What do Captain America, Exodus, and Sleepwalker all have in common? They’re strangers in a strange land! Come to a weird place with us as we examine what it’s like to be in the unknown!
SHOW NOTES:
- Intro
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- Reminder to vote in awards show
- Background
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- Stories about characters displaced in time or space are innumerable
- Superman – last son of Krypton
- Captain America – man out of time
- Shining Knight (Sir Justin) – member of King Arthur’s Court, revived in 1941 and joined the Seven Soldiers of Victory (24:22)
- Exodus – born in 12th century Paris, sealed away in a tomb by Apocalypse (30:32)
- Martian Manhunter – last of his kind, aloof from mankind (34:47)
- Sleepwalker – displaced from the Mindscape, where everything changes based on subconscious needs and desires of inhabitants – to him, Earth is strange (40:22)
- So many more examples
- Real world analogues (48:56)
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- Refugees/Immigrants/Exiles
- Coma patients
- Transitions with cognitive impairment
- Prisoners/detainees
- Break (72:27)
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- Plugs for Ignorance Was Bliss, Play Comics, and Saladin Ahmed
- Treatment
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- In-universe – Doc becomes Al (73:40)
- Out of universe – (76:41)
- Ending
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- Next episodes: Black Adam, Hank McCoy, Mental Health Avengers
- Review read: Brian Wayne – Always a ????? show! Great concept and extremely entertaining!
- Plugs for social
References:
- Tolerance paradox – Anthony (19:15)
- Apocalypse episode – Anthony (30:35)
- Back to the Future Part II – Anthony/Doc (33:56)
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson – Doc (35:55)
- Doctor Manhattan – Doc (39:36)
- Christopher Titus – Doc (44:45)
- Projective identification – Doc (46:30)
- Ethnic enclave – Doc (53:30)
- “If I Could Turn Back Time” by Cher – Doc (62:15)
- Lost scene about Red Sox – Anthony (65:09)
- “Measure of a Man” by Elton John – Doc/Anthony (87:20)
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