domnogin

The premises of the story, blaming overregulation for shortages instead of corporate greed, that only multi-generational captains of industry can solve anything, is preposterous.

Is there a Part Four where Atlantis, not Galt's Gulch, has to deal with the old and the sick who cannot produce? How do they guarantee the gold supply grows with population? What of workers' rights there? How is the Gini Index there and in the dystopia?

I'm sorry Ayn Rand and Fred Koch were traumatized by the Soviet Union. It does not give them the right to transfer that pain to America to pull a Reverse Robin Hood.

This episode is a Star Wars knockoff, with a few Star Wars species as a veneer. Why would a Kazon and a Tellurite be in the same quadrant? What quadrant is this anyway? How do the two teens know each other beforehand? How can the teens be lawless if there is no obvious law outside The Diviner?

A power outage kept me from seeing more than half of this on ABC (American Broadcasting Network). I remember the hero being burned, presumably as a witch though that punishment was reserved for heretics. Sure, it didn't stick to the original novel, which I have read in two different forms; so what. I kept hoping it would be shown again. Maybe someone has uploaded the video.

I made the mistake of asking ABC for help in finding their eight-episode series PROBE (1988) starring Parker Stevenson (previously of THE HARDY BOYS) and Ashley Crow (currently of HEROES). They disavowed any knowledge of its existence; the show was a victim of a writers' strike. I never bothered to ask about this movie.