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Back on TV: Max Headroom

Posted by chrisd on from the talkin-bout-my-g-g-g-generation dept.

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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  1. Re:Suckage by gilroy · · Score: 3, Troll
    Blockquoth the poster:

    The animation sequences were too damn short and the action scenes were about on par with "The Littlest Hobo". No good.

    If all you were watching for was the animation sequences or the action scenes, then I guess this comment is dead-on. Of course, if all you were watching for was the animation sequences or the actions scenes, then you seriously missed the point! Max Headroom was about computer animation the way that Star Wars is about space flight; that is, just as a hook. The key to Max, the whole essence of the show, was its cynical-yet-so-true jaded view of Big Media and the world we were rapidly approaching, wherein the sheep of the world abdicate their power to the TV... Hmmm. A lot like this world, actually.


    Max Headroom might have been "twenty minutes into the future" but it was also twenty years ahead of its time.

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    The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach