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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
"we'll never know exactly what happened" is not the same as "anything could have happened." easy enough to drum up thousands of scenarios that decidedly Did Not Happen, like this person did. what a bizarre yarn to spin, and i'm glad i was exposed to it via this very levelheaded explanation of why it Did Not, in fact, Happen.
i wouldn't call it levelheaded but i will accept "reasonably factual"
What baffles me about this is why would this take make the story better? Isn't Max Headroom still like one of the coolest things because no one knows who did it, and we don't actually know any of the details as to how? Claiming we do ruins the fun. Making some uncredited "here's how it happened" is lame.
The mystery is the cool part.
Making up stories is fun sometimes. It's can be fun to speculate wildly in a plausible but incredibly fun way, or even enjoy yourself along with another person when you know that person is just guessing and that guessing is fun and fascinating!! But this one doesn't even bother with that. It's just... kinda boring!!
There’s a Max Headroom reboot underway, right? This Twitter blipvert prolly traces back to a publicist.
To me the very obvious reason this is wrong (as I do not have any particularly great insight into over-the-air television signal decoding) is that the max headroom set that was shown in the footage was not trivial to build. This is of course an excellent explanation of why it's wrong from other perspectives though
i was never in a high school theater or tv program so i abstained from speculating on what some kids would be capable of, because hey, they could have been making a max headroom joke as part of a project, with no intent to ever broadcast it, and built the set for that purpose.
as someone else pointed out on twitter, there's a break in the video at one point that makes it apparent that it was prerecorded - and if you were in this situation, just some kids fucking around who get caught by surprise, would you try to hastily throw together a live show, or throw a tape in a VTR with some project you already recorded? see, it would actually support the story if I'd gone down that road, lol
If I'm reading what you're saying correctly -- the impromptu live idea, presuming that the tweets you're referencing actually were correct, definitely makes more sense from my perspective, but then that's also because I've never taken video production classes so my only 'projects' along those lines are video game livestreams and music I've done. Meanwhile, I can't imagine a project like this referencing a "mystery for the world's greatest newspaper nerds" being intended for any other purpose but to fuck around with some broadcasting equipment -- especially given the first, but wholly incomplete, broadcast was on WGN and the one that people recognize was PBS.
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