Category: Commentary
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RANKINGS: If the World Ended & You Could Only Watch 7 Christmas Movies…
Tis the season to spend lots of quality time with family and friends, so be sure to make quality decisions on how you spend that time this Christmas season! Quick if the world was about to end and you could only watch 7 Christmas movies which ones would you pick? Too late! I have picked…
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An Epic Christmas: Watching Rankin Bass Christmas Specials as an Epic Mini-Series
UPDATED POST: When I first posted this last year, I mentioned it may be incomplete due to not seeing (or remembering that I had seen, as it turned out) some Rankin Bass specials. I’ve since seen them, and have updated below my thoughts about how they might, or might not, fit into the series. I…
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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS teaser trailers . . .
Continuing the speculation started here . . . So an “announcement teaser trailer” has been` for STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS has been released. It is not a trailer . . . and it’s not teasing . . . it’s announcing the tease for the trailer? Anyway, SPOILERS and SPECULATION lie ahead! Oh, and an extra…
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The Most OVERRATED Christmas Movies Ever
Let’s be honest, we all love Christmas season, because of the family time, but if we were all honest we would admit that the holidays can be some of the most stressful times of the entire year. Many reasons exist for this fact, but one of those reasons if due to conflict with the fam.…
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Ep. 36 — Favorite Sci-Fi Characters
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAfter a Thanksgiving break, Steve, Dr. Jayce, and Ben return with a list of their favorite five science fiction characters! Some may surprise you . . . others not so much. After that, they each reveal a science fiction character that many people love . . . but…
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Yesterday’s Future: CHRISTMAS!!!
In the future, we won’t have to do anything for ourselves. We’ll even have robots who can . . . . . . celebrate Christmas for us! Actually, I know some people who would prefer this . . . ~ Ben More Yesterday’s Future . . .
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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS plot revealed . . .
In news that has been reported pretty much everywhere . . . I want to know what you strangers and aliens think about this information. We’ve got the official synopsis, and I have a few thoughts of my own . . . but let the fanboy speculation begin!!! Here is the official synopsis of Star…
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Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (series review)
(This is part of a series of reviews of online sci-fi and fantasy.) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD AND CHROME So, the Battlestar Galactica prequel movie, Blood and Chrome, is finally here. But, interestingly, it’s not being seen on SyFy. It’s not being released on DVD or Blu. Not yet, anyway. No, it’s being released in segments…
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Some Thoughts about the Disney/Star Wars News
A few thoughts I have had after recording the episode about Disney buying Lucasfilm . . . When I was three or four, my parents took me to a little theater where I first saw Star Wars. I remember vividly going to see Empire Strikes Back with my family, and I remember the butterflies in…
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Episode 32 — “Disney’s Star Wars Initial Reaction”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen and Steve react to the news about Disney aquiring Lucasfilm and the promise of a new Star Wars movie in 2015. They talk about what they would like to see happen, what they hope does NOT happen, and Ben makes the prediction of the actual release date…
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Did Disney and Lucasfilm confuse Halloween with April Fools Day?
So this: http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/disney-acquires-lucasfilm-star-wars-creator/ Disney is buying Lucasfim. Disney is buying Star Wars. (And Willow, right?) Disney is buying Star Wars? Let that sink in. Did it sink in? No? That’s okay. Here I thought Star Wars and Angry Birds was the big news today . . . A big part of me thinks it MUST…
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Episode 31 — “Gluttony” (Part One of the SEVEN DEADLY SINS Series)
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThis is the first part of a periodic series we are doing about the Seven Deadly Sins. Part one is Gluttony. In this episode, we explore gluttony and its accompanying virtue temperance in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, while also talking about it from a scriptural and personal point…
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Episode 29 — “The Justice League: Past, Present, and Future”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Sci-Fi Guys are back, talking about the Justice League, Superman, the Sci-Fi Christian Feud, podcast awards, and the Super Fantastic Facebook Fan Contest of Awesome! First, the Podcast Awards . . . if you go to this link, right here — http://podcastawards.com — you can nominate us for…
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Episode 28 — “Doctor Who Revisited”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe first half of this episode is a spoiler-free discussion between Ben & Steve and Dr. Jayce, as Dr. Jayce puts on his teacher hat and grades his co-hosts on their performance in our previous Doctor Who episode (episode 26). The second half of the episode is spoiler filled!…
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Episode 27 — “The Booth at the End”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Booth at the End is a thought provoking, dramatic speculative fiction series on Hulu.com (available as part of their free service). Ben has reviewed the series, and on getting in contact with the series creator and writer, C.K. Kubasik, was able to take some time to have…
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Episode 26 — “Doctor Who”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEpisode 26 is “a very special episode” of Strangers and Aliens, featuring two special guests! The topic: Doctor Who. The hosts: Ben and Steve, along with Christa, Steve’s wife and long time Who Fan, and Tom Holste, S&A listener and frequent contributor to the S&A mailbag and big…
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WHO: Season 7 Off to a Running Start!
As of this writing, the first two episodes of Doctor Who’s seventh season have aired. Or, as in my case, downloaded. (Legally. I promise. I used iTunes to buy the season.) So, how has it been? In a word, fantastic. Both episodes require almost no previous knowledge of the show, but both are deeply satisfying…
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Episode 25 — “Great Pre-Star Wars Sci-Fi Movies”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn this latest episode of the show, Ben, Dr. Jayce, and Steve discuss their favorite sci-fi and fantasy movies from before Star Wars changed science fiction and fantasy cinema forever! What will they choose? What movie will make Dr. Jayce completely disown you if you like it? And…
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Episode 24 — “Where Are the Christian Sci-Fi Movies?”
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile Dr. Jayce and Ben were at the Gideon Media Arts Conference and Film Festival, they got together with two other men who were also there as faculty, Roland Mann and Gary Voelker . . . who also, coincidentally (or not) are Strangers and Aliens listeners! The four…
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Why Is Breaking Bad So Freaking Good?
Breaking Bad is an interesting show. I’d heard many people talking about it, many of them fans of speculative/imaginative fiction, but it wasn’t until it made it to Netflix that I managed to watch it. And once I started watching, I was enthralled. But why? What is so engrossing about this show? Well, there are…