Subject: Re: Euro Version of Twin Peaks pilot episode
From: ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Fried)
Date: 1990-04-17, 17:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <90107.144945SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> SML108@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott the
 Great) writes:
> > In article <1990Apr16.212830.28943@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>,
> > ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Fried) says:
>> > >Oh, come on - "The Hidden" was a classic!  Alien-takes-over-bodies-and-
>> > >commits-crimes-while-good-guy-alien-cop-in-Kyle's-body-hunts-him-down!
>> > >Major plot!  Major action!  Major script!  Awesome cars!  Awesome guns!
>> > >What more could you want?
> > 
> > A more literate public that realized it was a totally unethical ripoff
> > of Hal Clement...
> > 
>> > >:-)
> > :-(
> > 
> > Scott Le Grand aka sml108@psuvm.psu.edu
> > "If you like peanuts, you'll love sci-fi."

Oh, piffle.  

Do I have to know what "Blade Runner" is a rip-off of to enjoy it?  Do I
have to realize that "The Terminator" doesn't have a startlingly
original plot line?  Literacy is more than knowing Philip K. Dick from
Harlan Ellison.

Anyway, I thought the smiley-face made it obvious: my opinion was that
the movie was fun, but really stupid.

Getting back to Twin Peaks:  Are we sure that the victim that wasn't
killed was actually attacked by the same person?  She didn't have a
letter under her fingernail... 

Ben
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