J.J Abrams makes airplanes awesome!

You know who ruined airplanes for me (Besides aircanada removing life preservers to save on fuel costs)? Wes Craven, Wes Craven made airplanes lame and not fun to be on or even think about it the context of awesome. Second on the list of things that made airplanes less awesome is terrorism, and the belief that terrorism means hijacking a plane and crashing it into something... come to think of it airplanes ruined terrorism too, WAY TO GO YOU PREFERRED FORM OF SPEEDY INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL!

But all distasteful 9/11 jokes aside, J.J Abrams managed to take airplanes out of their slump and revisit airplanes ass-kickatude that has not been visited since... well, Airplane! Lost started out on an airplane and it was awesome, it split in half in the air and crashed and a guy got sucked into the engine and everything! In fact I couldn't get into the rest of the show because it had already topped itself in the first ten minutes of the first episode! I don't remember anything awesome happening with airplanes in Cloverfield, but J.J conceived a lot of the story when he went to Japan, a trip he took, that's right, on a flippin airplane!

So I'm picking up my order of comic books the other day and spot a prequel comic (1 of 6) for a new J.J Abrams show called Fringe. Digging on the LOST font on the first page I pick it up on a whim. Not having TV and generally avoiding anything that says "FOX" on the internet Fringe had completely slipped past me unnoticed. I picked up the pilot and it starts (everybody now) on an airplane!

Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin after the video (I wont spoil the actual plot however):



Potential spoilers of retardly awesome stuff from the pilot begin here (I wont spoil the actual plot):

The opening scene on the airplane was awesome for the following reasons:
1: Everyone is speaking German.
2: Electrical storm
3: A guys skin starts to rot and go all zombie and he throws up on a stewardess
4: Then everyone starts going all zombie
5: The copilots jaw zombies off his face
6: Everyone dies, but the plane lands safely and on time in Boston

The rest of the show features a crazy arse scientist who makes LSD in the basement of Harvard with the purpose of mind linking humans in dreamscape, a cow named Gene, a see-through dude, and the headquarters of "Massive Dynamics" a multi trillion dollar mega corporation looking a lot like the Royal Ontario Museum... OH WAIT IT IS!

Spoilers End

Actually the show wasn't as incredible as I imagined it would be, the acting was OK, and the concept of the show (Fringe Science) could have been executed a little more awesomely, but all and in all it's a good start and I will continue to watch.

Well if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the airport and do jump kicks and scream out stuff like "Airplane YEAH!" a lot. Rejoice all, airplanes are cool again!