Monday, May 18, 2009

Oh Dear

Gods, why am I watching this show?

4 comments so far. What are your thoughts?

Chris said...

Possibly because it's one of the most subversive, genius, mind-bogglingly funny shows the world has ever seen? (Certainly the most subversive, genius, mind-bogglingly funny shows featuring a gumball machine robot the world has ever seen.)

Or maybe because it's one big bad-storytelling cautionary tale after another. I'd like to think I've got Joel, Mike, and the 'bots looking over my shoulder when I write, cocking their head at every line and looking for a joke...

(quietly returns to lurking now.)

Kameron Hurley said...

Dude, I luuuuuuurve the show in general. This particular movie offering (FUTURE WAR!!!!) is terrifyingly bad.

(Watch it! Watch the dinosaurs! Try to follow the "plot"! Cyborg masters! Dinosaur trackers! A former-prostitute-turned-nun!)

OMG.

Chris said...

Hey, you've at least got to give them credit for the tender and non-stereotypey portrayal of an interracial bear couple, which was very forward-thinking for the seventies (even though it was completely unintentional, and this flick was made in 1997), or the fact that the entire set was eco-friendly, being largely made of recyclable boxes. Plus, cyborgs with mullets! Pet raptors! What's not to love? Except, you know, that it doesn't take place in the future, and there's no war to speak of.

Kameron Hurley said...

More war! Less puppets!

But that could be said of so many things...

Whoa boy, yeah, trying to figure out the actual relationship those guys were *supposed* to have was mind numbing in itself...