Alienating the Audience

By Andrew HeatonComedy Fiction Science Fiction

Alienating the Audience episodes

January 19, 2023 Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling
When does science fiction get "too political"? What separates a film with a strong point of view from stale publum or Woke pulpitry?

Josh Jennings joins to discuss how political messaging can derail or suffocate scifi.
1 hr 16 min
January 09, 2023 Andor Loves Public Choice Theory
Andor is one of the best Star Wars properties ever devised; a television program explicitly for adults!

Beyond excellent storytelling, Andor highlights the problems which bedevil any organization: pettiness, career aspirations, incompetency, and zealotry.

David Bizarro and Brian Brushwood join to discuss.
1 hr 26 min
April 14, 2022 Moriarty on a Starship
James Moriarty is the best villain in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Or is he a villain at all? In "Elementary, My Dear Data" and "Ship in a Bottle" the holographic character gains sentience--and wants freedom.
Josh Jennings and Andrew Young rejoin the show to discuss the character.
1 hr 22 min
March 24, 2022 "The Prisoner" is Deliciously Campy
Patrick McGoohan's 1967 series "The Prisoner" is an avante-garde science fiction series about a secret agent abducted by nefarious forces and subject to psychological torment in an atavistic village.

Jim Swift and Ron Hayden join to discuss the deeper meaning of the series.
1 hr 1 min
March 03, 2022 How to Write Kickass Science Fiction
Josh Jennings temporarily hosts the show in order to interview Andrew Heaton about what all goes into writing science fiction, a la his new book, "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories."

Get your copy at:

https://www.amazon.com/Inappropriately-Human-21-Short-Stories/dp/B09S3WYDSJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5UO16ZY0DADV&keywords=andrew+heaton+inappropriately+human&qid=1646195709&sprefix=men%27s+modal+shirt%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
1 hr 16 min
March 02, 2022 "The Whistler"
From "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories" by Andrew Heaton. Now available as an audio book!

Get your copy at https://www.amazon.com/Inappropriately-Human-21-Short-Stories/dp/B09S3WYDSJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5UO16ZY0DADV&keywords=andrew+heaton+inappropriately+human&qid=1646195709&sprefix=men%27s+modal+shirt%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
47 min
February 24, 2022 Of Goblins and Autism
In "Vivarium," starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, a young couple find themselves trapped in some kind of suburban pocket universe. Their captors leave an alien infant on with the instructions "Raise the child and you will be released." Josh Jennings joins to discuss the various concepts the film plays with, including: autism, millennial adulting terror, fey folk, and suburban ennui. Find this film and others discussed on the show at www.mightyheaton.com/goodscifi
1 hr 34 min
February 17, 2022 Scottish Starfleet Draft Picks
Stone and Dickie Lynch return to play Starfleet Draft Picks--which captains and officers do you recruit to build your own starship and crew?
1 hr 28 min
January 28, 2022 Animatronic Humans of the Apocalypse
Please enjoy "Simulucrum," one of the stories from my new book, "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories"!

Get a copy at:

www.mightyheaton.com/books
55 min
January 12, 2022 "The Singularity Comes For Home Office Equipment"
Enjoy this scifi piece from my new book "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories." Like it? Trust me to provide some solid scifi content? Then check it out! Go to:

www.mightyheaton.com/books

Or look for "Inappropriately Human" or "Andrew Heaton" on Amazon.

Thanks!
11 min

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Andrew Heaton and an army of nerds plunge deep, deep into films, books, and TV shows to ask: what's science fiction really about? What is The Twilight Zone really exploring? What are the underlying…