Re: [pressgang] Critic's Corner

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

Constance Lever-Tracy (socl.n.ss@psy1.ssn.flinders.edu.au)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:08:59 +0000


Nebine@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> >>#8 A QUARTER TO MIDNIGHT
>
>> A lot of people seem to really like this episode. I've never much
>> cared for it, though. The inside-the-safe scenes were a bit too
>> melodramatic for my tastes.

>I agree that this was one of the weakest episodes. The fact that the
>vault just happened to be precisely centered relative to the
>residences of four of the Junior Gazette staffers, that Lynda spotted
>this while in the safe, and that she managed to communicate it despite
>having a disabled phone, is just stacking one improbability upon
>another.

True but Lynda has several hours to work this out she had nothing
else to do and was fighting for her life. SHe first calls the
resteraunt and the paper but nothinbg hapens. Lynda was also (in her own
words) "A unique and remarkable woman"

> And the equally improbable fact that the safe opened purely
>by accident just made everything that happened previously seem rather
>pointless. Unlike "Chance is a Fine Thing", there just wasn't anything
>in this episode to compel me to overlook the improbabilities.

But it was fun.

Natacha

--
  T H E   P R E S S   G A N G   M A I L I N G   L I S T
  By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not
    to the author of the message you're replying to.
  To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org"
--
  T H E   P R E S S   G A N G   M A I L I N G   L I S T
  By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not
    to the author of the message you're replying to.
  To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org"


Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 02:28:20 BST