madrid@auvax.UUCP (07/08/83)
A recent article (Vogue, I think) observed that one of the
things Ghandi and E.T. had in common is that they both were,
practically speaking, sexless.
Tell me please, was there any evidence provided in the
movie to say that E.T. was :
(a) Female
(b) Male
(c) Other ?
R.
auvax!madridrcj@burl.UUCP (07/10/83)
No reference to gender in the MOVIE, that I know of, anyway. In the book, HE was a male 10-million-year-old botanist and fell in love with Mary (Elliot's mother). Well, not really love, just a lot of infatuation and wishful thinking. -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj
tim@unc.UUCP (07/11/83)
If E.T. was really that old (10 million years), his species must
be of exceptionally low intelligence. Even li'l ol' 21-year-old me
could see that the only smart thing to do was fly up into a tree and
wait for the ship to return. Also, did anyone else think it was
pretty mean of the crew of the ship to leave him and force him to
construct his own hyperspatial communicator on a primitive and hostile
planet? Finally, if they could manage resurrection from orbit, how
come they couldn't make a nice little compact survival kit?
If fantasy doesn't make any sense, I rapidly lose interest. When
it follows nonsense with smarmy sentimentality and the incredibly
trite "If we meet aliens, they're bound to be ever so much better than
we are" bull, I begin to actively dislike it.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilljoe@cvl.UUCP (07/17/83)
"In the book, HE was a male 10-million-year-old botanist and fell in love with Mary (Elliot's mother). Well, not really love, just a lot of infatuation and wishful thinking." Uh, you're joking, right? Right?