On Sep 18, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
How did you like tonights episode?
'T'were a giggle. Rude and entertaining and I liked the improbably *human* way the F4 clones got their powers -- how Mrs. Impossible got the power of invisibility ... well, just her skin; or how her brother catches fire on contact with oxygen and he screams in agony every moment he's buring-but-not-consumed, a postmodern Mosaic miracle.
Genuinely good stuff. Pop culture attacking itself and aware that it is, not descending into unintentional self-parody.
But what really sells the show for me is the writing. These guys know what they are doing. If one were not aware of the old cartoons being spoofed the humor would still work.
Yes, I know a kid who's 13 now and likes the show, enjoyed the ep this weekend even though he had never seen JQ. (He's ahead of his peers, FWIW.)
Between this and ATHF, I have to say Cartoon Network's a pretty good reason to have cable at all. (Oh, and of course South Park and the Daily Show...)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" Excerpt at http://www.nightwares.com/books/Flat_Out.pdf
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