The Nextlander Watchcast

Star Trek Summer: Extended Edition is officially on hiatus for a couple of months after this week's Watchcast, and for our final batch of episodes until December, we've got Lee Merriweather as a tormented fembot in That Which Survives, followed by the rare Scotty romance episode The Lights of Zetar!CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 193: Star Trek: That Which Survives and The Lights of Zetar(00:00:18) - Intro.(00:03:18) - Kicking things off with production stuff for That Which Survives.(00:06:34) - Earthquakes and guest actors and ship problems, oh my!(00:11:31) - The set-up for this stranded-on-a-planet episode.(00:21:32) - This is the weirdest alien murderer we've come across yet.(00:34:08) - Solving the engine problems, and the underground lair full of useful plot information.(00:42:18) - Final thoughts on this episode.(00:43:44) - Break!(00:44:05) - We're back, and it's time for The Lights of Zetar.(00:46:19) - The Lamb Chop connection, and other production notes.(00:50:12) - Launching into the episode proper.(01:01:01) - A whole planetoid of dead librarians.(01:07:30) - Chased by a psychedelic storm, and Romaine's connection is deeper than anyone realizes.(01:12:02) - Decompressing alien ghosts out of your brain.(01:21:34) - Enjoy corpse cleanup duty, Lt. Romaine. And our final thoughts.(01:27:02) - Housekeeping for October's lineup: Dark Temptations!(01:32:52) - Outro.

We're over the halfway hump in Star Trek's third season, and the campy nonsense hits a fever pitch in this week's episodes. First up is the Taming of the Shrew riff Elaan of Troyius, and then we're onto the simultaneously overheated and under-baked Whom Gods Destroy!CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 191: Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius and Whom Gods Destroy(00:00:15) - Intro.(00:02:32) - Kicking things off with Elaan of Troyius.(00:09:12) - Production notes for the episode.(00:16:34) - We're a little all over the place discussing this one, but we start really getting into the episode here.(00:21:38) - Veering back to a few quick behind-the-scenes notes.(00:23:12) - And now beginning the episode in earnest.(00:28:42) - Making the crew miserable, and talking some special effects stuff.(00:34:39) - Kirk and Elaan hash it out, sort of.(00:38:29) - The Klingon plot is revealed, and Kirk is cursed with a moderate amount of infatuation.(00:48:10) - A good old fashioned space sub battle.(00:56:01) - Say goodbye to Elaan.(01:02:51) - Break!(01:03:44) - We're back, and it's time for Whom Gods Destroy.(01:05:57) - Who did this.(01:16:55) - Alright, let's get into it.(01:28:58) - The inmates can't get to the ship, but we've still got like half an hour to kill.(01:34:25) - On the pain chair, and the blowing up of Marta.(01:39:25) - I'm seein' double! Two Kirks and two marginally similar stuntmen!(01:42:56) - Sure, a lady blew up, but we cured mental illness? Right?(01:45:52) - Final thoughts, and housekeeping for next week's episodes.(01:51:02) - Outro.

For this week's special guest Watchcast animator and game developer Scott Benson takes us on a tour of the creeper corners of Depression-era West Virginia in Charles Laughton's singularly strange thriller, The Night of the Hunter!CHAPTERS:(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 185: The Night of the Hunter (1955) w/ Scott Benson(00:00:21) - Intro.(00:12:39) - How we came to this movie initially.(00:19:47) - Some history of the film.(00:36:23) - Some talk about the cast.(00:44:14) - The film's initial lackluster reception, and subsequent reappraisal.(00:48:08) - Break!(00:48:51) - We're back, and it's time to get into the film proper.(01:00:51) - I'm Peter Graves, and this is a felony.(01:25:46) - Meeting the other townsfolk, and the preacher comes a callin'.(01:41:14) - A consequential picnic, and Willa makes some bad choices.(01:46:03) - An all-timer of a bad honeymoon.(01:52:53) - Good night, Willa.(02:07:00) - The trouble with Harry.(02:13:22) - A long, lazy trip down the river.(02:23:44) - The introduction of Rachel Cooper.(02:29:15) - Everything's going great until a teen girl gets a crush.(02:46:53) - Harry's approach is less viable under these circumstances.(02:52:29) - Do not mess with Whistler's mother.(03:05:14) - The strange epilogue to it all.(03:16:36) - Final thoughts.(03:23:59) - We might return to Star Trek next week (check the Patreon this week for more info).(03:26:38) - Outro.