So, I really liked doing the last "a week in review", Still Alive...Mostly..., as it gave me the chance to talk about a bunch of little stories I didn't really want to write a full blog about. They also gave me a lot of idea, chiefly, the featured Top Eleven Comic Book Movie Adaptations, so maybe this will too, especially since I'm still bogged down in Cave Story...I hate those water cavern areas.
Anyway, let's start off with the next piece of Skynet...SOINN. SOINN is a modern robot that looks as though it was built to be a R.O.B. 2.0, however it has the ability to learn and adapt to its surroundings. Ok, so far, not much to be worried about...adaptation isn't anything tremendous. Single celled organisms can adapt to their surroundings extremely well. However, evolution is also adaptation, specifically within a community, something this thing has in the form of the internet. Yeah, now I'm a bit worried. Apparently SOINN can connect with other robots and online databases to learn new skills...as long as one of those isn't kill all humans, I'm cool with it.
So, someone in California wants Sesame Workshop to go ahead and admit that Bert and Ernie are in fact partners/boyfriends whatever. As someone who falls neatly into the LGBT community, I can understand wanting to see a character or characters like me on a show that had such impact on me in my formative years. However, then he took it a step further calling for them to be married now that New York, where the children's show is based, has passed legislation that allows same sex marriage. I've got no problem reading into subtext of fictional characters...hell, it's kind of fun sometimes...but I'm not about to demand that something be made official simply because I think it could do well politically and socially when the artists behind it don't feel that way. However, the sentiment that LGBT characters could be featured, maybe not Bert and Ernie, on the show I do think might be appropriate. The same could be said about any demographic though...I don't recall seeing any gamers on the show either.
I, like nearly everyone else with access to a computer, smartphone, or "smart" device have enjoyed Rovio's Angry Birds. Now, Tactile Entertainment has given us a reason for the great war between Pigs and Birds with their new game Pigs in Trees. While obviously not directly related to its insanely popular predecessor, the game does have a similar art style and premise, so much so, that if this game develops any fan support, it could be known as the unofficial follow up to Birds.
Seth MacFarlane, of Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show fame, and having recently pushed into development a Flinstones reboot, has thrown his weight around again to bring back Cosmos. For those of you too young to remember or not obsessed with the original series, it featured Carl Sagan discussing everything from evolutionary theory and the big bang to global warming and they Pythagorean Theorem, on prime time television in 1980 (granted, it was on PBS, but it was still a mega-hit, and still holds the record for most number of views for the broadcasting station ever). And this is gonna be on Fox...this is gonna be really interesting, I must say.
Finally, Cowboys and Aliens didn't earn it's way on to my top comic adaptations list...it's not horrible, but it feels rushed, I hate how it ends, and it's filled with so many cliches that you can't help but roll your eyes. On the other hand though...gave me a great idea for an arm cannon blaster prop if I were ever going to make a Mega Man film or even cosplay, and then there's Harrison Ford on Jimmy Kimmel.
As always, comments are welcome, and I think I'm gonna do more about these, and now I kind of want to talk about Cosmos, more specifically Symphony of Science, a web series of auto tunes based around it and other science based television documentary series. Though, I think I'm going to try and do one on The Legend of Zelda Mangas first...
-Sara
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