Perhaps some young child watching this show was influenced to grow up and create John Stewart (the Green Lantern comic character, not the Daily Show host — HE was created in a Q.U. Biolab accident when the DNA of Lenny Bruce and Dan Rather was accidentally spilled into a vat of radioactive waste and exposed to cosmic rays. John, if you’re reading this, I still think you should wear the Sarcasmo costume we made for you, but I understand how the cape might make you look fat on television, what with the extra ten pounds and all. Wait, what were we talking about … ah yes, Green Lantern). Green Lantern is cool. Way cool.

On a related note, I watched “Solarbabies” last night. A blast from the 80′s past, and man did it show in the totally awesome synth music, the dayglow colors, the bitchin hairdos, etcetera.

But I also noticed how they had the single TBC – token black character. I mean man, was the future white. One scene in particular made him stand out as a TBC. They are passing around a glowing orb they’ve found. They pass it to the TBC, and what does he do? Oh, you know it, he starts poppin and lockin with the orb – his big scene in the movie. You know, we still have the TBC prob today (if they include a person of color at all), but at least Worf or Teal’c or Mace Windu didn’t break into a rap or a breakdance, you jive turkeys. Maybe that’s progress. Maybe.

They also had a pseudo-Native American character from some made-up hodge-podge Gypsy-esque tribe of (oddly white) rejects from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I mean, come on, they couldn’t take the time to do a little research and have the “tribe” be an actual real desert culture whose native traditions allowed them to survive in the harsh conditions of a post-civilization waterless wasteland?

But hey, did I mention how frickin sweet those hairdos were?

How to fight the frizzies, at 11.