On the docket this week:

• Chad's rant about the remixed soundtrack of STOP MAKING SENSE (the legendary Talking Heads concert film directed by Jonathan Demme) with comparisons to the original 1984 mix and how it reminds him of George Lucas's revisions to his original Star Wars trilogy.




• Brendan's discovery of a deeply weird and hilarious SUPERMAN comic strip in his copy of SUPERMAN: THE SILVER AGE DAILIES, 1959–1961




• Chad's review of THE CENTER SEAT: 55 YEARS OF STAR TREK, a really engaging documentary series currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Watch this episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/vJyB9_CMReU?si=gpYH8O9tkCxzTJRs

00:00:00 — Preview

00:00:30 — Chad's rant on STOP MAKING SENSE 2023 remix

00:07:26 — Lucas vs Spielberg on "Special Editions"

00:10:36 — Frank Frazetta and the problem of endless revisions

00:14:15 — Lucas vs. Spielberg on revisionism

00:17:44 — Harmy's De-specialized Editions of Star Wars

00:19:29 — Summer movies we have or haven't seen

00:20:42 — Blue Beetle

00:22:54 — 2023 summer blockbuster bombs

00:27:28 — Superman Silver Age Dailies

00:37:26 — Golden & Silver Age Comics and baldness

00:40:12 — How we've outgrown he old timey stigma of baldness

00:48:14 — Brendan's favorite Lex Luthor origin stories

00:55:56 — THE CENTER SEAT: Star Trek Documentary series

00:58:47 — THE FIFTY YEAR MISSION: book series on the history of Star Trek

01:11:52 — Strange New Worlds Season 2

01:12:59 — The Kirk retcon problem on Strange New Worlds

01:15:48 — Wrap-up

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Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.

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