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Matt Senreich and Tom Root, the stop-motion fanboys behind Robot Chicken, goofed mecha mythology silly in the first season of their show Titan Maximum, available this month on DVD.
The booming geek culture skewered by the duo's Adult Swim shows makes for a target-rich environment. "I think it’s safe to say that fanboys are slowly taking over the world," Root told Wired.com in an e-mail round-table. "But I think people should be terrified by that and not take any great comfort in it."
Judging by the space-faring clowns of the massive robot ship Titan Maximum, Root could be right. More than 100 years in the future, the Titan Force Five pilot squadron is either saving the solar system from repeated destruction, or repeatedly trying to to destroy said solar system through a volatile mixture of technology and incompetence.
Featuring Breckin Meyer, Rachel Leigh Cook, Robot Chicken pal Seth Green and Billy Dee Williams, Titan Maximum is an excellent late-night time-waster. But can it hold its own against other hardy sci-fi crews from Star Trek, Voltron and Battle of the Planets? Is its narcissistic leader any match for that space whore Captain Kirk? Is there even going to be a second season?
We forced Root and Senreich to ponder these tough questions in a geeked-out interview. Scroll through the image gallery above for the straight dope on what is probably the most infamous crew of dopes in television's expanding galaxy.
