You can't Cena me! It's time to make peace with CA's take on James Gunn's Peacemaker (2022). Are our flappy little foes, The Butterflies, really parasites? Where do bald eagle's fall on the eagle bad-assery scale (as ranked by an Australian)? Who are the Kazakh Eagle Hunters? What makes a redemption story redeemable? And will we ever get the song "Do You Wanna Taste It?" by Wig Wam out of our heads and do we want to? No. The answer is no.

TIME POINTS

00:00:45- Introduction and News

00:04:57 - Summary (What A Joke?) and Our Thoughts

00:17:21 - Trivia

00:21:18 - Butterfly Biology

00:32:59 - Can You Train An Eagle?

00:41:41 - Butterfly Overlords And Superhero Environmentalism

00:51:31 - Character Arcs

01:01:26 - Do We Feel Bad For The Butterflies?

01:03:19- Final Thoughts

For this week's episode, the CA Team rolls with the first season of The Wheel of Time series (2021). We call bollocks on Trollocs and discuss the real world examples of persistence hunters and pursuit predation. We discuss how blight ain't right by exploring the inner workings of mangroves plus the ecosystem they support and protect. And finally, we take a chill pill and examine the dangerous story trope of "fridging".

TIME POINTS

00:00:37- Introduction and News

00:09:18 - Summary (No Man Magic) and Our Thoughts

00:20:12 - Trivia

00:23:30 - Trollocs And Persistent Predation

00:46:09 - The Blight Ecology

00:55:13 - Fridging As A Story Device

01:04:24 - Should We Feel Bad For The Trollocs?

We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, but we do talk extensively about the magical house known as Casita in Disney's latest Encanto (2021). This week we look at mobile ecosystems and dirty sloths, learn two new $5 words (pyriscence and serotiny), find that Nemo is probably a pretty slimy boi, and ask the question, do stories really need a villain? Dave and Libby also confirm that Adam's heart is indeed, missing.

DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/heU2FWka

TIME POINTS

00:00:41- Introduction and News

00:05:27 - Summary (Mirabel's Coup) and Our Thoughts

00:16:22 - Trivia

00:22:10 - Biogenic Habitats

00:37:42 - The Casita As An Organism

00:51:30 - Stories Without Villains

00:59:23 - The Best Madrigal Power

01:05:01 - Feeling About The Casita And Plans For Next Week

This week, the CA team collectively places one hand on The Book of Boba Fett (2021) and swear to protect the perpetually poorly treated rancor. We look at what a spin off actually is, sexual imprinting (not the Twilight kind), real life 6 meter/19.7 foot giant sloths, and why keeping a rancor on a desert planet, much less a dungeon, is excessively cruel. Takeaway questions: would Luke Skywalker drink rancor milk and do you whisk eggs with milk or a platypus?

TIME POINTS

00:00:40- Introduction and News

00:03:26 - Summary (Clone Of The Mandalorian) and Our Thoughts

00:13:46 - Trivia

00:17:48 - Rancor Basis Ecology And Function

00:30:54 - Rancor Physiology And Imprinting

00:37:01 - Reptomammals And Marsupials

00:46:07 - Story Discussion And Spin Off Value

00:54:01 - Do We Feel Bad For The Rancor?

00:57:03 - Plans For Next Week And Goodbye

What does hentai-light, vengeful Jesus, and mislabeled fog have in common? All creep out of Stephen King's The Mist (2007). This week we are suckers for how tentacles suckers physically work. We theorize exactly how one might get caught in a caustic web. We are frank about four winged fabulously flying freaks that already exist in real life. We ask about alternative alternate endings. But unanswered, why does Thomas Jane straight up cap a grandma?!

TIME POINTS

00:00:32- Introduction News (Deer and Wolves)

00:08:35 - Plot Summary

00:19:18 - Trivia (Half Life Development)

00:21:49 - Tentacles

00:34:16- Bugs With Stings And Swelling

00:40:58- Grey Widows

00:45:18 - Ptero-Bird

00:51:22 - Story Discussion- Changing Endings

01:01:38 - Wrap Up and Do We Feel Bad For The Monsters?

As a Last Resort, we welcome our audience this week to the Valhalla that is the Halo franchise (2001-2021?) We look at Covenant species with their methane breathing, wormy boi bridge building bodies, and birthday skulls; why Adam gives sentient culture two tactile thumbs up; and whether or not decades long stories should be self contained. You really needler to listen to this one.

TIME POINTS

00:00:43- News (Drone Planting)

00:05:37 - Plot Summary (Halo Story Speed Run)

00:18:13 - Trivia (How Much is Halo Worth?)

00:21:17 - Covenant Biology- Grunts

00:33:53 - Covenant Biology- Hunters

00:45:22 - Covenant Biology- Elites

00:53:33 - Covenant Convergent Evolution

00:58:15 - Story Discussion- Self Contained Stories

01:11:05 - Wrap Up and Should We Feel Bad For The Covenant?

Take a field trip to the Field Museum with us as the CA team analyzes the Kothoga from 1997's The Relic. Answered questions this week: Is our poor monster actually an addict? How did this movie get academia right and how did it get it very, very wrong? What are some real world South American cryptids? And what is a tepui? Gesundheit.

TIME POINTS

00:44:00 – Introduction and News

00:05:08 – Movie Introduction, Discussion, and Trivia

00:22:25- Science Discussion

01:04:23- Story Discussion

01:15:57- Final Thoughts

What's kraken CA fans? Take an epic journey this week with our double snake header, Clash of the Titans (2010) and Wrath of the Titans (2012). We look, but not directly at, Medusa's possible use of tetrodotoxin, djinns using advanced prosthetic technology, how civilization, not heroes, were the downfall of Greek monsters, the origins of Olympus, and how Nanny McPhee shares this cinematic universe.

TIME POINTS

01:00:00 – Introduction and News

00:05:06 – Movie Introduction, Discussion, and Trivia

00:22:17- Science Discussion

00:55:45- Story Discussion

01:11:59- Final Thoughts

When a worn out Bounty Hunter with dubious credentials gets lost in the sands of Tatooine, what happens? He meets a collection of creatures with dessert adaptations of course!

Join the Cinematica team this week as they explore giant lizards, environmental catastrophes, and reptile-mammals in Disney's new The Book of Boba Fett.

TIME POINTS

00:00:39 – Introduction and News

00:08:17 – Movie Introduction, Discussion, and Trivia

00:17:28- Organism Discussion

00:39:37- Dessert Planet Discussion

00:45:42- Final Thoughts

This week, we turn out all the lights as the CA team, aka our little psycho fuck family, flies blind alongside the bio-raptors of Vin Diesel's breakout role, Pitch Black (2000). How does an entire species develop a sun allergy? What came first for bats: echolocation or flight, and why? What exactly is an antihero? Why the hell do we keep saying "hand shark!"?

TIME POINTS

00:00:39 – Introduction and News

00:04:07 – Movie Introduction, Discussion, and Trivia

00:21:02- Science Discussion

00:56:43- Story Discussion

01:04:35- Final Thoughts

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