On Feb 14, 7:49 pm, khalle...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 14, 3:33 pm, "Neil Harrington" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Gumby" <gu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Neil Harrington wrote:
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> > >> Slow pace is OK as long as it advances the story. What annoys me is
> > >> something that has nothing to do with the story or actual
characters,
> > >> like that Tales From the Crypt-type episode with the paralyzing
spiders,
> > >> not relevant to anything and apparently just stuffed in as a
filler.
> > > But how many times did we think that about an incident only to be
proven
> > > wrong when that incident had a bunch to do with future plot?
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> > In the case of that episode, it concerned two characters not seen
before in
> > the series and never seen again. Their story began and ended in that
one
> > episode and as far as I can see had no possible connection with
anything
> > else in the series. We never even saw or heard of the paralyzing
spiders
> > again and I doubt we ever will. To me it was just a filler and a waste
of
> > time. I hope they don't do that sort of thing again.
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> Hm, and I thought the suggestion that Boone was killed because Ben
> asked Tom to cover the hatch with the airplane was pretty darn
> significant, all by itself.
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> And there were a lot of other clues mixed into that episode - now if
> they could have been worked in elsewhere might be up for argument, but
> that it was just filler is just wrong.
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> And it had Billy Dee Williams!! How cool was that!
>
> Kate
Agreed, I hated the characters of Nikki and Paolo, and they brought
down pretty much any episode they were in whenever they had screen
time. But the episode in which they were killed off was fantastic.
Not just because they were killed off in it, but because it was an all-
around awesome story.
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