Back on TV: Max Headroom

infofreako writes: " Everyone's favorite 80's construct, Max Headroom, has returned thanks to the people at TechTV. According to their website, they will be rebroadcasting all 14 episodes starting this Friday! This series was doing ethics themes based on designer babies, corporate controlled media, brain scanning and more before some of us were capable of hitting record on the old VCR. "

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Suckage

[rinkjustice]

As I remember Max Headroom, it just wasn't that good, even for a drooling veghead kid like I was. The animation sequences were too damn short and the action scenes were about on par with "The Littlest Hobo". No good.
Let it die.

I still listen to "Paraniomia" by "Art of Noise"

[crovira]

I absolutely loved/hated Max Head room when it came out.

There was something so John Brunner's "Stand On Zanzibar"-ish about it.

"20 minutes into the future" is a dystopia of our own making and it is so predictably so.

"Chanel 23" was a microcosm of the greed and prevarication that's reflected in every AOL/Time Warner's share-holder's balance sheet.

"Twenty minutes into the future" the world is in an stop-motion/jaggy flow because its in an accelerating downward spiral.

"Chanel 23"/"EngLRlaySatlServ" Same shit. There was something so depressing about watching that show. It was wrist slitting time. Urban terorism on par with anything Phillip K Dick ever feared up.

Now we only Muslim barbarians shooting parents for trying to educate their kids to worry about.

All fundamentalism is destructive. Blow up all the churches, mosques, temples and any other breeding grounds for fanaticism. Its the only sane response.

Those who would decare war on you should realize that they have just painted a target on their foreheads. We should send out our own homicidal maniacs to kill them. Better than keeping those nuts here.