Spocklight: A Star Trek Podcast
TV & Film
We’re joined by Total Film Writer and regular Evolution of Horror contributor, Tim Coleman, to discuss what he considers to be one of the greatest films of all time, 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie starring Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron.
We’re transported back to the days of Saturday Morning Cartoons as Tim gives us an education in Transformers taking in such revelations as the Optimus Prime as Christ analogy and poor highbrow Orson Welles being destroyed by trash culture at the end of his career. We also examine how the surprisingly brutal nature of the film came about, debate the differences between Optimus Prime’s characterisation in the original series to the later Michael Bay movies and of course, place the film within Nimoy’s illustrious career alongside such iconic roles as The Evil Moroccan Magician in Faerie Tale Theatre’s interpretation of Aladdin.
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You can find Tim @fatscoleman on Twitter and more of his writing in the pages of Total Film and at https://movingpicturesfilmclub.com/
You can watch the full version of The Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1_6D9QS9Y&t=180s
You can watch the full version of Hollie McNish’s brilliant poem, Megatron, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCO-YmLT8t4
Credit for our wonderful theme music goes to the incredibly talented, Adam Johnston’s, you can find more of his work at - https://adamjohnstonuk.bandcamp.com/
Our beautiful artwork was created by Stephen Trumble, see more at http://www.stephentrumble.com
Huge thanks to Russell Honeywell for post production support
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Spocklight At the Movies 27: The Muppets Take Manhattan (w/ Professor Elemental & Hattie Snooks)
Spocklight At the Movies 26: Sunshine
Supplemental 20: The Worlds of Gene Roddenberry
Episode 48: Year of Hell (w/ Agent Scott from the Spy Hards Podcast)
On Screen 4: Frasier (w/ David Trumble)
Spocklight At the Movies 25: 15 Minutes (w/ Tom Salinsky from The Best Pick Movie Podcast)
Supplemental 19: Ambush (w/ Greg Lock, Thomas Saville & David Trumble)
On Screen 3: Futurama
Episode 47: Star Trek Lower Decks Season Two Retrospective
Episode 46: Macrocosm (w/ Sophie Petzal)
Episode 45: Hollow Pursuits (w/ Hattie Snooks)
Episode 44: The Star Trek Draft
Spocklight At the Movies 24: Green Room (w/ Chris Hewitt from Empire Magazine)
The Best of Spocklight (Vol. 1) - The Movies of Trek
Spocklight At the Movies 23: Inside Moves
Episode 43: Twilight (w/ Cam Smith from the SpyHards and Subspace Transmissions podcasts)
Episode 42: The City on the Edge of Forever (w/ Boyd Hilton from the Pilot TV Podcast)
The Richard Donner Interview: Tribute to a Legend
Spocklight At the Movies 22: Fast Five (w/ Petros Patsilivas)
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