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
Episode 41: Star Trek Lower Decks Season One Retrospective
Episode 40: Star Trek Discovery Season 3 Spoiler Special
Episode 39: Tomorrow is Yesterday (w/ Daryl Bar from Sudden Double Deep and Is Paul Dano Ok?)
Supplemental 18: The Science of Trek (w/ Dr. Dean Burnett)
Spocklight At the Movies 20: Batman & Robin
Spocklight At the Movies 19: National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (w/ Nick de Semlyen)
Spocklight At the Movies 18: The Pagemaster (w/ David Trumble)
Episode 38: Empok Nor (w/ Adam Johnston from Pretending with Dice)
Spocklight At the Movies 17: Police Academy 5 Assignment Miami Beach (w/ Dan Thomas)
Episode 37: Message in a Bottle (w/ Felix Trench from Wooden Overcoats)
Episode 36: Trials and Tribble-ations (w/ Bob Fleming)
On Screen 2: Columbo (w/ Chris Hewitt from Empire Magazine)
Episode 35: Picard Season One Retrospective (w/ Dan Thomas)
Spocklight At the Movies 16: The Day the Earth Stood Still (w/ Chris Johnston from Easy Riders Raging Podcast)
On Screen 1: Miami Vice
Episode 34: Chain of Command (w/ James Dyer from Empire Magazine and the Pilot TV Podcast)
Episode 33: The Best of Both Worlds (w/ Stephen Trumble)
Spocklight At the Movies 15: Passenger 57 (w/ Sam Clements & Louise Owen)
Episode 32: In the Pale Moonlight (w/ Andrew Keates)
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