From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Happy 30th Anniversary ST:TMP! - your memories?   
      
   Jim Gysin wrote:   
   >    
   > rikp@aol.com sent the following on 12/9/2009 5:16 PM:   
   >>>> Nowadays with all of the spoiler sites online, they'd not only know   
   >>>> where Spock was, but they would know how much he was making for doing   
   >>>> the movie, and they would know about any and all demands for script   
   >>>> changes.  And a whole lot more.  :)   
   >>   
   >> My favorite horror blogger asked Rob Zombie this question: "there's so   
   >> much minutiae, you know, like "Rob Zombie ate a banana on the   
   >> Halloween set today and we've got photos!", and I'm wondering if it's   
   >> frustrating to you as a filmmaker, to have your every move   
   >> scrutinized."  His answer was that people shouldn't be surprised that   
   >> they're not surprised at a movie when they've read the script, how we   
   >> used to go into movies knowing little or nothing about them -- like I   
   >> posted above in my ST:TMP memory, though I know that even then some   
   >> Trek fans had read the ST:TMP script way in advance.  I intentionally   
   >> kept as much Trek-2009 away from myself as possible before its   
   >> release, for a variety of reasons.   
   >    
   > I have no interest in searching for spoilers for *anything*, and I'm    
   > perfectly happy to go into a show or a movie relatively clueless about    
   > anything beyond a vague plot outline and the usual thumbs up/down    
   > scuttlebutt from the likes of Rotten Tomatoes.  To me, it's *much* more    
   > fun to learn things in the context of the viewing experience itself, not    
   > in an online article weeks or months ahead of time.   
   >    
      
   AMEN!   
      
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   opinion, whether intentionally or not.   
      
   Natalie   
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