What an amazing advertising campaign.  I mean political campaign.

Either way, I’m a thousand percent happy to help.

Cartoon Network aired two episodes of this series back-to-back. The second one was much better than the first. Listening to Yoda talk backwards for a half-hour, annoying it will get. (The third episode was better still.)

Clone Wars takes place sometime between the first and third new movies.  Personally, I find it difficult to go back and forth on whether I’m supposed to think Annakin is a good guy or a bad guy.  We already watched him turn evil, burn off his legs, and then scream, “Noooo” in the most overly melodramatic impersonation of the Frankenstein monster possible. Now this series wants us to go back to where he’s a good guy with overly aggressive tendencies.  It’s unsettling. Fortunately, the addition of Ahsoka as Annakin’s spunky apprentice jedi girl helps balance that discombobulation. (However, look for an unnatural overuse of “young” in front of “padawan” in the second episode. But hey, you’re not a Star Wars fan if bad dialogue is a sticking point for you.)

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All right, fine. So I’m about a bajillion years behind in reviewing all the new fall shows.  I’m still doing them, if only to force myself to power through the DVR and catch up. Several things turned me off in the first few acts of Sanctuary.  Biggest was the first main character we meet, Dr. Will Zimmerman, who is yet another “noticer.”  See Psych and The Mentalist for other examples.  Like those shows, especially Psych, our hero in Sanctuary comes complete with CSI-influenced zooms to show us everything he’s noticing.

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It’s funny. You sometimes spend weeks prepping, a dozen  or more people doing a super-long day to get your short to come out right, and it just doesn’t.

This one, on the other hand, was four of us, total, and we were done in a half hour.  And yet it’s one of my favorite sketches, and one of the best, tech-wise, we’ve ever made.  Enjoy.

Should have our entry into the Evil League of Evil application contest up tomorrow.

Is now posted at BrevityTV.

And no likelihood of sleep any time soon…  I’m loving the fact that I’m involved in BrevityTV.com right now.  I can pitch a ridiculously difficult idea to my friends, and they jump in and help me make it real.  My week:

Saturday night:  all-nighter completing the lyrics to a comedy song about Sarah Palin.  It’s essentially an open letter to John McCain saying it isn’t cool for him to have chosen her, and not really a “Country First” thing to do.

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