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Edison Carter stays dead. His consciousness now only exists as a talking head, half-insane in a fate worse than death. There's potential in a character with nothing to gain and nothing to lose. All he can do is tell mean-spirited jokes. He can't even use his power to appear on any TV set for its most obvious purpose, to creep on women, since he doesn't have a penis anymore. Without Edison, someone else is going to have to do all the legwork involved in reporting the news, and I know just the set of legs for the job. Edison's lady producer, Theora, gets a promotion from love interest to Woman of Action. Every week, she finds herself in a different sexy predicament, and every week she has to get herself out of it because Max is, again, completely fucking useless for anything except black comedy. The newsroom boss, Murray, is now less of a boring stand up guy and more of a lazy, corrupt, cowardly, untrustworthy, corporate sycophant, not unlike Jeffrey Tambor's character on The Larry Sanders Show. Especially like Jeffrey Tambor because he's actually played by Jeffrey Tambor, and OH MY GOD HOW DID THEY WASTE THAT?! But he's still the closest thing Theora has to a friend, so she relies on him as much as she has to. At the end of the night, instead of making a bunch of terrible puns on the theme of the episode, Max presents the news story he and Theora spent the week chasing. He gets all the credit for her hard work (like a less-active Remington Steele), and delivers the story in a way that makes light of the seriousness of the issues and the danger involved in reporting them, thus entertaining the audience (us) and pacifying whichever corporation they pissed off (ABC). The goal is to try and make Max more of a commentary on real-life media talking heads, less of a loveable cutesy merchandising opportunity. Basically if someone goes "oh, Max," and rolls their eyes into a freezeframe, it should be someone who is functionally evil and profiting from the status quo. Or maybe just so clueless that he thinks he is, like Murray. |
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Max Headroom sucks. by 12/19/2016, 2:47pm PST  You can't watch this now NT by 12/19/2016, 7:35pm PST The closing credits theme is AMAZING. They can keep that, and change all this: by 12/20/2016, 6:00am PST Did you watch the movie/pilot? by 12/20/2016, 7:47pm PST No, though I probably should have. by 12/21/2016, 5:25am PST iirc he went to do some sitcom where he was a doctor afterward NT by 12/21/2016, 6:30am PST I just realized that Dennis Hopper's haircut in SMB is EXACTLY like Max Headroom NT by 12/20/2016, 6:27pm PST Yeah, I think they wrote them both at the same time. On the same piece of paper. NT by 12/20/2016, 6:35pm PST |
