Media Montage Podcast 46 - The Apocalypse in Pop Culture

In today’s episode Bruce and Larry discuss the end of everything as the Apocalypse strikes pop culture. Why does the end of everything show up again and again in popular entertainment?
Does the obsession with the end of the world have something to say about the perseverance of humanity, or do we just have a death wish?

We look at post-apocalyptic pop culture on Episode 46 of the Media Montage Podcast. 


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COMING SOON... It's The End Of The World

Whether it be Nuclear Holocaust, Alien Invasion, Viral Outbreak, or bunch of pissed off birds, it seems humanity is obsessed with it's destruction, and the aftermath there of. Bruce and Larry will discuss it all, well, as much as time allows.

The following are some examples from pop culture.

More after the jump...

Media Montage 45: Roger Corman's Fantastic Four (1994)

2015 will bring us a reboot of the Fantastic Four film franchise, but Bruce and Larry travel back to 1994 to take a look at the first, doomed live action Fantastic Four movie.

Is it as bad as legend says?

We look at the film on its own merits and come to some surprising conclusions. 

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Media Montage Podcast 44 - Advanced Ancient Civilization

Did an advanced civilization once exist prior to Sumeria and Egypt?
Did such a culture inhabit coastal areas all around the world and inspire the legends of Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu?
Bruce and Larry take a look at theories of a 12,000 year old advanced human culture that may or may not have had nuclear weapons and airships. We’re talking Ancient Civilizations on the Media Montage Podcast. 

Here is Wally Wallington, the man who re-discovered the forgotten technology of moving monolithic stone:


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Media Montage Podcast 43: Tommy Westphall and TV Crossovers

Does every TV show take place in the mind of St. Elsewhere’s Tommy Westphall?

We explore that hypothesis as well as the pros and cons of shared continuity across multiple shows, comics and movies. We discuss the quasi-organic emergence of shared universes as well as highly planned ones.

Does a tightly integrated, detailed continuity or a loose, tangential continuity make for better storytelling?

Dwayne McDuffie's original Slush Factory article presenting the Tommy Westphall Hypothesis is HERE.

Here is a 'MAP' of the Hypothesis showing the overlapping shows as they relate to Tommy/St. Elsewhere and Homicide: Life on the Street, circa 2005-06. This may have grown since.

The climactic St. Elsewhere scene from the episode 'The Last One':



A 'crossover' scene  from Mad About You and Seinfeld establishing they exist in a shared universe:

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