Everyone loves to poke at the Highlander sequels, and truth be told they make it easy. But with a remake right around the bend, maybe we should direct a little reconstructive criticism towards how the sequels should be handled this time around.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Episode 113... Language in SciFi Part 2
From the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation to Helen Keller, Sean and Greg talk language with Tracy. How would we communicate with aliens? Math or music? And why are there so many types of sign language?
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Episode 112... Language in SciFi!
Sean and Greg join Tracy to talk about language in Scifi but end up discussing why the Karate Kid is about Kung Fu, Avatar vs. District 9, the future of Superman and the Spider-man reboot, Thor, Green Lantern and the new A-Team movie.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Episode 111... LOST part 2!
Who is the man in black? How did he become a smoke monster? What is Jacob's plan? What is the light at the heart of the island? Why does the big foot only have 4 toes? Is it purgatory or an alternate timeline? What lies in the shadow of the statue? What do the numbers mean? Who was the President in 1975?
Sean, Andrew and Greg continue to explore the many mysteries of LOST and nearly come to blows on the topic of whether or not the last season even really happened.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Episode 110... LOST!
Sean, Greg and Andrew talk about nothing but LOST. Seriously, there's not a moment to spend on any other topic, and this is just Part 1...
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Episode 109... The Steven Seagal Springtime Scifi Special!
Greg, Sean and Lynn compare new scifi shows and movies to the good old days, discussing how far removed Caprica is from the classic Battlestar Galactica, why Avatar isn't as eco-friendly as it claims to be, the merits of the new Spartacus TV series and the mysteries of the Coral Castle, another monument purporting to be America's Stonehenge.
And somehow we manage to blame Steven Seagal for the decline of modern scifi.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Episode 108... MacGyver!
Sean and Greg reunite with Gary to talk MacGyver, how director's cut DVD's are keeping movies from ever being finished, and reconstructive criticism for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Episode 107... St. Patrick's Day!
Sean and Greg talk about St. Patrick's Day in Savannah, the importance of free speech, Call of Duty and the Crazies. Then it just ends abruptly with no warning.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Episode 106... How We'd Do Star Wars, Part 2
Sean and Greg return with Andrew to re-imagine the Star Wars prequels with their own special zing. A love triangle between Obi Wan, Anakin and the woman they both want? Yoda as an outcast? Alderaan as the birthplace of the rebellion? These are just a few of the ideas we toy with.
Plus we talk about Red letter media's take on the Star Trek films.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Episode 105... How We'd Do It: The Star Wars Edition
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Episode 104... Women in Scifi!
Sean and Greg talk women in scifi for a minute with new guest host Jessica, but mostly we talk about the state of the future, the end of the world, the dangers of summoning Cthulhu and whether or not video game violence has gone too far.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Episode 102... Games & the Future!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Episode 101... The Future of Gaming
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
TVAMD Theater: Playing With Dolls
In this TVAMD animated short, Brooks and Sean talk about the time their college buddy Manlove caught Brooks playing with Star Wars dolls.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Episode 100!
Brooks kicks off our centennial celebration by talking about whose hot in Hollywood and whose not. It started out innocently enough, discussing the questionable attractiveness of Roxxxy the talking sex robot, then it just got out of hand. Greg, Lynn and Andrew are here too, and even Christopher from the Tupacast. We manage to segue into discussing Legion, Pandorum and Avatar, so we do manage to get it on the rails eventually. And this is just part 1 of our centennial celebration.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Episode 99... Heroes and Villains, Part 2!
Sean and Johnny return to talk about what makes a great villain. Who was the greater villain, Frankenstein or his monster? Is Dexter Morgan a hero or a villain? Why can't we seem to create a Darth Vader or a Freddy Krueger for movies today? Why hasn't Star Trek had a great villain since Khan? Have we just lost the ability to create great heroes and villains?
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Sean and Johnny talk about the state of heroes and villains in movies today, weighing the positive message of Avatar against the disturbing trends in modern thinking that are embracing remakes of Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave.
Indiana Jones and John McClane are helping regular guys discover their inner Batman while bad guys like Freddy and Jason give us a taste of pure evil. So what happens when the line gets blurred? Have we lost our knack for myth building? Will the characters of Avatar endure as long as Sherlock Holmes? Or have we lost the ability to create something new that will stand the test of time?
This blurb makes us sound a lot more profound than we really. We're pretty much just talking about movies.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Episode 97... Epocalypse 2!
Brooks, Sean and Andrew return to discuss cloud computing and the future of humanity: Is Google offering us a renaissance of learning that will usher in the digital democracy or are they building SkyNet? Or both?
It's your future, world. You decide...
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Episode 96... Epocalypse!
Sean and Brooks talk distributed computing with Andrew. Will the Cloud democratize the internet or will it be the real-life SkyNet? There is also a little follow-up discussion of District 9 and Idiocracy.Listen Now!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
XMAS Special!
Sean & Greg put the nativity in negativity by tackling crazy Christmas shoppers, The new V series and the Prisoner remake, The Men Who Stare at Goats and its depiction of the First Earth Battalion, and the attitude of movies like Back to the Future and Clash of the Titans towards sexual assault.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Episode 95... A Show about Nothing
Sean and Greg set out to talk Frankenstein with Lynn, but end up talking about the sexy starlets of scifi and TV shows like V, Big Love, Smallville, FlashForward, the Vampire Diaries, Fringe and for some reason, MacGyver. Somewhere in the mix Paranormal Activity and the Amityville Horror remake enter into the conversation.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Georgia Guidestones, Part 5
In this final chapter of TV Ate My Dinner's Georgia Guidestones investigation, the boys question the stones for EVP recordings and for a secret psychic message about the world's future.
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Georgia Guidestones, Part 4
As the hosts of TV Ate My Dinner explore the mystery of the Georgia Guidestones, Sean breaks all horror movie rules and disturbs an offering to the celestial pole hole by poking it with a stick. This should not be done.
Georgia Guidestones, Part 3
As the journey continues for the hosts of TV Ate My Dinner, we finally actually reach the Guidestones themselves. What message do they hold for humanity?
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Georgia Guidestones, Part 2
In part 2 of our epic journey to explore the mysteries of the the Georgia Guidestones, the hosts of TV Ate My Dinner investigate the curious history of Elberton, Georgia, including the sad fate of its original granite monument, Dutchy.
Georgia Guidestones, Part 1
The boys of TV Ate My Dinner explore the mystery of the Georgia Guidestones, America's Stonehenge. In Part One, our journey begins. There are five parts, so it is not what you would call an A to B kinda trip. Anyone who listens to the podcast ought to know what I mean by that.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Episode 94... Surviving the Zombie War, pt 2
The boys return with Mudoogul Mudslinger to explore more tips on surviving the Zombie War, courtesy of the University of Florida's Zombie Response Plan, Zombieland, and Left 4 Dead.
Also we discuss Drag Me To Hell's portrayal of gypsies, how investigate a werewolf sighting and the dubious merits of cannibalism.
Happy Halloween, everybody...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Episode 93... Surviving the Zombie War!
Zombieland and other recent zombie stories like the Walking Dead comic are shifting the focus from surviving the initial zombie outbreak to living in a zombie world. Surviving the first 48 hours of infection is necessary, but how do you make it past the first 100 days? Living in the Zombie War requires a bigger set of the rules, which the boys are happy to provide. Mudoogul Mudslinger joins in the Halloween fun to talk zombie survival tactics, the University of Florida's short-lived zombie response plan, and the new supernatural haunted house movie, Paranormal Activity.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Episode 92... Guilty Pleasures, part 2
Greg and Sean return with David to hastily answer all the burning questions left open at the end of Guilty Pleasures part 1. They discuss the Disney buyout of Marvel, the genius of Edmund Cooper, the exploits of JJ Armes, the seven gates of Hell, Project Runway, NASCAR and many other topics of intellectual import.
You demanded it, people, so here it is...
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Episode 91... Guilty Pleasures
Greg and Sean talk guilty pleasures with David, mostly discussing the Professor's harrowing run-in with a jellyfish, the True Blood finale' and how EPCOT Center has lost its vision of yesterday's future.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Episode 90... Bigfoot 2!
Sean and Greg are back with Scary Gary to talk about Bigfoot, UFO's, Facebook and the upcoming James Cameron movie, Avatar.
Monday, September 7, 2009
TVAMD Special: Sean's Lighthouse Adventure!
Sean and Brooks talk about Sean's recent excursion to the Cockspur Lighthouse at Fort Pulaski. They also talk a little about the Savannah catacombs, the Tybee bomb and reality televistion.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Episode 89... Adventures in Filmmaking!
The boys get with Lynn to talk about guerilla filmmaking and amateur video production, and indirectly prove that social networking outlets like Facebook are destroying our ability to communicate with each other.Listen Now!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Episode 88... District 9
Sean and Greg talk about District 9 and James Cameron's upcoming sci-fi fantasy Avatar, re-visit GI Joe and Star Trek for the zillionth time, and somehow end up talking about Superman, warning labels and the exit row on airplanes.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Episode 87... BIGFOOT!
Greg and Sean go crypto with Scary Gary to discuss the mystery of the Sasquatch, unidentified flying humanoids, the Jersey Devil, Hogzilla, the Loch Ness Monster and Mothman.
Plus, Sean has finally seen Inglorious Basterds, so is qualified to form an opinion.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Episode 86... VERSUS part 2!
In the inevitable follow-up to VERSUS part 1, the boys discuss TRON vs. the Matrix, Captain Caveman vs. Grape Ape, Han Solo vs. Malcom Reynolds, and of course the Terminator vs. an Allosaurus. Good water-cooler fodder for your next MENSA meeting.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
TVAMD Theater: Patriotic Paragon, the Conclusion!
In this TV Ate My Dinner bonus featurette, Sir St. John C. O'Herlihy presents the conclusion of the Patriotic Paragon serial as well as comedy sketches from Cooler Than You Productions.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Watchmen Special!
Brooks has finally watched Watchmen, but argues there aren't as many men to watch as previously asserted by Sean and Greg. Was Dr. Manhatten's atomic junk blown out of proportion or is the whole blue business just a big fat hoax?You decide...
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And check out the Watchmen Saturday Morning Cartoon and other Happy Harry toons!
TVAMD minisode: GI JOE follow-up!
Greg and Sean have seen GIJOE and the results are in! Hear the boys discuss the Rise of Cobra with Lynn and debate previous claims of excessive use of junk in the Watchmen movie.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Episode 85... VERSUS!
Who would win? Kirk or Darth Vader? A Borg ship or a Star Destroyer? How about MacGuyver vs. a Predator? The boys debate these and other burning issues in this heated episode! Plus we pay tribute to Julie Brown and discuss Lorenzo Lamas' new opus, Megashark vs. Giant Octopus!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
TV Ate My Dinner Theater: The Patriotic Paragon!
In this TV Ate My Dinner Theater featurette, Sir St. John presents the first three episodes of the classic radio serial, the Adventures of the Patriotic Paragon, America's Most Concerned Citizen! Plus some fun extras, including a look at St. John's earlier work.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Episode 84... Musicals!
The boys go from strip clubs, peep shows and porno to Kenneth Branaugh's Hamlet in this episode that's supposed to be about musicals. They compare the relative merits of standards like Phantom of the Opera, Grease and the King & I to novelties like Rocky Horror, Bat Boy and Evil Dead the Musical. Plus there is a tribute to 80's Johnnie Drama, James Remar, Joe Lamont's Quiet Cool theme song, and lots of unnecessary singing from the boys themselves.Listen Now!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Episode 83...Tribute to Technology
Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing, the boys consider where technology has brought us since then. Sure, podcasting and the wikipedia are awesome, but while we're trying to decide whether Ubuntu is preferable to Microsoft Vista, who's developing the next breakthrough technology that will make history the same way the astronauts did? Will we ever have a moon base or go to Mars? And is dark matter even real at all?Plus we talk about the new Harry Potter movie.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Episode 82...Toys!
Pulsar the Ultimate Man of Adventure, ROM the Space Knight, Shogun Warriors, Go Bots, Weebles and JJ Armes...
Star Wars and GI Joe weren't the only awesome toys from our youth. From the Mego Star Trek dolls to the Six Million Dollar Man, the boys reminisce about the great toys from the seventies and eighties.
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Episode 81...Revenge of the Fallen!
This Season Premiere marks the 2 year anniversary of TVAMD, and the boys celebrate by going back to where it all began: Talking about Transformers!There's also some discussion of the new Friday the 13th and still more talk about GI Joe and Star Trek.
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Episode 80...the Unsung Heroes of Star Wars
In this epic Season Finale, the boys discuss the unsung (or perhaps improperly appreciated) heroes of Star Wars. Who are the people (and in some cases, the characters) who made Star Wars great? And who got left behind as it became what it is today?Listen Now!
Episode 79...Books to Movies with Lynn part 2
This is practically a Jane Austen tribute. We discuss Stephen King adaptations like 1408 and the Shawshank Redemption, but mostly the many faces of Pride and Prejudice, including the new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There is also some talk of Harry Potter and Sean does a little Dr. Horrible karaoke. Consider yourselves warned.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Episode 78...Gaming Part 2
In this long-awaited (if unsolicited) follow-up to the gaming episode, the boys pretend they're going to discuss Dungeons & Dragons and the Star Wars role-playing game, but end up telling random stories about pretty much everthing else. In other words, the usual...Listen Now!
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