It’s been said that there is a common pool of idea that all creators draw from. A common consciousness, so to speak where all the good ideas come from.
I have no idea how true that is, but I do know that it seems like a convenient excuse for periods of times where movies/books/music with similar theme seemed to come out at the same time. It easily explains away the fads with dinosaur movies, disasters flicks, zombie munchfests, kungfu sockchops and now superhero romps.
Creative serendipity is normally the scapegoat as to why all these similar flicks come out at the same time… NOT plagiarism, or what a layman like me would describe as “riding on the success of others” or copycat.
Anyway, I just finished watching Futurama: The Beast with a Million Backs! (How wonderfully B-Grade)
It’s been too long since the last episode was out and it was really good to see all the famous and not so famous cast of Futurama returns. I swear, there was a slight tingling down my back when the theme song played in the opening sequence… I could almost understand what fans of Sex and the City felt when the show hit the big screen.
ALMOST.
Not quite… that was a show that’s waaaaay too… *muffled profanities*
Anyway. Loved the show. (NOT Sex and the City, wise guy…) But the thing that got to me when the Beast finally appear was how similar it is to a recent (and ongoing?) Marvel event.
The whole issue of being assimilated into a common consciousness and the “selects” actually maintaining a certain degree of free will… at least enough to hold semi conscious thoughts, and LIKING the experience is an issue that is presented in both scenarios.
It is an interesting idea. And the concept is probably more satirical (yes, I just called Futurama satirical, deal with it!) and thought provoking (Woooo… Thought provoking too…) than I could compute with my minuscule mind right now.
But back to my main point.
If the common conscious thing is true, what do you think it is telling us now?
