30 Day Film Challenge -- Day 2

Least Favorite Film

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. It remains the only movie I've ever walked out on. From changing Mr. Freeze to a roid-raging Austrian, to the introduction of the Batman credit card this movie is just pathetic.

Until the end of time I will thank Christopher Nolan for bringing Batman back to the big screen and NOT having me wish I could erase it from my memory. It's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the fact that both this movie, and The Dark Knight utilize the same universe for story.

30 Day TV Challenge -- Day 1

Favorite Film -- Apollo 13

I love this movie so much. It was a huge reason I got so into the space program, and astronomy.  Even though I know it line for line, I still get tense during the tense inducing scenes, and tear up every single time at the end.

Tom Hanks' final words of the film are even more moving now with current state of the American Space Program.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone, and thank you for visiting the site.

There are a couple changes to the original plan that was detailed on the last show, and in the post below. Everything is still happening, but it will be delayed one week. The reason for this is I got a couple e-mails from people who are on vacation and would like to be able to download the old episodes. I've decided that it makes sense that people might have been away and didn't know about the changes so the next episode, and the new edited/better sounding podcast will be put off until next week.

Plan for the feed change to take place on Jan 9. As I said, there should be NO reason to change anything on iTunes, and I certainly will be posting direct links to the shows on this site. However, I will be releasing something of a test podcast before the next show so we know that it all works out.

Thanks again for the feedback, and the continued support.

Namaste

Brand New Day

On Jan 1, 2012 The Flashbacks Podcast will be reborn! The podcast itself will sound streets ahead better than it has in the past, and clips will actually sound like I didn't play them while sitting in an Olympic sized swimming pool.

The blog will be reborn as well. Posts will be done often, and by more than just me.  So hooray!

Talkshoe will be now more, but don't worry about the feed. The new episodes should be accessible from the exact same feed, but old episodes will not be available on iTunes anymore. They all will remain on the Talkshoe page, and a link can be found on this site. I also will be re-releasing the first 16 Flashbacks Podcast episodes with some edits, alterations so that they will be available on iTunes, and sound almost as good as I intended.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to post a comment here, or e-mail us directly.

theflashbackspodcast@gmail.com

Doctor Who Episode 6x11 Review

Episode Title: The God Complex
Episode Rating: A
Overall Season Rating: A-

Yet another home run for Doctor Who. Last week I talked about how each episode was different, and gave us aspects of Who that we all love. This one keeps that streak going. While it was creepy, I wouldn't say it was scary. Not in the way Night Terrors was anyway. The idea of a hotel filled with rooms of people fears is properly creepy though, and I think it would have been fun to watch this episode in an actual hotel. Try walking the corridors late at night then. Another streak that I noticed however has been broken. For most of Steven Moffat's tenure on Doctor Who we have seen very little death. I'm not a fan of people I like dying in TV shows, but when Russell T. Davies was running things people died all the time. Sometimes a lot of people. Knowing that people could, and probably will die adds real stakes to episodes of the show, and makes us sigh relief when people we genuinely like don't die. Well, this episode fixed that for us.

Doctor Who Episode 6x10 Review

Episode Title: The Girl Who Waited
Episode Rating: A
Overall Season Rating: A-

Last week's episode "Night Terrors" was very different from the mid-season premiere episode "Let's Kill Hitler", and this episode was very different from both of those. Which is a good thing. Moffat is keeping the episode style fresh, while staying true to what Doctor Who stands for. In this episode we got even more information about the early days of Amy and Rory's relationship, and as it turns out this show is capable of discussing them and have it be more intelligent than your average teenage drama. There were so many aspects I loved about this episode, and some of them are things that I have not liked recently in Who.

Doctor Who Episode 6x09 Review

Episode Title: Night Terrors
Episode Rating: A-
Overall Season Rating: A-

Well sort of review. I love Doctor Who so much I've decided that for the most part this will just be a stream of consciousness. Plus, I got some good feed back on my shorter Eureka review.

 Tonight's episode was everything I love about a Doctor Who episode. Recently, I've been getting upset with the show and I'm not entirely sure why. I mean I loved pretty much every episode from the first half of series six, and I was blown away by "Let's Kill Hitler". I think some of it has to do with the three documentaries made by BBC America. If you didn't see these, then you are lucky. They are all about the "Best of" various aspects of Doctor Who but they all only cover the history from when Matt Smith took over. This is ridiculous and the Companion special really soured me on Amy and Rory. I like them both, but all three of Tennant's companions are ahead of both of them in my opinion, and don't even get me started on companions from before the relaunch.