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September 02, 2013Episode 270: Imagine The Story I’m Telling Is Awesome
Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink l’affaire twerk, Getaway starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez, the Donkey-effing conundrum, and why Broadway (and Disneyland) have an outsized cultural impact.
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Your Panel
Ben Adams
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 270: Imagine The Story I’m Telling Is Awesome originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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August 26, 2013Episode 269: The World’s End: The Role of the Lightsaber Is Played by Beer
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes overthink Ben Affleck as Batman and The World’s End.
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Further Reading
Three Colors Trilogy
Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, aka The Hero’s Journey
The Trickster Redeem’d: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of “School of Rock”
The Ghost Ship Moment
Your Panel
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Jordan Stokes
Episode 269: The World’s End: The Role of the Lightsaber Is Played by Beer originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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August 21, 2013Overthinking It Book Club: Ender’s Game Introduction
Ben Adams and Matthew Wrather kick off the Overthinking It Book Club with an introduction to Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
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The Overthinking It Book Club
The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.
Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Canadian and European readers can use these links.)
The Syllabus
Ben has divided the book into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:
Week 1 (September 23, 2013): Chapters 1-6
Week 2 (September 30, 2013): Chapters 7-8
Week 3 (October 7, 2013): Chapters 9-10
Week 4 (October 14, 2013): Chapters 11-12
Week 5 (October 21, 2013): Chapters 13-14
Week 6 (October 28, 2013): Chapter 15
The Forums
For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s reading is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read the book, no spoilers for what is to come! (Maybe we’ll open up a special forum for those.)
The Podcast
Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where Ben, Matt, and other Overthinking It writers. We’ll talk over the week’s reading, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.
And more…
This is the inaugural effort for the book club, so we’re open to suggestions. Google Hangout videos? Guest commentators? Research and background on the author? We’re up for anything — and not just anything within reason. I mean, this is Overthinking It, and we’re gonna start subjecting some literature to a level of scrutiny… it probably doesn’t deserve.
Podcast feed and other sundries to come
Overthinking It Book Club: Ender’s Game Introduction originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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August 19, 2013Episode 268: There’s Always Event Horizon
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, John Perich, and Matthew Wrather overthink your listener feedback.
This podcast is dedicated to the memory of John Hollander, a great teacher and scholar.
Rippedy-Pippidey
Dr. John Hollander
As of last Saturday
(much for the worse)
can’t be described as the
metapreeminent
living exponent of
metrical verse.
—Jordan Stokes
Figgeldy Higgedly
Dr. John Hollander
Maitre of verse forms that
Others would poach,
Stirring with brilliance,
Est Quod Benedictus, the
Hollandaise-sauciest
Lyrical coach.
—Peter Fenzel
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Further Reading
Breaking Bad Recaps
Overthinking It on YouTube
Overthinking It on Google+
Overthinking It TVRecaps Podcast Feed on iTunes and as RSS
Ender’s Game on Amazon
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov on Amazon
Star Control 2: The Orz on YouTube
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem on Amazon
Darmok (Episode) on Memory Alpha
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and No. 2 by Edvard Grieg
John Hollander, 1929–2013
The Seikilos Epitaph
Your Panel
Matthew Belinkie
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
John Perich: @perich
Jordan Stokes
Matt Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 268: There’s Always Event Horizon originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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August 12, 2013Episode 267: Elysium, where all the wealth is concentrated, for some reason, on a spaceship.
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster.
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Further Reading
Are Aft-facing Airplane Seats Safer? from Air and Space
THE IMPORTANCE OF DRAMATIZING CHARACTER by Film Crit Hulk
The Bizarre Accent of Christine Lagarde, who is Managing Director of the IMF
Your Panel
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Matt Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 267: Elysium, where all the wealth is concentrated, for some reason, on a spaceship. originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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August 05, 2013 Episode 266: 300 Brides for 300 Spartans
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, John Perich and Matthew Wrather overthink why there were no big movies this weekend, “the summer of the flop,” and Renaissance Faire.
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Episode 266: 300 Brides for 300 Spartans originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 29, 2013 Episode 265: The Wolverine: I Can’t Bear to Change, so I Must Live with A Bear
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, John Perich and Matthew Wrather overthink The Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman. Bonus overthinking of Highlander: The Final Dimension.
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Episode 265: The Wolverine: I Can’t Bear to Change, so I Must Live with A Bear originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 22, 2013 Episode 264: R.I.P.D.: Is There, Is There Balm in Gilead?
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink R.I.P.D., mostly focusing on the large number of missed opportunities. Also mentioned: what Batman and Superman should do in their movie together; reclining seats in movie theaters, and these kids today making it out.
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Episode 264: R.I.P.D.: Is There, Is There Balm in Gilead? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 15, 2013Episode 263: Pacific Rim: Kaiju, Job Creators
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, John Perich, and Jordan Stokes overthink Pacific Rim.
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Rejected titles for this episode:
The synchronized running man
A tenable long-term geopolitical solution to the robot impasse
I did not care for those hats
Spike equilibrium of combined robots
We have the missile technology to hit buildings
Captain of the New Zealand synchronized swimming team
Consider this a mitzvah
Suppose the dodgeball is full of high explosives
Britain needs to recognize its role as father of Australia
It’s an analog nuclear reactor
They certainly run like a young Steven Seagal
Also, be sure to read #RejectedJaegerNames on Twitter.
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Episode 263: Pacific Rim: Kaiju, Job Creators originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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July 08, 2013 Episode 262: Listener Feedback
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Shana Mlawski, and Matthew Wrather overthink your listener feedback.
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Episode 262: Listener Feedback originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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