Inhumanoids Thread

Flint Dille The Inhumanoids' Earth Corps as environmental clean up squad. Interesting idea from a fan. See below.
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Cliff Bleszinski The evil that lies wiiiiithiiiiiin!
Monday at 5:57pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu I'd also saw a spot on TV this morning about Kevin Costner having helped developed a technology to deal with oil spills on water and how to clean them up. So anytime there is cataclysmic disaster on an environmental scale, I figured Auger, Liquidator or Dr. Bright would be falling over each other to deliver what they felt could help (and get contracts to take care of the crisis as well).
Monday at 6:16pm · Like ·

Flint Dille Kevin Costner would be a perfect Earth Corps guy. Anybody know him?
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John Devanney Wheres Captain Planet when ya need him ;)
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Theodore D. Hsu Would Kevin make a good Herc Armstrong Sr., ready to pass the role and exo-suit of "Herc" to his son? The first one fought the main Inhumanoids and then the cleanup duties came along (with proper reimbursement of course; getting equipment, fuel and chemicals for spills, rescue efforts or decontamination on the double doesn't come without good ...
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Monday at 7:00pm · Like ·

Flint Dille Two things: no preaching and Costner's not that old. In fact, we should do everything we can to get Boomers to go to the movies.
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Theodore D. Hsu Would a modern re-imagine of Dr. Derek Bright be a kid prodigy who'd built robots for science fairs, rebuilt junkers to be able to afford his work, possibly paid his way through college with a slew of tech innovations and came out with enough degrees and a body of work that made his professors jealous?
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G.D. Strauff Actually Flint - this was a story point I wanted to bring up with you. I was watching an old (and very underrated) sci-fi flick called Crack in the World.

It seems to me that whenever there's an Irwin Allen-esque disaster looming on the horizon, Earth Corps. would be one of the first ones called in. So much potential for stories not involving the ancient horrors (but then, who's to say a major tremor won't crack D'Compose's amber prison?) but are still thrilling.
Monday at 7:26pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu Jonathan "Liquidator" Slattery would also be a whiz kid in the labs as well, whose work attracted a lot of scholarships, and in return his research led to chemicals that brought his university a lot of cash. One cousin in the health field did ask about creating a compound to help meth addicts begin the long road to recovery "Think how many lives you could touch and save with something like that. How many families you could bring back together."
Monday at 7:27pm · Like ·

Flint Dille Either they're called in, or they are vaguely disreputable and under-appreciated and have crossed a bunch of powerful guys. They always ought to be sneaking into their situations.
Monday at 7:29pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu Auger was the son of a miner and a gear-head as well. He'd taken up martial arts to protect himself, and was a Marine to pay for college. A mechanic at heart, he sometimes made for improvements to improve performance on vehicles. When it was allowed of course:)
Monday at 7:29pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu And Herman "Herc" Armstrong saw these three had potential to do a lot for him. So he got them together for a weekend and asked "How would you like to help save a dying world?"
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G.D. Strauff Herc knows that Blackthorne went against their caution and drilled on a volcanic vent, and now he knows he can seal-off the pipe spewing sulphur dioxide; Bright & Auger know they have the tech to seal it off.

But - being it's a Shore, Blackthorne has enough clout over Senator Masterson to keep EC off the clean-up.
Monday at 7:40pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu Or they could have felt they weren't "given their due" after the powerful bad guys cut them out. So they decide something big and bad is going on, and they decide to put their heads together for it.
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G.D. Strauff A perfect subplot! Shore Industries announces a clean, renewable power source - GeoThermic energy harvested from the Mantle!

Pepper it throughout - activists opposing it on TV; senate hearings. Newspaper articles.

Every now and then show the plant being constructed (Northern California? Yellowstone?) ...
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Monday at 7:49pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu And in G.D.'s scene, when disaster from when Masterson keeps EC off the cleanup occurs, and the major bumbling we know the Senator does hits the fan, Auger has to be muzzled by the others from going, "We all tried to warn you about this BUT NOOOOOOOOOO! You HAD to be Blackthorne's personal lap dog!" in the voice of John Belushi.
Monday at 7:50pm · Like ·

G.D. Strauff ::: shoe through the TV screen :::
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Theodore D. Hsu If the screen was a flat screen, one of the others would snag it with a baseball mitt have a screen mesh a few inches in front of it. "Do you know how much a flat screen COSTS? We can't afford you chucking your size-12s at it every time someone ticks you off!"

"Well, I would have been ready to cut a check for a cheaper TV."

Come to think of it, they always had small TVs that were easily replaceable even in the 80s:P
Monday at 7:55pm · Like ·

Flint Dille Yeah. You've got to have a lot of TV screens.
Monday at 10:26pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu Or Derek 2010 might have put together a whole bank of fixed-up old TVs tuned to many channels with the "universal remote". With maybe a thin mesh screen that allowed for watching the TV but catching the heavy shoes Auger always wore.
Monday at 11:56pm · Like ·

Flint Dille I remember there's one episode where they had a net in front of the TV.
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Theodore D. Hsu That was because they had finally had enough of Auger's taking bad news out on the television that broadcast it. In the same episode (Auger...for President?) they'd even had a spare to watch the results on, Liquidator kidding "We've learned to deal with it (or something like that)"
Tuesday at 10:12am · Like ·

Flint Dille As I recall, he beat Masterson, much to the chagrin of Hektor Ramirez.
Tuesday at 10:29am · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu Which was the cue for the Inhumanoids to strike, taking Auger to be the main course at their dinner--President Flambe:P It was with the help of Tank and Sabre Jet the other Earth Corps won the final battle, if I recall correctly.
Tuesday at 11:17am · Like ·

Flint Dille That's right. The DVD's of the series are of a bad mix and virtually unwatchable. I ought to rip the cassettes to DVD without of course, violating any laws. What is the law on that?
Tuesday at 11:22am · Like ·

Sanford S. Williams I'm still trying to get the DVD collection. Is there any chance of a revamp of this series?
Tuesday at 1:49pm · Like ·

Theodore D. Hsu I think if you talk to the Shout! Factory maybe we can get them to get the whole series on North American DVD. Hopefully we can get them to put it out there, as well as Visionaries.
Tuesday at 2:09pm · Like ·

Flint Dille Yeah. That would be cool. I'd love to do the voice track. Seems like somebody from Shout Factory is a friend here.
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Theodore D. Hsu If you ever need someone to try to do Chris Latta, once I did for a friend a "live performance" of a few scenes from "GI Joe vs. The Transformers" volume 1 (I did a few Cobra Commander-Megatron scenes as well as a Starscream scene or two, including Starscream with the Commander when the chips were down--and Snake Eyes avenging his family by slashing one of Starscream's optics open, then sticking a grenade in the "eye socket").
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Mark Lungo Flint, "Inhumanoids" was when I really began to appreciate your talent. You were given the concept of a kids' adventure cartoon set in hell (more or less), and you made it even more twisted (and funnier!) with scripts like "Primal Passions". That takes some doing.

Also: "Inhumanoids" introduced a whole bunch of toyetic new characters in later ...
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Tuesday at 3:47pm · Like ·

Flint Dille I saw prototypes of Nightcrawler... S-s-slither and Gargoyle (I like Gagoyle better as a name.
Tuesday at 3:50pm · Like ·

Mark Lungo Good to know. Still, I always liked the Earth Corps better than the monsters. What kind of weirdo does that make me?
Tuesday at 4:04pm · Like ·

Flint Dille Its interesting, one of the things we tried to do with Inhumanoids was make the heroes as interesting as the villains. That's surprisingly hard to do.
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