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Transformers The Last Knight
What: Robots fighting, and then a robot planet fighting earth which may also be a robot planet somehow, it’s hard to tell.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel
Featuring guest co-host
Jolene Creighton, managing editor at Futurism.com
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Where worlds collided but it was a bit closer to reality than, uh, this one.
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Show Notes
Michael Bay
The spark of life
Unicron and the spark of life between worlds.
War in The Dark Ages
Trebuchets. Traction trebuchet vs counterweight trebuchet. Siege weapons vs anti-personnel. Army sizes in the early middle ages.
King Arthur
Legend vs myth vs folk tales. Staff-bearer selection methodology. Humans all look the same to Transformers.
From jolene’s friend Steve Stanzak who is a folklorist from Indiana University…
The classic definition of myth, legend, and folktale is William Bascom’s 1965 article “The Form of Folklore: Prose Narratives.” Bascom defines folktales as prose narratives told as fiction, myths as prose narratives told as true set in the remote past before human history, and legends as prose narratives told as true set in the time of human history. (Bascom does not take up fables, but they are generally considered a type of folktale with animal characters and an obvious moral lesson.) However, folklorists today tend to focus less on the matter of form and cross-cultural classification—any one of these genres can be conveyed in non-prose, non-narrative media—and more on how people classify, communicate, and contextualize their own folk narratives. A sacred text conceived as the true and literal account of creation to one person may be considered an entertaining but completely fantastical account by another, even if the form remains exactly the same. Bascom’s attention to belief in classifying folk narrative remains an important contribution, and folklorists today consider how tellers and audiences of folk narrative negotiate belief and skepticism in the narrative event, offering proofs that the events happened as described (“I didn’t use to believe in ghosts, but I saw it with my own eyes”) or leaving room for some doubt.
The size and nature of the cosmos
The number of planets in the solar system and the percentage that are “Earth-like” and might harbor life. Our expanding understanding of the richness of the cosmos.
When Worlds Collide
Speaking of which, I’m starting to feel like maybe we’ve covered this before. Gravity, orbit perturbations, and impending doom after the credits.
Ghost scrotum
Papryus, paper, and vellum. Goat scrotum!
Buster the Science Guy
Subverting the trope of useful scientist.
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