Are You Just Watching?

Are You Just Watching?


Latest Episodes

Star Trek (Initial Reactions)
May 25, 2009

Daniel and Eve, along with our first-time studio audience of one, saw Star Trek in the theater last week, so we're sharing some initial reactions. This is far from a thorough review. We thoroughly enjoyed this movie! We try to keep the spoilers to a mini

Serenity Scorecard
May 17, 2009

Daniel’s Review Serenity is full of action and westernized science fiction. But that still includes some nasty looking characters, a little innuendo, but not much foul language. It’s a great entertainment piece, especially for science-fiction

Serenity (and Firefly), Part 1 (Episode 4)
May 17, 2009

Welcome back! For those who haven't been following the blog, Eve has been blogging on the popular Twilight Saga (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Twilight%20Saga%20%26%2334%3BStephenie%20Meyer%26%2334%3B&tag=djosdes-20&index=books&linkCode

Are You Just Watching? AUDIO PROMO
May 13, 2009

We now have our first 30-second promo ready to go. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us grow our listenership, please play this promo in your own podcast(s) or send it to friends to play in theirs. We would be very grateful for your support!

The Twilight Saga: Marriage, the Sanctity of Life, and Religion
May 12, 2009

Welcome back to my continuing critique of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga from a Christian perspective. There are a couple things that I really appreciate about the underlying worldview that Meyer’s reveals in her storytelling. First off, through

The Twilight Saga: Origins and Ultimate Destinations
May 04, 2009

Welcome back to my continuing critique of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga from a Christian perspective. In my last post I talked briefly about how Meyer used the vampire myth in her popular series, but with the undead as main characters, it’s

The Twilight Saga: Vampires, Demons, and Angels
May 01, 2009

Synopsis and general review The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan, who moves to gloomy Washington State to live with her father, where she meets and falls in love with a dashingly beautiful, and surprising good, va

Are You Just Reading? An Introduction
April 28, 2009

A lot of people spend hours watching movies and television, but some of us spend as much time (if not more) reading books. If someone asked me for the top five things I spend time doing, reading would be near the top of the list. But just like movies and

Coming Soon: Serenity, Firefly, and Twilight
April 23, 2009

We're getting ready to record our next episode, which will be a discussion based on the science fiction movie Serenity with a little Firefly thrown in. If you want to watch these and send us your thoughts that we can include in our next episode, comment h

Scorecard for Batman: The Dark Knight
April 21, 2009

Daniel’s review Although I really enjoy this new Batman genre, The Dark Knight is very dark and filled with psychotic violence. Ledger’s own death around the movie indicates how twisted it was. Definitely not a movie for kids. Even with all of