On Adult Swim development deals...

If I ever happen to produce a cartoon for that network, make sure to end every episode by whatever character is in the last scene by breaking the 5th wall and saying "We're cancelled".

Like seriously, what adult swim show has gone beyond 3 seasons. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the exception.

Adam Savage. Producers love him.

These guys have insurance?!?
I want to work Stateside when I grow up! Here you'd have to get that crane rated and examined by an engineering team. It would go through months of bureaucratic examination with a mustachio comb. Or maybe I'm wrong and on episode 213, M5 had more going on with this test than meets the eye.

The world would suck without The MythBusters.

Lost Season Five: A look back

Ok, so Lost season finale was a few days ago. Being late on the report will not stop me. Because I feel obligated to share so important connections I've made (and apparently so has JJ).

J.J. Abrams as he is represented on Wikipedia

Current views of reality do not take into consideration the existence of time travel.
Speaking now of the minute scale of quarks in sub atomic experiments. These experiments are of course subject to the (albeit, in a droning tone) Law of Accelerating Returns. This makes time travel in the not-too-distant future plausible.

If JJ is an informed young man he no-doubt knows this.
What does this have to do with Lost?

Consider this idea: if time travel does exist in the close future (100-200 year time frame), in a way we can't yet imagine perhaps every moment of reality is the subject of alteration of our future-selves meddling in the past. Or perhaps not our future selves, but our godly offspring that transcends time, i.e. the neohuman singularity.

If this is the point of Lost then the nanomachine smoke makes sense, and the immortal Jacob. Both elements of very common science fiction based on technological trends of today.

So, how about JJ on Star Trek? Alternate time line created albeit accidentally but with the same, subtle ramifications. My current concept for Lost season six would be to have them in the future utopia where the world benefits from the power of the island (and hopefully also technology advancement), but it's clear that the island is somewhat of a metaphor for this trend.

A trend that is a major plot point in JJ's other work, Fringe.
Putting these pieces together is nothing new, but establishing that technology can be a spiritual guiding light is not.

This is what I believe we have here: a child of a technology era with a very special insight on how humans change themselves, and what it can mean on a flexible timescale. The latter of which is something he seems more focused on than me.

Yet, I think it is very clear that JJ Abrams does have an expectation for the Singularity. He seems motivated by this belief that the world is accelerating into something out-of-control.

My last point of evidence comes from the name of his production company 'Bad Robot'. Two words when combined spell the WORST CASE SCENARIO for future intelligent machines.

Kanye didn't get it.

Ok, so last night's South Park was a great deal more welcome than last weeks Queef sisters. It was focusing yet even more on the demented thinking process of Eric Cartman, and how he augments his reality to satisfy his desires.



It was pretty good, but the best part of it was the dis towards Kanye West from Matt and Trey. They obviously dislike the man for some good reasons, and this episode with the fish dicks joke really summed it up.

Carlos Mencia: You're a gay fish... man. C'mon man.
Really terrific stuff last night.

Wasting away in Margaritaville

Ok, so I just wanted to express how entertained I was by last Wednesday's episode of South Park. The episode focused on the current recession. Randy Marsh somehow manages to lead the people of South Park to avoid needless spending.

The people of South Park quickly fear the economy and Kyle, the Jew, restores their faith. Really, really funny stuff.

More than that though was a truly original B-Story of Stan trying to return Randy's Margarita maker. It was reminiscent of The Divine Comedy and the various circles of Hell.

See for yourself :)

Matt Greoning's most recent accomplishments

although Matt would likely be the first person to tell you these are things he has little creative control over I think they're still worth mentioning. The first point of discussion is the recent change that premiered this past Sunday. Season 20, episode 10 "Take my Wife Please". This was the first episode that Fox broadcast in 720p HD. This at first came as an unpleasant shock, but I quickly grew to accept it and be happy with it.

There are more advantages to using the new format. The first is the advantage of universal platform. 16:9 is the new 4:3 in every way imaginable. It's easy to understand why people want this aspect ratio. What's not fair though is the association of 16:9 to HD resolution. In any case, The Simpsons opted to bend to the wills of both.

What's more of a question is that on an earlier commentary from season 3 or 4 Matt Greoning specifically says The Simpsons is best enjoyed in a 4:3 aspect ratio - I think he was mostly complaining about people that stretch the image to fit onto the wider form.

But this was nearly 4 years ago, so if they noticed the emerging trend why did it take so long to officially change it? And why in the middle of the season? With no prior indication? In any case, it's a big plus.

The second thing worth going over is the new and final Futurama feature-length.
This last installment of the Futurama franchise features the Planet Express crew at some of their best if you ask me. Fry becomes telepathic and unravels the history of the guy in the 9 shirt.

There's a great chunk of political undertow, but it's more welcome than the anti-subtle messages on Wall-E.

Reruns of "Laugh In"

So, going back in time to when TV was a beautiful age. See, there aren't that many shows on from the 60's or 70's. They don't circulate ALOT of them first of all, but I don't think you could even air the campy sketch-com program in this day and age.

I wonder, but I bet Laugh In eventually showed the image of Mohammad.
Take that MacFarlen. Arte Johnson had similar view point in an interview with him on one of the released DVD's of Laugh-In. It is good that they are selling some of it after so long, but there are some real gems available on Youtube. Almost, definitely constantly changing, but none the less you're guaranteed a prime clip each visit. It's like the campy form of videolistic heroine.

You can't resist because you realize that this was HUGE. It had 200 000 000 viewers easily - that is to say it was as American as apple pie and Scouts. It was the "Killer App" for color TV in the 70's. But sadly it was not left to stay. It was the big bang and TV evolution since has been drifting further from this intuitive form of comedy.

Any intelligent civilization from beyond our sun would look at our TV writing since as the residue from the time the networks were first created - a continued build up of slime on a once crystal clear window.

It's only going to continue to drift further and further towards hell, too.
Corporate control of media is totally realistic, it does but the emphasis on quality. But you know what I noticed about Laugh In?

1) There are no ad's running over everything.
2) The network ran the credits without cutting to a news anchor and this and that.

I feel that running promo's and ad's OVER TOP of a TV show is insulting. Any show that started in the 90's knows what I'm talking about. Greed is consuming TV at a exponential rate and the circle keeps it that way. The circle of life? The circle of death? The hamster wheel?

It doesn't matter, I was born in '88. This gives me no real advantage, by the time I was watching TV it had already been transformed from a world stage in your living room to a cheap vice.

I love TV. Without the median, there would be no message. We needed the message to evolve more. We are closer to God because of the TV. We are more connected with each other, mostly because of the TV. God Bless Technology. And God Bless Goldie Hawn.

Gunther in the spot light

I fear some of you may be like, who the hell is this Gunther person this author is talking about?
He's not real, so think of me what you will.
He was, however, on TV which is close to being real.
Here's a picture I stole!



This is a direct frame from the episode 'Mars University'.
Another website writer for www.tvsquad.com named Joel Keller took the time of getting the farnsworth quote in there correctly. Or at least I will take the strangers word.

"Oh, please! That's preposterous science-fiction mumbo-jumbo. Gunther's intelligence actually lies in his electronium hat which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation."