Blink – The Secrets of Doctor Who

Blink

Many fans rank Blink as the greatest Doctor Who story. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha don’t necessarily disagree and they have great fun discussing the Weeping Angels, the Doctor-less story, and writer Steven Moffat’s two-fold inspiration for it.

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Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 – The Secrets of Star Trek

In the 2nd season finale of Star Trek: Discovery, an epic battle sets up a surprising 3rd season possibility and brings resolution to some characters. But there were also plotholes the size of wormholes. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha review the good and not-so-good of this episode.

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Vengeance on Varos – The Secrets of Doctor Who

Vengeance on Varos

The 6th Doctor visits a totalitarian world where the residents vote through their TVs on whether the leaders should be totured and prisoners should be executed. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the similarities to other dystopian stories and the morality of such a system.

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Such Sweet Sorrow – The Secrets of Star Trek

Such Sweet Sorrow

It’s the penultimate episode of Discovery’s 2nd season and Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the long (long!) goodbyes, the hints at future plotlines, and the problem of an all-powerful AI that is going to get more powerful.

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Family of Blood – The Secrets of Doctor Who

Family of Blood

In this 2nd of 2 parts, the Doctor in 1913 still thinks he’s human and is dealing with alien predators hunting him. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the Doctor’s temptation and his punishment of the Family of Blood.

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Through the Valley of Shadows – The Secrets of Star Trek #43

Through the Valley of Shadows

On the latest Star Trek Discovery, Pike must be willing to pay a price for a time crystal and Spock and Burnham confront a ghost ship. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the biblical reference in the episode title and how it could apply to the themes of the show.

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Human Nature – The Secrets of Doctor Who

Human Nature

In the first part of this two-part story, the Doctor’s memory has been wiped to hide him from a family of hunters in an English military school in 1913. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the Doctor as an ordinary man and the inhumanity we sometimes show each other.

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Perpetual Infinity – The Secrets of Star Trek

Perpetual Infinity
The Discovery crew confronts the Red Angel and what her identity means for them even as the evil AI ramps up its efforts to evolve. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the changes to Star Trek time travel and whether the holes in the plot are really misdirections.

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Kinda – The Secrets of Doctor Who

Doctor Who Kinda

This 5th Doctor story is filled with Buddhist concepts, references to Eden, and analogies to British colonianism that Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss along with Adric’s wavering loyalty and the other companions’ sleepiness.

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The Red Angel – The Secrets of Star Trek

The Red Angel

Our theory about the identity of the Red Angel is busted… or is it? Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery and all the revelations it contained, plus the new mysteries it opened.

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