Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!Glacier!oliveb!oliven!barb From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: AMAZING STORIES 11/3: The Mission Message-ID: <447@oliven.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 15:23:49 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.447 Posted: Fri Nov 8 15:23:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:34:24 EST References: <1384@mtgzz.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 43 Xref: watmath net.tv:3529 net.sf-lovers:11110 > > The point of all this is that life's a bitch (as they say) and sometimes there > will be situations that can't have happy endings. You can't spend all the > money in your bank account and have more magically appear. You can't keep > dumping toxic waste and in your backyard and then wish it away. YOU CAN'T LAND > A BOMBER ON WISHES!!! Godwin realized this and wrote a classic short story; > Spielberg either doesn't realize this or (more likely)realizes that the public > doesn't want to hear the unpleasant truth that sometimes there's no happy > ending. So he coddles them, tells them, "There, there, whatever you do, there > will be some way to fix it up. Just wish hard enough and everything bad will > go away." > > Feh! > Evelyn C. Leeper Yeh, you're right, it probably would have been stronger to have killed Jonathon -- but I, for one, am glad they didn't. I *KNOW* life's a bitch -- so does that mean my fantasy has to reflect that? If I want glooomy endings, I'll watch the news, thank you -- or perhaps *good* stuff like *King Lear*. If I want light entertainment (*LIGHT* entertainment) I'll watch things like Amazing stories -- where I expect and *WANT* happy endings. That's my two cents -------- ___________________ ______________\ ___________ | ______ / . / / o .ooo. ./ /. . o@ooo0 Barb .ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo oo..oo oo...ooo ooo..ooo \ .oo oo oooooo oooooo ooo ooo "What is the function of the artist?" Amanda demanded of the talented tresspasser. "The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life does not." .... "Logic only gives man what he needs," [the magician] stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants." --Another Roadside Attraction