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Published: Feb. 13, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

\n\n Michael Bay \n\n The spark of life \n\n

Unicron and the spark of life between worlds.

\n\n War in The Dark Ages \n\n

Trebuchets. Traction trebuchet vs counterweight trebuchet. Siege weapons vs anti-personnel. Army sizes in the early middle ages.

\n\n King Arthur \n\n

Legend vs myth vs folk tales. Staff-bearer selection methodology. Humans all look the same to Transformers.

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The classic definition of myth, legend, and folktale is William Bascom\u2019s 1965 article \u201cThe Form of Folklore: Prose Narratives.\u201d Bascom defines folktales as prose narratives told as fiction, myths as prose narratives told as true set in the remote past before human history, and legends as prose narratives told as true set in the time of human history. (Bascom does not take up fables, but they are generally considered a type of folktale with animal characters and an obvious moral lesson.) However, folklorists today tend to focus less on the matter of form and cross-cultural classification\u2014any one of these genres can be conveyed in non-prose, non-narrative media\u2014and more on how people classify, communicate, and contextualize their own folk narratives. A sacred text conceived as the true and literal account of creation to one person may be considered an entertaining but completely fantastical account by another, even if the form remains exactly the same. Bascom\u2019s attention to belief in classifying folk narrative remains an important contribution, and folklorists today consider how tellers and audiences of folk narrative negotiate belief and skepticism in the narrative event, offering proofs that the events happened as described (\u201cI didn\u2019t use to believe in ghosts, but I saw it with my own eyes\u201d) or leaving room for some doubt.

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Jolene\u2019s friend Steve Stanzak who is a folklorist from Indiana University\u2026

\n\n The size and nature of the cosmos \n\n

The number of planets in the solar system and the percentage that are \u201cEarth-like\u201d and might harbor life. Our expanding understanding of the richness of the cosmos.

\n\n When Worlds Collide \n\n

Speaking of which, I\u2019m starting to feel like maybe we\u2019ve covered.this.before. Gravity, orbit perturbations, and impending doom after the credits.

\n\n Ghost scrotum \n\n

Papryus, paper, and vellum. Goat scrotum!

\n\n Buster the Science Guy \n\n

Subverting the trope of useful scientist.

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1. \n\t\t\t\tFuturism: Futurism.com\n\t\t\t
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2. \n\t\t\t\tWhat is Bayhem? by Every Frame a Painting: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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3. \n\t\t\t\tWhen Worlds Collide: observable universe, 20th century astonomy, and modern space industry w/ Daniel James Barker: Decipher SciFi\n\t\t\t
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