DISCUSSIONS FROM THE OTHERHOOD

In the past several years we have been exposed to the fact that the presumptively open literary worlds of science fiction and fantasy have been occluded with race and ethnic bias. Many people of color were surprised to discover that these biases even existed among those who could write convincingly of aliens, elves and all manner of mythological species without batting an eye. With this in mind, given the current world situation will the fan boy versus woke culture wars cease or intensify? Join Penelope, Otto, Cranston and James to consider the possibilities.

In October 2019 many in the U.S. and the world were stunned by the explosively violent spectacle of the 1921 Tulsa massacre depicted in Damon Lindelof's turn on Alan Moore's The Watchmen. The violence carried out against the black community in Tulsa by their white neighbors, led many to the discover that this and other equally egregious massacres carried out against people of Africans descent. spatter the American Historical landscape. Now, less than a year later we ask if the Watchmen and other spec fic was the spark that galvanized Americans and the world against Racial Brutality? Join Penelope, Otto. Cranston & James tonight to discuss this and other Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror media from the blerd perspective!

With the current global upheavals facing us from police brutality to COVID-19 and the environmental crises, are people needing the escapism provided by speculative entertainment or has speculative entertainment lulled and served to distract us from our world's mounting problems? Join us to talk it out.

Whether it's hope catharsis, or affirmation; which Twilight Zone or other spec fic anthology episode helps to get you through these trying times? Remember "The Obsolete Man", "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", "Four O'Clock", "I am the Night - Color Me Black" "To See the Invisible Man" and more recently "Replay" and "Wunderkind" which of these and which others get you through these days of uncertainty?

A while back we posited which Horror movie best described our then circumstances. Amazingly since then things have become even more complex. With Covid-19, rampant unemployment in the U.S. and shortages looming... What film do we find ourselves in, now. And are we at the end of the beginning... or the beginning of the end?

We all had that show or that film that kept us up at night with the lights on. What show was it that gave you a fright? Do you laugh it off now? Or does it still give you the chills? Join us see if your list matches ours!

Alright I am 100% committed to social distancing and sheltering in place, but I do miss the theater, the theater in "the neighborhood." There is nothing like the shared experience of horror or comedy in a neighborhood theater. Have you ever had the experience? What is the most notable and what are you doing now during our period of social distancing to replicate that feeling?! Join us tonight and tell all!

What book, movie, television show, comic, performer, could you not get enough of in your formative years, but then one day you looked at it and sadly lamented, "I'll never get that time back..."

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As we scrounge for content over our periods of quarantine and/or sheltering in place what are those shows that were phenomenal, mind-blowing and earth shattering that you have seen in the past and wish that you had saved them for a situation like this? Join us tonight and let's share our lists!

Last week James Goodridge threw down the gauntlet and double dog dared us to take a look at the iconic puppet-based show, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Scoot over to Youtube and judge for yourself. Is it a yea or a nay?Also, Otto has lamented that during our sheltering in place he envies everyone who hasn't seen all of the great shows that we have already seen. What great shows do you wish you were only now seeing for the first time?