294: Science Is Never Frightening!

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Our survey of questionable science fiction films moves to the 1950s for “GOG,” a story featuring a secret nuclear base, a couple of “robuts,” a shifty Swiss scientist, a neglected Coke machine, a whole lot of science lectures, and then many dead scientists.

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0:00.0	It's not brain science. It's rocket surgery. This is Gog.
0:04.0	The Inconparable, number 294, April 2016.
0:14.0	Gog, Gog, welcome back to The Incomparable's rocket surgery
0:20.0	where we look at a weird, bad science fiction movie from a particular decade.
0:24.8	We have covered the 2000s. We have covered the 90s, the 80s, the 70s and the 60s. What was left?
0:31.4	The 1950s, we watched 1954s. Gog. I'm Jason Snell, and I'm joined by these fine rocket surgeons, Glenn Fleischman.
0:40.0	Well, I think we're posing the question, Gog or not tonight.
0:44.6	David Lohr.
0:45.4	Hi.
0:47.6	We watched Gog.
0:49.7	Brian Hamilton.
0:51.3	Gog help us all.
0:52.8	Oh, my, Gog.
0:54.0	And Steve Lutz.
0:55.2	What if, Jason, what if Gog was one of us?
0:58.1	That's the question that I think this movie poses.
1:00.3	Just to rob it on a bus.
1:02.0	Trying to make its way to the nuclear pile.
1:04.6	Flailing wildly on a bus.
1:06.1	Dear Gog, it's me, my Gog.
1:07.4	Pulling out the safety rod, trying to find its way home.
1:09.5	Are you there, Gog? It's me, Margaret.
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