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From: braman@dataioDataio.UUCP (Rick Braman)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Spies on the net from Amazing Stories
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 10:56:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 10:56:04 1985
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> > Psychics take note! No sooner do we discuss a topic on net.aviation
> > (B-17 belly turrets and the fate of the gunner in wheels-up landings)
> > than the EXACT SAME THEME is the topic of the special one-hour Amazing
> > Stories aired 3 Nov 85.  ...
> I conclude that no one in the special effects crew has ever
> ridden in an airplane or watched an episode of 12 O'Clock High.
>    The next 35 or 40 minutes improved my humor, but the writers had to
> resort to fantasy to finish up the story - there must be thousands of
> chronicles of narrow escapes from B-17s that they could have picked
> from!?!   Oh well, you get what you pay for.
> 
> David Williams (081)
> AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany

Why do you think they named the show Amazing Stories?  I'm pretty sure that
Steven Spielberg probably is aware of all the "chronicles of narrow escapes"
from WWII, but that obviously was not his intension in this episode.  I for
one enjoyed the fantasy ending.  Sure it was not realistic, but once in a
while it's kind of nice to see some creative imagination, even if it is
silly.
-- 

Rick Braman
Data I/O Corporation
Redmond, WA

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