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From: davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: New "Raiders of the Lost Ark" question
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 13:32:07 EST
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In article <1677@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>Inconsistency is totally within the serial tradition.  Most episodes
>of FLASH GORDON kill off a major good character at the end of an
>episode, only to have a different scene in which the character saves
>himself at the beginning of the next chapter.

The classic example, from "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe," I think:

	MING: Throw them into the Pit Of Doom, from which there is no escape!
	DALE: No, not the Pit of Doom, from which there is no escape!
	MING: Yes, the Pit Of Doom, from which there is no escape!
	<Flash and Dale are thrown into the Pit Of Doom, from which 
		there is no escape!>
	END OF EPISODE <n>!!

<A week passes...>

	BEGINNING OF EPISODE <n+1>
	<As you recall, Flash and Dale have been thrown into the Pit Of Doom, 
		from which there is no escape!>
	DALE: How will we ever escape the Pit Of Doom, from which there is no 
		escape?
	FLASH: Why, through this door!
	<they leave through a rather ordinary-looking door...>

>                         Anyone of the apologists out there want to
>explain to me why sunlight makes a high pitched whistle when it goes
>through the crystal in the map room?

What, don't YOU have sound effects in your life?  Golly, you mean you've never
heard a system crash?  How do you avoid muggers without the ominous music that
lets you know you're being followed?

David D. Levine (...{decvax,ihnp4,hplabs}!tektronix!teklds!davidl) [UUCP]
                (davidl%teklds%tektronix@csnet-relay.arpa)         [ARPA]

(P.S.  :-) )