‘Afterworld’ - first 2 eps to watch
The first episode is embedded above. Subsequent episodes are blocked from embedding. Find them here on YouTube.
‘Afterworld’ lives in many worlds - TV, web, phones
It’s a classic Sci Fi scenario: last man on Earth, technology destroyed. It has been done many ways in many eras.
One of the latest iterations is a big-budget film of Richard Matheson’s classic novel, “I Am Legend,” featuring Will Smith that is set to open this winter. An earlier film version of the same book in 1964 featuring Vincent Price was titled, “The Last Man on Earth.”
In novel form only, at the moment, is a three-book series by S.M. Stirling titled, “Dies the Fire,” which posits the death of all technology and a world that has reverted to medieval times. It’s not as if no one is left; but the remnants of civilization have retreated to rural clans and fiefdoms.
Now comes “Afterworld,” an animated series in which technology has inexplicably disappeared, as have most of the people. What makes this a Web 2.0 version of the tale is that it is available simultaneously on TV (SciFi Channel in the US), on the Web (eps are available at You Tube and on SciFi’s MySpace page Telstra’s Next G mobile phone network.
A good story about the concept behind the series talks about how “Afterworld” producer Stan Rogow turned to his 13-year-old son Jackson for guidance: Read the rest of this entry »
