From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Off-Topic: For those of you who hate ST: 2009   
      
   Graeme wrote:   
   > On Jan 12, 9:04 pm, Led4Aces  wrote:   
   >> No one cares.   
      
   Apparently they do, or this thread wouldn't have gone any further, and    
   that link wouldn't have had beaucoup replies.   
   >    
   > If that were true, there would be no problem.  What annoys people is   
   > the feeling of obligatoriness about it.  That they did it that way not   
   > because they didn't care one way or the other, but because they DId   
   > care and felt they HAD to.  We've all had our fill of shows that were   
   > too afraid of offending anyone to say anything meaningful (like about   
   > half the episodes of Next Generation), so a lot of people just steer   
   > clear of such projects the moment they get a whiff that that's what   
   > they're going to be.   
      
   I don't want them to do exactly the same thing, but I wanted Tobey    
   Maguire to continue to play Spidey.  Kristen Dundst (sp?) I could do    
   without, though.   
   >    
   > And they may get angry about it if they were fans of the franchise and   
   > hoping for something more than the same old same-old.  It seems   
   > sometimes like there are only 2 or 3 stories that Hollywood still   
   > knows how to tell (one of them being "how tough it is battling   
   > discrimination") and everyone's sick to death of them.  Kind of like   
   > that Twilight Zone episode where the hack writer pitches half a dozen   
   > scripts, and they're all variations on the same story of a guy   
   > promising his girlfriend to give up a dangerous job, and then being   
   > put in a situation where he has to do it.   
      
   Which is that? I own all of the TZ versions, and don't remember that one    
   at all.  You sure it wasn't something like Alfred Hitchcock Presents?    
   It's not the old Outer Limits, either; those I know very well, since I    
   have both seasons.   
   >    
   > I'm not into Thor, so I probably wouldn't see it either way.  But if I   
   > were considering it, then I might think that if they didn't even have   
   > the guts to accurately show a Norse cast that there was nothing there   
   > to interest me.  I know it's a comic book, as you say, but one would   
   > assume that any adult considering seeing it would be hoping for more   
   > than a kiddie story.   
      
   But isn't that hammer kind of lame? :-D   
   >    
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   > "I'm not sure, but apparently they've had very good reviews." --   
   > (Blackadder I)   
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   Not my favorite BA - I like 2 & 3 best, with Hugh Laurie playing that    
   idjit George.  I think he's a much better comedian than dramatic actor,    
   though he's amazing in any part.   
      
   Natalie   
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