Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!tim From: tim@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: E.T.s Gender Message-ID: <5537@unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Jul-83 19:49:25 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.5537 Posted: Sun Jul 10 19:49:25 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jul-83 20:42:48 EDT References: burl.233 Lines: 21 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. ______________________________________ The overworked keyboard of Tim Maroney duke!unc!tim (USENET) tim.unc@udel-relay (ARPA) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill