Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ISM780B.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!ISM780B!jimb From: jimb@ISM780B.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Second Amazing Show Message-ID: <27800029@ISM780B.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 10:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ISM780B.27800029 Posted: Wed Oct 9 10:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 06:10:10 EDT Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #N:ISM780B:27800029:000:1198 Nf-From: ISM780B!jimb Oct 9 10:07:00 1985 Sorry, this was originally posted as a response to another message, but after I read subsequent postings, I thought it deserved a niche of its own. J.A.B. --------- Ah, but this second episode of Amazing Stories deserves more comment in passing. Such subtle, delicately nuanced characterization, not unlike Steve Martin playing Hamlet. The striving for consistent moral outlook, full of the cogent meanings and latent ambiguities but rarely found in authentic replicas of fortune cookies. Motivations of individuals and relationships between these individuals and events woven into a tapestry (travesty?) of cause and effect not seen since Heisenberg first dreamed of an electron farting. And finally, the science; even I, who am inclined to let minor points go by for the sake of dramatic or literary license was dumber-struck at the sheer elan with which Spielberg extended his range of scientific facts and plausibilities to new, if not outer, limits. Nay, my friends, let us not let this second episode of Amazing go by with such little notice. -- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet decvax!cca!ima!jimb ucbvax!ucla-cs!ism780!jimb ihnp4!vortex!ism780!jimb