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  Amusements 11/28/99

   • j********o@***.com
     29/11/1999 00:00:000 UTC

     As part of the "Scooby Doo Project," the Cartoon Network has produced at
     least

     two feature-length Scooby Doo movies. I can't say that I'm an active fan
     of

     Scooby Doo any more, but they're playing for the nostalgia value so I
     watched

     the first one (Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost) and was entertained.
     It's a

     smartened-up, affectionate homage, with rich New Adventures of Johnny

     Quest-style animation and sly jokes for the adults - like Velma having a
     (male)

     love interest! Come to think of it, she may have played a role in the

     formation of my unproductive tastes...

     Next week, I think, they're going to run several Wallace and Gromit
     movies, and

     one of them (epinonymously named) seems to be a *new* one.

     Millenium's Frank Black lent a rare touch of class to tonight's X-Files.
     What

     a miss-match! It's hard to believe Chris Carter is behind both of these
     series

     - the X-Files has been an incoherent, tedious mess for years, while
     Millenium

     was a tight, thematically satisfying whole (although they misstepped
     some that

     last season). I have the feeling that Chris Carter chickened out on the

     promised theological crisis as the date approached and recast the Group
     as

     crazed fanatics. As for the X-Files, it's like they're not even trying.
     They

     have so many loose ends, and one-shot arc episodes that went nowhere
     that it's

     not possible to have coherence except on the black oil schtick. For
     example,

     Mulder's brain surgery - he "was infected with an alien virus two years
     ago."

     Couldn't that be practically any of the main characters?! Just when the

     conspirators were getting interesting ("We have the weapons and the
     magic! We

     can resist!") they get masacred. Even monster-of-the-week sucks now.

     Gorno

     "I'm beginning to think that there won't be any forced mating at all!"

       • j********o@***.com
         03/12/1999 00:00:000 UTC

         In article <1*************.*****.********7@n*****.***l.com>,
         j********o@***.com

         (JohnGorno) writes:

         >As part of the "Scooby Doo Project," the Cartoon Network has
         produced at

         >least

         >two feature-length Scooby Doo movies. I can't say that I'm an
         active fan of

         >Scooby Doo any more, but they're playing for the nostalgia value so
         I watched

         >the first one (Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost) and was
         entertained.

         Aside from some eco-nazi b.s., and p.c. crap pretending that there
         were nice

         "wiccans" who were somehow different from witches. Any distinction
         between

         white and black magic would probably be inpenetrable to the tribal
         Europeans.

         (The Norse *might* have made such a distinction.)

         JF

         Hedge Mages!