king@Kestrel (07/09/85)
From: king@Kestrel.ARPA
Someone else wrote "The big question when watching television is not
*WHETHER* the hero will get out of their crisis. We know that they
will. The big question is *HOW* the hero will get out of their
crisis." To me that is the enjoyable part of fiction, the "how".
If I am concerned about the "whether", I cannot enjoy it.
Ken Moreau
I knew I stopped watching, for example, the Man from UNCLE, because the
title role always won. I wrote a letter to the network saying that I
would like him to either lose or possibly even get killed about 15-20%
of the time, that I would mind him being resurrected less than I minded
the status quo. I never got a reply. <sigh>, one of childhood's
disappointments.
-dick