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David Williams  
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 More options Jun 24 2002, 1:31 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
From: "David Williams" <dwilliams...@attbi.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:16:48 GMT
Local: Sat, Jun 22 2002 9:16 pm
Subject: Re: The B5 That Never Was

"Matthew Vincent" <warl...@es.co.nz> wrote in message

news:44aa4edb.0206212305.59e4a948@posting.google.com...

> Bil <bil_irv...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> >>Yeah, quite frankly I think the site is full of shit. The
> >>author is obviously trying to get attention for himself by
> >>disparaging an existing Sci-Fi show. I think it's a very
> >>dishonest and disrespectful...

> >Jeez, give the guy a break! It's an *opinion*.

> An opinion that's presented as fact, for the most part.

Yeah, that's what bugged me.  Reminds me in a way of what I've always hated
about Oliver Stone's JFK.  Although I've never bought the Warren
Commission's report, I felt Stone really stepped over the line from
speculative fiction.  It's been years since I saw it, but I remember being
annoyed at the way his *theory* seemed to be presented as *fact*.  And yet,
when he was criticized for it, his answer in effect was 'It's only a movie.'
That was particularly galling because it seemed like a cop-out, and an
attempt to have it both ways.  Perhaps my memory is hazy on this...  But
anyway, that was when I pretty much got over Mr. Stone and his
controversy-for-the-sake-of-it style of film-making.  Natural Born Killers
was such a tedious stomach-turner that I actually turned the video off
halfway through and returned it.  Still don't know what happened.  Still
don't care.

-David


 
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