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From: agb@reed.UUCP (Alexander G. Burchell)
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Amazing Stories - Nov. 3
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 05:53:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 05:53:37 1985
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Summary: One needs a willing suspension of disbelief.

In article <1398@ihlpg.UUCP> roger1@ihlpg.UUCP (Mills) writes:
> I saw this episode, and was very disappointed.  The first 55 minutes
> was some of the greatest television that I have ever seen.  The last
> five minutes sucked.  After all the effort to make it as realistic
> and horrifying as possible, to have a cartoon ending is despicable.

You are missing the point.  The whole episode led up to that climax, and
although I cannot claim that I guessed how it was going to end, after
watching the ending I thought back to how this had been foreshadowed.  The
ball-turret gunner (I forget his name unfortunately) had been depicted as
one who has "got that old imagination".  He even said that he wanted to be a
cartoonist for Disney.  And while it may have been a "cartoon ending", that
again was the idea.  What was *the last thing* you would have expected?
I'll bet that it's just what happened.

BTW, who does the (truly Amazing) computer graphics that start out each
episode?  I was quite impressed with the realistic surface textures and was
especially amazed by the knight in shining armor.  Does anyone know if they
are using the technique for generating metal that was developed by Carlos
Sequin (sp?) at Berkeley?  (I forget the details, but it was something to
the effect that light reflecting from metal was the color of the metal, not
the color of the light, as it is for other types of surfaces [perhaps the
other way around...])

					Alexander G. Burchell
						
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