jimb@ISM780B.UUCP (10/09/85)
Sorry, this was originally posted as a response to another message, but after
I read subsequent postings, I thought it deserved a niche of its own. J.A.B.
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Ah, but this second episode of Amazing Stories deserves more comment in
passing. Such subtle, delicately nuanced characterization, not unlike Steve
Martin playing Hamlet. The striving for consistent moral outlook, full of
the cogent meanings and latent ambiguities but rarely found in authentic
replicas of fortune cookies. Motivations of individuals and relationships
between these individuals and events woven into a tapestry (travesty?) of
cause and effect not seen since Heisenberg first dreamed of an electron
farting. And finally, the science; even I, who am inclined to let minor
points go by for the sake of dramatic or literary license was dumber-struck
at the sheer elan with which Spielberg extended his range of scientific facts
and plausibilities to new, if not outer, limits.
Nay, my friends, let us not let this second episode of Amazing go by with
such little notice.
-- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet
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