NBC shared Universe?

Folks, I apologize for not sending any new posts for a while now…I’ve been caught up in business.

But now I come to you with a brand new post and a new subject up for discussion.

People, with the success of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, why hasn’t anyone else tried to make their own shared movie continuity?
It has been shown many, many times in the past that if a particular genre or films proves very successful, other studios will try to cash in on this new trend with their own resources. For example, when Star Wars proved extremely successful, many different studios tried their own different films to try and take a sweet chunk of the money made by Lucas. Among these were the movie Moonraker, which postponed filming of the James Bond movie ‘For Your Eyes Only’ because of this. Another good example was how during the eighties and ninties, Disney’s animated films raked them in a shitload of money.

 Somebody's gonna be snorting a shitload'a cocaine.

Disney’s colossal success led other studios to try and get their own animated films up and running, and for this called in the talented Don Bluth to try and out-Disney Disney, and in some ways, it kind of worked since he created several awesome animated films…but not all of them were successful, and this failure came in differing ways, such as the film ‘We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Tale’, as the Nostalgia Critic will tell you.

 Pictured: Deposed Molassian Dictator

So with that in mind, I don’t think I have to explain that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is highly successful, this massive film franchise is still comparatively young, but despite having only been around for five years, it has raked in an assload of money.

I’m pretty sure everyone reading this has seen at least one of their films, especially ‘The Avengers’ and you can agree with me that Disney’s got a pretty good setup here.

Now DC, true to form, has decided to carry it’s rivalry with Marvel Comics on into the silver screen by creating their ‘DC Cinematic Universe’, which is currently comprised of Superman: Man of Steel and possibly Green Lantern: First Flight. Though it’s not as impressive since it appears to take much longer for them to produce these films, let alone make them.

So, now DC and Marvel are devising these shared universes and making them into films, but the question remains…why the fuck isn’t anybody else trying this?
Several studios, who have just as much capability to make these kinds of films and TV shows haven’t so much as tried to make their own universes, the closest we have to this is 20^th Century Fox’s plans to adapt Alan Moore’s ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ into a television series, and even then it doesn’t even look like they have plans for a shared universe (though a massive crossover of Victorian fiction looks likely.)
This is, quite frankly, infuriating for me, because NBC could easily make such a series. How? You may ask. Well it’s simple chaps, they already made one, though by accident…this place is called the Tommy Westphall Universe.

As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, the Tommy Westphall universe is a shared universe that is comprised of dozens, if not hundreds, of TV shows, it was created unintentionally through the process of continually crossing over TV shows, such as the hospital of St. Elsewhere being shown in Homicide: Life on the Street, or Steve Urkel’s gust appearance in Full House. Through all of this, the writers of the world have created a shared universe that expands vastly, and contains a very, very large amount of fiction. I’ve even measured it and discovered it even extends to anime and comic books as well.

So as I write here, I just gotta ask…why the Hell hasn’t NBC realized this yet? If they took advantage of this fan based project and listings (especially since I’m sure a lot of the crossed over TV series are owned by them) they could make a killing out of their own shared universe.
    

 

They could even incorporate stuff from the USA Network, the ScyFy Channel, and Universal pictures if they wanted. The first two are owned by them, and Universal has connections to them. It should be so easy just to make this, because they have enough properties to create hundreds of interesting films, or three whole crossover TV shows.

Anyways, those are my thoughts on the matter. NBC has the potential to create a great franchise through crossing over their many properties, but doesn’t for some inexplicable reason. It’s truly mind boggling.

 Not even Giygas can comprehend the reasons for this.

Anyways, I apologize for not having anything to post for a while; I’ve been a bit busy. I’d like to end this with some news, one, I’ve gotten very close to getting my webcomic made, the details of which shall be revealed soon.

I’d also like to add that a fanfiction I’ve made that has gone non hiatus for a long while is about to see new life again…more in a little while.

For now, so long and best of luck to you.

Essey: Old vs. New?

Readers, I come here today with a question I have in light of reading Fantomas (still working on it), and rereading Century.

Is modern fiction better than old fiction? Was Alan Moore right?
Well in my opinion...their more like equals actually.

True, pop culture has gotten a bit sterile in some areas (look at Twilight for example) but in others it’s really quite an advancement over it’s predecessors.

Take a look at comic books and science fiction for starters, during the early days of their existence our limited knowledge (while works could be more flexible) kept us unable to devise more advanced scientific concepts like the Multiverse and Quantum physics. Plus, the comic book stories (while a tad too dark at times) can develop characters much better after their years of development as a media form.

And then there’s anime, that stuff is fantastic, it never caught on until the recent couple of decades but that’s kind of the point of its introduction. Anime was largely unknown for many years, but when the late eighties hit, we began to find a whole new set of wild and fascinating stories that only the wildly imaginative Japanese writers could have created.

In fact, if my impression is right, the modern anime series are even better than the older series. Quite the reversal of Moore’s complaints.

Now then, webcomics are an area that’s extremely grey. Since newspaper comics have peaked and aren’t even half as common as they were back in the forties, when they were as plentiful as raindrops and sand, and as diversified as a 32 color rainbow. Webcomics have became quite plentiful and there are literally thousands of them.

But there’s a problem with that, because webcomics are so easy to make, while all talented writers have a chance to show their talents by creating great stories, any asshole who thinks they can draw also thinks their the hottest thing since Jack Kirby, especially where Sonichu is concerned…so while we have a lot of great comics, there’s a lot of horrible and shitty ones too. It’s not a perfect system.

And then there’s video games, sure plenty of them have no plots or stories at all, but there are a lot of them that not only have good ones, but have some of the most epic plots of all, the master storytelling of the Bioshock and the Grand Theft Auto series gives us some very important examples. Not to mention Mass Effect, which NBC News referred to as one of the best sci-fi series of all time. In fact, they might be one of the best kinds of media forms in existence since the whole concept is that they’re stories you can interact with in a way only very few other kinds of stories can offer.

So anyways, is new fiction better than old fiction? Well, in my opinion, it really just depends on taste, personally I think that stories from all periods of time are really just as good or bad as any look of fiction can be. All that really depends is who makes it. There’s really no shortage of ideas, so maybe there are some declines in pop culture but there are ways to bring its quality back up too, we just need the right writer…

Anyways, that’s my thoughts on modern fiction vs. old timey fiction.

I’d like to add to this that there’s going to be a change in my updating schedule, to avoid rushed posts and deadlines, I’m just going to post posts whenever I actually have one to post. Rest assured I plan to still post them often, but this should help make sure I don’t end up sacrificing quality.

Peace dudes, it’s a brave new world…and I hope to have something really cool for my next post.

Oh Dear God! Why did this happen again!

Damnation! I am truly sorry for the lack of post. An unforeseen babysitting job, coupled with a series of tasks that left me unable to get this thing written out…I have failed AGAIN!

This frustrates me to no end…I’ve been thinking lately, should I be updating once a week? This tends to be me making me more stressful as of late. So maybe I’ll make it once every two weeks of something like that, either way, I don’t know what to do now, I’m perplexed.

Anyways, next week I’ll have it up for sure. I’m going to pull out all the stops just to make sure I put it out on time…and if it isn’t ready, I’ll just post a new story I’ve been working on with a friend of mine from deviantART…I’, sure you’ll all enjoy either one.

Anyways, I’ll be seeing you around. Once more, I’d like to apologize for my lack of a post.

Sorry I'm Late: Post got delayed.

Readers, I apologize for the lack of post last week, I had some difficulties with my computer and I couldn’t get on to Blogger.

Today, I still have no post, but an update on my webcomic…and information on what will happen next week.

First off, I am very proud to announce that the background artist I previously had has decided to become the lineartist, and I have recently found someone willing to do background art, she’s being evaluated now to see if she can help.

The teaser is this, next week I shall be writing a post…about whether or not old fiction is better than new fiction, a sort of essay to see whether or not Alan Moore’s evaluation of modern pop culture in Century was accurate, or if it was him being more than a little bit disgruntled.

So long viewers, I hope none of you are mad for the next post being delayed.

Big M! In Action!

People, I have a secret to tell…reality is run by machines that suck out our sperm to use as a power source.

 She's come to collect.

Okay, not my best joke, but I got a new question for you…could the world of the Big O be the Matrix?
Now for this to be made clear, let me explain the story. Big O is about a city whose parents were a film noir New York and city of the future, the series focuses on Roger Smith, a professional ‘negotiator’ (the job apparently entailing the piloting of a giant robot) who happens to be an ersatz Batman, his hidden identity being ‘Big O’, Roger’s goal in the series is to try and solve the mysteries surrounding Paradigm City with the help of a robot girl and his Alfred Pennyworth esque butler. Fighting against villains who are

Oh, and did I mention the two dozen or so powerful, partially steampunk based giant mechas referred to as Megadeus?

 Watch him Neo, you might just learn something.

Now I bring this and the Matrix up for a good reason, at the end of it’s second season, Paradigm City is revealed to be a simulated reality which is then ‘rebooted’, now with this in mind, could it be possible that their world is a version of the Matrix? Granted I haven’t done too much research for this, but will soon.

What I say for now is this; could The Big O be the Matrix? And if so, was it still made by machines? Or were the makers really human?
Mystery of life folks…not for long though.

Yep, the truth will set us free...FROM HIM!

Dead Leaves Review

Unfortunately, my projection was wrong and the pictures still aren’t working…but still, the show has to still go on anyways, right?
Today I want to talk about one of the greatest anime films of all time…Dead Leaves!

Now if you haven’t heard of it, Dead Leaves is this really trippy, yet absolutely awesome anime film made by the creators of Gurren Lagann. In it, a pair of extremely tough and powerful criminals (with no memory of who they are) get arrested and thrown into a lunar prison known as the DL Correctional facility.

The criminals are, Retro, a man with a retro television set for a head, and Pandy, a woman with a pink spot around her eye that makes her look like a panda bear…and a mysterious secret about her genes…

They break out with the all the inmates (who all have unique and bizarre appearances) and go through an incredibly violent breakout against giant robots, identical prison guards, a pair of psychotic genetically engineered maniacs named Triple Six and Triple Seven (the former being among my favorite anime villains), and the lady warden who desires revenge against the duo for mysterious reasons pertaining to their past.

This film contains a great array of characters, a badass plot, and some of the greatest and most badass stunts put to animation…seriously, can you think of even one movie where you can find someone Triple wield guns?

Now I bring this fantastic story up for a reason…I believe this anime film is much underrated by too. And it shouldn’t be, this film is a great work, if there were anything so cool your head would explode from witnessing it, it’d be this film.

Now don’t take it just from me, go see this film for yourselves. If you love awesome action stunts, hammy acting in a world gone absolutely mad, and men who can turn their body into tons of guns. Then you’ll love this movie.

Anyways, that’s my personal review of Dead Leaves, next week I’ll try to have a brand new theory ready for you.

Cheers!

Dead Leaves Review

Unfortunately, my projection was wrong and the pictures still aren’t working…but still, the show has to still go on anyways, right?
Today I want to talk about one of the greatest anime films of all time…Dead Leaves!

Now if you haven’t heard of it, Dead Leaves is this really trippy, yet absolutely awesome anime film made by the creators of Gurren Lagann. In it, a pair of extremely tough and powerful criminals (with no memory of who they are) get arrested and thrown into a lunar prison known as the DL Correctional facility.

The criminals are, Retro, a man with a retro television set for a head, and Pandy, a woman with a pink spot around her eye that makes her look like a panda bear…and a mysterious secret about her genes…

They break out with the all the inmates (who all have unique and bizarre appearances) and go through an incredibly violent breakout against giant robots, identical prison guards, a pair of psychotic genetically engineered maniacs named Triple Six and Triple Seven (the former being among my favorite anime villains), and the lady warden who desires revenge against the duo for mysterious reasons pertaining to their past.

This film contains a great array of characters, a badass plot, and some of the greatest and most badass stunts put to animation…seriously, can you think of even one movie where you can find someone Triple wield guns?

Now I bring this fantastic story up for a reason…I believe this anime film is much underrated by too. And it shouldn’t be, this film is a great work, if there were anything so cool your head would explode from witnessing it, it’d be this film.

Now don’t take it just from me, go see this film for yourselves. If you love awesome action stunts, hammy acting in a world gone absolutely mad, and men who can turn their body into tons of guns. Then you’ll love this movie.

Anyways, that’s my personal review of Dead Leaves, next week I’ll try to have a brand new theory ready for you.

Cheers!