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How the Success of SAMURAI JACK Could Lead to More TOONAMI and CARTOON NETWORK Franchise Reboots - Duration: 4:50.
Samurai Jack premiered back in 2001, and proved itself to be one of Genndy Tartakovsky's
most visually stunning animated television shows skewed towards a younger audience.
More than a decade later, Genndy and Cartoon Network is breathing life back into the series
for a 5th and final season on Toonami, which is set to be more mature and have a much more
cohesive story.
This revival of Samurai Jack is something that has much hype surrounding it.
Much more than one of Genndy's first animated shows he co-produced on Cartoon Network, Power
Puff Girls – which saw a reboot back in 2016.
The reason for the hype is due to the significance of Cartoon Network taking a look at its past
shows, rediscovering what made them successful, and revamping them for a newer audience – still
taking into consideration the audience of yesteryear, tapping into both the new and
old viewers of their programming block.
As of recent years, it seems as though Cartoon Network has been taking retrospective looks
at their past shows to find ways of bringing certain successes back into the fray.
We've seen this with a handful of their early to mid 2000 shows:
Teen Titans, Go, Ben 10, even the upcoming sequel to Fooly Cooly.
It seems as though Cartoon Network is banking on borrowing from the past to bring forth
success in the present.
As a revamp that appears to take a juristic turn from the previous series in mood and
tone, Samurai Jack and its success in its fifth and final season is all the more important
– why you might ask?
Simple.
The success of Samurai Jack in its new iteration, catering more so to a mature audience, could
lead to the return of some of Toonami's most successful and inspired animated shows.
Imagine seeing Megas XLR return to Toonami as a more gritty take on the mecha robot parody
franchise.
In fact, there were talks of bringing this particular Titmouse masterpiece back from
the dead, but unfortunately, as stated in a 2014 interview by co-creator George Krstic,
"Megas was written off as a tax loss and as such can not be exploited, at least domestically,
in any way, or the network will get into some sort of tax/legal trouble."
There goes that pipedream of resurgence.
So Cartoon Network shot themselves in the foot with that particular franchise, but their
animation library is vast and plentiful.
Cartoon Network has proven itself as of late to be a program channel willing to take risks
based on previous successes.
For Samurai Jack to have been out of play and off-air for close to 14 years, it's
vital for the show to quickly find its audience early to prove that it was indeed a viable,
bankable choice for Cartoon Network to make.
Genndy has a strong history of creating animated shows that resonate with a young audience
through his work on Dexter's Lab, Power Puff Girls, even 2 Stupid Dogs.
Though it is risky bringing back a franchise with the amount of years it has being out
of sight and mind, with the play of making it a more moody, more gritty piece Samurai
Jack could prove to resonate more with a current audience's more refined viewing palate.
There's also the nostalgia factor it has going for it.
As an old school viewer of Cartoon Network, Toonami and Adult Swim, I'll be watching
Samurai Jack – hoping for it to do exceptionally well and usher in a new era of animated programming
for Cartoon Network – one that sees them taking cues from the past and placing them
into the present.
Previous animated shows such as Dexter's Lab have had comic books produced by D.C.
Comics well into the present, continuing to chronicle the character's exploits – so
it wouldn't be a far reach that a resurgence of an animated revamp to be far behind.
Taking a character from a previous popular animated franchise and placing them into their
own comic book series does two things – keeps the spirit alive of the television series,
as well as gage the current interest in said character and franchise.
Samurai Jack, we're all depending on you – make us proud.
Thanks for watching, more importantly watch Samurai Jack.
We need it to do well, because it could open the door to so many of our favorite shows
from the early to mid 2000s'.
Hopefully you share this video with other likeminded cartoon enthusiasts out there.
Until next time, I will see you in the next one.
Peace.
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Human Evolution on Mars - Duration: 4:04.
When talking about colonizing Mars, we often focus on short-term goals and concerns such
as how do we get there, what habitats should we build and what will we eat?
Coupled with that is the seemingly high level of possibility that we are in the first stages
of the colonization of Mars and a human presence there within the next hundred years seems
a solid bet, especially if visionaries like Elon Musk are successful.
But with that bold effort comes some long-term concerns that if not addressed might not lead
where we once thought things would go.
For example, evolution on Mars may not stop and if left alone our Martian counterparts
could eventually no longer be considered to be the same species as us.
This is of particular concern if the population of Martian humans becomes independent and
isolated from us.
Worse, there may be no choice for them to be become independent and isolated because
with a sterile environment comes a lack of microbe-related diseases.
No microbes means no need for an immune system and after a long enough time in those conditions
an evolving species will no longer be equipped to fight those kinds of diseases.
That means no one who's been to earth can be allowed to land on Mars.
This scenario is particularly concerning for another reason.
With isolation comes divergent cultures.
Divergent cultures means different sets of ideas and values.
Two groups of humans holding different ideas in the past has not always led to peaceful
disagreement.
Dr. Scott Solomon of Rice University notes that it's a matter of Darwin's finches, where
birds isolated on different islands develop different adaptations depending on the conditions
of those islands until eventually after a couple hundred generations you have a completely
new species.
Mars presents very different conditions than earth, including a higher radiation environment
which would favor mutation.
The difference is so great that in as little as 6000 years after the colony is founded,
the people living there might no longer be classifiable as members of Homo Sapiens.
The opposite argument is that it would actually take much longer, perhaps as long as a hundred
thousand years or more for Martian humans to be genetically distinct enough to be called
a new species.
But that doesn't mean that their appearance would be the same, and the conditions of Mars
may only require a few generations to change that appearance.
But what would they look like?
That's a matter of speculation, but some ideas have been advanced.
For example, lower light levels could lead to bigger eyes and differences in the visual
cortex of the brain.
Another is that the Martians might have thicker bones giving them a stocky appearance.
Space is difficult on the human skeleton, astronauts have to go through great lengths
to keep their bone mass up while in space.
And while Mars does have gravity, it's significantly less than earth so colonists with more robust
bones would have an evolutionary advantage over thin framed colonists subject to bone
breakage.
And, even here on earth there is evidence that our cranium size is increasing still.
If that's true, that would be problem for Martians as well and would complicate natural
child birth.
But it also pays to bear in mind that technological development during this colonial period won't
stagnate.
We stand at the edge of a biotechnological revolution that will change fundamentally
how we treat disease and we are gaining steady control over our own genetics.
Within a hundred years, nanotechnology may replace the natural immune system as the primary
defense against disease in humans.
The Martians would no doubt benefit from this as well.
And with genetic tailoring making its debut, evolution itself could move out of the hands
of nature and into our own, and to some extent already has.
We, and our future Martian counterparts may yet look the same, but we may also not look
like the humans of today.
Or, on the other hand, we may look like we do now forever, in order to preserve homo
sapiens.
Thanks for listening!
I am futurist and science fiction author John Michael Godier, currently with a second channel
coming soon on Youtube which will be dedicated to science fiction, both my own and ideas
of others and be sure to check out my books at your favorite online book retailer and
subscribe to my channel for regular, in-depth explorations into the interesting, weird and
unknown aspects of this amazing universe in which we live.
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