From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Who Mourns for Adonais? my review   
      
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    "jphalt@gmail.com" wrote:   
      
   > WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?   
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   > Villain of the Week: Michael Forest does a solid job as Apollo,   
   > capturing the mix of the powerful and the pathetic the episode   
   > requires very well. He's a bit stiff in the person-to-person   
   > interactions on the planet's surface. Then again, I suppose a god   
   > would be used to rather one-way conversations. He plays well opposite   
   > Parrish, adequately opposite Shatner, and manages to extract just   
   > enough sympathy to be something other than a black-and-white baddie.   
      
   They saved that for "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (bah-da-bum!)   
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   > THOUGHTS   
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   > An episode I delayed approaching, in part because I haven't been   
   > enjoying the Season Two episodes very well thus far (as noted in my   
   > previous review), and in part because I found this particular episode   
   > interminably dull as a child.   
   >    
   How old a child were you? We were pre-teens/just barely teens when this    
   first aired, and everybody thought it rocked.    
   >    
   > Rating: 7/10. The first Season Two episode I've actually liked. Though   
   > given that Amok Time is next, I find myself optimistic about the   
   > future...   
      
   Indeed!   
      
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