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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: "Amazing Stories:" A Positive Review
Message-ID: <821@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 13:11:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 13:11:23 1985
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Within the first 5 or 6 minutes the entire plot of the "Choo Choo"
episode was immediately clear even to the simplest minds.  There was
no attempt at surprise, twist, or amazement.  As usual, Steven operates
on the assumption that audiences are SO STUPID that they can't
figure out anything if it isn't put out on a platter and drummed into
them continuously.  Even the final line of the show regarding the
insurance salesman was diluted from being used (in a different form)
earlier in the program.  As a final line, without prior reference, it might
have been mildly amusing.

The old anthologies (TZ, Hitchcock, One Step Beyond, etc.) got most of
their punch from the twist at the end.  There was no twist in 
"Choo Choo."  I don't think Steven feels audiences capable of understanding
other than simple plots and cardboard characters.

--Lauren--


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