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Sci-Fi and Pop Culture Podcast hosted by @mark2000.bsky.social and @ryanthomasriddle.com. New episodes weekly at bit.ly/432XqQc
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You heard our review of the 2025 movie "Weapons", but what did Madisynn think of it?
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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TK Bellows’ look as a whole is anachronistic. It seems to be based on this picture of Gene Roddenberry at a convention in 1976 ↙️, though Gene wears much more stylish frames than Bellows. In 1967, toward the end of Star Trek’s first season, Gene was way more clean cut ↘️.
Gene Roddenberry speaking to a fan at a 1976 Star Trek convention. Gene Roddenberry holding a script while sitting in the Enterprise captain’s chair in 1967.
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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TK Bellows wears an interesting and anachronistic pair of glasses in “A Space Adventure Hour”. They’re S9 frames, also known as “birth control frames”. From 1990 to 2012 they were standard military issue to navy and army recruits. Saddam Hussein was given a pair when he was captured in 2003.
TK Bellows from the Strange New Worlds episode “A Space Adventure Hour” looks confused and upset against a white background. A pair of military issue S9 frames with their legs folded sitting on a white surface. A navy recruit wearing S9 glasses stretches in a large gym. Dozens of recruits do the same behind him. Some also wear the same frames. Saddam Hussein with mussed hair and a full, grey beard. He wears a stripped suit and a pair of S9 glasses.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Anyone else notice Christina Chong talks into the bottom of her communicator like a smartphone in speaker phone mode? ↖️↗️ Ethan Peck ↙️ and Celia Rose Gooding ↘️ hold it the traditional way.
La'an walks into a temple hold a communicator. La'an stands in a temple holding a communicator. Spock stands in a temple holding a communicator. Uhura stands in a temple holding a communicator.
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The plot to Shuttle to Kenfori in a nut shell.
October 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Sharing a BTS shot from The Black Hole we’ve never seen before. This is from the utterly flawless meteor in the hallway scene. Shocking that it was done on plain old blue screen.
Two pictures from Disney’s The Black Hole. The top shot shows three actors running in front of a blue screen with red lighting cast on them. The bottom picture shows the completed composite with the actors on the above picture running on a gangway as a large, flaming rock rolls toward them.
September 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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If someone replaced Paul Wesley with a muppet no one would notice.
Paul Wesley as Captain Kirk with a smile that goes from one side of is face to the other.
July 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Let’s say your robot says “you can’t unscramble eggs” and “a good offense is the best defense”. Would you then understand he wants you to use the Cygnus’s probe ship to escape now that your own ship has been destroyed? We feel like we’d die trying to figure it out.
Vincent the robot is saying something cryptic and stupid and somehow his crew mates understand him.
April 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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A still from the Black Hole showing Durant looking back from McCray toward Reinhardt. Durant is labeled “Us”. McCray is labeled “Star Trek: TMP’s Enterprise flyby. Reinhardt is labeled “The Black Hole’s Cygnus flyby”.
April 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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By the end of his appearance in the movie Durant is practically writhing with lust as Reinhardt gives commands on the bridge. He can’t even look at McCray when she speaks to him. It’s one thing to be generally excited about a mission but he particularly can’t take his eyes off his crush.
Durant sits while McCray holds his shoulder and tries to convince him to leave. He sits forward, his eyes looking past McCray to Reinhardt off screen Aftern McCray calls him over to talk, Durant keeps his eyes on Reinhardt.
April 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Perkins had a long term boyfriend early in his career. He knew ways to communicate desire for another man, one of which is to look at his lips as much as at his eyes. It’s a really wonderfully subversive performance for a Disney film.
Durant smiles goofily again at an off camera Reinhardt. Harry Booth smiles knowingly in the background. Durant holds up a glass with wonder as he realized Reinhardt is directly toast him at this moment. Harry Booth seems unphased. Durant eyes Reinhardt’s lips as the latter speaks to Kate McCray. Durant again smiles goofily at Reinhardt while Kat McCray looks on unamused.
April 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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In this scene Reinhardt, who is an obvious megalomaniac, telling Perkins’ Durant that he’s a man in search of something. The camera lingers on Perkins’ face for a while as it runs the gamut of emotions of a man figuring something out. And that something is “Does he like me as much as I like him?”
Durant looks up in wonder at the man dressing him down. Durant side eyes nervously to see if his reactions are being noticed by the others. Durant looks down in realization. Durant makes a realization.
April 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Anthony Perkins’ performance in The Black Hole is extremely unsettling. He’s nervous throughout, especially when he meets Reinhardt. The chemistry between the two is unmissable. Perkins downright falls in love and mostly seems worried others will notice. Here’s a thread of his best horny faces:
Alex Durant stands awe struck at Reinhardt, who is off camera. Harry Booth doesn’t feel the same and scowls suspiciously. Durant stands on the bridge of the Cygnus with rest of the crew behind him. Durant smiles as Reinhardt points at him. No one else seems amused. Durant smiles goofily at Reinhardt as the latter jibes a flippant Harry Booth. Kate Mccray is less than excited.
April 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Most of the time the Palomino's holographic display was done in camera. In the first pic you can see the projection hitting Earnest Borgnine's arm and casting a shadow ↙️. In the second pic it's clear the effect was composited in during post and a matte was cut around Joseph Bottom's body↘️.
A still from the Disney movie The Black Hole. Earnest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Anthony Perkins stand around a holographic display. A still from the Disney movie The Black Hole. Robert Forster sits at a console while Joseph Bottoms floats over to his station using the console to guide him.
April 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This kind of depth of field without a split diopter? Robert Wise, eat your heart out.
A still for the Disney movie The Black Hole. Yvette Mimieux sits at a console in the foreground. She looks over at Anthony Perkins who is at the back of the set. They are both in focus.
April 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Here’s more of Robert not being mad.
An excerpt of an interview with Robert McCall in Cinefantastique. It reads: During that period of time I produced initial designs for the Cygnus—it was called the Centaurus then—and worked up some ideas for the Palomino and for Vincent, too. However, my ideas were changed quite a bit after I left the film. Naturally I preferred the kinds of things I did. I rather deplored the changes, actually. I wanted very’ much to see the things I had designed used. So I was disappointed in that respect. But the Cygnus I designed and the general configuration of the existing model that was finally used in the film is pretty much the same configuration that I put together. The main difference came in the fact that Peter [Ellenshaw) wanted a very’ different kind of exterior textural look.
April 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Robert McCall, who painted the famous 2001: A Space Odyssey poster, was initially the art director for The Black Hole. His Cygnus design is the basis of the final design. He was replaced 6 weeks in with Peter Ellenshaw. But he wasn’t mad. Please don’t put in the magazine that he got mad.
Robert McCall, palette and brush in hand, paints a giant image of an American astronaut. The poster for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. A small spcae plane jets out of the rotating space station’s hangar. Behind it is a pale planet, a moon, and nebulae. Three pictures of concept art by Robert McCall for The Black Hole. The top is a depiction of his Palomino, which is very reminiscent of the Space 1999 Eagle. Center is a floating robot with bug eyes and antennae. It has four arms, two of which hold lights. This is most likely Vincent. The bottom panel shows the USS Cygnus almost as it was in the film, expect white and solid instead of iron and glass. An excerpt from an interview with Robert McCall in Cinefantastique. It reads: Anyway, Peter Ellenshaw was finally selected as the production designer-why is still a mystery to me. My guess is that the feeling was that Peter, with a much greater background in the film business, was preferred over me by Ron Miller, who of course is the head of the studio and the man who makes the decisions of that kind. And, again, let me indicate that I'm not bitter about it| Peter and I actually worked together for month, about, before I finished my part of the job and left. My only regret is that I couldn't have been more involved.
April 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Joseph Bottoms, who played Charlie Pizer in the Black Hole, won a “New Star of the Year” Golden Globe for the miniseries “The Dove”. But according to google image search he’s most famous for a photo spread he did for the New York entertainment magazine “After Dark”. Happy Friday!
Joseph Bottoms in a promotional picture for “The Black Hole”. He is kneeling on one knee, squinting as if saying “hooo weeee!”. One hand is casually thrown back while the other grips a double barrel laser pistol. The November 1978 cover of After Dark. Joseph Bottoms appears shirtless looking at the camera with one hand smoothing his gelled hair. The subtitle reads: Joseph Bottoms: But can he dance?” A black and white photo of Joseph Bottoms from the hips up. He is completely nude and clutching his face as if to say “how did I get into this mess?” A black and white photo of Joseph Bottoms in a flying swan pose completely nude. We found this one on his IMDB page.
April 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Although much of The Black Hole was shot on blue screen, many of it's outer space footage was not. To avoid matte lines on the complex ships they were filmed them in front of an enormous hand-painted backdrop with thousands of backlit holes punched in it for the stars.
An artist airbrushes a nebulous look for the starry backdrop of the USS Cygnus. Two model makers stand over the 12 foot miniature of the USS Cygnus with the painted star backdrop behind them. Designer Peter Ellenshaw kneels on top of a camera crane outfitted with a periscope lens for extreme close up photography of the USS Cygnus model. A still from The Black Hole with the Palomino in the foreground, the Cygnus in background, and the star field beyond that. All shot in camera with no matting.
April 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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As for our game of rewriting Joseph Bottoms' accursed line "I should have known he was all talk, no guts, and locked him up", none of the adaptation writers play. Whitman and Kirby leave it out. Foster only adds an "and" between "all talk" and "no guts". @ryanthomasriddle.com still wins.
An excerpt from Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the Black hole. It reads: "I should've known he was all talk, and no guts and locked him up" Pizer was feeling somewhat less than regretful at the report's sudden, unexpected demise.
April 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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No one includes Reinhardt and Maximilian in hell. They only deal with the Palomino crew who sleep through the black hole in the Whitman comic. Kirby turns them into incorporeal thought and returns them to normal on the other side. Foster's ending scatters their conscious atoms across the universe.
Maximilian slowly lowers himself on top of Reinhardt as they take on a supine position for no other reason than them being just good friends Two pages from the Whitman comic adaptation of the black hole. Kate McRae appears to be asleep as the probe ship exits the black hole into a new universe. The captions read: Stunned by the force, which tear at them in the palominos crew appear to sleep… And while they do, the ship falls towards the blinding core of the black hole… And then… McRae's dialogue reads: We're through! Dan! Charlie! We're through! We're safe on the other side! The final page of Alan Dean Foster novelization of The Black Hole. It reads: They had been compressed compacted, but had passed beyond and through with their selves intact. With the passage came peace and time to contemplate. On a beach was a grain of sand. The sand was part of a continent, the continent a component of a world, the world a speck of substance in the seat of infinity. They were part of that world, part of every world for in passing out of the white hole, their substance had become dispersed. An atom of Charlie to a nine-world system, a molecule of Kate to a local cluster of stars, a tiny diffuse section of Holland spread thin over a dozen galaxies. Yet they could still think, forethought does not respect the trifling limitations of time and space. They were still them, and this new thing they had become. Spread substance, and they now had an eternity in. Their thought to spend infinity, as did there, finely, which to contemplate the universe they had become…
April 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Black Hole incorrectly refers to the swarm of rocks pelting the Cygnus as "meteorites". Meteorites are meteors that are already sitting on the earth's surface. Both Kirby and Foster keep the term. The Whitman comic refers to them correctly as "asteroids". None of them keep them burning hot.
Review of the bow of the USS Cygnus as flaming "meteorites" fly around it toward the black hole. A panel from the Jack Kirby comic strip for The Black Hole. Rocks fly towards us over though command center of the USS Cygnus. The caption reads "Suddenly a meteorite shower overtakes the crippled Cygnus. Continued…" Excerpt from the Alan Dean Foster, novelization of The Black Hole. It reads: "Reinhardt glowered helplessly at his instruments and ranted at the storm as the Cygnus strove to remain intact under the barrage of meteorites, a great ungainly bird assailed by a swarm of potentially deadly bees." A panel from the Whitman comic book, adaptation of The Black Hole. A swarm of rocks slams against the starboard side of the USS Cygnus. In an inset panel, The Palomino crew escape on an air tram. The caption reads: But the Cygnus, wounded by the explosion in her power center cannot outrun the storm. Asteroids bombard the ship… As the crew of the Palomino speed toward the probe ship in an air car…
April 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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It's curious to see how various print versions of The Black Hole handled its weirder scenes. Anthony Perkin's evisceration is so graphic ↖️ no one adapts it accurately. In all cases he's lasered – by Reinhardt in the Whitman comic ↗️, and by Maximilian in the Kirby strip ↙️ and Alan Dean Foster novel ↘️
Anthony Perkins holds of a book to protect himself from the whirling blades of Maximilian. Yvette Mimieux cowers behind him. A panel from the Whitman comic adaptation. Reinhardt shoots Durant in the back with a duel barrel laser pistol. The caption reads "But Hans Reinhardt has seen, and so Alex Durant is silenced… Forever…" Reinhardt's dialogue reads that was foolish of you, Dr. Duran! I cannot tolerate interference!" McCrays dialogue reads "you murder! If there's any justice, that black hole will be your grave!" Two panels from the Jack Kirby comic strip adaptation of The Black Hole. In the first panel, Durrant points towards Maximilian, who approaches him and McCrea. McCrays dialogue reads "no!" Duran's dialogue reads "leave her alone!" The second panel shows Durant falling back after being hit by a ray of light the caption reads "continued…" An excerpt from the Alan Dean Foster, novelization of The Black Hole. It reads: "let her go!" Durant made a sudden wild charge for Reinhardt. He never reached him. A burst of bright, deadly light from one of Maximilian's lasers drilled him as neatly as any knife.
April 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Who would win in a fight? The Meep or Moopsy! Well, we may never know. But we do know one thing — we're back, baby! The Jerks start season three by discussing Russell T. Davies return to #DoctorWho!
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February 6, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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New episode alert! The Jerks get lost in the highway of the sacred timeline. Wild that the series ended with Loki trapped in the David Lynch film LOST HIGHWAY! Now that's a twist. Or is it? J/K but we do talk Loki and Lynch plus Star Trek TOS.

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November 14, 2023 at 6:06 PM