Thanks to the magic of my DVR, I just watched Front Street Pictures' Meltdown: Days of Destruction, aired on the Sci-Fi Channel. ROFL! Meltdown is right...

If you ever want to feel really, really good about your writing, just nuke yourself some popcorn and sit down to this one for a two-hour ego boost. I laughed my butt off and loved every minute of it. The acting was perfectly respectable given what the actors had to work with, but the writing. My God, the writing.

I should mention that the actual movie is nothing like the blurb on the Front Street website, hinting that someone indulged in a major rewrite. Not a wise move, resulting in yet more proof that Hollywood--and its television derivatives--ought to consider leaving the writing in the hands of the original writers.

Just watch it. You'll see. That is, if you can find it on the air anywhere. If not, try writing to Front Street Pictures. I'm betting you could buy it for a song.