Join your host Garhdo as they take a look at the 1997 film adaptation of Starship Troopers, a film that took one of the most influential science fiction stories ever made and satirized it into a parody of fascism. Unfortunately it was a satire that many missed on release, but the critical and cultural reappraisal this film has had in the 25 years since its release is fascinating, and so they are going to explore how and why it happened.

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:59 Subverting The Novel
• 27:55 Film and Franchise
• 52:35 Why Did It Fail?
• 1:00:59 Propaganda and Pageantry
• 1:25:35 What it Means to be a Citizen
• 1:42:40 How I Learned to Love the Bug
• 2:00:16 Outro
• 2:03:36 Post-credits
• 2:03:52 Sign-Off

Season 5, Episode 01

June 14th 2023

After some time doing some reviews and taking a short break getting my schedule back on track, I returned with a brand new season, trying to focus on some larger topics that I wanted to cover, and the shift over the years to the reception that Starship Troopers received has always been a subject that fascinated me, and so I decided to make that my first episode back.