Now finally having a chance to listen to this and hear the bits I wasn't there for, the $10 word Brian may have been reaching for when discussing the more modern acting style could be "verisimulitude." "Simulacrum" would be a good $10 word for a pod person, though.

I actually kind of like the (initial) blase attitude toward the pod people, similar to the attitude the characters have in THE THING when discussing that it's a shapeshifter.

"There's a clone of you dead on the table."
"Yeeup."
"Hm. That's fucked up."
"Yeeup. Want some coffee?"

I dunno. For some reason I like it better than the modern tendency to either become immediately hysterical or just start shotgunning irrational denials in all directions. I feel like if something that crazy happened, but you weren't in immediate apparent danger, you'd almost be too freaked out to be freaked out.

Once the shit really starts going down and immediate risk starts to become apparent, then I see panic setting in. But as long as it's just lying there, after the initial shock I can imagine it being kinda like, "huh."

I wouldn't say that we got too political, as opposed to discussing the historical influence of Communist Hysteria in the 1950's.  Maybe that's splitting hairs, but the distinction for me is that it was less discussing our own political stances than referencing the climate of the day.

Somehow my complement on production values turned into a criticism of topic. I have not been a Topic Criticiser in the past and I am not now a Topic Critic.

The political discussion was interesting and entirely appropriate.

I totally missed the April Fool's joke front page

Is there a mirror of it or something?

PAL edition now available; sorry for the delay folks.

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