Is a game where you control the outcome of the story in the near future (2038) where robots are as intelligent as humans. The robots rise against humanity, and the players hold the future of humans and robots alike.
Ep 9: Movie: The Host (2013)
The Earth has been entirely conquered by the Souls. This alien race erases the minds of humans and turns their bodies into hosts for interstellar travelers. Most of humanity has been exterminated by this alien race, but some humans have escaped extermination by hiding. Just like Melanie and her family.
Ep 8: Movie: Arrival
A linguistic professor, Louise Banks, is hired to lead an investigating team when a spaceship lands in 12 locations worldwide. Banks and her team race against time, to find a way of communicating with the aliens, before war breaks-out worldwide.
Ep 7: Book: His Robot Girlfriend
With his wife dead and his children all grown up, Mike Smith’s life was crap. Living alone and not taking care of himself. Then he saw a daffodil commercial for robots that could be anything he wanted. Mike’s life was about to change dramatically.
Special Guest: Author Wesley Allison https://wesleyallison.com/
Ep 6: Movie: The Last Starfighter
After finally reaching the highest score on the arcade game named Starfighter, his favorite arcade game, everyday teenager Alex Rogan meets the game’s designer, Centauri. Who reveals that he created Starfighter as a training ground for developing and recruiting actual pilots to help fight a war in space.
Ep 5: TV: Star Trek: TNG – S02E09 – The Measure of a Man
Star Trek: The Next Generation – S02E09 The measure of a Man – Data resigns Starfleet rather than be disassembled by a Starfleet Scientists Bruce Maddox. The episode that deals with synthetic’s right in a Star Trek Universe.
Special Guest: Paul N.
Ep 4: Movie: Run Lola Run
The 1998 German thriller film “Run Lola Run” is about Lola only having 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks (about $58,000) save her boyfriend, Manni, from mobsters.
Ep 3: Sleeper: Gattaca
Gattaca is a movie about a man that always wanted to go to space but cannot because he is a genetically inferior “In-Valid.” He decides to change his fate by purchasing genes from a laboratory-engineered “valid” man.
(Discussed by Robert & Giancarlo)
Ep 2: Movie: Disney’s John Carter
Disney’s John Carter is a movie full of Science Fiction Fantasy. This movie is based on the book series by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Special Guest: Giancarlo Correa
Ep 1: Book: Artemis Fowl (Book 1) by Eoin Colfer
My thoughts on Book 1, ”Artemis Fowl” by Eoin Colfer, published on April 26, 2001, where Science Fiction and fantasy combined.