This week: We explore Batman’s utility belt and batcave of gadgets, laying out our top ten. We discuss Battlestar Galactica’s direct-to-DVD movie The Plan. And we run down the week in geek — complete with new intro music — including the newly-released start dates for new Scrubs and Chuck, New Moon’s record-breaking first day, Zoe Saldana’s awesome Details mag sex-kitten slap down, the reunion of Galileo’s fingers, teeth, and body, and Katee Sackhoff’s Big Bang Theory guest appearance. A definite don’t miss this week: Audra’s boob report.
Sweet! I is listening!
when i watched the plan, i couldn’t even appreciate the B&B or have the “boobs, boobs” alarm go off, it was too depressing…
Well it looks like Chuck & I should get along just fine! (not that I was worried about it) I drop f bombs like they’re going out of style! (Where appropriate, sorryBarb™!)
OK. That is brilliant.
Via Apollomy on Twitter:
“The Effing Linda Hamiltons should be the name of a band!”
May I suggest Kara Thrace and Her Special Destiny as the opening act?
Great 'cast guys! Should I send in a voicemail to Chuck with me swearing?
Gotta love the tool belt of Batman. And I loved your top ten list.
Thank for the discussion on The Plan. It was almost ironic having your discussion at the end of a podcast, almost as an after-thought. Very much like the movie itself. I’m glad The Plan was produced since it answered a few lingering questions (aside from what Starbuck was). It was a way to put ther series to bed.
I’m very glad that you guys have moved on to other things. I can’t wait to re-watch LOTR this week with Shooter Jr. Hopefully we’ll call in for a quick comment. Are you guys still taking phone comments?
Shooter Out
PS - any special plans for the 200th podcast?
talking about Batman Gadgets, Robin (Dick Grayson) certainly learned a lot from Batman.
this is Robin using the holo-decoy to fool his teammates and Deathstroke, so he can create a new identity called Red X, and become a partner with Deathstoke (Slade).
I just finished listening to the podcast and I wanted to offer a couple of thoughts.
First and most important. I did not really enjoy The Plan, but the beauty of the podcast is that listening to the trio talk about it makes me appreciate The Plan more and appreciate what I believe the makers of The Plan are trying to accomplish. So…thanks so much for the podcast…it helps me think about things that are really much deeper than most people believe they are.
Second…Cavil and the kid. I do not think that scene was about how evil Cavil was, I think the scene was about the fact that Cavil will not allow himself to get close to anyone or to trust anyone. More importantly Cavil will not allow himself to experience any form of love. IMHO, I believe that the point of The Plan is that ‘love’ foiled the plan (much as the trio pointed out) and that had all the Cylon(s) been like Cavil, then the plan would have succeeded.
No love for Simon in The Plan, especially from the scene with him and Cavil overhearing Starbuck and Anders making love?
Cavil: She’s beneath him.
Simon: Not necessarily.
The cast! WOOT!!
I be’s listenin.
Via Apollomy on Twitter:
“The Effing Linda Hamiltons should be the name of a band!”
May I suggest Kara Thrace and Her Special Destiny as the opening act?
Can “Ewok Pimps” be the feature act?
Yes. Yes it can.
Working my way through reading the comments, and seeing mention of Audra’s boob report, I just had to mention that every time I saw somebody write “The Plan” I did not think of the new BSG, but instead of a moment from 10 Things I Hate About You (Which for all you may jeer me for, was based on Shakespeare). The scene where Kat (Julia Stiles) distracts the gym teacher so that Patrick (Heath Ledger) can escape detention by showing the gym teacher her boobs, saying it is ‘The Plan’. Favorite line following was ‘and now I’m going to go show, ‘the plan’ to someone else.’
Setting that aside, mentioning the whole vampire and sex connection thing. I read Bram Stoker’s Dracula with a Gothic Literature class in college. Apparently the sucking nature, the location (especially considering the age it was written) and the penetration aspect were all very highly suggestive of sex. Also, taking into account the vampire’s status as the exotic outsider (originally a Romanian Count), and that can also indicate some of the sexual allure. Finally, the vampire is portrayed as desirable from women from the start. First he must be invited in for him to capture the women (and in Dracula, both women he sucks the blood of [and on multiple occasions] first have to let him into the room to be with them, and Mina Harker describes it as a sort of desire fulfilled) they must wish for him to.
Finally, I’m just now getting on the forums to make replies because I’ve finally caught up with the current podcasts. I found GWC a few weeks ago looking for things to listen to on I-Tunes, and jumped for joy when I saw the topics and listened to the first show. I’m currently teaching English in China, and the one thing I cannot find any way to satisfy in China is my sci-fi geekdom. Sure I can buy sci-fi movies before they come out in America (so long as I don’t mind putting up with the fact the legality is questionable), but finding things to read, or conversation and thought is about impossible. GWC is has helped me fill the geek-shaped hole in my life.
And count yourselves lucky that I only joined now, and not months back where I knew the literature to thoroughly blast along with Robots, souls, sentience, etc (Final paper in a Religion and Sci-Fi class I took and later TAed in college was on Robot Souls, and my source material was Star Wars, Commentary on Star Wars, Armitage III, and Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex)
Welcome aboard, Crusader.
And you’re absolutely right about the sexual aspects of the original Dracula story. I won’t even get into Van Helsing’s stake…
I love that movie… I think it was the last time the girl from The Secret World of Alex Mack acted… i caught that movie on cable a few weeks ago and saw the young Heath Ledger, makes me sad that he is gone.
Changshu eh? is that 常熟?
by the way, judging by the fact that you like 10 Things I Hate about You, you should get your hand on the new fox show Glee, it does wonders fighting off home sickness when you are alone in Asia.
What really gets to me is that when you get into the whole Vampire mythos, half of what we consider to be the whole ‘Vampire’ myth was made up by Stoker. It’s nearly impossible to sort out the original stories or delve into the older mythology or origin of the legends because they are lost beneath Stoker’s mythos.
What I don’t understand, and is popularized to undeniable extent in Twilight and such, is where the Vampire vs Werewolf thing came in. I mean, it was all over Underworld. It’s there now in Twilight. There was the connection from the old Dracula movies “Ah, the children of the night, vat vonderful music they make” etc. but I don’t know where they became the polar evils locked in opposition.
Could be, I recognize the first character. I’m just a poor dumb American who got lucky enough to be picked up to teach English at a Chinese university. Well, not so dumb, but yeah. I think my Mandarin is up to about 7 words or phrases.
i feel your pain… though I was lucky enough to be born into a mandarin speaking environment, but now I understand what a biatch it is to learn any type of Chinese, be it Mandarin, Holo, Hakka, Shanghainese, Cantonese or any of the 100+ Han dialects…
If people tried to explain the name of the city, and said something along the lines of “Changshu means always have good harvest” and you are less than 2 hours away from Changhai airport, then you are where I think you are
I’ve never been to China, but I think Changshu is a pretty little city that was lucky to preserve a large portion of its cultural heritage. It’s just started to turn into an industrial center… and you are lucky to see the place before too much has changed.