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The Protagonist Podcast Dueling Genre Productions
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Each week we discuss a great character in a great story.
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SecUnit from The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red (novel 2017)
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Returning guest Kjerste Christensen joins Joe to discuss The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, the first story in a series written by Martha Wells. The series tells the story of a part human, part robot Security unit. This SecUnit has disabled its governor that was supposed to limit its agency, and now prefers to spend its time watching episodes of a long-running soap opera. But, when an emergency arises the SecUnit must choose what it will do for the humans it was hired to protect.
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The Murderbot Diaries - Wikipedia
Martha Wells - Wikipedia -
Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv 1987)
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Producer Andrew joins Joe to talk about the character of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We're looking at two episodes, "Elementary, My Dear Data" and "Measure of a Man." In one, the holodeck causes chaos (as always) when Data plays Sherlock Holmes, and in the other it is argued that Data is just a piece of Starfleet-owned equipment that can be taken apart and studied. Both offer meditations about identity and AI, and both originally aired in the late 1980s.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Wikipedia
Star Trek: The Next Generation - IMDB
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Gail, Julie, Kay, Cynthia, and Dave from The Sapphires (film 2012)
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Returning guest Kjerste Christensen joins Joe to discuss The Sapphires, a 2012 Australian jukebox musicale dramedy that is loosely based on real events. It tells the story of an Australian music group that travels to Vietnam to sing for troops during the war. The films deals with heavy subject—war, death, racism, trauma, etc—but manages to feel pleasant and accessible despite those topics.
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The Sapphires - Wikipedia
The Sapphires - IMDB -
Ann O’Brien and Axwell Tiberius from Monkeyman and O’Brien (comic 1996)
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Returning guest Chris "Mav" Maverick joins Joe to talk about a comic book written and drawn by Art Adams with colors by Laura Allred and Matt Hollingsworth with letters by Lois Buhalis. It tells the story of an intelligent gorilla from another dimension named Axwell Tiberius and a human named Ann O’Brien who gains superpowers in a science lab accident. Then, naturally, they have multidimensional adventures.
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Monkeyman and O'Brien - Wikipedia
The VoxPopcast - Official Website -
Daniel Nayeri from Everything Sad is Untrue (novel 2020)
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Returning guest Rachel Armstrong joins Joe to discuss Daniel Nayeri's autobiographical book Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story). This novel tells the story of Daniel, his mother, and his sister leaving Iran and arriving in Oklahoma as refugees. At his middle school, nobody believes Daniel's stories about his earlier life in Iran.
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Daniel Nayeri - Official Website
Everything Sad is Untrue - Wikipedia -
John Nolan in The Rookie (TV 2018)
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Returning guest Branden Ushio joins Joe to discuss the tv show The Rookie. Starring Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the show is about the oldest rookie in the LAPD. We discuss Nathan Fillion's charm as an actor, whether the show is "copaganda" or a wish-fulfilmment story about the best versions of police forces, and talk about some of the unique stylistic choices the series makes.
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The Rookie - Wikipedia
The Rookie - IMDB
Nathan Fillion - Wikipedia