From: rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
Subject: Re: QL: "AToTS": observations
    <1993Jan6.044640.19346@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:01:23 GMT

rck1@ellis.uchicago.edu (roberta chi-woon kwong) writes:

>*SPOILERS* for "A Tale of Two Sweeties" below.


>Well, after three tries, Robin Jill Bernheim's scripts still
>haven't gotten any better, IMHO.

   I'll agree that this was not a particularly good episode, but not being
familiar with any of her earlier work, I can't say agree with the entire
statement. 

>Some observations:

>There were some genuinely funny moments in this episode ("Al says
>yes!"), but overall there seemed to be no point. Nice to see
>Michael Bellisario again.

   Not very many that I could see.

>In fact, the only noticeable differences between the two families
>were that one had a little girl who could see Al; one set of
>children minded the hotel "gifts" while the other didn't; one
>family had a dog. Geez, you'd think if a man was a bigamist he'd
>marry different types of women, rather than two nearly identical
>ones? :-)

   Well, I'll agree that the two families were practically identical,
but the two wives seemed different enough to me.. 

>The young actress who played the other daughter (not the one who
>could see Al)--I've seen her before in other drama series--can't
>remember her name. She's good; wish they'd given her more to do.

   Shay Astar.  The only other thing that I know for sure she's done
is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; the episode was
called 'Imaginary Friend', and she did an incredibly *bad* job in
the role.  (Although, after seeing her performance in ToTS I would
have to say that her poor acting was due in the case of ST:TNG to
*extremely* poor directing and writing).  I agree she should have
been given a bigger part.

>How in the WORLD did Sam know which horse was going to win the
>race? Did he used to watch races when he was five? Or did that gut
>feeling come in really handy this time?

   That horse just happened to be the only one running at great enough
odds (40-1) for Sam to stay alive if the horse were to win... no gut
feeling necessary, just survival instinct.

>The third wife appearing at the end was a surprise, 

   Yes, that was a nice touch.  Overall, however, the impression
I left with was *so what*?  This was decidedly uninvolving and
uninteresting.  This is a 4 out of 10, folks.

>                                                      What's to 
>prevent the leapee from continuing to do so, or remarrying? 

   I've always wondered about this... I mean, the leapee hasn't 
experienced any of these events, and hasn't suddenly decided that
he needs to change his lifestyle.  Yes, Sam has effectively ruined
his first two marriages, but I don't see that it will affect the
leapee drastically... (Just a minor nitpick that's fun to consider).

RC Carman


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