psc@lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (10/22/85)
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"Alamo Jobe": teleplay, first broadcast on AMAZING STORIES, Sunday,
the 20th of October, 1985.
AMAZING STORIES has caused some discussions at the Leeper and
Chisholm households. Evelyn, who time-shifts shows to her convenience,
has threatened to stop even that if the season's third show wasn't
better. And my better half insists that if you miss the first half-hour
of MURDER, SHE WROTE, you may as well skip the rest. (It'd led me to
briefly consider getting - shudder - a VCR. I got over it quickly.)
Well, I bet Evelyn has one less event to program her VCRs for.
Certainly Sherry and I will go back to watching Jessica Fletcher find
whodunit . . . until someone can really write an amazing story.
I can't tell you *anything* about "Alamo Jobe" without giving the
whole thing away. There's just so little to it. Spielberg doesn't know
the difference between a story, an incident, and a clever idea. In this
case, the idea (Spielberg's) is how a boy at the fall of the Alamo
suddenly stumbles into modern San Antonio. The incident is a kid
wearing weird clothes, carrying an old rifle, and riding a horse through
San Antonio. The story must be on some other channel.
My nine-year-old liked it, though. As to my wife's opinion:
"When we discovered AMAZING STORIES and MURDER, SHE WROTE were both
on at eight on Sundays, we thought we might need a VCR. Now, we're not
sure we need a TV."
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-Paul S. R. Chisholm The above opinions are my own,
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NOMINATE MARK LEEPER: HUGO AWARD FOR BEST FAN WRITER IN 1986barb@pyuxa.UUCP (B E Nemeth) (10/23/85)
All I can say is that like everyone else, I'm very, very disappointed in this series! I expected so much more, and got even less!!