Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr · 12 segments
This week's double feature is: Colussus: The Forbin Project (1970) Morgan (2016) Trigger & Content Warnings for this episode include: Sexism, Violence, Suicide, Mental Abuse, Politics *Trigger…
M, we'll start with "Colossus," which I have seen, but this was your first time.
It was my first time.
What did you think?
I have a love-hate relationship with that movie.
I really do.
I can see that.
I think there's some really interesting ideas in "Colossus," but the timing of it especially does add a lot of misogyny.
Oh, well, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, there were a couple of scenes in there that I was between ranting about patriarchal bullshit and eye-rolling.
[laughs]
And "Colossus" is one of those movies, and we'll get to this in a second, but it's one of those movies where the ending has stuck with me for 30 years.
Not surprising.
No.
Not surprising.
My biggest reaction throughout this movie was, um, it's a machine.
It runs on logic.
It does not have emotion.
But I actually think that's what makes it work and makes it feel so ominous is they've built this thing...
We've created this thing that's gonna help us win a war, and we haven't really thought about all the ramifications of it, and now it's out of our control.
Yes, and I think part of my, "It runs on logic, it doesn't run on emotion," comes from the fact that we are experiencing AI right now.
And it doesn't matter how hard your engineers and your computer programmers try, there is no way, in the current state, for a computer to have emotion, originality, creativity, or any of those things.
And I think that's what really annoyed me is that it's not, it doesn't seem like it's gonna be something that's ever going to be possible without doing some kind of weird bioengineering hack or something, and I can't see that happening anytime in the near future either.
Part of what I really liked about this was that it wasn't designed to think on its own.
M, we'll start with "Colossus," which I have seen, but this was your first time.
It was my first time.
What did you think?
I have a love-hate relationship with that movie.
I really do.
I can see that.
I think there's some really interesting ideas in "Colossus," but the timing of it especially does add a lot of misogyny.
Oh, well, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, there were a couple of scenes in there that I was between ranting about patriarchal bullshit and eye-rolling.
[laughs]
And "Colossus" is one of those movies, and we'll get to this in a second, but it's one of those movies where the ending has stuck with me for 30 years.
Not surprising.
No.
Not surprising.
My biggest reaction throughout this movie was, um, it's a machine.
It runs on logic.
It does not have emotion.
But I actually think that's what makes it work and makes it feel so ominous is they've built this thing...
We've created this thing that's gonna help us win a war, and we haven't really thought about all the ramifications of it, and now it's out of our control.
Yes, and I think part of my, "It runs on logic, it doesn't run on emotion," comes from the fact that we are experiencing AI right now.
And it doesn't matter how hard your engineers and your computer programmers try, there is no way, in the current state, for a computer to have emotion, originality, creativity, or any of those things.
And I think that's what really annoyed me is that it's not, it doesn't seem like it's gonna be something that's ever going to be possible without doing some kind of weird bioengineering hack or something, and I can't see that happening anytime in the near future either.
Part of what I really liked about this was that it wasn't designed to think on its own.
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