In this case, I retain it by not telling you how much of yesterday and today I’ve spent trying to figure out whether my Automan DVDs have the actual original-show audio for some scenes where there’s diegetic music going, because they have a lot of the hits of the 80s that you still hear if you turn on any 80s channel and that music stuff gets expensive or legally complicated. Or did the show back in the 80s have someone record their own cover versions of, like, “Hungry Like The Wolf” and stuff so that the ever-thinking mind of Glen A Larson would never have trouble with syndication and reproduction rights apart from issuing mechanical-license checks.
But mechanical copyright licensing does not work like that! It does nothing about broadcast, let alone home-video rights! It would only help if they were planning to sell a Diegetic Music Of Automan album! Or am I just imagining that “Owner of a Lonely Heart” sounded a little weird this time around? Or is it just something in how they mixed the recording back when the show was made in Extremely 1983? Extremely 1983 was much like the 1983 you maybe remember, except it supported the making of things like Automan?
This doesn’t actually logically fit the above paragraph but there’s no way I can spin this off to a short piece on its own: in the show Automan’s pal Cursor uses its powers of being a sparkly polyhedron to take on the form of vehicles, as polyhedrons are famous for, and these get called, like, the Autoplane and the Autocopter and, for street use, the Autocar. I want to know were the show runners upset they didn’t think to call it “the Automobile” or did they consider that and rule it as a step too far for a show whose first episode implies that Automan has had sex with Donkey Kong? Huh?
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