![]() ![]() David Hyde Pierce narrates, giving the much needed background information in a fashion that reminded me of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. ![]() The Quasar Kid and Stingray Sam shake handsĬory McAbee has created a weird and wonderful world in this sixty-minute movie. In the end, the Quasar Kid and Stingray Sam rescue the girl, and, although she and Stingray have bonded, she returns to her father. And, of course, each episode of the six-part series features a song. Along the way we learn more about this strange world that the Quasar Kid and Stingray Sam inhabit, including the odd economics of their home planet Durango (involving penitentiaries and rocket ships, which is actually part of how they were roped into the job of rescuing the girl) as well as the failed Corporate Mascot Rehabilitation Program. The carpenter didn’t want a male child, so he managed to have a daughter instead (somehow gender choice pills are involved), and he is quite distraught at his daughter’s disappearance. They discover that a spoiled brat named Fredward (a combination of his two fathers’ names - it seems in the future, scientists have perfected a genetic recombining that results in only male children who can carry on the family name) has kidnapped her because her father wouldn’t finish a carpentry job for him. The biggest complication is that they don’t actually know who they are looking for or why. It’s when we get into the details that it starts to get weird (as if a stingray in a man’s belly wasn’t weird enough). The Quasar Kid recruits his buddy Stingray Sam (so named because he actually has a baby stingray in his stomach, as we find out in a song) into rescuing a kidnapped little girl. ![]() The basic story itself is pretty straightforward (spoilers ahead!). And added in maybe a soupçon of Hayao Miyazaki cuteness. In fact, the web series definitely reminds me in many ways of something written by Joss Whedon. I first became aware of Stingray Sam on io9 - how could I resist a headline about the “best musical space western ever”? The answer is that, as a huge Browncoat and fan of musicals, I couldn’t. “Stingray Sam is not a hero…” So begins the weird musical sci-fi western adventure story by Cory McAbee called, appropriately enough, Stingray Sam. ![]()
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