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   Message 19,624 of 20,898   
   Wiseguy to All   
   Re: Why Time Travel Stories Are A Buzzki   
   17 Mar 12 00:34:39   
   
   From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: epwise@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Why Time Travel Stories Are A Buzzkill   
      
   Yowser@usay.com wrote in    
   news:5244544e16be34076aee730a89e7bf5enp@newsproxy.124:   
      
   >    
   > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:58:28 GMT, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   >    
   >>Yowser@usay.com wrote in   
   >>news:33b1595d38da431344fd3d2bc5ed7406np@newsproxy.124:    
   >>   
   >>>    
   >>> Repeatedly using time travel because you are just too lazy to write    
   a   
   >>> good original story is like an idiot savant or a    
   obsessive/compulsive   
   >>> repeating an action like washing the hands a hundred times.  They   
   >>> should have called this reboot "Trek" because it ain't Star Trek.   
   >>>    
   >>   
   >>If Paramount calls it "Star Trek" then it's Star Trek.   
   >    
   > No it isn't.  Oh, it has a similar title and similar characters.  But   
   > it ain't Star Trek AT ALL.     
   >    
   > It's a bunch of actors pretending to be the original actors.   
   >    
      
   That's idiocy.  Actors don't pretend to be other actors.  They pretend    
   to be other characters (possibly portrayed by previous actors).  That's    
   their job.  Look "actor" up in a dictionary.  And look up "stupid" for a    
   picture of you.   
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