Fully Integrated Geeks: The FIGcast

In our inaugural episode, we tell you a bit about the nature of the podcast, discuss the new Batman movie casting and the Alien prequel project, and run down half of the 55 new speculative fiction movies due out in 2011.

Thoughts on the new Wonder Woman TV series picked up by NBC, reaction to the Human Torch being killed off from the Fantastic Four, reminiscing on Wizard magazine, the conclusion of the 2011 speculative fiction movie list, and our take on the Oscar nominations.

Our thought on Google's accusation of Bing stealing search results, the future according to Thomas Edison (in 1911), and our thoughts on Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan's casting of Superman in the upcoming movie "Superman: Man of Steel."

Our favorite Super Bowl commercials and trailers, new movies due out this weekend and what just came out on Blu-Ray, IBM Watson is the closest we have come to Skynet, and insight from Trey on Batman's sidekick Robin.

IBM Watson obliterates our smartest humans on Jeopardy, the actress to play Wonder Woman is announced *during the show*, our musings on the X-Men: First Class trailer, and new movies due out this weekend and what just came out on Blu-Ray

We catch up and talk about Darren's movie shoot, Tripp's latest read and Trey birthday loot, we speculate on possible casting choices for Lex Luthor in the upcoming Superman movie, Tripp updates us on a new movie in the making called Old Man's War, our special guest film expert Shaun talks with us about Oscar predictions and opinions, and we quickly run through the coming attaction

We catch up and talk about Rachel's play (that's Darren's wife), Trey's latest adventure and Tripp's newest book, we reflect on the good and the bad (mostly the bad) at the Oscars, we discuss some breaking news about The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, we run down the top 10 sci-fi/fantasy books of the 2000s, we talk tech with the brand new iPad 2 launch, we discuss Zod being t

We get Darren's take on the Merchant of Venice, Tripp updates on his progress through The Wise Man's Fear, we discuss what we think makes A Game of Thrones such a good read, Trey lays out for us exactly how he's turning comics into a Master's thesis, and we quickly run through the coming attactions at the box office and on Blu-Ray

Darren's recounts his brief stint as a tour guide, Trey is fully immersed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Tripp finished Wise Man's Fear and saw a couple of movies, Darren tells us of AT&T's evil plot to instantiate a usage limit on their DSL service, Trey tells us about the new Wonder Woman TV pilot (and his fear), a new Kevin Spacey/David Fincher project, and a possible Sa

It's Darren's birthday! He dines well. Trey continues down the long and winding Whedon road, Tripp saw Paul and tells us about it, we are very unimpressed with the Halloweeny, dominatrix-esque Wonder Woman costume, we speculate on Joseph Gordon-Levitt's role in The Dark Knight Returns, we discuss the casting of Superman's parents and the lack of other roles, and we quickly run thro