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Couchzone: Favourite Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes
In 1987 hearing that Star Trek was returning to TV with a brand new crew and even new Enterprise was like hearing one of your friends had got a new lover, when you’d got on really well with the last...
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Hallelujah as Covered by Jeff Buckley
Heaven Above Mike’s Twitter A song that was sung and ignored, covered and ignored except for one man who covered it again, only for it to be ignored. Until there was a death. Who knows when anyone...
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Couchzone: My Favourite Deep Space Nine Episodes (Part One, the Non Dominion...
In 1993, for the first time there would be two series of Star Trek running at the same time. For it’s final two years The Next Generation would be joined by Deep Space Nine, a new show that would...
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Simpsons Watch-Along Podcast 5: 0311 “I Married Marge”
Episode 5 of the Simpsons Watch-Along Podcast features the first flashback episode, season 3 episode 11, “I Married Marge.” The post Simpsons Watch-Along Podcast 5: 0311 “I Married Marge” appeared...
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Simpsons Watch-Along Podcast 6: 0512 “Homer and Apu”
Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? We do! Listen to @Peachmachine, @Dabbledog, and special guest @Fowl_Original attempt to order Squishees over the Anchor app as they relive one of the first musical episodes...
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Couchzone: Favourite Deep Space Nine Episodes (The Dominion War)
When we entered the second season of Deep Space Nine, we’d started to settle into the concept of this most unorthodox version of Star Trek. With the show relying on ongoing story and character arcs,...
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Thank You for Smoking
Once upon a time if you heard that somebody said something bad you didn’t have any idea if that was simply a slip of the tongue or a glimpse into their true soul. But today we do have that ability....
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Couchzone Movie Club: 2014: Chef Kissing Batman’s Babadook
And it came to pass that Marvel Movies announced that in 2014 it would be releasing Guardians of the Galaxy. And lo, the keyboard experts all laughed at the folly, pointing out what Marvel didn’t know...
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Couchzone Remembers Blake’s Seven
The acting could be cheesy and the special effects looked naff even at the time, while the sets, costumes and props were hilariously unconvincing. Yes, spaceships have never looked more like models on...
View ArticleBack in the USSR; aka: Guess What’s Stuck in Mike’s Head?!
Moscow, USSR 1983 @HalfGuarded History is written by the victors but sometimes they don’t seem to fully appreciate what they’ve won. When Ronald Reagan single handedly defeated the Soviet Union, he...
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Tombstone, AZ Mike’s Twitter We can all find inspiration in art. I have always been partial to the movie Tombstone, myself. I’d like to revisit a scene from that film, just one for now, if you’ll so...
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Why Star Wars Ruined Filmmaking
Taking a glance at the highest grossing films of 1970 shows you just how much the motion picture industry has changed over the last 45 years. Of the top ten highest grossing U.S. movies, three were...
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George Lucas Killed Star Wars and It Cannot Be Resurrected
A long time ago, A Galaxy Far, Far Away @HalfGuarded George Lucas killed Star Wars and that was his right; God can kill his creation if he so chooses. With Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,...
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Couchzone Movie Club: 2015, when we loved the force again…for a bit
And oh, how we chuckled when that guy in the Apprentice said he was running for President of the United States, with Ladbrokes giving odds of 150-1. Honestly if for years you’d been decrying how...
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Gotham is actually a sequel to The OC (don’t call it that)
I’ve spent more of my life watching TV/movies than I have probably doing any one other thing besides sleeping. I like TV and movies and entertainment because it’s an escape. That’s hardly some unique,...
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The Cello: Wherein Man Kills Death Through Music
Music has been with us since the world’s first percussionist debuted in a dark cave, someone unrecognizably human by our standards, rhythmically slapping their hands on a rock. We have fought wars to...
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Couchzone Movie Club: 2016 and now we’re up to date.
So we reach the end of this journey of recapping movies year by year, as if my opinion actually meant a damn. As I mentioned last time, seeing as I’ve already done top ten reviews for the years...
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Couchzone: The Kids Sci Fi Shows That I Grew Up On.
If I misbehaved as a kid, grounding would not work as a punishment, instead I’d be ordered to go out and play with other children in the sun and fresh air. After all, why would I want to leave the...
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Couchzone goes Fightclub: My top ten movie fights
Just recently the internet found a welcome distraction from the horrors of Covid (namely being forced to spend time getting to know your kids), when a video emerged of two guys having a fight on the...
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Couchzone Fightclub: My Favourite TV Fights
My Favourite Movie Fights article was immensely popular, to the extent I almost had to use two hands to count the number of people who commented on it. Because of this I’ve come up with a follow up,...
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