Star Trek | Seven’s Queerness is No Surprise to Voyager Fans
Long before Picard confirmed her queerness, Seven’s chemistry with Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager was anything but platonic.
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Tank Girl | Lori Petty Walked so Harley Quinn Could Run
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Lori Petty revisits the chaotic cult classic of science fiction's most unruly antiheroine twenty-five years after the film's release. This article was originally published in March of 2021.
Tank Girl was the first true unruly female anti-hero. There hasn’t really been such a powerful, no-holds-barred riotous female character on screen until very recently. Tank Girl walked so Harley Quinn could run. To no one’s surprise, Margot Robbie’s production company has now optioned the rights to make a new Tank Girl adaptation. In Talalay and Petty’s hands, she deviated from the comic books but became her own, unique blend of madness, humor and sexiness. Petty says it best: “She doesn’t need to fit into a system. She’s her own system.”
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Everything Everywhere All at Once | Rafiq Bhatia on Son Lux's Epic (and Eclectic) Score
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It sounds like a Zen koan: what does Everything Everywhere All at Once sound like? Son Lux's composer Rafiq Bhatia explores the glorious anarchy.
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With the Oscars coming up this weekend, we wanted to share this interview that Clint Worthington had with Rafiq Bhatia on the scoring of Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The film has received the most nominations at the 95th Academy Awards with 11 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song, which Bhatia played a big part in.
Clint Worthington adapted his interview into an article found on our website. The full interview originally aired via his own podcast, Right on Cue, back in April of 2022 and we thought it was so good, we’re sharing it with you here. Check out Right on Cue for more interesting interviews and perspectives about film, tv, and video game music: https://thespool.net/podcasts/right-on-cue/
Stargate | How ‘Death Knell’ Made Sam Carter Real
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The near-silent and tense Stargate SG-1 episode ‘Death Knell’ showed us a Samanta Carter we rarely see.
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Stargate | SG-1 and Star Wars Crossover Theory in all its Absurdity
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A not entirely serious look at the Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis and Star Wars shared universe fan theory.
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Star Trek | Picard, Seven of Nine, and Growing Old with Trauma
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Star Trek: Picard shows the effects of aging and trauma over time, through the characters of Seven of Nine and Jean-Luc Picard.
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Dune | Frank Herbert’s Homophobia, Baron Harkonnen, and Queer Menace
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An incestuous pedophile as originally written, we explore the homophobic legacy of Dune’s queer-coded Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
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The X-Files | A Box of Memories Ripped Out My Guts
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Whilst clearing out the attic, novelist Molly Flatt chances upon a box of X-Files memorabilia that transports her back in time.
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From Myth to MCU, Loki Was Always Queer
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Dating all the way back to his mythological origins, Loki the God of Mischief has long represented a means of overcoming the trappings of societal expectation.
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Season 1 Bonus
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Stargate’s Sam and Jacob Carter – A Father's Battle, A Daughter's War
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Starting with Stargate SG-1 episode ‘Secrets’, the saga of Samantha Carter and her frosty relationship with her father, Jacob, was one of the most powerful in the series.
Read by Lawrence Kao and written by James Hoare. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
The Impact of Service Life on the Military Child by the Naval Children’s Charity: https://www.navalchildrenscharity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Impact-of-Service-Life-on-the-Military-Child-The-Overlooked-Casualties-of-Conflict-Update-and-Review-Report-Interactive-Singles-1.pdf
Tensions in the Parent and Adult Child Relationship: Links to Solidarity and Ambivalence by Kira S. Birditt: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690709/
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2020/12/03/sam-carter-a-fathers-battle-a-daughters-war/
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The Matrix: Transgender Allegory, Applicability, and Me
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Neo’s desperate attempts to defy a system that insists on deadnaming him and pushing him back in line, always read as a powerful transgender allegory.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Ell Twine. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
Lilly Wachowski’s article in the Windy City Times: https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Second-Wachowski-filmmaker-sibling-comes-out-as-trans-/54509.html
Fluid Realities/Fluid Identities: Gender in the Matrix by Hannah Kuhlmann: http://girl_type.tripod.com/papers/matrix.html
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Read-My-Lips-Sexual-Subversion/dp/1936833646
Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c
Lilly Wachowski’s GLAAD Award speech: https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/43vmvp/lilly-wachowski-encourages-viewers-to-reconsider-the-matrix-through-the-lens-of-transness
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2021/11/26/the-matrix-transgender-allegory-and-applicability/
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Tessa B. Dick: Searching for My Husband in Verhoeven’s Total Recall
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Tessa B. Dick gives us the definitive take on Total Recall, what her late husband would have thought, and how much of Philip K. Dick’s wit, wisdom, and empathy she sees in Paul Verhoeven’s blockbuster.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Tessa B. Dick. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
We Can Remember it for You Wholesale (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1966): https://www.scribd.com/document/485526708/We-Can-Remember-it-for-You-Wholesale
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Last Action Heroes: How 1990s Blockbusters Swapped Thugs for Thinkers
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Science fiction stories have always mirrored their own eras. They’re a time capsule as much as they are a vision of the future, and few decades offer as rapid a change on screen as the sci-fi films of the 1990s.
Caution: This article contains plot points from Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Universal Soldier, Alien 3, Demolition Man, Johnny Mnemonic, Independence Day, Men in Black, The Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Alien Resurrection, Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Wild Wild West, and – phew – The Matrix, and in some cases reveals the ending.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Katherine McLaughlin. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
David Fincher’s Imagi-Movies interview: https://mossfilm.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/alien-3-fincher-talks/
Paul Verhoeven’s Interview Magazine interview:
https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/paul-verhoeven-interview/
Lily Wachoski’s Netflix Film Club interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adXm2sDzGkQ&feature=emb_title
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2020/09/18/changing-faces-of-90s-sci-fi-icons/
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Stargate SG-1: Janet’s Death Stings Now More Than Ever
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The events of ‘Heroes Part 1’ and ‘Part 2’ shocked Stargate fandom but as Kayleigh Dray argues, the tragic death of Dr. Janet Fraiser has only become more affecting in the years since it was broadcast.
Content Warning: This Audio Article deals with the death of a character, please be advised.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Kayleigh Dray. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
Excerpts from Martin Wood’s Stargate SG-1 Explorer Unit fan club interview: https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s7/heroes-part-2/
Robert C. Cooper’s GateWorld interview: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/01/how-heroes-came-to-be-stargate-most-memorable-episodes/
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/05/10/firefly/
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Disney World’s Nightmare Attraction – ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter
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Creators and visitors recall Disney World’s short-lived ExtraTERRORestrial, its origins as an Alien movie ride, and the role of… George Lucas?
Read by Lawrence Kao and written by Clarisse Loughrey. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
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Star Trek Uniforms From Fashion Disasters to Gender Equality
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Whether miniskirts and calf-high boots or spandex and shoulder pads, Star Trek uniforms have always kept one eye on today’s fashion as well as tomorrow’s. Featuring special guest Harriet Hall, fashion expert, Lifestyle Editor at The Independent newspaper, and feminist author of She: A Celebration of Renegade Women.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Kayleigh Dray. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
Nichelle Nichols’ BBC interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9j6
The ‘Hopepunk’ case for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/04/07/star-trek-deep-space-nine-is-the-definition-of-hope-punk-and-we/
Costume Designer Robert Blackman’s interview on StarTrek.com: https://intl.startrek.com/article/meet-emmy-award-winning-costume-designer-robert-blackman-part-3
Costume Designer Gersha Phillips’s interview on Shondaland: https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a26732991/star-trek-discovery-costume-designer-gersha-phillips/
….ComicBook.com: https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-discovery-gersha-phillips-interview/
…and We Got This Covered: https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/new-interview-reveals-where-star-trek-discovery-drew-its-uniform-inspiration-from/
Costume Designer Christine Bieselin Clark’s panel interview on Gold Derby: https://www.goldderby.com/article/2020/christine-bieselin-clark-star-trek-picard-costume-design-experts-panel-video-interview/
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/06/08/star-trek-starfleet-uniforms/
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Stargate SG-1: Jack O’Neill’s Lesson in Living with Loss
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Across the multiverse, the one constant is that Jack O’Neill’s son, Charlie, has died. This never changes. This is why Stargate SG-1 connects. For anyone who’s ever lost a loved one, the struggle isn’t just about their death, it’s the journey we have to endure afterward.
Content Warning: This Audio Article deals with the death of a character, please be advised.
Read by Lawrence Kao and written by George Mole. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/02/06/stargate-jack-oneill_loss/
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“One Day, We’ll Watch Firefly and Talk about Kaylee” – A Letter to My Daughter
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Despite a love of science fiction and a dream of working for NASA, Kayleigh Dray struggled to see any women on screen who reflected her experiences. Then, she stumbled across Firefly and discovered the optimistic, scrappy, kind, sex-positive, and utterly authentic Kaylee Frye, who shows that women can be both hopelessly romantic and totally practical.
Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Kayleigh Dray. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
Cayce LaCorte’s viral TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@book_mama/video/6930669280841305350
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Brad Wright: My Rules for Stargates, Star Wars and Superheroes
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Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe co-creator and Travelers creator Brad Wright explains how rules make great science fiction, with plenty of references to Stargate, Star Trek, Superman, and Star Wars.
Read by Lawrence Kao and written by Brad Wright. Theme song by Lofi Geek.
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