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Grex Cyberpunk Item 4: DEAD AT 21>>>>>>D.O.A.
Entered by matts on Mon Jun 20 17:36:56 UTC 1994:

Last night, I veiwed what was some of the lamest television I have yet
to veiw.  The show, "Dead at 21", promised to be a cyberpunk-based
notch on MTV's ever changing lineup.  The story line is basically this.
A 20 year old guy has this microsoft implanted in his brain, as he is
some secret government project.  And for some unknown reason, everyone
wants to kill him.  In the first 3 minutes of the show, two people had already 
shot at him...or had they...was it a dream.....or was it real.........
confused...so am I..and so is MTV.
The whole thing is  shot on video, a complete and total mistake
for anything but the TGIF sitcoms.  It seems really fake and 
colorfull for a drama...it looks like a bad afterschool special.
Don't waste your time with this one.  Go read some gibson with your
time, and kill your MTV.

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by dang on Fri Jun 24 17:45:36 1994:

what is happening to mtv these days?

#2 of 12 by matts on Fri Jun 24 18:58:46 1994:

remember the days when they played....gosh, i almost forgot myself.....
VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#3 of 12 by jshafer on Mon Oct 3 06:47:47 1994:

Videos?  On MTV?  You must be confused.

#4 of 12 by jg on Sun Nov 13 23:44:38 1994:

MTV is suffering from acute future-itis... they are struggling with the 
fervor to embrace on line existance.  They want to be cutting edge...
but instead find themselves dying in "the real world."  I say go
interactive, but stick with what you know.

#5 of 12 by doorknob on Mon Nov 21 18:16:26 1994:

I think MTV is stuck on its tragically hip self.
Dead at 21 had some promise, but, what the hell?  They will use anything
just because it is presently trendy.

I wonder if William Gibson would have written aything had
he known the crap that they would clone...
But I digress...

#6 of 12 by nephi on Tue Dec 6 03:44:46 1994:

Yeah, really.  I want my (old) MTV!  The only program I like there 
anymore is " 'Alternative' Nation".

#7 of 12 by holmes on Sun Dec 25 20:59:39 1994:

You're all right. The current lineup is aimed at everyone. Of course, no one is
satisfied. I'd like to see some videos! And not just the latest few played over
and over again, never to be seen after a few months.

#8 of 12 by occam on Sat Feb 6 03:23:45 1999:

RE: #5  I hope he would.  The crap is DEFINATELY worth searching through  
to get to the good stuff.

Cyberpunk literature has some of the best thought out ideas in it.  Much  
of the recent "crap" may seem to say otherwise, but if you search, it is  
well worth it.


--Occam

#9 of 12 by dorkxer on Thu Sep 4 04:20:55 2003:

I agree fully with the plea of the video retun on MTV. Whatever happened to
those money making things for the artist, i dont know. Oh and should i know
who Gibson is?

#10 of 12 by cyberpnk on Sat Sep 6 19:11:27 2003:

He doesn't know who William Gibson is?? INFIDEL!!!!!!!

#11 of 12 by trustnon on Sun May 9 17:46:56 2004:

I understand that they are trying to show more videos but why haven't they
found rant tv or binrev, if they had stuff like that it would rock, but then
again, i gotta remember that they aren't entirely technology based

#12 of 12 by sync350 on Fri Jan 27 02:38:29 2006:

And a few years after the original post, and MTV continues to suck...  check
out FUSE, cause thats where its at.

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