Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watrose!vljohnson From: vljohnson@watrose.UUCP (Lee Johnson) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: V: Some rumblings about the first episode. (Spoiler!) Message-ID: <7082@watrose.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 13:07:41 EST Article-I.D.: watrose.7082 Posted: Wed Oct 31 13:07:41 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 03:28:54 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 30 [] O.K. For the most part, I liked it. Not to say that I agreed with it all. Why kill Martin off in the first show? I *liked* Martin. He seemed to be the only 'good' Visitor with any solid substance to his character. The writers could have had a field day with Martin.I would rather have had them kill William off. Now that Diana's on the loose, and the fleet may be on its way back, Donovan et. al. are going to need all the help they can get. It looks to me like they're back to Square One. Now, does anyone have any ideas about the failure of the Red Dust toxin? By rights, Diana and her rescuers should be quite dead. I'm sure the reason will be explained to us eventually, but it's nice to theorize. Here's two of my theories: 1. The Red Dust does NOT persist in the ecology, as was previously believed. (The obvious conclusion.) 2. The Red Dust was *engineered* to have a limited life span. By whom, you ask? Why, but none other than our man, Nathan Bates. By controlling the factor that keeps the Visitors away, he is in a position to make demands from We The People to keep them away. This fits in quite well with his apparent power-hungry nature. Well, time will tell. Regards, Lee Johnson (USENET: vljohnson@watrose)