Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MULTI+2.11; site stc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!pete From: pete@stc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.startrek Subject: Re: Archetypal episodes Message-ID: <680@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 05:47:51 EST Article-I.D.: stc-b.680 Posted: Thu Oct 31 05:47:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:43:51 EST References: <206@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> <2268@iddic.UUCP> <209@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell) Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB. Lines: 23 Xref: linus net.sf-lovers:9832 net.startrek:3562 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: Xpath: stc stc-b stc-b stc-a Xref: ukc net.sf-lovers:5677 net.startrek:58 In article <209@argon.kcl-cs.UUCP> thornton@argon.UUCP (znac468) writes: > Ho hum... Here is another gestalt adventure, at the expense of DR WHO. > | > | > This is slightly more prdictable than the Star Trek episode: >"RETURN OF THE APPLEING MACHINE WITHIN" (the last attempt) and relates to >so many episodes that naming it would be a shame. Honestly, I do like DR WHO! So do I. You've forgotten the two most important archetypal lines, though. 1) Doctor's companion - "Look out, behind you, Doctor!" (Rubber monster, Mechanoid, Dalek, etc. lumbers into view) 2) The Doctor - "If I reverse the polarity and give it all we've got, it might just work..." (Last ditch Finagle gadget blasts rubber monster, mechanoid, Dalek, etc. into its component quarks) -- Peter Kendell...mcvax!ukc!stc!pete `Turn up the Eagles, the neighbours are listening'