Episode 258: Superman during The Purge
The Overthinkers tackle fictional surveillance states, PRISM, and The Purge.
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Science Fiction on Overthinking It
EnderThinkingIt: And it’s “Braaaaahm” by a nose
Calculating payouts for our bets on the content of the Ender’s Game Teaser Trailer.
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The Unoriginal Writer’s Daughter Revisited
Why is every book named The Such-and-Such’s Wife?
Episode 224: He Has Two Levers
The Overthinkers tackle the user interfaces in Science Fiction and New York Comic-Con 2012.
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Episode 222: Portrait of The Artist as An Old Man Coming to Visit Himself as A Young Man
The Overthinkers tackle Looper, written and directed by Rian Johnson, Starring Joseph “Gordonian Knot” Levitt and Bruce Willis.
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Secret Genius: Jack Carter, Alternate Intelligences, and Eureka’s Critique of Scientific Elitism
Jack Carter’s alternative intelligence critiques the scientific elitism that Eureka’s characters embody, and that its niche audience is likely to endorse.
Systems, Not Sith: How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire
The soldiers and Officers of the Imperial Military will each have their own interests and loyalties. The Galactic Empire never had a chance.
Episode 214: Gritty Anti-Pigeon
The Overthinkers tackle the remake of Total Recall and grittiness in movies.
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Episode 206: Bender’s A**hole Robot Uncle
The Overthinkers tackle Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
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Inception and Quantum Mechanics: Shared Dream, Shared Reality
Does Inception’s shared dream machine rely on the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?
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