Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Hold on to your David Blaine fanclub memberships, it’s The Internets once more

Remember the Visionaries? They took the best things about G.I. Joe (good vs bad, clearly distinguished by the color of their energy blasts for the benefit of us youngsters), Robocop (body armor that lends more strength and mobility than its appearance suggests), Ninja Turtles (jumping, kicking, and witty banter between teammates), and He-Man (medievalness), and rolled all those elements up into a big ball of awesome. It was immense. Immense, and thought-provoking. The premise was pretty much that the age of technology had passed on the planet Prismos, and the age of magic had begun. The Prismonians/Prismonese (Prisbyterians?) had lived in an age of flying automobiles and awesome phaser guns, but because their three suns had aligned, all the technology shut down. Now that nobody could get anything to work, magic took over. At first, magic was used for combat. But eventually, magic was used to power other things that had once been powered by science. That whole idea, while it entertained us immeasurably as children, is now, sadly, an anachronism as a flight of fancy. We’ve been using magic to power technology for years. How else would you explain the witchery behind this thing called the Internets?

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