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
The Spocklight Christmas Special
Spocklight At The Movies 3: Unstoppable
Supplemental 14: Interview with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Spocklight At The Movies 2: The Haunting
Spocklight At The Movies 1: Three Men and a Baby
Episode 25: How The Trek Did This Get Made? (w/ Todd Jordan)
Supplemental 13: Interview with David Livingston
Episode 24: Spoofs of Trek
Supplemental 12: Interview with Conrad Coates
Episode 23: Discovery Season One Retrospective Part 2 (w/ Sean McLoughlin)
Supplemental 11: Interview with Ronnie Rowe Jr.
Episode 22: Discovery Season One Retrospective Part 1 (w/ Sean McLoughlin)
Supplemental 10: Interview with James L. Conway
Episode 21: Enterprise (w/ Greg Lock)
Episode 20: Voyager (w/ Sophie Morris)
Supplemental 9: Interview with Roger Lay Jr.
Episode 19: Deep Space Nine (w/ Alice Farrant)
Supplemental 8: The Vision of Trek (w/ Paul Sng)
Episode 18: The Next Generation (w/ Sean McLoughlin, Stephen Trumble)
Supplemental 7: Interview with Adelaide Filippe
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