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The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 1

The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 1

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Mark and Michael take a look at the eighth episode of Battlestar Galactica (1978), "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 1." From IMDB's description, "Baltar attempts to lure Galactica into range of a gigantic pulsar cannon. Adama becomes aware of the trap and sends in a team of commandos to destroy it."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:Michael waxes reminiscent on the onscreen trope of people having their minibar with ice bucket and hard liquor ready to go when they come home. This shows up ALL over the place throughout TV and movies, but for a very recent example, check out this year’s Golden Globe-winner for Best Actor (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya), Judas and the Black Messiah. There’s a great scene at the home of FBI agent Roy Mitchell that makes use of this trope in an effective way to highlight the difference in lifestyle between Mitchell and his informant.Michael and Mark both agree that The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones were great onscreen adaptations from fantasy novels, though Michael has not read the original LOTR books after starting and stopping The Hobbit several times (Mark argues the writing style/level of LOTR is quite different from that of The Hobbit). Both also agree George R.R. Martin could stand to edit his books down some.Another strong book series adapted to very good films is the Millennium series of books about Lisbeth Salander (i.e., The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Author Stieg Larsson does a great job with everything EXCEPT coming up with names. I mean, does EVERYONE AND THEIR PHONE have to be named Ericsson?BTW what happened to Nokia?The classic standup bit from Armageddon is that wouldn’t you think it’d be easier to teach astronauts how to drill than to teach drillers how to be astronauts?The “we need these convicts/criminals/bad guys to help us in this mission” plot device is one with a long history and use in a lot more movies/shows than we reference. A few of those mentioned in here include Suicide Squad (the comic is supposedly good, but don’t bother with the movie; also they’re making a NEW movie version just a couple years after the last that apparently is neither a sequel NOR a full-on reboot), The Rock (Michael Bay’s best film by far, and extra cool for biochemistry majors), and The Dirty Dozen (a classic).Mark talks about Interstellar and acts like he has a soul. The Lion King musicalReturn to OzThe Dark CrystalTerminator 2: Judgment DayWe're doing something a little different next episode. In our own cliffhanger, we're postponing our viewing of "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero: Part 2" so Mark can force Michael to watch the "old" Justice League in advance of the Zack Snyder reboot. If you'd like to watch it in advance of our next episode, unfortunately it requires a paid subscription, but I hear HBO has some other pretty good stuff on it, too, even if Justice League is awful.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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