Premium Episode 238: We Love The Starship Troopers Bugs
Added 2024-03-31 04:23:46 +0000 UTCThis week, we drop Liv Agar on planet P to wade through the thousands of bug carcasses that have been discussing Starship Troopers as of late. Meanwhile, Brain Bug Travis has been captured and forced out of his comfy cave amidst the rallying cries of one million Julians. Will Liv be able to make it all the way through a pro-fascism science fiction novel from 1959? Will Jake be able to critically discuss the politics surrounding “Helldivers 2”, a video game inspired by a satirical movie adapted from the aforementioned pro-fascism novel? Will he instead include gameplay footage despite there being no video component of this podcast? Join us, on one express elevator to Hell.
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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.
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Today someone told me the novel is satire and I'm just so raw from the eyebrow rubbing, y'all
Motato Chip
2024-05-22 04:17:59 +0000 UTCProbably the thousandth person to ask this, but I would love to have the hosts' reading lists.
k 0
2024-05-08 23:14:53 +0000 UTCI think pointing that out is part of the purpose of the movie. When people are able to excuse genocide they usually see the victims as disgusting as most people see the bugs. Something being disgusting to someone isn’t a reason to destroy or hurt them. You can find the bugs disgusting/have fun watching or playing video games killing them and still understand that invading their land and killing their species is wrong. You shouldn’t have to relate to or sympathize with someone to not commit genocide. I think that’s what makes his movies so powerful, you walk away feeling uncomfortable with the two ideas you can hold at once. “I liked seeing those hot ppl kill bugs ” and also “that’s pretty fucked up”. That’s my take at least
Westbrook Evans
2024-04-09 20:11:11 +0000 UTCGood episode, tho I thought your potshots at the recent video critic admitting that he'd find it impossible to sympathize with the bugs pretty smug. By the end of the episode Jake is admitting he can't keep his hands off of Helldivers because of how intoxicating he finds the videogame's world - it's essentially the same thing. Verhoeven used the language of film (pretty = good) that we've been taught since the mediums birth, and can't escape. Sure we can intellectually make the distinction at a distance, but in the theater, immersed in the story and Veerhoeven's incredible talent, we didn't shed a tear over the wholesale bug slaughter.
JRC
2024-04-06 23:08:00 +0000 UTCNeil Patrick Harris is doing a psychic aptitude test for the main character and ends up sabotaging his results because he's actually getting all the questions right.
Samwell Ganges
2024-04-06 02:25:24 +0000 UTCOkay, so the episode is really just an excuse for Jake to sell us Helldivers 2. Also, I just purchased Helldivers 2. All hail Democracy.
Emo Jim
2024-04-04 16:56:16 +0000 UTCBug sympathy? ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Daniel
2024-04-04 13:16:15 +0000 UTC
