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A while ago I posted about the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, an experimental webseries on hulu that's basically a cross between Heroes and "Step Up II: The Streets". Have you spent your whole life wishing someone had created a cross between "Heroes" and "Step Up II: The Streets?" No? Well, neither did I. But as it turns out, it's pretty cool.
The "plot" is... well, pretty silly. Basically a bunch of people have superpowers - levitation, spacetime manipulation, etc - and all those superpowers translate to "and that means he can dance really well." Levitation? He can do awesome backflips. Spacetime Manipulation? He can pop an' lock like nobody's business. (It's a little unclear who exactly has what power if you don't go to the website and find out there).
Why does it matter that they can dance awesome? Eventually we find out the dancing awesome gives you awesome magic psychic blast powers. (For some reason you need this in addition to your ability to manipulate the fabric of spacetime).
And there are good people with dance powers and bad people with dance powers. And they keep trying to get new recruits and do various good and/or evil things. I guess.
Whatever.
The point is not the story, which is laughable, but the cinematography and overall feel, which is pretty awesome. The first bunch of webisodes (each about 10 minutes long) just show individual people discovering their powers and hinting at some future story. But at the end of season 2, we finally get an awesome showdown.
All the good guys and bad guys face off against each other in a Wild Wild West town, with a few of the main characters dueling each other individually. It's really amazing dance and fight choreography, with a combination of psychic "blast" attacks and physical punches and gunplay.
Frankly, it's not terribly important to watch the entire series to check out the last two episodes. But if you haven't seen it, I'd recommend at least checking out Robot Love Story, one of the earlier episodes that was particularly artistic and showcases the best parts of the show pretty well.
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You don't like dance mixed with your sci fi shows, or you don't like sci-fi mixed with your dance?
If I were judging this as a sci-fi show, it'd fail terribly. But I'm judging it as experimental dance videos, at which I think it succeeds tremendously.
[ December 15, 2010, 04:26 PM: Message edited by: Raymond Arnold ]
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