Binary System Podcast #161 - Bumblebee and other Transformers topics

<p>Original broadcast date January 24, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/01/binary-system-podcast-161-bumblebee-and-other-transformers-topics/</p> <p>It sure doesn't happen very often: both the East and West Coast branches of Binary System actually saw a movie before it left the theaters. But it was a Transformers movie, and the reviews were great, so how could they NOT go see it?</p> <p>Spoilers ahoy! Listen in as they break down everything they loved (and a couple teeny tiny things they didn't) about <em>Bumblebee.</em> After that they segued into...more Transformers stuff, including the <em>Transformers The Movie</em> mini-documentary that Kathryn recommends, IDW's <em>Transformers: Historia,</em> and, you know, <em>all the other</em> IDW Transformers books that they loved.</p> <p>This week's outro music is a clip from the <em>Bumblebee</em> score by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bumblebee-Motion-Picture-Score-Marianelli/dp/B07L46D6VY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dario Marianelli</a> which, seriously, if it's one thing we loved about the Michael Bay movies it was the score by Steve Jablonsky, but Marianelli did a hell of a job with the music in <em>Bumblebee</em>. https://www.amazon.com/Bumblebee-Motion-Picture-Score-Marianelli/dp/B07L46D6VY</p> <p>The mini-documentary Kathryn mentioned is called<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9iab0z6Kyg"> Really That Good - Transformers: The Movie (1986)</a>, and it takes a very in-depth look at how something that was basically a series of toy commercials leading to a ninety-minute toy commercial ended up being so meaningful to an entire generation of children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9iab0z6Kyg</p> <p>The Youtuber who talks about The Male Gaze and how it applies to the Michael Bay Transformers movie franchise is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1h-Wqjtwz7uUANw6gazRw">Lindsay Ellis</a> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1h-Wqjtwz7uUANw6gazRw, and her whole <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watc