Episode 332: My Watch Is Saying, “That’s The Best Thing about High School Girls”
The Overthinkers tackle Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” starring Matthew McConaughey.
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Science Fiction on Overthinking It
Interference by Default: The Hegemony and Hypocrisy of the Prime Directive
Is the non-interference mandated by the Prime Directive worse than the interference that it tries to prevent?
The Curse of the Mimics’ Claw
In “Edge of Tomorrow,” the aliens are here. They’ve invaded Earth and they want just one thing: To escape the curse of the Mimics’ Claw.
Episode 305: Destroying Star Wars In Order To Save It
The Overthinkers tackle Star Wars: Episode VII and what makes a good sequel.
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Space Debris in Gravity and Planetes
In space, your unresolved baggage is literally coming around to kill you.
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Enderthinking It: So This is the End. Er.
Why the Ender’s Game move was a decent translation of the book, but a terrible adaptation of it.
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EnderThinkingIt: The Adaptation’s Gate is Down
Ben Adams Overthinks what to look for in the Ender’s Game movie adaptation this weekend.
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Episode 268: There’s Always Event Horizon
The Overthinkers tackle listener emails and texts.
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Episode 267: Elysium, where all the wealth is concentrated, for some reason, on a spaceship.
The Overthinkers Tackle Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.
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Genre Pieces and “The Rules”
Just how important is it that a sci-fi or fantasy movie strictly adhere to its set of “rules”?