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In season one, we went through episodes of the original Twilight Zone and took a look at how they hold up and how they might be relevant in the modern era. If you'd like to watch along with us, The Twilight Zone is available on U.S. Netflix. In season two, we're checking out the original Battlestar Galactica. If you'd like to watch along with us, full episodes are available at NBC.com. You can also check us out at our site at dejareviewed.com or send us a voicemail or a text message at https://voicelink.fm/dejareviewed.Copyright 2021 Deja Reviewed Arte
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  • Murder on the Rising Star

    Murder on the Rising Star
    Apr 6 2021
    Mark and Michael take a look at the eighteenth episode of Battlestar Galactica (1978), "Murder on the Rising Star." From IMDB's description, "Starbuck is framed for murder of a sports rival. Apollo suspects Baltar but Adama agrees to charge Starbuck and try him for murder until Apollo can come up with some proof that he didn't do it."No, you didn't black out for two months and miss 8 episodes of Deja Reviewed. NBC.com, for some reason, refuses to show episode 10, and we hadn't yet realized that Tubi has BSG on it. We improvised and jumped ahead based on a listener suggestion to try an episode with the characters playing Triad.If you'd like to watch the episode prior to listening to our breakdown, it can be found here (NOT an NBC.com link).Here are some things we mention during the episode:This week’s episode is essentially Law & Order: BSG. Of note: the original Law & Order ran for 20 seasons from 1990 through 2010. The spinoff series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, started in 1999 and is still going. Law & Order: Organized Crime just launched. We definitely don't need this much Law & Order, frankly.Follow-up notes on our Justice League episode from two episodes prior:Now that Mark has sat through BOTH versions of Justice League, he confirms that the four-hour-plus Zach Snyder’s Justice League is significantly better than the original. He will not, however commit to recommending either. If you’re interested in the role of a director and how having--or not having--a “vision” makes a difference, he thinks watching the two and comparing them is invaluable. Both are currently streaming on HBO Max. Danny Elfman’s score from the Whedon Justice League was axed, much to Michael's dismay. If you’re in the mood for some Elfman scores, we recommend 1989’s Batman score or 1994’s Edward Scissorhands score.  Also, if you didn’t know, he wrote the theme music for The Simpsons.Mark thought Snyder’s version was going to go more The Dark Knight Returns version of Batman. Turns out, he was wrong, but the original Frank Miller graphic novel is still HIGHLY recommended as one of the seminal takes on Batman. Want more on Tenet and how/why you can’t hear the dialogue? Mark, who studies film sound professionally and has written extensively on it, gave his take on the Tenet sound mix on Twitter back when the movie came out.There’s probably a happy medium in filmmaking between “too complicated for your own good” (Tenet) and “didn’t anyone who had taken elementary school-level science look at this script before they made it?” (Chain Reaction, The Saint)How many ways are there to arrange 6 notecards? 6!, or 6x5x4x3x2x1, which equals 720. MICHAEL'S NOTE: No, I didn't do the math in my head, but I did know this equation in the episode without looking it up.We couldn’t figure out the rules of Triad just from the episode. However, someone at the Battlestar Wiki has done their homework.More love for Futurama, this time in the context of sports:In “Time Keeps On Slippin’,” the Planet Express crew and Farnsworth’s “super mutants” hold a big lead against the Globetrotters with two minutes left in a basketball game, but Fry somehow manages to make them lose anyway."A Leela of Her Own” introduces the game of “blernsball,” which is similar to baseball except the ball is on an elastic band that keeps it always in play. We talked about Minority Report several times last season in the context of Philip K. Dick and The Twilight Zone, but Michael pulls a great deep cut here referencing the movie’s “orgy of evidence.”Voice immodulation syndrome is a real thing, at least according to Will Ferrell’s recurring SNL character Jacob Silj.Shout out to Lyman Ward, a.k.a. Karibdis but better known as Ferris Bueller’s dad. MARK'S NOTE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is in Mark’s top ten favorite movies of all time. MICHAEL'S NOTE: I'm from Chicago and ostensibly a Cubs fan, and even I think that's an insane choice for a top-ten.“The Expanse” book series by James S.A. Corey (8 novels thus far starting with 2011’s Leviathan Wakes, and the 9th, Leviathan Falls, due later this year) is, as Mark thought, now a TV series – but he was wrong about it being on Netflix. It’s on Amazon Prime, with the first three seasons originally airing on Syfy and the two since (plus season 6, currently in production) being made as Prime originals.We’re going on a post-season hiatus, but will be back for Season 3 of Deja Reviewed. If you have ideas on a TV show or movie that was later rebooted that you'd like to hear us tackle, send us a message!If you'd like to follow us on social media or send us a message, check us out at our website, and you can also send us a voicemail or text. If you're enjoying Deja Reviewed, it'd really help us out if you subscribe and give us a rating wherever you're listening. Thank you, as always, for listening!
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  • The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2

    The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2
    Mar 23 2021
    Mark and Michael take a look at the ninth episode of Battlestar Galactica (1978), "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2." From IMDB's description, "Apollo and Starbuck lead a group of convicts on a possible suicide mission to destroy the cannon, which is located on an icy planet."If you'd like to watch the episode prior to listening to our breakdown, it can be found here.Here are some things we mention during the episode:Regardless of what crazy term Michael tries to come up with for him (MICHAEL'S NOTE: "Darling" is a crazy term? I feel for Mark's wife.), yes, Donald P. Bellisario IS the creator of Quantum Leap as well as a ton of other hit TV shows: Magnum P.I., JAG, NCIS, Airwolf. Props to him for doing all that PLUS writing on BSG. Also, he created a lot of shows with initialisms in their titles.The debate continues: did BSG rip off Star Wars more or vice-versa? Lucas seemed to have "borrowed" a LOT of scenes from the sequels that we're seeing in BSG.Following up on last week’s review of Justice League (2017), initial reviews of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) are generally very positive.Michael is finally getting around to going through the MCU, and doing it in chronological/thematic (rather than release) order. Want to do the same? With few people going to the theaters, the good people at AMC apparently have more time on their hands and put together this guide, which actually came out just BEFORE everything shut down last spring so maybe they were getting a jump on what people should watch when stuck at home (MICHAEL'S NOTE: Pretty sure they "borrowed" a lot of this like they're George Lucas from this Reddit poster.). Next up in the MCU is the long-awaited Black Widow solo movie, currently scheduled for a May 7th release (after being pushed back from summer 2020 due to the pandemic). Also The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the MCU’s 2nd TV miniseries since being acquired by Disney, is currently “airing” on Disney+ with the first two episodes now out and two left to go."Surprise” actors in Captain America: The First Avenger like Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix) and Tommy Lee Jones (all sorts of movies, least notably one of the lesser Batman films mentioned in last week’s show notes, Batman Forever)Now that Disney is determined to oversaturate the market, lots more actors are showing up in the Star Wars universe as they’re making more movies and TV shows. Breaking Bad’s “Gus" (Giancarlo Esposito) got an Emmy nomination playing Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian, and one of Michael's favorite standup comedians, Bill Burr, played Migs Mayfield in the same Star Wars series.Mark is incorrect about there being 30 “headliner” actors by the time of Avengers: Infinity War. It’s actually 27 actors listed on the poster in the credits block. Which is still ridiculous. Jurassic Park comes up a few times. While the movie is a classic, if you never read the original book by Michael Crichton, give it a read. Like many books adapted into movies, there’s a lot more detail and interesting subplots that were excised to chop it down to a two hour movie.German rocket scientist Werner von Braun was so consumed with pushing rocketry technology forward that he kept doing so regardless of what uses it was put to. There’s actually an old Tom Lehrer song about him that actually captures this attitude pretty well. Futurama demonstrates how to avoid a space blockade. We're darned if we can remember which episode it’s in. Let us know if you remember!The end of this episode is basically the ending of Return of the Jedi (which--again--came out AFTER this, George, you thief) just not done as well.The NBC app and website has foiled us again. It doesn't appear possible to watch our next planned episode, "The Magnificent Warriors." We'll try to figure it out, or you can dig out that old boxed set that you have to watch it prior to next week's episode. If our plans have to change due to NBC being garbage, we'll let you know!If you'd like to follow us on social media or send us a message, check us out at our website, and you can also send us a voicemail or text. If you're enjoying Deja Reviewed, it'd really help us out if you subscribe and give us a rating wherever you're listening. Thank you, as always, for listening!
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  • Justice League

    Justice League
    Mar 16 2021
    This week we took a brief hiatus from Battlestar Galactica, as Mark forces Michael to watch the 2017 DC superhero team-up movie, Justice League. We'll be back on track next week with the conclusion of “The Gun on Ice Planet Zero," which can be viewed here. Justice League's original director Zack Snyder left the film before it was completed, and Joss Whedon was brought in to finish the film. Whedon apparently changed quite a bit, and the film that hit theaters was very different from what Snyder had imagined, leading to social media calls among Synder fans to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. This week, HBO Max is doing just that, with Synder’s completed 4-hour version hitting the streaming service on March 18th. So, we (read: Mark) thought this was a great opportunity for Deja Reviewed to take its first stab at a rebooted movie. Enjoy, then you can decide if a different-but-still-a-lot-of-the-same-stuff 4 hour version of Justice League is worth your time. The 2017 cut of the film can be viewed behind a paywall here.Michael heartily apologizes to Gal Gadot, as her last name is pronounced guh-dowt. Call me, Gal, for a more comprehensive apology. Here is her being adorable and pronouncing it.Zack Synder was basically given the reins to the entire DC superhero film line (what Warner Brothers dubbed the “DC Expanded Universe” or “DCEU” to compete with the wildly successful “Marvel Cinematic Universe” or “MCU”). He directed the first two films in this iteration of the DC world, Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice (which also introduced Wonder Woman), plus sharing writing and producing credits on Wonder Woman (directed by Patty Jenkins) which came out in summer 2017, just a few months ahead of Whedon’s Justice League.Joss Whedon is probably best known in fandom as the creator of the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, but had plenty of experience in the superhero realm, helming the well-received first big MCU team-up film The Avengers, and also its less-well-liked sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. More recently, he’s been the focus of allegations of creating toxic work environments from the present (including on Justice League) dating back to the Buffy sets. Not being versed in all the details of this still-unfolding story we don’t spend much time on this aspect of Whedon, but obviously it’s going to be relevant context to Whedon’s place in the industry going forward.For what it's worth, Snyder never joined in the public bashing of the way Whedon altered his vision for the film and claims he’s never actually seen Whedon’s finished version.As Michael notes, the core MacGuffin of Justice League--collecting the three “Motherboxes”--seems eerily similar to that of the MCU’s first ~20 films, which were about supervillain Thanos collecting the six Infinity Stones. This plotline came to a head in the massive two-part all-MCU-team-up films Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, the latter of which was the highest-grossing film in history for a while. Just this month, Avatar reclaimed that title after a brief re-release in China, which raises the question of which Michael thinks is WORSE to be the all-time highest-grosser, given his past comments about Avatar. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: I don't care about any of this.)Michael kind of liked Synder’s 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake, which is being followed by the upcoming Army of the Dead.The best evidence of directors having unique styles came from last season, when we looked at the first season of the original The Twilight Zone. We learned to identify certain directors by their visual styles, even working within the same structure of TZ. And we had our favorites, such as John Brahm.For the record, Joss Whedon was NOT the creator of Veronica Mars, which according to IMDB was Rob Thomas. We assume this is NOT the same Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty, though figuring that out conclusively would take more research than we’re willing to put in.Of Snyder’s previous films, we both liked 300 and split on Watchmen. Mass Effect is one of Michael's favorite video game series, and he thinks casting Henry Cavill as Commander Shepherd (or really casting him as anything) is a terrible idea. Mindhunter is an excellent series on Netflix that stars Holt McCallany, who’s the robber Batman uses as bait to attract a parademon at the beginning of JL.Michael heartily recommends author Caleb Carr for historical fiction that's entertaining and tricks you into thinking you're learning something.Michael again wants to recommend Life on Mars (the show, he’s not recommending actually going and living on Mars). The BBC version is far superior, but he also didn't hate the ABC version (except for the ending).Mark recommends Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns”, whose older retired Batman was what he thought Ben Affleck was going for. Whether that was true or not, this remains an excellent graphic novel and one of the seminal ...
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