The Nextlander Watchcast

One season is all that stands between us and our years-long goal of completing Star Trek: The Original Series. Yes, that season might be uniquely bad by series standards, but we are determined to push through any deep hurting that may result in order to achieve our goal. First up, an all-timer dumb-dumb episode in Spock's Brain, and the surprisingly solid The Enterprise Incident.CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 182: Star Trek: Spock's Brain and The Enterprise Incident(00:00:17) - Intro.(00:03:45) - Why season 3 is Like This.(00:16:24) - Launching into this season of hell with Spock's Brain.(00:22:40) - Who made this episode, and why is it in this state.(00:27:52) - Pressing the "make everyone fall down" button so you can steal a brain.(00:37:27) - The horrors of the caveman planet.(00:41:37) - RoboSpock.(00:51:27) - I...KNOW...EVERYTHIIIIIING!(00:58:30) - They saved Spock's brain.(01:03:05) - Break!(01:03:32) - We're back, and it's onto The Enterprise Incident.(01:15:16) - The creatives involved in this episode, and the real life naval event that inspired theepisode.(01:23:00) - Veering into the Neutral Zone like a road rage incident.(01:30:11) - What is the Romulans' interest in Spock?(01:40:35) - It was all an elaborate, if confusing, ruse.(01:42:23) - Can love bloom on the battlefield, specifically between a Vulcan and a Romulan?(01:50:54) - Keystone Romulans, and Spock's filibuster.(01:58:16) - Try every USB adapter you've got, Scotty!(02:05:37) - Final thoughts.(02:09:34) - Outro.

The Watchcast is back for another year, and we're kicking off 2026 by laying waste to our plastic filled childhoods! The first entry in our trio of toy commercials disguised as films is one very near and dear to our youthful hearts in Transformers: The Movie, a film that simultaneously enthralled and traumatized an entire generation of budding robot enthusiasts, and tested the limits of how many popular characters you can kill off in the name of commerce.CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 164: Transformers: The Movie (1986(00:00:25) - Intro.(00:05:57) - Let's talk about our own histories with Transformers fandom.(00:14:45) - On the trauma of Transformer murder.(00:20:49) - How did Transformers (generally) come into existence? And some other miscellaneous bits.(00:31:55) - Onto the movie, and who is responsible for all this.(00:38:14) - Killing off the old toy line.(00:44:54) - What a (bizarre) cast! And soundtrack!(01:00:19) - Break!(01:00:50) - We're back, and real quick, let's chat about the version we watched.(01:03:22) - Kicking off your kids movie with an entire planet being devoured.(01:10:46) - Leaping into the year 2005, and everybody's got moonbases now.(01:15:59) - Say goodbye to several Autobots.(01:19:48) - Hot Rod, Kup, Arcee, and the rest!(01:29:00) - Optimus is here to save the--oh no.(01:35:47) - The scene that middle-aged nerds still describe to their therapists.(01:40:18) - Unicron, Galvatron, and various Cyclonuses.(01:51:43) - Eat it, Starscream.(01:54:09) - On Arcee, and how the party gets split.(02:00:12) - Are the Quintessons interesting? A debate.(02:08:33) - Are the Junkions interesting? No.(02:13:02) - Unicron goes ham, and Rodimus is born.(02:29:14) - Final thoughts.(02:40:31) - Teeing up for next week's movie: G.I. Joe: The Movie!(02:43:46) - Outro.

We do a lot of goofy movies on this Watchcast, but now, at the behest of our own Vinny Caravella, it's time for us to tackle some Important Cinema! Vinny has chosen the one and only Citizen Kane for his movie this month, and it's time to put our film school pants on to decide once and for all if it's an over-hyped disappointment, or really as great as everyone says.CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 162: Citizen Kane (1941)(00:00:14) - Intro.(00:05:09) - Picking apart some of what makes Citizen Kane so dang important.(00:13:27) - The myriad parodies and loving tributes to Kane peppered throughout our childhood media.(00:15:45) - On Welles, and how the film came to be.(00:23:23) - Welles' various collaborators.(00:33:04) - The Hearst campaign to derail the movie.(00:42:06) - Break!(00:44:20) - We're back, and it's time to head on down to Xanadu.(00:52:26) - Love a good newsreel.(00:56:58) - A brief meeting with Kane's second wife, and then we dig into Kane's childhood.(01:05:57) - Yung Kane.(01:12:19) - Bernstein, and the salad days.(01:17:49) - Old Jed, and a marriage in a single breakfast table.(01:22:52) - Susan enters the picture.(01:25:52) - Will Kane's aspirations ever be knocked down? Yes!(01:37:54) - Kane Weds 'Singer', Kane Cans Critic!(01:43:05) - Susan spills the beans.(01:49:54) - A very bad picnic, and Kane turns his wife's room into a rage room.(01:57:11) - What's a Rosebud? Who cares! Take everything!(02:03:07) - Final thoughts.(02:10:05) - Housekeeping for next week's movie: Gremlins!(02:11:38) - Outro.

Turkey Month is nearly at an end, but before we head out for the holiday break, we've got one more fully barbecued turkey for all of you in the bombasically stupid Action Jackson! Join us as we marvel at Carl Weathers' glistening physique, Craig T. Nelson's inexplicable martial arts prowess, and the cavalcade of delightfully awful one-liners issued before someone explodes.CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 160: Action Jackson (1988)(00:00:17) - Intro.(00:05:31) - Action Jackson's blaxploitation inspirations, and how this thing got made.(00:13:44) - Cast chat.(00:23:31) - Five minutes until flaming defenestration.(00:29:08) - The introduction of Jericho "Action" Jackson.(00:33:54) - Some of the other assorted cops, and our first meeting with Dellaplane.(00:41:33) - Break!(00:41:47) - We're back, and it's time to assassinate some more union leaders.(00:48:25) - Sydney Ash: medium talent.(00:53:30) - Interrupting lunch, and Coach knows karate.(01:01:35) - Yeah, sure. Action Jackson can outrun a car. We'll roll with that.(01:06:34) - Sharon Stone dies, so now Vanity gets to be in the movie for a while.(01:17:03) - Carl Weathers unveils the pecs, and the utterly bizarre pool hall fight.(01:23:36) - Sweet Dee.(01:25:48) - Billy, you son of a bitch.(01:29:03) - From one industrial space to another.(01:39:15) - Off to the fancy party for a frame job, and then let's just drive a damn car into a bedroom.(01:46:56) - Final thoughts, and list placements.(01:52:57) - Next month: It's a Watchcast free-for-all.(01:58:21) - Outro.

It's Doomsday Day on the Watchcast, a day that our own Vinny Caravella has hoped and prayed for ever since we launched this podcast. So join us as we go through Vinny's all-time favorite movie, trying to make sense of its frenetic editing and nonsensical plot, or at least as much sense as it deserves.CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 158: Doomsday (2008)(00:00:14) - Intro.(00:07:54) - How Vinny came to this movie.(00:11:15) - Neil Marshall, and how he went from The Descent to this.(00:19:39) - Some last production notes, and cast chat.(00:32:23) - Getting some questions out up top, and the opening salvo of pandemic horror.(00:41:43) - Break!(00:42:07) - We're back, and it's time to rocket into the terrifying future of 2035.(00:51:05) - An impossible mission and a forgettable team tasked with carrying it out.(00:55:55) - Let's just go ahead and dispatch most of this team as quickly as we can.(01:04:18) - We meet the Prodigy gang.(01:10:04) - Dinner and a show.(01:19:13) - A mad dash to a surprisingly well-preserved train, and a conspicuous apocalypse bunker.(01:27:46) - Welcome to Medieval Times.(01:32:40) - Reaper Madness has hit London.(01:35:57) - A quick gladiator battle before we're scurrying off the way we came.(01:40:59) - Mad Max: Beyond Shame.(01:44:12) - Eden gets...revenge? Or something like it?(01:54:36) - Final thoughts, and list placements.(02:01:04) - Housekeeping for next week's movie: Jet Li in The One!(02:04:05) - Outro.