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Nosebleeds for Everyone! (“Button, Button” and The Box)

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Taking another work of short fiction, this time the guys discuss Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button,” adapted to a 1986 Twilight Zone episode of the same name, and also adapted to the 2009 movie The Box.

Rankings!

Colin/James/Seth:

  • short story
  • Twilight Zone
  • movie

Notes & Links:

Funny or Die comedy short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rzIwrEqpw

CBS Radio Mystery Theater adaptation with an unfortunate name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSKT-REprtw

Drinking the Cadre Cola (The Running Man)

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This time, the guys pick up a listener suggestion, from longtime listener Malc Foy, The Running Man, by Stephen King.

Rankings!

  • Colin: Movie/Book
  • James: Book/Movie
  • Seth: Movie/Book


Note: We’ve been having some trouble with our digital recorder. I tried to mitigate the static/distortion we got in a few places, but if you hear it, it’s not your headphones.

Underselling the Penalty (The Cold Equations)

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This time the guys discuss Tom Godwin’s 1954 classic short story “The Cold Equations” and tackle three of its adaptations: the 1980s Twilight Zone episode, the 1996 Sci-Fi Channel movie, both sharing the story’s title, and the 2014 short film titled The Stowaway.

Rankings!

Colin

  • 1996 movie
  • story
  • Twilight Zone
  • 2014 short film
  • James

  • Twilight Zone
  • 1996 movie
  • 2014 short film
  • story
  • Seth

  • story
  • 2014 short film
  • 1996 TV movie
  • Twilight Zone episode
  • Notes & Links
    Story: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cold-equations/

    Movies:
    Twilight Zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-eVsAl6MRE
    1996 movie: https://reelgood.com/movie/the-cold-equations-1996
    2014 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BL8GsHWtqc

    TMTYR Episode #62: I Gave Him That Answer! (“Arena” TOS episode)

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    arenaThis time, the Pavement Pounders discuss the 1944 Fredric Brown short story “Arena”, which was adapted into a Star Trek TOS episode (S1E18), may have inspired the TNG episode “The Last Outpost” (S1E5), and there’s also an Outer Limits episode, “Fun and Games (S1E27).”

    Big thanks to Rich O’Donnell for sending us the suggestion!

    For the purposes of Rankings, here are the abbreviations:

    “Arena” story: TS
    TOS episode: TOS
    TNG episode: TNG
    Outer Limits episode: TOL

    Our totally scientific ranking of how close the episodes were to the story:

    • TOS
    • TOL
    • TNG

    And now our normal Rankings:

    James:

    • TS
    • TOS
    • TNG
    • TOL

    Colin:

    • TOS
    • TS
    • TNG
    • TOL

    Seth:

    • TOS
    • TS
    • TNG
    • TOL

    Rich

    • TS
    • TOS
    • TNG

    And finally, Em Ratings for each:

    • TS: Solid A
    • TOS: A
    • TNG: B
    • TOL: C

    Notes:
    These Are The Voyages books:
    http://www.thesearethevoyagesbooks.com/

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