We loved Thor’s Shakespearian tale, and — like you, we suspect — anxiously await this Friday’s sequel, Thor: The Dark World. But we’re doubly excited to hear that the new movie will splash causally across Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. as well, starting with November 19th’s episode, The Well. It doesn’t look like any of the movie […]

We discuss the closure of numerous Canadian Best Buy locations (without knowledge of the staff!). We (sorta) lament the passing of Stickam. We marvel at Microsoft’s ever-worse marketing plan for the Surface with the release of a 64G model–with only 23G usable.

We are thrilled so far with the new BSG content, the web series Blood & Chrome airing now on the YouTube Machinima channel (and on SyFy/every other digital medium) in February 2013. We credit the series with reigniting our love for BSG with Michael Taylor’s strong writing, character development balanced with space explosions, and Luke Pasqualino’s expressive […]

We continue our “B” movie arc with the epically cheesy 1990 sci-fi flick Total Recall and realize that Arnold’s mechanical acting is ideal for a robot or a comic straight man but less convincing in Recall‘s mind-frak thriller landscape. We discuss the evolution of profanity in movies from the 80s to now, marvel at the fact that Recall‘s […]

We review our favorite parts of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, including bronies, ubiquitous butt cheeks, Sean’s awesome art acquisition, and hanging out with the small press peeps; and we feature a segment recorded live with a band of GWCers at the con! And we run down the Week in Geek, reviewing some newly-announced Emmy […]

We get our monster mash on, delighting in this episode’s references to sci-fi classics Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica, the proverbial zombie apocalypse, and more. We talk about series endings, evaluate a few wrap-ups that we think did justice to our favorite shows (and some that left us hanging), and speculate […]

We sympathize with Carter’s sweet-but-crappy honeymoon plans to renovate a dilapidated love shack/death trap and explore the questions sci-fi raises about humanity with the separation of a person’s “essence” from a corporeal state. We discuss the show’s interestingly humanist view that existing in some physical form really does make you more whole, marvel at Felicia […]

Finally! We watch the new Marvel Avengers flick and offer our comments and analysis. Excuse this short (but spoiler-free!) description, but suffice it to say that we had a great time and found lots of interesting moments/meanings. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say, too.

Avengers releases this upcoming week, so we’re wrapping up our pre-Avengers re-watch of recent Marvel flicks with 2011’s Captain America. We discuss Steve Rogers’ unsung true superpower and the movie’s interesting selection of rogues. And we run down the week in geek — plus some fun general geeking-out over The Guild and other awesome web […]

The Avengers release grows ever closer as we take a look at the general public’s introduction to Marvel’s Norse god Thor. We find inspiration in Thor’s each-day-at-a-time attitude. We dig into the similarities between Shakespeare’s plays and comic superhero stories, concluding that superhero tales may have a much longer lifespan of cultural significance than many […]

Is Carter’s IQ really 111? We suspect it’s significantly higher. And we definitely wonder what kind of place Eureka is if Zoe’s score of 157 falls in the 92% percentile; that’s in the 99.8th percentile of the general public. We also enjoy Eureka’s Chinese anti-satellite test name-check, get a big kick out of some classic […]

We marvel at the awesomeness of one of our listeners streaming her wedding live for us and others — on the spur of the moment. We point out Dropbox’s beta features and free 4.5 GB of storage. We walk through some users’ issues with the OS X 10.7.3 update. We mini-review the touch-screen compatible AGloves. […]