Lewis Lovhaug: Linkara

Quotes 

• Linkara : You know, we live in an age of miracles and wonder.

  [a clip of a Louis C.K. concert film is shown] 

  Louis C.K. : We're all just so mad: "I hate my phone, it sucks!" No, it doesn't! It's amazing! The shittiest cell phone in the world is a miracle!

  Linkara : Say what you will about Louis C.K., but he's right about this point: we have such amazing technology at our disposal these days. A guy in Japan can take a photo of a flower, put it on Tumblr, and in an hour, it's been viewed by 50,000 people all across the world. We can communicate instantaneously to any point on Earth. Chris Hadfield can perform his rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on the friggin' International Space Station. Hell, he did regular videos from Earth orbit itself! Speaking of space, scientists are saying it's possible we could have Star Trek's warp drive in your lifetime and mine! Interstellar and planetary flight! We have 3D printers and advancing medical technology and crops that grow in any environment and feed the hungry. So why is it, if the time we live in right now is so miraculous and awesome, that most of the time that we see the future, like in "SCI-Spy", it's always so stupid?

• Linkara : Previously on the "SCI-Spy" reviews, Sebastian Starchild is the last Son of Krypton... er, Earth. Earth was invaded by aliens, and a computer exiled what it could of the human race to the farthest reaches of space, and then all of humanity decided to conveniently forget that there were hostile aliens out there and instead spent their time getting cosmetic surgery to look like birds, lizards and...

  [Lazlo's bodyguard, the big-eyed, big-lipped female robot, is shown] 

  Linkara : ... whatever in the tenth circle of Hell that's supposed to be. Our brave hero, being a complete moron incapable of expressing an emotion, decided that the best plan was to go back to Earth - with no plan to actually fight the aliens or defeat them. Naturally, such a well-thought-out idea resulted in him and his fellow not-actually-a-spy, Isis Nile, getting stranded on the ruins of Earth. And yet, this comic is still not just over yet.