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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS WHERE ARE YOU?
Message-ID: <325@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 14:48:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 14:48:27 1986
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In article <1438@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> DOET@AFCC-3.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU writes:
>Speaking of enjoying things, I really enjoy Amazing Stories.  To date I have 
>found very little to complain about.  In fact so little that it isn't even 
>worth bothering the net with it.

Are you talking about the MAGAZINE Amazing Stories, or the TELEVISION SERIES?

My wife and I stopped watching Amazing Stories after the nth story about
misunderstood kids in various forms and flavours. We prefer more adult
flavours in our anthologies, like Twilight Zone....

A case in point: Both series did "Three Wishes" sketches. In the Amazing
Stories version, three kids catch a leprechaun who grants them three wishes,
one each. They wish for the ability to see through girl's clothing, the
ability to control their parents, and a "state-of-the-art" car. Very
pedestrian, very predictable.

"Twilight Zone" showed a more realistic version, where a woman wishes to
be rich, beautiful, and to make her ex impotent.... and how she is thwarted
at every turn by bureaucracy. At one point, her "wish consultant" had her
sign disclaimers stating that "the first wish usually turns out okay, the
second isn't quite what you wanted, and the third is usually used to undo
the first two."

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(I'm not THAT Bruce Holloway, I'm the other one.)