Subject: Re: Morning-After Commentary: SK's "Golden Years"
From: nmr1248@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Nancy Rabel)
Date: 1991-07-17, 23:21
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: nmr1248@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov

In article <1991Jul18.065811.25195@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes...
> >What irked me about Golden Years was the lack of believable
> >characters.  Outside of the old couple and the female head of security
> >I couldn't accept any of the characters on this show (except for the
> >mad scientist; he's supposed to be unbelievable).
> > 
And how is it that the female head of security knows that the one guy 
from "the shop" killed Macgyver. I was rolling when I heard them first 
call out Lt. Macgyver. By the way who or what is "the shop". 

> >Someone else has already mentioned the problems with the medical parts
> >of the show.  I almost left the room near the beginning when one of
> >the dorko assistants to the mad scientist reverently says "More power
> >than a supernova." to which I responded "Yeah, bullshit!"  If we're
> >gonna fake science lets at least not go so far out of bounds.
> > 
Yeah, and if a entire board begins  red-lining, wouldn't it have made more 
sense if the technicians started to turn off all the switches on their
own? Why did they need the mad scientists to ok the idea first?

> >Sorry, I had to get that off of my chest...as an astrophysicist that
> >line really got my goat.
> >-- 
I was thinking the same thing when they said it also. 
> > Kansas Jim (jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu)

Overall, I did enjoy the show. It seemed to me that they were struggling 
in the beginning. Another poster remarked about the TP atmosphere, I never 
saw TP so I not sure I know exactly what he meant. However, it looked to 
me like the scenes were jumping from one action to another without 
continuity. For example, when the major was talking to old man about his 
eye sight and then the scene cuts to the mad scientist and his machine. 
Now I am not a movie expert, but I couldn't see the reason behind this
change in scene.

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