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NASA needs your help and sky photos; The Doctors show support for World Down Syndrome Day; the Stranger Things cast make a birthday promise; and will Scully and the X-Files return
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US Navy Xbox controllers; Pope Fancis documentary; Disney MCU rides; strange sea creature found
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Our panel discusses the deeper meanings and hidden layers of Star Wars The Last Jedi, including Luke’s true motivations in the story and why the filmmakers did it this way, whether Rey has any flaws, plus their favorite and least favorite bits.
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BSG reboot; Westworld returns; Pacific Rim Uprising imminent; The Pope’s Cat
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Vatican Observatory blog on Star Wars and a crowded universe; Ready Player One’s Star Wars references; teaser trailer for Syfy’s Krypton series; Robert Picardo on the Orville
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the first David Tennant Doctor Who episode, the Christmas Invasion. It is also the first Christmas special. On the whole have these been good episodes? Plus listener feedback!
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Infinity War trailer; MCU marathon; LOTR TV series budget; Vatican and young people on Facebook
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What do tesseracts, wormholes, and quantum physics have to do with the Eucharist?; Famed physicist Stephen Hawking has died at age 76.; According to Star Wars The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, if you buy the movie online or on bluray, you have access to a music only version of the movie; Apple has purchased Texture, which some call the Netflix for magazines.
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Headlines for March 13, 2018: Star Trek Discovery’s new captain?; Russian Twitter bots love Hux; new Fantastic Beasts 2 trailer; 9th Doctor’s revelations
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha endure the Doctor Who story voted least favorite by fans three times, The Twin Dilemma, featuring the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker. But is it really so bad?
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha look at the 9th Doctor story, Boom Town, and concludes it’s the best Slitheen story. Also more discussion of redemption and the morality of “killing baby Hitler.”
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Our panel looks at the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) story, Genesis of the Daleks, often considered one of the best of Classic Who, with its complex story and deep moral questions. Exterminate!
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Cory Sticha return to look at the second half of the first season of Star Trek Discovery. How did their theories about what would happen hold up? They also assess the season as a whole, look at each character and the cast and then discuss that amazing cliffhanger.
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the great two-part 9th Doctor episode, Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, the award-winning story that was the first Doctor Who written by Stephen Moffat. Does it live up to the acclaim?
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the 9th Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) story Father’s Day, and some change their minds to find that it’s a sweet story about appreciating the ones you love and have lost.
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the previously and newly restored Doctor Who story: “Shada”. Starring Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor, and written by Douglas Adams, the original Shada was never completed due to a BBC strike in 1979. Now the whole story is available with animation and newly recorded voiceovers by the original cast to fill in the gaps. But is it any good? Was it worth the effort?
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the long-awaited Christmas 2017 episode of Doctor Who, which brings together the First Doctor and the 12th Doctor in an adventure that ends with the 12th Doctor’s regeneration. And which marks the end of the Stephen Moffat era of Doctor Who.
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It’s a TV show about the TV show! Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha look at the 2013 BBC dramatization of the beginnings of the Doctor Who TV show, starring David Bradley as William Hartnell, the first Doctor, and who also appears in the 2017 Christmas special as the first Doctor. Our discussion gets even more timey wimey than that!
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha complete their review of all the regenerations of the Doctor with Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor. How does this regeneration compare to the others? Did following on the 50th Anniversary Special and before that the big season finale rob it of some its impact? Plus, Clara’s family!
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Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha continue their New Who Rewatch with the 7th episode of the 9th Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) season, “The Long Game”. Featuring Simon Pegg as a great villain as well as the first time a Companion was ever kicked off the Tardis for bad behavior, the episode also offers commentary on “fake news” and Big Data… all from 2005!
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