
March 12, 2024 03:31 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIts easy to relate to a stories main characters, side characters, even the villains. But what about what we CANT relate to? Where are all the stories about the eldritch and mysterious? Lets have more of THAT!
The Mysterious Ocean
March 08, 2024 04:38 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBWe need to explore it, point blank period. We know frighteningly little about the ocean floor, the creatures that are able to live down there, the dinosaurs that survived the meteors and following ice ages wiping out their land based counter parts. And I REALLY want us discovering all the sunken cities and ships that are down there!
Time Manipulation, the Ultimate Power?
February 29, 2024 18:47 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBMessing with time is fun, especially when you write a story it or a DND character that does it. Its a fun thing to play around with because theres almost nothing concretely known about what goes into time travel or time manipulation. I would definitely choose it as my ultimate power, being able to bend the tempest of time to my will.
The Halo Show SUCKS........but Why???
February 28, 2024 05:11 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBHave you heard of one of the WORST live action, straight to garbage can tv shows of all time? Well you have now! Halo is by far one of the most depressing things I have ever seen and by all things holy please dont watch it. Let me suffer FOR you, thats what Im here for!
Author Aaron Ryan Interview
February 12, 2024 21:11 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBToday I sat down for a great chat with voice over artist, singer and author Aaron Ryan to talk about his new book, Dissonance, as well as a smattering of nerdling quandaries and quibbles. Aaron is a really fun and easily relatable guy, the conversation went by way too quickly and his new book is reflective of a man as articulate that spares no detail, like his clear inspiration J.R.R. Tolkien.
Space Colonization: The Essentials
February 08, 2024 20:58 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBDo you wonder what it would take for humans first settlers out in space to make it out there in the cold, unrelenting void? WELL I DO! ALOT!
The Abyssal Store
February 06, 2024 18:01 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBDo YOU have a shopping addiction? Always find yourself wanting more? Can never seem satisfied enough? Well come on down to the endless maw of the Abyssal Store! You will be able to purchase so many products, you will BECOME the product itself!
Get into the SCP Foundation!
February 02, 2024 04:37 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBHave you ever wondered what [REDACTED] while he was drinking and mad at the [CLASSIFIED] all of creation? Do [REMOVED BY ORDER OF THE 0-5 COUNCIL] at night screaming for someone [REDACTED] help and they just wont [REDACTED]? Take a dive into the SCP Foundation and [REMOVED TO PRESERVE SANITY]!
MORE SPACE ARMOR!
January 31, 2024 21:57 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBWe get a ton of cool, seemingly unstoppable future weapons and space guns. But do we not get enough of? Thats right. ARMOR. Strong suits of space metals that can stop space bullets!
Does the Matrix Beat Reality?
January 30, 2024 20:31 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBIs the real world better than what we could create for ourselves in the matrix we all know is coming? Let's skip over what "real" means for this episode and focus on what we really want out of our evolutionary path forward while using apparati like the virtual world of the matrix.
Surviving Post Apocalypse
January 29, 2024 14:01 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThere is an impending doom hanging over all of us: the apocalypse. Its just a matter of what form it will take. My money is on nukes. How will we best survive it though?
Do We Need the Multiverse?
January 25, 2024 21:50 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBGetting kind of bored or uninterested whenever a show or movie unveils that it has a multiverse? I know I am and I think I'm very much not alone.
First Contact! How Will it Go?
January 24, 2024 18:42 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBEver wonder what our first foray amongst the civilizations of the stars might be? Im convinced a good amount of us will try to eat and or copulate with whatever alien race first visits us openly.
Best Bit Role Scifi Actors
January 19, 2024 22:24 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBYou know those guys that pop up in a show or movie that makes you point at the screen and say "oh hey, its that guy!" but don't really remember who they are? Well, lets go over a few of them. From one off bit roles to reoccurring characters, the actors that fill those rolls are some of the most memorable ever!
Body Snatching! It Could Happen.....
January 18, 2024 22:36 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBA really big scifi trope, as big as clones or intelligent robots, body snatching has been steadily ingrained in classic scifi mythos and has been used in almost every long running scifi show I can think of! From Stargate SG-1 to Falling Skies, people being replaced by robots, puppets, aliens, clones, has become a BIG component that has been utilized to a great extent by the genre.
Psychology Deep Dive: Frankenstein Personality Theory
January 17, 2024 19:21 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBWho are you? Not who have you become, what you do because of someone or something else, but who are you in your metaphorical bones? Strip away all of the bits of us that are there due to external influences and why we do certain things, act in specific ways, like or dislike this that or the other, all of that is not US. Those bits are accessories. add ons, patch work. Didn't know your psyche was Frankensteins monster, did you?
Can the Clone Wars Happen?
January 17, 2024 02:27 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBOne of the definitive eras in Star Wars is the Clone Wars that helped shape the galaxy into what we know in the original trilogy. Its a war thats fought between two major scifi tropes; clones vs robots. But can that happen in real life?
Sci-fi Tech in Real Life
January 16, 2024 04:35 - 24 minutes - 22 MBDo you ever come across something you think is entirely unbelievable? Then you do a quick Google search and find out.......its real. And terrifying.
What do We Want as an Audience?
January 11, 2024 19:31 - 18 minutes - 17 MBAre there notable trends and commonalities among the best and most successful science fiction shows and movies? What draws the audience to the theaters, to get that subscription, to turn on the tv channel? Can we mark out what those signifiers are?
Scifi Movies in 2024: Are We Hopeful?
January 09, 2024 20:53 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBThere are a decent handful of projects slated for release this year. We can speculate on how well they will perform based on the quality of the past. So lets do that!
Transhumanism: Cyborgs vs Homosuperior
January 06, 2024 23:17 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBSpeciating from homosapiens, what we are now as the human race, which should or would we speciate into? Mechanoid individuals known as cyborgs or genetically bolstered people called homosuperior.
Rebel Moon Review: The Biggest Let Down of 2023?
January 03, 2024 05:46 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBLets dive into Zach Snyders latest stinker, Rebel Moon. Does it have an redeeming qualities?........does it???
Star Wars Warlord Era: Minor Warlord Factions
July 15, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBThe Empire of the Hand, the Eriadu Authority, and the Zero Command are all cool, minor factions of the Warlord Era that ultimately were all absorbed into the Imperial Remnant. It is interesting that none of the factions are outright DESTROYED, they all get reincorporated in one form or another into a reforged, reinvigorated military power.
Star Wars Warlord Era: Zsinj's Empire
July 14, 2023 16:49 - 12 minutes - 11 MBOne of the New Republic's greatest opponents of the era, Warlord Zsinj was a classic, mustache twirling villain. His war of espionage, economic and biowarfare, and terrorism against the New Republic all made him and his Empire a chief obstacle that desperately needed to be overcome.
Star Wars Warlord Era: The Imperial Remnant
July 05, 2023 16:40 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe largest faction to emerge from the splintering of the First Galactic Empire and arguably THE most important faction of all the old Star Wars expanded universe, the Imperial Remnant was GREAT!
Star Wars Warlord Era: The Greater Maldrood
June 20, 2023 23:45 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBOne of the less significant, but still integral factions of the old expanded universe, the Greater Maldrood (aside from having such a silly name) was still a major player in the Warlord Era for two central reasons: they had a massive amount of territory with an important trade route and they had Gilad Pellaeon as their military commander.
Star Wars Warlord Era: The Pentastar Alignment
June 06, 2023 19:56 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBFor years after the death of Vader and the defeat of Sidious at Endor, the galaxy was steeped in a free for all, all out brawl between not only the Rebellion and what remained of the Empire, but a now fractured Empire and its own warring factions that sought to dominate each other. The Pentastar Alignment is one such Imperial faction.
Star Wars is in TROUBLE, including the Mandalorian
May 24, 2023 19:46 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBSuffice to say, Disney has made some terrible decisions lately, with great confidence, landing them in some hot water: their over priced star wars hotel, having to merge Hulu with Disney Plus, their park ticket price hikes. And the bad decision making has bled into Star Wars and Marvel as well, unfortunately.
Treasure Planet: An Underrated Masterpiece
May 22, 2023 17:48 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBIf you're around my age, you probably grew up with a straight to VHS Disney movie called Treasure Planet and WOW was it one of the most slept on Disney movies of all time!
Possible Origins of the Leprechaun
March 18, 2023 00:30 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThere are untold numbers of world wide mysteries scattered amongst history and folklore. One that I have perused as of late, is the lore and origins of the famed Leprechaun from Irish folklore. And in doing so.... may have discovered a possible origin?
Getting Into Scifi Shows: Where to Start!
March 10, 2023 21:46 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThere are dozens upon dozens of great science fiction shows and movies to get into if you are looking to try out the genre. But where should you start?
The Mandalorian Season 3: Predictions and Overview
March 03, 2023 16:01 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIt's here! The next season in one of the most fun and enthralling pieces of Star Wars we have had in years. Also, be sure to check out this episodes sponsor, RT Book Reviews! www.rtbookreviews.com
H. P. Lovecraft: A Short Summation of a Literary Giant
February 25, 2023 01:39 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBI am an enormous fan of the work given to the annals of time by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and his subsequent literary followers. I highly encourage any and all to grab a short story or poem of his on a dark and stormy night, when the cold buffets your extremities and the pitch of night grasps hold of your imagination.
Cold Fusion: The Possibilities are Endless!
February 23, 2023 22:35 - 21 minutes - 20 MBFrom powering commercial vehicles, to cities and space ships, cold fusion is the way of the future. And there have been some major break throughs in the past few years!
Andor Re-Upload: THE Best Star Wars Content of 2022?
February 22, 2023 08:01 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBSo when I switched my podcast over to RSS, none of my episodes were ported over. So I thought I'd re upload one of my favorites.
Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Review
February 20, 2023 16:23 - 18 minutes - 17 MBSuffice to say, the reviews for the newest Ant Man movie are mixed and confusing. My thoughts on the film are a little more nuanced than just thumbs up or down, what are yours?
A. I. and Human Evolution
February 14, 2023 19:26 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBArtificial intelligence has grown exponentially in our use of it over the past 15 years. From interactive A.I. to industrial and commercial, artificial intelligence is a monumental human creation. But do we allow it to outpace and supplant us?
Avatar: The Way of Water, a Deep Dive
January 17, 2023 20:03 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBLets delve into James Camerons latest film and see if we can't pull it apart and understand it better.
Sci-fi Unchained Episode 130: Andor, A Tale of Sacrifice and Survival
November 28, 2022 06:39 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBWe just got the end of Andor season 1 last week and WOW was it great! A lot of people felt conflicted about it being a Star Wars story instead of just another sci-fi dystopian show, but I think it adds a lot to the greater narrative of the Star Wars universe. To say the least, I am a huge fan!
Sci-fi Unchained Episode 129: Harry Potter and the Scrutiny Police
November 22, 2022 08:15 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBOne of the most well known and beloved fantasy stories of the modern age is that of Harry Potter. But does it stand up to a good amount of scrutiny?
Sci-fi Unchained Episode 128: Conspiracy Corner: Here Come the Clones!
November 15, 2022 17:41 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis conspiracy actually has a LOT of real world ties, those mainly being the companies Clonaid and GenScript that are still operational today. But they aren't the only ones of their kind either! So the real question is: how long before the clones are unleashed?!
Sci-fi Unchained Episode 127: Andor So Far, A New Hope?
September 26, 2022 07:14 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBLet's talk Andor. To me it feels very comic book like, beginning very slow and allowing for time to breath and take everything in from the setting, the situation our character is in, to the minor details strewn throughout the background. I'm going to go ahead and call it, this is going to be better than Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett, maybe even the second Mandalorian season!