Smitten: Z-Grade

It is beginning to become clear that we are all stuck in a Z-Grade 50's
sci-fi romp.

Evidence:

1. It transpires that up in Queensland there is now a breed of ants
marauding their way across the landscape. They are evidently labelled
"invincible" ants. I have it on good authority that they have this label
as they basically move in a swarm and are very stubborn. They eat
everything in their path. This sounds like bollocks to me. We all know
that this is propaganda. They are of course really 50ft ants and no
doubt the Queenslanders are acting as our last line of defence, hurling
cane toads at them in a futile attempt to stop the carnage. We all know
how this is going to end.

2. This terrorist war. Come on, big superpowers vs a rag-tag bunch of
mercenaries. David v Goliath. Rebels v Empire. The Resitance v The Third
Reich. This is every Z-grade Hollywood movie ever made. And don't make
any assumptions as to which side is which. Every David and Goliath
struggle ends with Goliath realising they are David.

3. Anthrax. Chemical warfare. Remote possibilities of nuclear
destruction. Were not these concerns of your 50's nuclear household. The
kind of concerns that turned up in every paranoid 50's sci-fi show. The
chronology of the Star Trek had the 1990's filled with war, culminating
in nuclear holocaust and a clone named "Khan". Perhaps the timing is
off, but it is coming. Speaking of cloning...

4. Cloning. Not only is every major movie coming out dealing with
clones, they have done so for decades. Star Wars: Attack of The
Clones -> the first star wars mentioned that, almost every sci-fi
movie/tv-show made has some form of cloning in it. Lord Of The Rings ->
are not the orcs created from a mould, or doesn't Tolkien imply that at
the very least? Matrix: Reloaded -> cloning of agent processes. Every
computer program ever written uses the concept of cloning. After all, is
GOTO not just "do the same thing again". And why are these movies
dealing with this issue? It is current affairs. It is what Congress has
been whinging about. Sitcoms have characters afraid of these issues. The
Zeitgeist is talking.

So don't be surprised if whirling alien space craft come flying through
the stratosphere, suspended from strings. Or if 90 story lizards come
crashing out of the South Pacific and lay wreck to the Sydney Harbour
Bridge. And pray also that hordes of impossibly good looking beings come
pouring out of the space craft demanding "What is this Earth thing
called Sex"

The Smitten : soon to be a show-within-a-show when Kafka's Bureacracy
becomes a prime-time Situation Dark Comedy.