Find out what happens when you take three guys who unfamiliar with Classic Doctor Who and have them watch the first half-hour episode from 1963. Did I mention those three are Michael, Patrick, and Steve? Well now you've been warned.
Also, since Steve hasn't seen Stargate Atlantis, Patrick breaks down the show with a great primer for anyone, like Steve who just missed out. The show is gone and with it we lose access to stories that feature space.
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We're jumping into Star Trek 12 a.k.a. Into Darkness and the spoiler warnings have officially been given. Join us for this spoilerific episode of The Sci-Fidelity Podcast.
3:00 - Remember the show Captain N the GameMaster? Well, we do. Join us for a (brief) walk down memory lane as we reminisce about the Eggplant Wizard. (Patrick mistakenly linked the Eggplant Wizard to Mike Tyson's Punchout when he was actually a character in the Kid Icarus game. King Hippo was from Punchout)
The Eggplant Wizard in action…
4:50 - Steve says that The Lord of the Rings didn't succeed in portraying Gandalf as a badass. He obviously must have been peeing during this sequence
9:10 - We begin the somewhat Spoilerific discussion of Elysium. Not familiar with Elysium? Here's the trailer...
1:00 - Brian watched John Carter of Mars and liked it. Steve didn't. Who do you think is right?
5:15 - We hate on the Michael Bay Transformers movies... again. Not surprised? I guess it's good that you know the show so well. Much to our surprise, the third movie wasn't all bad as we mention during this episode. The universal test for good cinema is whether or not you get so engrossed that you just shut up and watch it which we did... in spots. Don't believe us? You can here it for yourself in our alternate audio of Transformers Dark of the Moon.
12:00 - Brian mentions the PETA sea kitten campaign. He didn't make it up. It's actually a thing
13:13 - Scientology comes up on the show, and once again, Patrick has a South Park episode that references it. All the South Park episodes are available on their website( http://www.southparkstudios.com/)
(Or you can click the image to go straight to the episode)
15:05 - After a little bit of cat talk, Brian recommends that you should watch the Sad Cat Diaries. Highly recommended if you want to understand what your cat is thinking when it does what it does.
15:35 - Why did Brian watch John Carter? Because he saw another movie that was critically panned (the Lone Ranger reboot), liked it, and wanted to see if popular opinion had robbed him of any other cinematic gold.
17:18 - Thus begins the cartoon movie talk. Movies mentioned:
Treasure Planet
Titan A.E.
And, of course, The Secret of Nimh (if you haven't seen it you should rectify that asap)
22:40 - We get into a prolonged discussion about how certain uses of the force will push you to the Dark Side much like the way that a desire for certain force powers is what pushed Anakin to join the Dark Side in the first place.
We're jumping into the spoiler zone in this spoilerific episode of the Sci-Fidelity Podcast. The Man of Steel movie brings us Super nuggets while managing to dodge big cheesy bullets from the previous movies.
We talk about Lois Lane being a plot device and that Superman is a BAMF who levels Metropolis and ask if this is properly heroic.
General Zod is set to being "Azazeling" the populace and with no kryptonite loophole Superman decides to kill. Nolan says it was without his blessing and we have mixed feelings.
The sacrifice of Johnathan Kent shapes adolescent Clark. And we have some beef with the artistic/VFX choices to dismiss physics and make rocks float for no reason.
35:00 - In the discussion about whether or not Superman could move his fight with Zod out of downtown Metropolis we use the term "Azazeling". What the fuck is that you ask? Azazel is a very little known character from the X-Men comic books who made his appearance in X-Men First Class as, basically, red Nightcrawler (You can hear our detailed thoughts on X-Men First Class in episode 4 starting at ~45 minutes in).
Why did we use Azazel as a verb? Azazel came up with an innovative way to use his teleportational abilities in a horrifying way (The section of note starts 19 seconds in)
Azazeling - The act of taking someone high into the sky and dropping them to their deaths
59:20 - Patrick references Cannonball when griping about the depiction of how Superman flies. Who's Cannonball? This guy
Details about Mr. Sam Guthrie can be found on his Wikipedia page
04:15 - We're talked about the Nvidia Physx chip in our discussion of video cards. What the hell does a Physx chip do? How does it make Borderlands 2 AWESOME? Glad you asked...
06:30 - Michael tells us how his computer got fried playing Portal. Not familiar with Portal? It's a great game which comes highly recommended by the video gaming members of the Sci-Fidelity Podcast. Take a gander
And... in retrospect we aren't exactly proud of it but we did talk about Portal Porn... and some jackass promised that you could find some here.
So there. Happy?
15:00 - Steve talks about his video card failure, here's a shot of it.
03:02 - Patrick mentions the Human Cent-ipad, a South Park episode where Steve Jobs sews people's mouths to other people's butts in order to make the next generation Ipad. All the South Park episodes are available on their website( http://www.southparkstudios.com/)
(Or you can click the image to go straight to the episode)
08:50 - Patrick mentioned another South Park episode called "The Simpsons Already Did It"
10:00 - The gang talks about the upcoming Superman vs Batman movie. Hopefully it's as good as the cartoon crossover from the 90's
34:10 - Matt Smith walked the floor at Comic-con. Now I've never been so maybe there are a lot of normal people with camera crews trailing behind them, but it seems to me to be out of the ordinary
We're getting really spoilery on R.I.P.D. And yet, this isn't a spoilerific extra.
In this episode we're diving into our take on R.I.P.D. Patrick and Steve have seen the movie, Michael has not and Brian... Brian is questing for Alaskan Bitches.
We talk about The Wolverine. At the time of the recording the movie had not yet been released.
Here is our alternate audio for the 2012 Ridley Scott science fiction / adventure movie Prometheus.
If you ever wanted to know what it's like to watch a movie with us in the room - and you wanted that movie to be Prometheus, then we have a way to simulate that experience!
So - queue up the movie, grab some popcorn and download our audio. Then play them both at the same time. Easy.
The Decepticon Sixshot is in the upper left hand corner. You can also see that after the first season the toys began to share the same design aesthetic
GI Joe's Killer Whale Commercial
Over 10 minutes GI Joe Comics Commercials!
Documentary of The Tick (Comic Book)
The first 10 minutes of the first episode of The Tick (Cartoon)
The first 7 minutes of the 1st episode of The Tick (Live-Action)
The Sci-Fidelity Podcast's very own Patrick guides you through the tutorial area and first missions of Defiance from the SyFy channel. What's that? Didn't Patrick say two or three times on the podcast that he wasn't going to play Defiance? ...look, we're just going to pretend that didn't happen and move forward, okay?
Join us as we pop the hood to see the pros and cons of Science Fiction's most famous faster then light engines. If you have to make Einstein turn over in his grave which of the following would you choose?
The Comic Book Nerds among us get superficial with some superheroes as we try to figure out how many heroes aren't male and white under the tights. (see what we did there?)
We were down a man this week so we decided that rather then come up with original content we'd just throw some Dr Who on, and argue about how hot Rose is.
So look up the first episode of Series 1 (2005) of new Doctor Who titled "Rose" on Netflix Instant (or grab the DVD off the shelf). We'll be right there with you to share the glory that is Doctor Who reborn!
