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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Amazing Stories
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Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 21:18:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 21:18:31 1985
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Keywords: Steven Spielburg


	A friend and I just finished watching NBC's much-advertised
AMAZING STORIES and I can sum up the first episode in one word...

			GAG!!!


	First of all, the story was hardly amazing (I can't summarize
it, you had to see it), we had the whole thing figured out in a few
minutes. There was no suspense. The instant the old man said that the
tracks went through the house you KNEW a train-through-the-living-room
scene was coming. And sedating the old man? Come on!! You knew he would
get on the train!
	But our biggest gripe was the whole episode absolutly oozed
with the Spielburgish touch that we know so well. Like when the train
was stopped in the living room/station and the old man was biding his
family goodbye. The parents were standing there with this look of 'Gee,
it's OK with us if you drive a train through our new house.' on thier
faces and the kid was loving the whole thing. And throughout the show the
parents were portrayed as mindless idiots and the kid was the constantly
upstaging them. And the grandfather had that magical touch that old
people always get cast with.
	Don't get me wrong, the show had its moments. Like the train crew
poking around in the kitchen. And that BEAUTIFUL ol' number 407 that
they used. But, I mean, if I wanted to watch Steven Spielburg's idea of
reality, I'd watch E.T.!

	NBC has put sooo much behind this series it'd be a shame to
have it fail. But unless the stories get a bit more amazing and
a lot less Spielburgish I certainly won't hold my breath until Sunday
night.

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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