We can re-build it! We have the technology!

Yes! We can make it faster! Stronger! Like nothing the world has ever seen! We'll take this broken visual entertainment and make it into, "Lonelygirl"!

Honestly, I've never watched a single video from Lonelygirl, but the story on Wired was pretty cool. Although knowing that it was on Youtube, I would have been positive it was fabricated. No one is their real life selves online. The fabled web forum acronym, G.I.R.L., even proved to be true! For the less web savvy people out there, the proper usage of this would be:

Person A: Hi guys, I'm a girl.

Person 2: LOL. Sure, Guy In Real Life. There are no girls on the inernet.

IT WAS TRUE!!! There may have been a girl on screen, but a guy was writing her script! All joking and sexism aside, Lonelygirl was a brilliant idea. I never realized just how hard they tried to make it seem real without actually saying "This is real". The fact that the guys talked to a lawyer about it just struck me as really funny, but I suppose they would need it. There are morons out there who would probably tried to sue when they found out that she wasn't real. I'm actually very thankful for the style of entertainment that Lonelygirl started. My favorite online video series, Yugioh: The Abridged Series, probably wouldn't have been dreamed up without it. It's certainly a really cool idea, shows that are only a few minutes long, but how far can people run with it? The genres that can be covered seem kind of slim. Just comedy and teen drama. Could an action oriented program be done in this manner? That's what I want to see!

...*idea*

I just got a great idea! What if someone made a War of the Worlds kind of thing? Where its done in a radio transmission style portraying the action. What if someone told a story and fleshed out an entire science fiction world with only short diary entries from different people? That would be so cool! Think Lost, but you only get short clips from different people to tell you what's going on. You can get stuff from the protagonist, the antagonist, bystanders, anyone!

Wow, now I'm inspired, but I don't know what to do with it!!! I don't have the resources to do this! JJ Abrams! I demand that you start on this project immediately! Stop editing your new monster movie and make an online series!

Hmm, well that burst of genius strayed a bit from the topic. So, in conclusion online episodic content like Lonelygirl is a really good idea and JJ Abrams needs to hop on that train. It could be so much more than it is now. It's just going to take one really good, well funded series to get everyone to catch on. So that's it for now.

Later