Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Signal Watch Presents: Vehicles in the Media The League Once Dug


Vehicles.  In movies, television, comics and more.  

Sure, we can like characters - and do!  But they also need to get from place to place.  Captain James Tiberius Kirk would be a Starfleet Captain without the Enterprise, but it wouldn't be OG Star Trek without a groovy flying saucer, some sleek nacelles and a saucer out front scanning... always scanning.

What even *is* the Batmobile?  Why is the X-Wing so @#$%ing cool?  And are you an Airwolf stan, or are you a Blue Thunder sort of lad/ lass?  Is the Munster Koach practical?  Is Zorro's horse a vehicle or a character?

We'll talk our favorites, and we'll hopefully get into some of yours.   We'll talk a bit about the design, how the ship worked in the media in discussion, how it appealed to us, and more!  

I am sure each post will be different - and likely multi-part as we try to cover things like the Theseus' Ship that is The Enterprise.

Also - we're open to ideas.  What do you want to discuss?  How do you want to discuss it?  Let us know.

3 comments:

mcsteans said...

Rocinante!

JAL said...

Hawkman Rocket Cycle from Flash Gordon. You don't have to discuss the vehicle, but honestly tell us if you can pass a tree with a hole in it and not wonder there is a "wood beast" within.

The League said...

at work I have been known to casually describe going into the unknown as "flying blind on a rocket cycle". No one gets the reference, but I persist. And, yes, if Flash Gordon taught me anything, it was to not just go shoving my arm willy-nilly into rotting trees.