Here are three observations provoked by the new movie The Pod Generation, all revolving around the concept of “and”:

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When is the last time you encountered the name “Woyzeck” in the wild?

Exactly.

Which is why it’s bizarre that TWO movies released theatrically on August 11 BOTH feature characters whose names derive from Georg Büchner’s title character — spelled differently, but pronounced the exact same. In The Pod Generation, Rosalie Craig plays Linda WOZCHECK. AND, in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, David Dastmalchian plays WOJCHEK (sailors of a certain generation didn’t have last names, I suppose).

How does history’s Woyzeck relate to these two? That’s for us to mull.

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Another recent example of a double feature’s “two movies are better than one” conversational calculus:

The new movie Biosphere Venn-diagrams with The Pod Generation in the sense that both devise sci-fi futures that reimagine human gestation in order to make some gender commentary.

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One final “and” note, for my fellow theater peeps:

WTF happened to Kathryn Hunter in The Pod Generation?! She’s fresh off playing King Lear at a major off-Broadway theater, she gets the supporting-star “AND” credit in the titles, AND YET, she appears in only one brief shot, with only one line, near the ending? A simplistically happy ending that almost feels like the editor chopped off the dark twist to come, and perhaps her character played a role in it? Or maybe it’s a sequel set-up?

lol.

I even checked if she was responsible for the ample voice work — that voice; a real one of one — but nope. Which begs the question:

How much of The Pod Generation ended up on the cutting-room floor?