Fusion Patrol

John and Eugene consider if constellations look the same “on the other side,” when Chekov’s gun misfires and do robots have murder/suicide pacts when we look at the Galactica 1980 episode, The Night the Cylons Landed.

John and Eugene try to figure out what science or religion brings to the fight in the War of the Worlds, George Pal's 1953 extravaganza.

Simon and Eugene discuss what kind of government department builds a ridiculous deadly weapons store under London, whether secret agents ever genuinely expect that "when they're out, they're out," and when fictional spies become legends in their own fictional universe.

Kenneth and Eugene journey to the Dark Side of the Sun and raise questions about the notion of a deterministic universe, was the deck stacked against Tank, and in what ways the Silicates are just like Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Episode Synopsis Killer has got a problem. She’s got a recurring nightmare ... Read more

If you could throw a baseball 780 mph, would the US Air Force really be a problem? John and Eugene discuss Spaceball. Episode Synopsis Troy and Dillion leave the kids with Jamie when they’re called away for an important mission from Adama, relayed to them by Lt. Nash.  They will take a special viper into ... Read more

John and Eugene look at 2022’s Shin Ultraman from the creatives that brought you Shin Godzilla. Synopsis In the 21st century, Japan has begun to come under attack by giant monsters, or kaiju.  Six kaiju have appeared so far; in each case, the creatures were either defeated or departed.  During this time, the SSSP was ... Read more

Simon and Eugene discuss the effect of emotions on intelligence, taking out gods with technology, and they look back over a quarter of a century of poetry by Tarbolde from Canopius planet. Episode Synopsis The USS Enterprise is on a mission to become the first known Earth ship to explore beyond the edge of the ... Read more

Kenneth and Eugene look at the episode where people should be court-martialed, but they aren’t. Episode Synopsis An Army team lands on the planet Tellus looking for survivors.  They come under heavy Chig attack and must evacuate, but not before they capture one survivor, who is rather unwilling to leave.  He madly raves about being ... Read more

John and Eugene look discuss The Super Scouts, where we learn that Galacticas are really from the planet Krypton, that television kids are stupid no matter what planet they come from, and why revolving doors aren’t nearly complicated as out space people think they are. Episode Synopsis Episode One Dr. Zee has had a facelift ... Read more

Simon and Eugene discuss why you can’t go back in time to before you went back in time, the possibilities for using a time machine for committing crimes rather than solving them, and the messages hidden in Crime Traveller, which prove the whole thing takes place in an alternate reality. Episode Synopsis Professor Hayward is ... Read more

John and Eugene look at George Pal’s 1950 Technicolor space extravaganza, Destination Moon. It’s the film about a plucky band of industrialists who shoot for the moon so they can save the U.S. Space Program by extracting massive government contracts. Synopsis At White Sands, Dr. Cargraves and General Thayer, Ret. are about to witness the ... Read more

This week Kenneth and Eugene begin looking at a new series, Jarheads in Space! Sometimes called Space Above and Beyond, the failed 1995 Fox space war series from two of the creatives behind the X-Files. First up is the pilot episode, known as Pilot. It’s the episode where a rag-tag group of new recruits learns ... Read more

For four years, our coverage has endured the wilderness of space. And now we near the end of one of our journey. The Galactica has, at last, found Earth. This week we begin our look at Battlestar Galactica Season 2, aka Galactica 1980, John and Eugene discuss the three-part pilot movie, Galactica Discover Earth. Episode ... Read more

Simon and Eugene discuss whether time is a sentient trickster, the ramifications for gambling laws when time travel is possible, and we reminisce about the era of fax machines when mobile phones were as common as jacuzzis. Episode Synopsis Jeff Slade, still in the doghouse with Holly Turner, has brought flowers to apologize.  Danny, the ... Read more

John and Eugene look at the TV movie starring Andy Griffith that inspired countless school children to shoot for the moon: It’s 1979’s Salvage (sometimes referred to as Salvage-1), where the owner of a junkyard builds and launches a rocket ship. Its destination: The Moon. Synopsis Harry Broderick is a highly-successful scrap and salvage man ... Read more

This week it’s the moment we’ve all been looking forward to – the culmination of all the story-arc goodness when all the loose ends are tied up neatly with a bow in the two-part series finale of Starhunter Redux in Hyperspace parts I & II. Kenneth and Eugene discuss. Hyperspace I Episode Synopsis Marcus contemplates ... Read more

John and Eugene look at the final episode of Logan’s Run entitled Stargate. When aliens from another world invade Earth, Logan and Jessica are put on ice, figuratively, and Rem is just spare parts, literally. Episode Synopsis Driving through the countryside, Rem and his pets come across a seemingly-injured man who appears to be freezing, ... Read more

Simon and Eugene discuss whether the Uk government has a time machine, we talk about referencing the TARDIS and the Doctor Who theme, and we discuss the technical implications of “…if they’d had mobile phones in this show to time travel with.” Episode Synopsis A dangerous gang known as the Apostles is meticulously planning a ... Read more

John and Eugene look at George Pal’s 1951 end-of-the-world film When Worlds Collide and ask, “They really wouldn’t blow up the Earth, would they?” Synopsis Dr. Bronson, an astronomer at the Mount Kenna, South Africa Observatory, has made an unsettling discovery.  He calls in reliable freelance pilot and courier, Dave Randall, to delivery photographic observations ... Read more

Kenneth and Eugene discuss two more episodes of Starhunter Reduc. In Negative Energy, they’ll follow the convoluted quest to get the Trans-Utopian’s engines up to speed, and in License to Fill, they’ll try to figure out how you review a clip show. Negative Energy Synopsis The Trans-Utopian fails to catch a bounty because they are ... Read more