[Wrao]

Recently, while I was on youtube watching people fall down and/or get hit in the groin by an assortment of objects, I stumbled up a curiosity.

a 130 episode sci-fi miniseries called Afterworld. Apparently it has been airing on Sci-fi channel, but I don't really watch TV, so I was unaware of that. Beyond that, the primary distribution seems to be via youtube. The series views like a graphic novel. Rendered cgi stills, brought to life by occasional drops of animation, Ken Burns zooms and other such effects.

It tells a narrative of this fellow named Russel who wakes up one day to find that New York city is completely devoid of human life, and all electronic devices have stopped working.

I watched the first 5 episodes before it began to strike me as some sort of Christian fundamentalist propaganda, which made the next few episodes that much more difficult to stay interested in. But, in later episodes, the story did begin to become more multifaceted than that, although biblical overtones still linger in each episode. So far only 18 episodes have been released, but they are releasing a new episode every day until the entire 130 have been released. Each episode is maybe 3 minutes long, so the entire series is just over 6 hours in length.

I don't know if it can keep my interest, but I thought I'd share nonetheless, since it is a curious piece of media, and end-of-the-world science fiction is always fun.

http://www.youtube.com/user/AfterworldTV