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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Amazing Stories' amazing attitude toward facts
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 17:22:38 EDT
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I hope some others were as annoyed as I was by the way "Amazing Stories"
treated meteors in its latest airing. Two large meteors hit within a few
blocks of each other, first -- OK, even though highly improbable, it was
possible, and could be used as a story device, so no real gripe there.

My real bitch is the way they showed a meteor, depicted as nearly a
meter across, coming through a second-story bedroom window and causing
only moderate damage to the *room*, coming to rest embedded in the
floor. Hmmph. I would expect a crater, about half a kilometer or so
across, where the *neighborhood* used to be. Plus assorted other effects
(earthquakes triggered by the impact, since this was set in So. Cal.,
etc.) should have happened. Considering the depiction of the characters
prior to the meteor striking, I would have viewed this as a happy
ending to the story -- sort of divine retribution, always a good plot
device. 

So far, the syndicated "Tales from the Darkside", though itself no real
great shakes, has been quite a bit better than these expensive and
highly promoted network shows...

Will