Re: FT: FB2 Preview - Obi Wan Tuffley

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Brian Burger wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Thomas Anderson wrote:
>
> > "Leave it, Rico! Mobile Infantry and Fleet don't mix ..."
> > to misquote a film i saw *again* this wednesday ...
> 
> You inflicted that abomination on yourself _again_? The book's OK but
that
> movie...

funny, i would have said exactly the opposite, but this is now getting
far
too OT. this is one of the points in SF over which people differ more
and
at greater volume than any other :-).it's all a matter of taste, i
suppose.

> someone should feed the director and scriptwriters to the
> Bugs..."Aliens" is still _the_ SF combat film...

agreed. very much agreed. however, SST has spaceships in. even if they
are
done embarrasingly badly (they're all one class! they don't have
planetary
bombardment capabilities! they don't have point defence! they don't have
sensors worth anything! they fly about 300 metres apart! HELLO?!?!).

Tom