Fusion Patrol

Lone Locust Productions

Each week, we look at one episode of a classic (or not-so-classic) science fiction TV series and discuss it. Come join the conversation.

  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    708 – Real Humans – Power at Heart

    On this week’s episode, Simon and Eugene examine season one, episode five of Real Humans, Power at Heart.

    They discuss coincidences in the number of Hubot sex clubs in this Swedish city, computers programming computers, robots watching soap operas, and actually, finally, seeing some sex with robots.

    2 November 2024, 7:00 am
  • 42 minutes 30 seconds
    707 – Space Above and Beyond – R&R

    This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Episode 19 of Space Above and Beyond, R&R, where they ask, “Will people know Clint Eastwood in the year 2064?” “Do they save sex-ed class for the end of invitro school?” and “What power does W.C. Fields have over Colonel McQueen?”

    Also, this week, exclusively for our patrons on Patreon, there will be two bonus minutes of totally unrelated conversation!

    26 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 32 minutes 52 seconds
    706 – Star Maidens – Escape to Paradise

    This week, John and Eugene begin looking at a new series: Star Maidens, a 1976 TV series co-produced by the United Kingdom and West Germany.

    It’s a contemporary (for 1976) look at female equality through the lens of a planet run by women.

    19 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 28 minutes
    705 – Real Humans – Semi-Human Rights

    This week, Simon and Eugene look at season one, episode four of Real Humans: Semi-human rights.

    They discuss non-human rights within the Swedish legal system, whether the uncanny valley is legally mandated, and whether HuBots are capable of actually lying or just crafty deception.

    Oh, and maybe they also mention sex with robots.

    12 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 41 minutes 1 second
    704 – Shin Kamen Rider

    John and Eugene look at the third “Shin” reimaging movie of classic Japanese science fiction/fantasy properties. This week, it’s 2023’s Shin Kamen Rider.

    How well does a movie about human-grasshopper cyborg translate to the big screen?

    5 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 42 minutes 14 seconds
    703 – Space Above and Beyond – Pearly

    This week, Fusion Patrol examines the 18th episode of Space Above and Beyond, entitled “Pearly,” where Kenneth and Eugene finally find out why Wang wasn’t court-martialed at the end of Episode 9, why the space jarheads are too stupid to realize that the Chigs talk, and when discretion is the better part of valor when discussing guest actors’ other roles.

    28 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 43 minutes 48 seconds
    702 – Quark – All the Emperor’s Quasi-Norms 1 & 2

    This week, Fusion Patrol looks at the two-part Quark episode “All the Emperor’s Quasi-Norms.” John and Eugene ask if American television in the 1970s was ready for full-frontal pollination, why Jean didn’t get equal time with Gene, and if Ficus is the most alien character ever committed to the small screen.

    21 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 30 minutes
    701 – Real Humans – The Lord Shall Be Our Companion

    This week, Simon and Eugene examine season 1, episode 3 of Real Humans, “The Lord Shall Be Our Companion.”

    When they discuss Swedish search warrants, whether and who Bea is bluffing, double bluffing or triple bluffing, the parallels between the politics of immigration and being anti-Hubot, and, yes, of course, sex with robots.

    14 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    700 – The Day the Earth Stood Still

    This episode, we’re celebrating our 700th episode of Fusion Patrol with the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 edition.

    Simon and Eugene discuss whether the film is an appeal to authoritarianism or pacifism, whether the spaceship was guarded by UNIT soldiers, and, of course, Eugene talks about sex with robots.

    7 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 43 minutes 17 seconds
    699 – Silent Running

    This week, John and Eugene look at the 1972 film Silent Running.

    They discuss the naming order of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, does Eugene find the film as boring now as he did as a child in the 1970s, and how much of a monster is Freeman Lowell for murdering a robot?

    31 August 2024, 7:00 am
  • 698 – Space Above and Beyond – Dear Earth
    This week on Fusion Patrol, Kenneth and Eugene look at the Space: Above and Beyond episode, “Dear Earth,” where they discuss who gets first naming rights for babies in a family, just how good the Marines are at killing sons and daughters, what is the Emily Post-approved length of a “Dear Jane” letter, and whether ... Read more
    24 August 2024, 7:00 am
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