evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (11/17/85)
I have written about these 2 before, separately, but I think the comparison
is important. The Mission was a serious and stoic kind of story with little
to lead you to expect such an ending (though I admit that I wasn't listening
to the priest's speech very closely), while Fine Tuning was delightful and
lighthearted all the way through. Yes, from an engineering point of view, the
story was a disgrace (it's not even worth going into detail on that!), and
it's not too tough to see where they had to cut budgetary corners. And the
coincidences were preposterous!
Anyway, I hated The Mission like I hated no other hour of TV I've ever seen.
On the other hand I loved Fine Tuning. If we had any reason at all to expect
the ending of The Mission, it might have been more acceptable. There have
been about 10 endings posted to the net that I would have enjoyed more.
Fine Tuning was silly from start to finish, so when they lopped on more ridic-
ulous stuff, it was OK! I didn't stop smiling for the entire 1/2 hour, and
for about 10 minutes into Hitchcock. It was cute (in an acceptable way!),
and fun and funny. And THAT made that an Amazing Story, at least to this
observer.
Anyway, I feel better now that my spleen has been vented.
Have a day.
--Evan Marcus
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