"Hypatia" <NoJunk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> The thing is that when it was on TVLand a couple of years back, I
> found I absolutely loved Steven Hill's character best! It's that
> awful?! <g> Here I was at the age of 40 or so when it ran realizing
> that although Peter Graves was the man behind MI I'd always known (I
> missed out as a kid on the first season), that the better actor for
> the role was Steven Hill! Go figure.
No question about it, I agree. I *did* see the show in its original
broadcast, and I never thought the show recovered fully from the loss of
Hill, though it certainly continued to do some great stuff.
>
> But I, too, caught it again in the second series and I liked it very
> much though, unlike the original series, the new one felt more
> contrived. Did anyone else get that? It's like it was all too
> predictible. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. I've always
> loved sci-fi shows and this one was on the edge of sci-fi.
The lows on the second series were often lower than ever. But the fact
that
they produced a second act that was any good at all almost violates a
fundamental law of Hollywood, and even entertainment-in-general
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