Alienating the Audience

By Andrew Heaton

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Category: Science Fiction

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Subscribers: 125
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Episodes: 153


 May 26, 2021

Minder
 Jun 22, 2020
Good dives into various sci-fi questions and discussions.

ryley goulah
 Jan 27, 2020
great in depth sci-fi talk

Luke
 Dec 6, 2019
great podcast for nerds....

Description

Andrew Heaton and an army of nerds plunge deep, deep into films, books, and TV shows to ask: what's science fiction really about? What is The Twilight Zone really exploring? What are the underlying themes of Star Trek? What is the worldview of Star Wars? Also sometimes Heaton performs comedy on other planets.

Episode Date
The Zen of Robots
Jan 04, 2024
Much Ado About Garak
Dec 04, 2023
Doublethinking George Orwell's 1984
Nov 16, 2023
Why Picard's Last Season Is So Much Better Than The Others
Nov 09, 2023
Super-Intelligent Spiders And A Sleeper Ship: Children of Time
Nov 02, 2023
The Corporate Dystopia of Jennifer Government
Oct 27, 2023
There Are Infinite You's in the Multiverse
Oct 19, 2023
Escaping the Truman Show
Oct 12, 2023
Snowcrash Created the Metaverse
Oct 03, 2023
Shrinkage!
Sep 26, 2023
Meeting Celebrities at Sci-Fi Conventions
Sep 20, 2023
Soylent Green is People!
Sep 12, 2023
The Hilarious Fantasy of Terry Pratchett
Sep 05, 2023
Strange New Worlds is the Star Trek We Deserve!
Aug 29, 2023
Trapped In John Malkovich
Aug 22, 2023
Reproduction in the Final Frontier
Aug 15, 2023
Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"
Aug 08, 2023
Nixon Selling Pizza on the Moon
Aug 01, 2023
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jul 25, 2023
If You Leave the Holodeck On Too Long...
Jul 18, 2023
Peacemaker is the Ultimate Loserhero
Jul 11, 2023
Send in the Clones
Jul 06, 2023
The Ineffable Planet of Sentient Goo
Jun 20, 2023
Rick And Morty is Hilarious Nihilism
Jun 13, 2023
The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi
Jun 08, 2023
Irritating Vulcans in "Enterprise"
May 31, 2023
Lady Terror in "Don't Worry, Darling"
May 18, 2023
Jesuits in Space!
May 12, 2023
The Sith are Emo Fascists
May 04, 2023
“They Live” is fear of Reagonomics
Apr 13, 2023
If Sociopaths Had Super Powers: The Boys
Apr 11, 2023
But What if We Swapped Brains?
Apr 05, 2023
Only You Can Save JFK - Stephen King's "11/22/63"
Mar 28, 2023
How Time Travel Works in "Interstellar"
Mar 20, 2023
Every Single Star Trek Android, in Erratic, Sloppy Order
Mar 16, 2023
Dark Side of "Moon"
Mar 06, 2023
Why the Jedi Order Failed
Feb 27, 2023
Maoists and Space Aliens
Feb 20, 2023
The Mirror Universe in Star Trek
Feb 13, 2023
“Her” is the Ultimate Breakup Film
Feb 06, 2023
Dilbert Meets Orwell in "Severance"
Jan 31, 2023
Only Watch "Flash Gordon" on Acid
Jan 23, 2023
Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling
Jan 19, 2023
Andor Loves Public Choice Theory
Jan 09, 2023
Moriarty on a Starship
Apr 14, 2022
"The Prisoner" is Deliciously Campy
Mar 24, 2022
How to Write Kickass Science Fiction
Mar 03, 2022
"The Whistler"
Mar 02, 2022
Of Goblins and Autism
Feb 24, 2022
Scottish Starfleet Draft Picks
Feb 17, 2022
Animatronic Humans of the Apocalypse
Jan 28, 2022
"The Singularity Comes For Home Office Equipment"
Jan 12, 2022
Franchise Fatigue
Dec 09, 2021
The Forever War
Dec 02, 2021
Humanity is Underrated: the Deathworld Series
Nov 18, 2021
Keeping up with the Cardassians
Nov 04, 2021
Waterworld is an Aquatic Western
Oct 21, 2021
What Makes a Terrible Sidekick
Oct 11, 2021
Plot Holes!
Sep 22, 2021
It's Time to Watch Babylon 5
Sep 09, 2021
Children of Men
Aug 26, 2021
We Are Legion, We Are Bob
Aug 12, 2021
The Giant Universe of Doctor Who
Jul 29, 2021
Jordan Morris on Satire in a Dome
Jul 27, 2021
Los Angeles is Hideous
Jul 13, 2021
False Memories in Science Fiction
Jul 08, 2021
Logan's Run is Afraid of Baby Boomers
Jun 24, 2021
M. R. Carey on Hopeful Dystopias
Jun 10, 2021
The Bioethics of “Gattaca”
May 27, 2021
Andy Weir on "Project Hail Mary"
May 13, 2021
Jedi Warriors and Islamic Mysticism
Apr 29, 2021
Kurt Vonnegut Hated War
Apr 12, 2021
Galaxy Quest is the Greatest Sci-fi Comedy, Ever
Apr 01, 2021
The Time-Backwards Robot Monster
Mar 18, 2021
Darth Vader is a 19th Century Supervillain
Mar 04, 2021
Watchmen Part 2: The Greenwood Massacre
Feb 25, 2021
Watchmen's Fake Psychic Squid Attack
Feb 18, 2021
Are We Living in “Demolition Man”?
Feb 11, 2021
If An Insane Asylum Was an Entire Planet
Feb 04, 2021
Mad Max Has the Best Barbarians
Jan 28, 2021
Why "The Mandalorian" Works
Jan 07, 2021
Deadly Sex Objects in The Stepford Wives
Dec 31, 2020
Vagabonding: Two Santas for Life Day
Dec 28, 2020
The Villainess from "Ex Machina"
Dec 17, 2020
The Future of Humanity Involves Gene Upgrades and Cyborgs
Dec 03, 2020
The Alternate History Where Nazis Won
Nov 19, 2020
Vagabonding: The Voyage Home (for Ska)
Nov 17, 2020
The Last Policeman
Nov 12, 2020
The Philosophy of "The Matrix"
Nov 05, 2020
"The Road" is the Ultimate Dystopia
Oct 22, 2020
A Million Steve Jobs and the Future of AI
Oct 15, 2020
Gays in Starfleet
Oct 08, 2020
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Oct 01, 2020
The Black Hole - Movie Club
Sep 17, 2020
Assemble Your Own Star Trek Series
Sep 10, 2020
Vagabonding: The Lizard Man of Staten Island
Sep 07, 2020
Philip K. Dick Is About Broken People (And Robots)
Sep 03, 2020
Vagabonding: Return to the Fembot Homeworld
Aug 28, 2020
How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Aug 27, 2020
Vagabonding: The Return of Nick
Aug 13, 2020
How They Made Mystery Science Theater 3000
Aug 11, 2020
Vagabonding: The Wrath of Nick (Comedy)
Aug 07, 2020
Vagabonding: Nick and Heaton meet the Spacehead god (Comedy)
Aug 07, 2020
Vagabonding: Nick and Heaton go to Narnia
Aug 07, 2020
Vagabonding: Heaton Gets Totally Recalled (Comedy)
Aug 07, 2020
Vagabonding: Hot Detroit! (Comedy)
Aug 07, 2020
Philosophy in the Delta Quadrant – Star Trek: Voyager
Aug 06, 2020
Why We Love Supervillains
Jul 31, 2020
Vagabonding: Murder Accusations (Comedy Sketch)
Jul 29, 2020
Let's Fight About "The Undiscovered Country"
Jul 23, 2020
Religion's Two Treatments in Science Fiction
Jul 16, 2020
V'ger, Sybok, and Whales! Star Trek's Least-Appreciated Films
Jul 09, 2020
The Mythology of Star Wars
Jul 02, 2020
Should We Be Worried About the Lack of Aliens?
Jun 25, 2020
Star Trek Conspiracy Theories include "The Transporter is a Murder Box"
Jun 18, 2020
We Can Freeze You: How Cryonics Works
Jun 10, 2020
Battlestar Galactica & The War On Terror
Jun 04, 2020
Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?
May 21, 2020
Turns Out, We're All Probably Martians
May 14, 2020
How to Build a Giant Robot
May 07, 2020
Twenty Years After the Zombie Apocalypse
Apr 30, 2020
Deep Space Nine is About Outsiders
Apr 23, 2020
Buddhism, Optimism, and Black Mirror
Apr 16, 2020
Marry Bop Kill: Star Trek (Live Show)
Apr 12, 2020
How to Make Money on Mars
Apr 09, 2020
Pitch Us On Stargate!
Apr 02, 2020
Starfleet Draft Picks (Live Show)
Mar 27, 2020
Nano Robots Aren't Trying to Kill You
Mar 26, 2020
The First Modern Zombie Novel
Mar 19, 2020
Hugh Howey on Making an Entertaining Apocalypse
Mar 12, 2020
Understand Every Scifi Hero through Dungeons & Dragons
Feb 27, 2020
If We Met Aliens Could We Even Communicate?
Feb 20, 2020
Who To Kill or Not Kill if You've Got a Time Machine
Feb 11, 2020
How Midichlorians and Harry Potter’s Wizard Genes Work
Feb 05, 2020
Stop What You're Doing and Watch "Picard"
Jan 30, 2020
How to Build a Colony Ship
Jan 22, 2020
The Meaning of Spock
Jan 15, 2020
When Darwin Meets Star Trek
Jan 08, 2020
Let's Argue About "The Rise of Skywalker"
Jan 02, 2020
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
Dec 18, 2019
The Tarkin Doctrine and Imperial Apologists
Dec 12, 2019
Robert Heinlein: Individualism and Free Love on the Moon!
Dec 05, 2019
Reptoid Aliens Shouldn't Have Nipples
Nov 26, 2019
The Ethics of Holodeck Sex Romps and AI in Star Trek
Nov 20, 2019
Isaac Asimov's Robots are Smarter than Whales
Nov 19, 2019
The Twilight Zone's Nostalgic Cold War Bunker
Nov 18, 2019
P1 What Bladerunner Is Actually About
Nov 15, 2019
P2 The Economics of "Dune"
Nov 15, 2019
P3 Cold War Kirk vs. Picard the Moral Relativist
Nov 15, 2019
P4 The Politics of Star Wars
Nov 15, 2019
P5 Varys is the best Game of Thrones character
Nov 15, 2019
P6 Regarding Batman's Political Affiliation
Nov 15, 2019
P7 Star Trek vs. The Orville
Nov 15, 2019