Episode 58: Who Watched (the) Watchmen?: Play in Popup | Download

This week the PSFR crew discusses the relative success of the long anticipated Watchmen movie, which opened this week. The other (decidedly less fun) big story this week is the ever-declining economy. Things are looking grim. There’s also some much-needed advice for Republicans from Steve (starting around 1:04:25) that they really ought to listen to. You should also look forward to hearing about all the hot human-on-robot action that will surely follow if gay marriage is allowed to happen. And of course, the latest LOST, Sarah Connor, Dollhouse and BSG episodes are discussed. Hurm…

Original air date: 3/8/09
Total run time: 2:00:04
File size: 55 MB

And now for your SF links (collected and added by The Other Wife):

• Dollhouse, and Sarah Connor, ratings do better once DVRs are factored in (duh)
• Critique of Dollhouse: it’s an adult series, requiring an adult perspective
• Promo clip of NBC’s new show Kings
• “When I criticise [BSG] for where it sometimes drops the ball, this is not the criticism of disdain, but of respect.”
• Another Trek series? Bryan Fuller would like a go
• Sarah Connor producer talks S2 finale
• More finale talk, this time Chuck
• BSG if Hatch had his way
• Reaper returns (at least for those who get the channel)
• Whedonesque comments on Dollhouse

Watchmen specific reading:

• 7 Things the Uninitiated Should Know Before Seeing ‘Watchmen’
• SciFi Wire collects the Best and Worst Watchmen review quotes
• Actors talk Watchmen
• 5 Reasons a Watchmen Movie Was Unnecessary (other than 1, not sure the rest are legit)
• 4 Alan Moore stories that are better than Watchmen
• Other Science Fiction that are considered unfilmable

BSG specific links:

• Critique of “Cavil’s Evil Plan” now driving the history of the show, with lots of comments
• 20 Possible Battlestar Galactica Endings; favs:
  15) The Arrow of Apollo, when placed in a giant barrel of water, ends up pointing in the direction of Earth, the real Earth, like a compass. Following its guidance, the Fleet ends up on Caprica, which turns out to have been Earth all along. There is a suggestion to go to a third place called “Terra,” according to an ancient stone tablet found on New Caprica. Admiral Adama says “Frak this,” and shoots himself in the head.
  4) The ship runs out of booze. Adama and Tigh, seeing rainbow-colored bugs everywhere thanks to the D.T.s, go on a shooting spree and murder everyone onboard the Galactica
• Ditto what he said