Episode 13: Rockets, Billionaires & Space Cowboys

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Written By Philippa
 

Pod Culture Oz Episode 13: Rockets, Billionaires & Space Cowboys

In this space-inspired episode of Pod Culture [Oz], we joined by special guest Marta Troicka as we discuss Nick’s claim that all modern space movies suck.

We look at three different types of space movies, spacecraft as a form of public transport, and space stories as frontierism.

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“Space always has to be chin strokingly, muscularly serious…”
— Nick, Co-host

Guest Host: Marta Troicka

Timestamps:

  • 0:00 – Introduction

  • 2:09 – To Boldly Claim Space Movies Suck

  • 6:10 – Gravity as a Great Weight

  • 25:12 – Why set your movie in space?

  • 28:33 – Space Disasters

  • 35.13 – Space Aliens

  • 48:19 – Space was inside us all along

  • 1:20:42 – How do we make space interesting?

  • 1:39:40 – Wrap up & Outro

Books we discuss:

  • Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition

  • Creighton, Michael. Andromeda Strain

  • Graber, David. Utopia of Rules

  • Hodgkinson, Tom. How to be Idle

  • Le Guin, Ursula. The Word for World is Forest

  • Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness

  • Sims Bishop, Rudina. Windows and Mirrors

  • Turner, Frederick Jackson.

  • The Martian (novel)

  • Asif Sediki

  • White, Richard. The Frontier in American Memory

Movies & TV shows we discuss:

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • The Abyss

  • Ad Astra

  • Another Life

  • Armageddon

  • Arrival

  • Ascension

  • The Astronaut’s Wife

  • Avatar

  • Alien

  • Aliens

  • Apollo 13

  • Apollo 18

  • Battlestar Galactica (new series)

  • Die Hard

  • Earth 2

  • Europa Report

  • The Expanse

  • Firefly

  • First Man

  • Gravity

  • Hidden Figures

  • High Life

  • The Hunt for Red October

  • Killjoys

  • The Last Starfighter

  • Life

  • The Martian

  • Mission to Mars

  • Nightflyers

  • Passengers

  • The Poseidon Adventure

  • Prometheus

  • The Right Stuff

  • Space Cowboys

  • Speed

  • Sputnik

  • Star Trek (Original Series)

  • Stowaway

  • Sunshine

  • Towering Inferno

Games we discuss:

  • Alternity

  • Aliens RPG

  • Deliver Us The Moon

  • Elite: Dangerous

  • Fallout New Vegas

  • Halo

  • Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Kerbal Space Program

  • Knights of the Old Republic

  • Knights of the Old Republic: The Sith Lords

  • Marathon

  • Mass Effect

  • Mass Effect 2

  • Mass Effect 3

  • Mega Traveller

  • Pathfinder

  • Observation

  • Spacemaster: Imperium

  • Space Opera

  • Star Citizen

  • Starfinder

  • Traveller

 
Philippa
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