8/10/07: Masters of Science Fiction (2006)Television networks certainly aren’t shy about airing their Leftist propaganda—so you can imagine how bad
Masters of Science Fiction must be to get buried by the executives at ABC. This anthology series was shelved for a year, and is now being burnt off on Saturday nights with no chance of building an audience. They’re only showing four of six filmed episodes.
The sole imaginative thing about the show seems to be using Stephen Hawking’s voice box as the moralistic—and good liberal—narrator. It seems that any other host would have upstaged the actors. As seen by last Saturday’s premiere, the blacklist is already in effect. “A Clean Escape” became Must-See Idiocy with the casting of Judy Davis (from
The Reagans) and Sam Waterson (from the biggest
Leftist indulgence on television).
We also liked how the episode was directed by the same Master of Science Fiction who helmed
On Golden Pond. Still, we never dreamt that we’d get such an entertaining example of blownbrain Hollywood proselytizing. The two leads provided a timeless overwrought acting duel—Davis as a bitter military psychiatrist and Waterson as her amiable patient who can’t retain memories of anything that’s happened since the long-ago year of 2007.
As is revealed—ploddingly and painfully—Waterson was your average manufacturer of nuclear weaponry back in 2007, and he was certainly too busy building his business to worry about how one of his bombs might detonate and ultimately trigger every nuclear device on the planet. Then he later became President of the United States and launched that same tricky nuclear device in a preemptive strike, because everyone knows our planet’s greatest threat is white Christian American males who are proud believers in God, family, and the Constitution.
It gets funnier. Davis is counseling Waterson while deep in a bunker buried in some hills, and the world above has been wiped out by nuclear winter. Science fiction isn’t supposed to invoke nostalgia, but it’s hard not to remember the good old days when you hear people talking about nuclear winter. This script might very well have been pulled from the reject pile for that 1985 revival of
The Twilight Zone—and only updated by Davis’ overblown sneering about the President and his “mission accomplished.”
Anyway, you’ve missed “A Clean Escape” but can still watch “The Awakening” this weekend. It’s based on an old short story by one of Hollywood’s favorite Commies, and once again features an evil President. It’ll be the only episode of
Masters of Science Fiction set in current times—in this case, set in Iraq—and all indications are that the episode will be even funnier than last week. This may even be ABC’s campiest show since that
Batman episode with Liberace.
Make it your own: Masters of Science Fiction airs this Saturday night at 10 pm EST—although nobody’s noticed. “A Clean Escape” bombed in the ratings. The show’s produced by the folks at the STARZ cable network, though, so they’ll probably be using the episodes as filler through 2010.
