#plasmo

FINALLY! A SEARCH OF NEARLY 2 YEARS IS OVER! I'VE GOT HIM!

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I was reading about a certain loaf of depressed bread today, and, for some reason started thinking of Plasmo.

Plasmo is an achingly heartfelt stop motion animated sci-fi that was put together on a shoestring budget that makes the original Mad Max look like it's blockbuster offspring. It seemed like the sort of thing that would do numbers on tumblr, but, not a sausage out there it seems, so I figured I'd throw a post out into the ecosystem.

I'm trying to think of a way to describe this, and the only word I can think of is, inexplicable. I remember being a very young kid, maybe five or so, watching a fuzzy old crt, and this would come on at off times, because the episodes were short I think the abc would use them as gap fillers on occasion and this was well after their initial run so I had no context for anything, and yet I was always unsettled and transfixed. It just doesn't look like anything else, it doesn't feel like anything else, as a piece of art its fascinating and passionate and weird, and as a kids show it's just, there's just nothing like it. I was going to say "well they don't make things like this anymore" but, they never made things like this. They made one thing like this, and then they stopped. Just, watch it, it's right there, they're only five minutes long, it says more than I can say for it, we got thirteen episodes of it, and then, no more. It's beautiful and strange and full of passion and watching it again was like a punch to my soul.

Plasmo is an Australian stop-motion-animated series featuring a colourful cast of alien characters.

Episode 7, "Plasmo and the Bookworm", lands them in a library being eaten away by a literal worm! It's not healthy for the worm, as it complains of indigestion... poor thing.