AltNews2016
Introduction/Definition/etc
Variation on a theme, BadNews2016 and more alternative options...
Body
TomSawyer/HuckFinn
Spoiling
Classic Adventures of Huck Finn, I grew up with, and had to Read, now played in Film on cable, showing an escape from bad home treatment, dealing with relatives, held captive, and then faking his death, really shooting and killing a pig, slaughtering, leaving blood, and then what the town thinks happened, hiding out, finding a slave runaway, and building a raft to float down river, and adventures with two con men fleeing gunfire who later claimed royalty status above others on the raft, putting the African American back into a slave role, after Huck and them had bonded, over silly sayings, about weather, luck and other stuff like floods and a house of ill repute floating down river with stuff (dress to pretend to be a girl and go to his own funeral, caught by an old lady, telling stories, trying to get by, lying, church, getting saved, feuds, after a river boat crash, separated, etc)...
ViceLand
Started as Voice or similar, magazine, and A&E invested, until they had a video channel, later cable channel...
AlaskaShows
Spoiling
ViceLand has one showing a millenial going to Alaska for a short time, in early winter season (snow on the ground/tundra), with the Korths, hunting caribou, fishing, trapping in the stream and rabbits (skinning, etc partially greyed out), defending the homestead against bears, talking philosophy of carnivores and mainstream society, missing any video news of 9/11, brought up around the time a plane goes overhead in Alaska, didn't then, all down for a while, but he heard about it, but doesn't have TV, (as millenials gasp, like they had it taken away, as punishment), as opposed to cable/ satellite, taken for granted, they fill up then fire up the generator fired up just to run a laptop and show a movie, like it's a regular Saturday night, in town/ city...
Other Odd Shows
ViceLand ads for focus groups, drunken skateboarding tricks (resembling JackAss, and Tosh.0 at least to me), Fashion (States of Undress), and other oddities, at least to this late baby boomer, precocious Gen X->Y...
Not as odd as some stuff on YouTube, and indie movies, perhaps, but to get a channel full of it...
Yep, Parents and Others Just Don't Understand... Cue old hip hop '70's music...
Highway to Heaven
Back to more mainstream, seeing Flip Wilson and other stuff on Cozi , Me and This type channels... Not to mention Green Acres, a lawyer going back to the rural, buying a dump, in Hooterville with ZaZa Gabor (sp?), trying to deal with rural phone monopoly systems, local culture, dogs and pigs inter species relations, and other country stuff like dating and opposing views of the sexes..
Michael Landon (sp?) as an angel and his side kick go to sidekick's old grandfathers town, get in a car accident and magically transported to his father's old farm/homestead, running into himself as kid, hooking school, hanging out at the bridge, basically reliving old times when he was in a coma or similar flashback...
Links
Tom Sawyer / Huck Finn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_%281939_film%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_%281960_film%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Huck_Finn_%281993_film%29
(check film date shown and seen recently, as several versions have been made)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Finn_%281975_film%29
ViceLand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_%28magazine%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceland
https://www.viceland.com/en_us
AlaskaShows
might segway to other channels series, check what I've written about up here on other ones...
Others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie_%28TV_series%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_to_Heaven
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/dear-teen-me/
DearTwentySomethings2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
AttackOfTheMillennials2015
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Not as I had remembered Huck Finn, some parts seemed familiar, but decades after the '70's and racism, slavery, and other things seem more out of date, even Mark Twains' time faked adventures, as survival, all things we take for granted, as a first world problem, now...
Sure in fiction, people died, animal's killed and slaughtered, but things seemed to magically work out, unlike a lot of the reality stuff happening now, and have in the past, BadNews2016 and all...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
If you were to write your own story, starting with your own death, going to your funeral, in disguise, and basically Dear Teen Me type letters of advice to your younger self, what narrative would you write?
Decision theory: thinking if you had made choice x, instead of y, and play out the differences over time, say got good grades, instead of bad, passed that class, or made honour society, higher (P)SATs / ACTs/ MCATs/LSATs, etc instead of detention or demerits in the quad, or vice versa, what Prince and the Pauper, Trading Spaces, type changes would you see in the world?
Does it help to see both sides of the coin, or do you just get dizzy too much? Spinning stories and perspectives?
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Page History
20160428 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to lift up the mood a bit after goth / morose like BadNews2016 ...
- cleaned up a little, and added some links
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