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  Outer Limits

   • k******d@d*****i.com
     02/03/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     Has anybody been watching "Outer Limits"? I recently caught a couple of

     episodes in a row. It wasn't half bad. The episode with the super-dense

     asteroid was cool.

     --Doc

       • s******j@**.com
         03/03/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         I saw my first episode of this last night. It concerned a mars
         expedition

         whose crew were taken over by Pod People. Old idea, but pretty well

         done. Micheal Dorn was the best actor of the lot; it was interesting

         to see the guy w/o tons of makeup, and acting like a faux barbarian

         (I think I liked Klingons better when they were smart, sneering,
         cold-

         war style adversaries, not recycled scythians.)

         Not a bad episode, but I really resent the dumb moral lesson that
         they

         began the story with. The old Outer Limits had these too, but they

         occasionally covered moral lessons that were actually valid and

         thought-provoking. Like in the MONDO COOL episode O.B.I.T., in which
         a

         high-tech survaillance machine causes trouble at a military research

         station. The urge to spy on others becomes an obsession; people
         become

         paranoid, and eventually someone gets murdured. At the end, the
         creepy

         technician who installed the thing gets fingered. Turns out he's an

         alien, preparing for an invasion. His people deliberately introduced

         the things, to destroy morale. The story ended with the narrator
         saying

         that investigations were under way, and that the devices were being

         destroyed . . . but could they find them all? Would people give up

         the chance to eavesdrop, even when faced with an outside threat?
         MONDO cool.

         The other thing that bothered me: They didn't use the old theme
         music.

         This was a stirring, somewhat sad, elegeical instrumental piece. It
         was

         played over the end credits during the first season. Very evocative
         of

         one of the Outer Limits big themes, that there's a big universe out
         there,

         and we're bit players in it.

         --Stefan

       • b******c@u*******r.ca
         03/03/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <4hasbq$***@p****x.com>, Austin Dridge wrote:

         >Kevin Conod (k******d@d*****i.com) wrote:

         >: Has anybody been watching "Outer Limits"? I recently caught a
         couple of

         >: episodes in a row. It wasn't half bad. The episode with the
         super-dense

         >: asteroid was cool.

         >: --Doc

         >Doc

         > I have been watching it. It can be very good, but there are a few

         >lemons mixed in. It has also been renewed for two more years.

         > Do you see the one with the time traveler and serial killers? That
         was

         >one of the best ones.

         > Austin

         I've watched it a ccuple of times and it always seems that the bad
         guys

         (aliens) come out on top. Is it still like that? I kind of like the

         idea that good wins out over evil most of the time. It doesn't seem
         to

         happen in real life enough.

            • Glen Chambers
              03/03/1996 00:00:000 UTC

              I have watched quite a few episodes and I find for myself that
              I have

              enjoyed about 75% of them, I was surpised of the quality.

       • a******e@p****x.com
         02/03/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         Kevin Conod (k******d@d*****i.com) wrote:

         : Has anybody been watching "Outer Limits"? I recently caught a
         couple of

         : episodes in a row. It wasn't half bad. The episode with the
         super-dense

         : asteroid was cool.

         : --Doc

         Doc

         I have been watching it. It can be very good, but there are a few

         lemons mixed in. It has also been renewed for two more years.

         Do you see the one with the time traveler and serial killers? That
         was

         one of the best ones.

         Austin