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Captain Infinity <Infin...@captaininfinity.us> wrote:
>Once Upon A Time, Ken Levin wrote:

>>P.S., Radar was one of my favorite characters to 
>>write as well.  It was a true honor to pen the "Goodbye Radar" episodes. 

>The "Goodbye Radar" episodes were two of the worst episodes of the series.
>In them, Radar acted nothing like the Radar we saw in every other episode.
>It was as if he had ben replaced by a Pod-Radar who looked and sounded the
>same as Real-Radar but was different in every other aspect.

Shit. I thought Gelbart was entirely gone after Season 4. I didn't like
Radar at all during that phase-out season. He should have been written
out abruptly, given that it's war and people just get transferred, sent
home, or killed.