AG Monday!
This week: Flash Gordon (1980).
Flash! Aaah-aah!
Steven and Tom journey back to 1980, when the big budget Flash Gordon movie premiered. Was it a camp classic? A post-Star Wars cash grab? A sincere homage to the comic strip? A weird amalgam of British, Italian, and American science fiction motifs? Something else? All of the above? Listen and find out.
Thrill to retro rocketships blazing across the screen! Cringe at the acting! Marvel at the incredibly colorful costuming and production design! Cover your ears when Brian Blessed delivers his lines! It’s all here.
Ancient Geeks is a podcast about two geeks of a certain age re-visiting their youth. We were there when things like science fiction, fantasy, Tolkien, Star Trek, Star Wars, D&D, Marvel and DC comics, Doctor Who, and many, many other threads of modern geek culture were still on the fringes of culture. We were geeks before it was chic!
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If you’re staring a trend of bad 80s Sci-Fi movies, you next would need to do The Black Hole…
I remember the movie, for some reason, and even the soundtrack. Not Queen’s finest work. The tittle song almost works, were it not for the lyrics.
Alas, this ep will have to wait. I’m in book three of a trilogy, and find it hard to interrupt fiction in a way I don’t mind with non-fiction.
Q: How many Vulcans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: However many it takes, they will claim it to be the logical number.
Plus, a new Substack post from us, talking about the importance of short stories in science fiction and fantasy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/someancientgeek/p/a-long-post-about-short-fiction