Foundation, S3E07, "Foundation's End" is another episode that demands analysis! And has big revelations! Don't tell anyone, but I may have squeed. We have another special guest to help us wrap our heads around this one!Spoiler alerts, as usual. And don't let the title frighten you; we're not going anywhere!In this one, she names the robot that dare not speak its name. Plus, brother dude goes on a trip that makes 2001: A Space Odyssey seem tame in comparison! And a surreal fairy tale that probably has something to do with "the Mule's" backstory! A bit, a bit. To quote the great Hari Seldon, "Tragic story, I wonder how much of it is true."We're joined, once again, by Renaissance Man Extraordinaire, Paul Levinson! Since he was last on the show, Paul has published a short story, "In the Dybbuk's Pocket," and expanded the short story we discussed last time into a novel, It's Real Life: A Natural History of The Beatles. Paul and some friends did a reading from the novel at Big Red Books. You can check that out here!But first, join us for our deconstruction of what Paul calls 'by far the best of all the episodes (of Foundation) so far!" Once again, you don't want to miss this one! Let's GO!!
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Stars End S6E07 - The Shape of the Podcast
Let's chat about Foundation, S3E06, "The Shape of Time!" It's a big episode and we have a big guest star to enlarge our conversation.We call this one, "The Shape of the Podcast," and people are already calling it "longer than usual!" As you proceed, be warned! Here be spoilers!If the mark of a great episode is that it becomes even more interesting on a second watch, then this one checks the box!Our big guest hails from a planet that, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, is bigger than the biggest potato ever and then some!We welcome back Rick Tetrault from the Infinite Potato Alliance! Rick's currently featured on That Star Trek Podcast and Unspeakable: A Call of Cthulu Actual Play Podcast!It's big talk about big developments! Don't miss this one!Let's GO!
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Stars End S6E06 - Where Podcasts Spend Eternity
In which we discuss Apple TV+'s Foundation, S3E05 - "Where Tyrants Spend Eternity."We didn't love this episode as much as the last one. Do you remember the Star Trek Episode "Court Martial?" It's the one where Captain Kirk is accused of murdering Lt. Commander Benjamin Finney. It's a little like that. The climax of the episode comes when Kirk's attorney, Samuel T. Cochran, deploys the Chewbacca defense. He starts with, "Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!" Eventually, he concludes, "If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit," and Kirk goes free.Also, this description does not make sense. There's a lot of that going on.
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Stars End S6E05 - The Stress of Her Podcast
Join us as we talk about Foundation, S3E04, "The Stress of Her Regard." It's an episode so big, so intense, and so seismic that it'll take FOUR of us to talk about it!In 1893, Nikola Tesla invented an earthquake machine! Legend has it that by 1898, the machine was so powerful that neighbors called the police, afraid that Tesla's laboratory was about to shake itself apart! If you want to wreak that much havoc in the Foundation Universe, you ask Roxann Dawson to direct an episode! Hoo doggy, is this one a humdinger!We're joined by Joel McKennon of the Seldon Crisis Podcast as we break down this earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting, and mind-blowing installment!Don't miss this one! The entire galaxy might be trying to shake itself apart!
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Stars End S6E04 - When a Podcast Finds You
We discuss Foundation, S3E03, "When a Book Finds You."Now, you may find yourself grooving in a Kalgan rave.Or, you may find yourself with an intuitive giraffe.Or, you may find yourself in the stacks of a large imperial library.Or, you may find yourself with a dubious prince, with a dubious beard.So you may ask yourself, "Huh, how did I get here?"It was the book. The book found you as it found us all. But what was the book?Was it some needlepoint mathematics in a Toblerone box, or Foundation and Empire?It could have been The Zen of Positronic Robots by Sunmaster 74, or even How to Subjugate the Galaxy On Less Than 30 Altairian Dollars a Day by Magnifico Giganticus!It almost certainly wasn’t The Sensuous Dirty Old Man by Dr. A.So join us! Come along for the ride as we discuss what we’re calling “Possibly the best episode of season three so far!” You’ll be glad you did!
We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show.
Now that the show is here we won't just be enjoying it, we'll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week!
Hopefully, through this podcast, we'll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.
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