I’m Brian Meloche
My TWDTT/FTWDTT co-host Kyle McAdams and I bring you this new animated show on CBS All Access. Ruthie will be back for Discovery in October. This episode, we talk through the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, titled Second Contact. This one was pretty much a split vote. I loved it and thought it was very respectful to the TNG era of the 1990’s. Kyle had a lot of issues with it, especially the pacing and format.
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This is our August Patreon call-in show, recorded on August 1, 2020. Joining Ruthie and me are Kyle McAdams, who you may know from The Walking Dead Talk Through, Kim Voegle from Rebinge DS9, Lawrence Todd, Arend Mayes, Geoff Gentry, and Jim Matthews.
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For Patreon call-in show #5, Brian and Ruthie are joined by Kim Voegele, Laurence Todd, James Robbins, Brian Shiro, and Jim Matthews. We discuss Star Trek: Picard – The Last Best Hope and the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds announcement.
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Brian and Mark interview Lindsley Register, who played ex-Savior turned Alexandria council member Laura. We discuss her time on The Walking Dead and her new movie Scorn, available on Amazon Video in the U.S. and the U.K.
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Ruthie & Brian sit down with Uma McCormack, author of Star Trek: Picard – The Last Best Hope and discuss writing the novel, finding the characters’ voices, and other story details from the novel. If you haven’t read the novel but are planning to, you may want to read it first. There are spoilers in this episode!
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We’re back for Episode 15 with our latest Patreon call-in show, which we are bringing to our regular listeners later than Patreon subscribers got it. This was recorded on April 18, 2020. Joining Brian and Ruthie are Kim Voegele, Laurence Todd (AKA LT from NC), Leigh Radtke (AKA Cybermam), Wes Huntington, Arend Mayes, and Mark Boaldin. We discuss Picard Season 1, Discovery Season 3, and the new Rebinge DS9 and Let’s Talk Through podcasts.
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Brian, Kyle, and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 15, titled The Tower. This episode was written by Kevin Deiboldt & Julia Ruchman and directed by Laura Belsey.
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Brian, Kyle, and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 14, titled Look at the Flowers. This episode was written by Channing Powell and directed by Daisy Von Scherler Meyer. Alpha sure was busy in this episode. Negan and Daryl bonded over some dead whisperers while Carol was just off for some alone time only to have Alpha pestering her over the nagging consequences of her actions. Beta, well, he goes on a trip to open his eyes and ends having two faces… no really… half Beta walker mask and half Alpha’s skin. He’s even more creepy… and dangerous now that he has a horde of his own. And Eugene, Yumiko, and King Ezekiel set off to meet up with a possible new group that ends with a flamboyant stranger. Strange indeed.
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For episode 14 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 10 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2. This episode’s teleplay was by Michael Chabon, its story was by Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman. It was directed by Akiva Goldsman. This was better than the previous episode, though not as good as it could have been.
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Kyle and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 13, titled What We Become, and Brian joins us near the end of the episode. This episode was written by Vivian Tse and directed by Sharat Raja. Michonne arrives at Virgil’s base and not everything is as expected.
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For episode 13 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 9 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1. This episode’s teleplay was by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman, its story was by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman & Akiva Goldsman. It was directed by Akiva Goldsman. The short version: We didn’t like this one very much.
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For episode 12 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 8 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Broken Pieces. This written by Michael Chabon, and directed by Maja Vrvilo.
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Mark, Kyle, and Brian talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 11, titled Morning Star, and Brian is back for most of it. This episode was written by Julia Ruchman & Vivian Tse and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis. Hilltop prepares for the approaching Whisperer horde. Alpha uses new tactics, Carol and Ezekiel comfort each other, and Eugene makes a date.
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For episode 11 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 7 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Nepenthe. This written by Samantha Humphrey and Michael Chabon, and directed by Doug Aarniokoski.
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Mark and Kyle talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 10, titled Stalker, and Brian is back for some of it. This episode was written by Jim Barnes and directed by Bronwen Hughes. Beta goes “underground” and wreaks havoc in Alexandria to retrieve Gamma. Alpha and Daryl have a bloody standoff.
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For episode 10 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 6 of Star Trek: Picard, titled The Impossible Box. This written by Nick Zayas, and directed by Maja Vrvilo.
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For episode 9 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 5 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Stardust City Rag. This episode was written by Kirsten Beyer, and it was directed again by Jean-Luc Picard’s former Number One, Jonathan Frakes.
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For episode 8 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 4 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Absolute Candor. This one has us meet someone we’ve been waiting for, and someone else Picard left behind.
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For episode 7 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through your feedback on Season 1, Episode 3 of Star Trek: Picard, titled The End is the Beginning. We’re finally in space! It was a decent episode, but Brian took some issue with the cold open. And then, there’s the long-standing issue with the Federation economy… but we got to see Hugh! We also respond to some feedback we have gotten back from our listeners about the acting. And we had to talk about Commodore Oh’s ears, which you’ll see in our blog post!
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For episode 6 of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie talk through Season 1, Episode 2 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Maps and Legends. Another great episode, although this one was a lot more exposition than the premiere.
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Brian and Ruthie are so happy to give you super-sized talk through of S1E1 of Star Trek: Picard, titled Remembrance. As usual, we received have tons of feedback for the episode, and we bring it all to you, along with our reaction to it, and add our own thoughts and reactions. TLDR: We both loved it… a lot!
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Brian and Ruthie are joined by Dr. Trek, Larry Nemecek from The Trek Files podcast on the Roddenberry Podcast Network, Portal47.net, and Trekland Tuesdays Live on Facebook, Mark Kirkman of The Walking Dead Talk Through, Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, and the Panels to Pixels Podcast, and Patrons Fred Petrij (AKA Fred from The Netherlands), James Robbins (James the Augmented Sailor), and Laurence Todd (LT from NC) as we discuss a topic submitted as a Patreon perk by LT: What makes Picard such a compelling character? After going a couple of rounds around the roundtable on that topic, we give our thoughts about this show just a few days before it debuts! We give our impressions, hopes, and fears for what is the biggest event in Star Trek fandom since Discovery premiered!
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Ruthie and Brian discuss the finale of the Season 2 Short Treks, Children of Mars, written by Kirsten Beyer & Jenny Lumet & Alex Kurtzman, and directed by Mark Pellington. This Short Trek is categorized as an episode of The Star Trek Picard Cast because it has ties to Star Trek: Picard. We both loved it, Brian probably more than Ruthie.
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For the second episode of The Star Trek Picard Cast, Brian and Ruthie focus on the other Star Trek characters that are returning for Picard that aren’t Picard. We speculate on what they might be doing on the show. We also speculate on what other characters we think might also return to Picard, and what other characters we’d like to see return.
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Ruthie and Brian discuss the fourth and fifth of six Season 2 Short Treks, this time covering the animated shorts: Ephraim and Dot, written by Chris Silvestri & Anthony Maranville and directed by veteran composer Michael Giacchino; and The Girl Who Made the Stars, written by Brandon Schultz and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.
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Ruthie and Brian discuss the third of six Season 2 Short Treks, this time covering Ask Not, written by Kalinda Vazquez and directed by Sanji Senaka. A cadet has been ordered to guard Pike, who has been arrested for treasonThis one’s a tense story, but a short one, even for a Short Trek.
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We’re back! Ruthie and Brian are back with the second of six Season 2 Short Treks, this time covering The Trouble with Edward. This one’s part Tribble origin story, part farce, and all funny. Despite it being a Short Trek, we had a LOT to say!!! We both loved it but Brian let his new alter-ego character onto the podcast again, Nitpicking Brian, to speak about all the things the nitpicking side of him had issues with. He fights with Ruthie and regular Brian about why they think it was a great episode but he doesn’t.
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Brian and Mark are joined by Kyle, as we talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 8, titled The World Before. This episode was written by Julia Ruchman and directed by John Dahl. Michonne sails away, Dante shows how he lived with the enemy, and Carol, Daryl and the gang go after the herd and end up where they shouldn’t be.
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Brian and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 7, titled Open Your Eyes. This episode was written by Corey Reed and directed by Michael Cudlitz. What really happened to Siddiq? Who is Dante? Carol takes on a prisoner.
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Brian and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 6, titled Bonds. This episode was written by Kevin Deiboldt and directed by Dan Liu.
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Brian and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 5, titled What It Always Is. This episode was written by Eli Jorné and directed by Laura Belsey. In a standout performance by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, we catch up with the escaped Negan, who has a groupie. We watch him turn back to old Negan, but with a purpose. Kelly hasn’t returned. Ezekiel has an issue. Aaron makes contact.
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Brian and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 4, titled Silence the Whisperers. This episode was written by Geraldine Inoa and directed by Michael Cudlitz. Some in Alexandria take their frustrations out on Lydia, and Negan becomes an unlikely hero. The Hilltop suffers a major setback.
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We’re finally back! Ruthie and Brian are back with The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, with the first of six mini-episodes, covering the Short Treks. We discuss the Season 3 trailer that was released at New York Comic Con, and the first Short Trek of Season 2, with a focus on Ensign Spock and his first day on board the USS Enterprise, titled Q&A. We both loved it but Brian felt like it had a few minor issues, as he unleashes a new character onto the podcast. We also talk about the issues that we are currently having with Facebook.
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Brian and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 3, titled Ghosts. This episode was written by Jim Barnes and directed by David Boyd. Alexandria is being hit by wave upon wave of walkers, while Carol deals with Alpha and her own demons while being sleep deprived.
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Welcome to the first episode of The Star Trek Picard Cast! We bring you this introduction to us, Brian Meloche and Ruthie Rink, if you don’t know us already from The Star Trek Discovery Podcast, and details everything we know so far about Star Trek: Picard!
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Brian and Mark talk through The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 2, titled We Are the End of the World. This episode was written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Greg Nicotero. This all Whisperers episode shows the meeting of Alpha and Beta, the origins of the Whisperers, and we meet the newly annointed Gamma.
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Brian and Mark talk through a detailed analysis of the season 10 premiere of The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 1, titled Lines We Cross. This episode was written by Angela Kang and directed by Greg Nicotero. Since AMC Premiere made the season premiere available a week early, we did a first impressions episode that was released Sunday night. Here’s a more detailed analysis of the season premiere with your feedback.
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Brian, Mark, and Kyle give their first impressions of the season 10 premiere of The Walking Dead, Season 10 Episode 1, titled Lines We Cross. This episode was written by Angela Kang and directed by Greg Nicotero. Since AMC Premiere made the season premiere available a week early, we are able to do a first impressions episode for early release this week. We will do a second episode with a more detailed analysis of the season premiere with your feedback later this week.
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Mark, Kyle, and Brian talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 16, the season finale, titled End of the Line. This episode was written by Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss, and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis. It’s the end of the season and the end of a long summer of difficult episodes to cover.
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Mark, Kyle, and Brian talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 15, titled Channel 5. This episode was written by Michael Alaimo & Samir Mehta, and directed by David Barrett. Another found footage episode! Another found footage episode? Another found footage episode…
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Mark, and I talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 14, titled Today and Tomorrow. This episode was written by Richard Naing & David Johnson and directed by Sydney Freeland.
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Mark, and I talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 13, titled Leave What You Don’t. This episode was written by Ashley Cardiff & Nick Bernardone, and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer. Logan has found the oil fields, and a whole lot happened this week… but it wasn’t all good.
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Kyle, Mark, and I talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 12, titled Ner Tamid. This episode was written by co-showrunners Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg, and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis. Charlie meets a Rabbi living on his own at the synagogue, while Sarah, Dwight and the rest of the convoy are spotted by Logan’s guys.
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Kyle, Mark, and I talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 11, titled You’re Still Here. This episode was written by Mallory Westfall and Alex Delyle, and directed by K.C. Colwell. We meet Wes, and the tree painter… and things take a weird turn over resources and a manuscript.
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Kyle, Mark, and I talk at 210 Words Per Minute! Also known as Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 10, this episode was written by the showrunners Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss, and directed by long-time Hollywood director Ron Underwood. We get a bottle episode that mostly takes place in a mall in a bit of a sendoff to the classic Dawn of the Dead. Grace and Morgan get closer, while Dwight confronts one of Logan’s guys.
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Channel 4, Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 9, was an episode that was probably in the making since What’s Your Story. In that episode, we first see Al’s desire to interview people to get their stories. It was a long time coming to shoot an episode in this documentary/infomercial style, a first for The Walking Dead franchise.
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The Star Trek Picard Cast is a new podcast on Talk Through Media. We will do in-depth discussions about Star Trek: Picard, the new CBS All Access series that is set to premiere on January 23, 2020. It will also be shown on Space and Crave TV in Canada, and Amazon Prime everywhere else. We’re…
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The Star Trek: Discovery Podcast is an in-depth discussion about Star Trek: Discovery, shown weekly on CBS All Access in the U.S., Space in Canada and Netflix everywhere else. We’re Brian Meloche and Ruthie Rink, two long-time Star Trek fans, and each episode we analyze the story, characters, and the show’s placement in the Star…
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