Strangers and Aliens: Science Fiction & Fantasy from a Christian Perspective

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Strangers and Aliens: Science Fiction & Fantasy from a Christian Perspective episodes

March 20, 2016 Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? – SA179
Heroes battling heroes is a time honored tradition in comics, TV, and movies. But why? Ben and Evan team up to discover the answer and look into some of their favorite hero vs. hero conflicts.
1 hr 3 min
March 14, 2016 The Return of… – SA178
From Star Wars to X-Files to Heroes, old heroes have been making a return…and they make their return, well, older! In this episode we take a look at some of our favorite and not so favorite returns and what those returns bring with them! Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Indiana Jones. The Six Million Dollar Man. […]
1 hr 17 min
March 09, 2016 A Don Bluth Retrospective – SA177
Ben. Steve, and Evan talk about the career of animator Don Bluth, looking back on their favorite memories from Bluth’s body of work, and on some of their least favorite work from him, from his work at Disney to his arcade video games to Fievel and The Land Before Time to Titan AE!
1 hr
February 28, 2016 Return of the X-Files (Pt. 2) – SA176
The X-Files has returned, and Steve and Ben WERE pretty excited…and now they are ready to wade through the final three episodes! A monster of the week, a supernatural FBI tale, and a mythology episode again give a pretty good sampling of what the X-Files was all about, but how did it live up to the […]
44 min
February 23, 2016 LABYRINTH (Retro Movie Mission 1) – SA175
In Retro Movie Missions the Retronauts fire the Retro-rockets on their Retro-starship to take a look back at some retro-movies! Will they discover something new? Will they retroactively change their opinion? Join Captain Ben, Sergeant Steve, and Ensign Evan as they explore Jim Henson’s classic movie LABYRINTH!
1 hr 12 min
February 12, 2016 League of the Gray (Interview with Sandy Brownlee) – SA174
A transmedia project about an secret group of multi-generational warriors in the never-ending battle against evil, League of the Gray is part Buffy the Vampire Slayer and part Golden Girls! Ben talks with Sandy Brownlee, the mastermind behind this web series, about the project’s origins, its future, and how people can help this transmedia project come to […]
38 min
February 06, 2016 Return of the X-Files (Pt. 1) – SA173
The X-Files has returned, and Steve and Ben are pretty excited…although we have different reactions to SOME of these first three episodes of X-Files season 10. With a mythology episode, a mystery episode, and a humor episode, the first three episodes of this six episode series give a pretty good sampling of what the X-Files […]
1 hr 17 min
January 15, 2016 Anything But Star Wars – SA172
What do Labyrinth, Longmire, and The Faerie Queen have in common? They AREN’T Star Wars! And they ARE some things we’ve been reading and watching and enjoying. And they AREN’T Star Wars. Here’s a partial list of some of the things that AREN’T Star Wars that we talked about in this “catching up with each […]
1 hr 26 min
December 29, 2015 The Force Awakens Revisited – SA171
We return to Star Wars episode 7 for a longer, more focused discussion of the movie! What did they love? What did they hate? Also, Ben and Steve welcome Evan officially into the fold as the fourth “strange alien”!
1 hr 42 min
December 24, 2015 THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON, a Charles Dickens Christmas Story – SA170
For a holiday treat, we read Charles Dickens’ precursor to A Christmas Carol, The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, a chapter from The Pickwick Papers. In this story are all the elements we appreciate about A Christmas Carol — a grumpy curmudgeon, Christmas, supernatural creatures that teach a lesson, and a change in character for […]
40 min