HeyJaredJourney Through Sci-Fi: A Science Fiction Film Podcast
A sci-fi film podcast where two hosts pair movies to explore how science-fiction cinema evolved.Each episode connects two films (often from completely different eras) to uncover how sci-fi ideas, themes and storytelling have changed over time.From Metropolis to Dune, The…
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A Message from Mars (1913): The First Friendly Alien (opens the original)
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Where does the friendly alien begin? Not with E.T., but with a Martian exiled to Edwardian London to reform the most selfish man alive. Journey Through Sci-Fi returns with a brand new series. We Come in Peace traces the history of friendly aliens on screen. In this opener we set out the stall: what makes a visitor friendly rather than hostile, why everything gets measured against E.T., and how one mistranslated Italian word put Martians in our heads. Then we go back to 1913 and A Message from Ma
We Come in Peace! Series Trailer (opens the original)
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Some of them came to warn us. Some of them just wanted to go home. We Come in Peace is a new series from Journey Through Sci-Fi, tracing the friendly alien across a century of film and television. We start in the earliest days of visitors from other worlds and work our way to the present, asking how and why that image kept changing. Along the way: The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space, Warning from Space, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Starman, Cocoon, Alien Nation,
Sci-Fi Starter Pack: Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Mad Max & More (opens the original)
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New to Journey Through Sci-Fi ? Start here. Before we launch our next full series on friendly aliens, we're taking a journey back through the archive with a special starter pack episode, featuring some of our favourite clips from past series. Across this episode, we revisit some of the biggest ideas in sci-fi cinema: the mythic storytelling of the original Star Wars trilogy, the artificial intelligence and uneasy humanity of Blade Runner, the time-loop perfection of Groundhog Day , the simulated
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