Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukecc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Amazing Stories Message-ID: <266@ukecc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 21:18:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ukecc.266 Posted: Sun Sep 29 21:18:31 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 03:25:41 EDT Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center Lines: 40 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 UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward /* A charter member of the Scooter bunch */ "Goodnight M.A." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com