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From: Diorite Gabbro
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Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:04 AM
Subject: [SHADO] Flight Path



<snip>....
he died for his sins at the end. But why doesn't
Roper put his finger over the blinking hole until the
moon hopper gets there. Suicide? This is the kind of
ending I'd come to expect after all of the hours of
"Gunsmoke" my mother made me watch growing up.
....<snip>


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Try doing it yourself and you'll find out that the air is coming out with lot more force than you'd realize. Simply pressing on it with your finger just won't work.

Roper, along with his wife, were painted as rather sympathetic victims to their plight. It made what happened to them more real....regular people less capable of dealing with danger, as opposed to the heroic example of say, a Paul Foster.

This is one of my more favorite episodes, complex and involved. While Straker's interrogation seemed very lame (the only coersion he seemed able to drum up for Roper was "....you MUST co-operate!.... You simply MUST...."), it showed Alec's humanity and sense of fair play in spades.

The ending was one of the most memorable of the series, defining it (at least to me) as the classic hard luck, tragic plot line television series of the era. It's what attracted me to it over the other dippy and silly sci-fi shows airing around that time.

Dave H.




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