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Oct21

Digital Drift 37: Transformers Prime [Part 2: Decepticons]

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 21, 2014

The Transformers road trip comes to a triumphant end as we close out our Prime conversation in unusual circumstances, discussing a group of characters who have struggled since 1984 to be expressed as anything other than thugs or buffoons, The Decepticons, Turns out all it took to portray them as a group of warriors with their own motivations, weaknesses, misgivings and strengths was decent writing, building upon both well-established...

Oct14

Digital Drift 36: Transformers Prime [Part 1: Autobots]

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 14, 2014

The Transformers road trip finally emerges from the ugly, industrial wasteland and like Outrun we find ourselves suddenly experiencing a completely different and altogether more fascinating vista. Yes, this animated TV show, passed up by the majority of adults as being for the kids just happens to be the greatest depiction of the Autobots and Decepticons ever committed to any medium. Freed of the obligation to deliver spectacle whilst...

Oct07

Digital Drift 35: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 7, 2014

The Transformers road trip has lost all but one lone, solitary truck, powering on through a new leg of what may be a never-ending journey. Yes folks, I did end up going to see Transformers 4, and on this show, Sharon asks me all about my experience. Is this a new lease of life for the series? A soft reboot, ditching the former human cast members in favour of all-new ones and setting aside awkward frat comedy for the dilemma of a...

Sep30

Digital Drift 34: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Posted By Alex Shaw on Sep 30, 2014

[Drift #34] Our road trip with the autobots veers off the beaten track and onto a superhighway full of exploding guns and alien car invasion. In a series defined by its crapulence this may actually be its lowest point. Billed by some as a return to form on its release in 2011, which prompted the question from others; “What form?” and from still others “What form will our destructor take?”. We’ll tell you...

Sep23

Digital Drift 33: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Posted By Alex Shaw on Sep 23, 2014

Our road trip with the autobots continues. We hit a bumpy road as the writer’s strike of 2007 looms. Fortunately this movie proved that you apparently don’t even NEED writers and that a triple-A blockbuster action movie could be sloppily thrown together without discernible structure or coherence and still rake in more than its predecessor. Just cast your eyes over the image I’ve used for this week’s podcast....

Sep16

Digital Drift 32: Transformers

Posted By Alex Shaw on Sep 16, 2014

Every now and again I’m reminded on Twitter or the forum that you guys love this show best when we review something we absolutely love. Our passion for it is palpable and in many cases infectious enough to get people who have yet to see the movie in question to finally take the plunge. This point usually comes up when I mention that we’re reviewing something awful. In this case Michael Bay’s Transformers movies. But...

Sep09

Digital Drift 31: The Transformers: The Movie

Posted By Alex Shaw on Sep 9, 2014

This kicks off a surprisingly thorough series of podcasts focusing on the Transformers franchise. I actually said I could barely get one show out of this as there was no high point that I really connected with to balance the many lows. However these toys and the animated show and movie were a huge part of my childhood and that gave me more than enough to engage with. Coming up in the next few weeks: 1. The Transformers: The Movie...

Jun25

Transformers Prime

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jun 25, 2014

-By Alex Shaw The Digital Drift Transformers podcasts are recording this week. In “celebration” of the fourth live action movie release we’re covering the three live action movies and the 1986 animated film. It’s going to be pretty hard going trawling through and we have no hope of finding anything to actively deconstruct in the Revenge of the Fallen or Dark of the Moon aside from the diseased mentalities of...