Cryptids, Shatner, and the UnXplained - Kid Stuff!

 Waning Crescent Moon

Thanks to good ole Netflix, I have recently been exposed to William Shatner's hilarious attempts to be cleverly scary. As a TV program, the show does not rank anywhere near Hitchcock or Serling or even The X Files, but Shatner's over-the-top renderings of oddball occurrences on, in, and around Earth are really funny. He really gives it all he's got, for whatever that is worth and regardless of whether he should.

Last night I watched a segment about cryptids (animals that have been claimed but never proven to exist), specifically the Mongolian Death Worm, a Thylacine (the Tasmanian Tiger), the Goatman, and the Mothman. I have to give props to the Mongolian Death Worm because it has such a cool name, but really, it only lives in the Gobi Desert, so who cares. All the others are pretty run-of-the-mill, although the Mothman does have his own statue in some little town in Pennsylvania or somewhere like that, which is impressive on a certain level. Plus he can fly over one hundred miles per hour. Wow!

Mongolian Death Worm

Tasmanian Tiger

The Goatman

The Mothman

All this goes to say that The UnXplained pales in comparison to the real deal and by that I mean, of course, Tremors, the series of movies starring the late, great Ed Ward. Kevin Bacon, Reba McIntyre, and Michael Gross had bit parts, too, but it was Ed Ward who provided the gravitas, the glue, and the beer that held these four cryptology classics together. Well, Ed and the Graboids, possibly the best cryptids ever. Like the original movie, Graboids had spin-offs, cryptids like the Ass-Blasters that starred in some of the sequels. But the Graboids were superior. They were Mongolian Death Worms on steroids. Nothing, not one thing, in the UnXplained segment that I watched even came close to the greatness of Tremors. I yawned and smirked all the way through, except when Shatner spoke, then I LOLed like crazy. 

The late, great Ed Ward and his sidekick.

Ed Ward in action.

This guy is so screwed.

Nowhere to run, Nowhere to hide.

If you have nothing else to do, watch The UnXplained just to laugh at Bill. But trust me, Tremors is the discerning cryptologists' choice. 

Peace, Love, and Xplain That,

Jim

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