TomSunhaus

This episode is another 'Anthony Boy' one. The melodrama is about family. Shows like this exemplifies what makes Rockford Files watchable. What makes drama are characters & their interaction. "Why did you shoot at him." "Because I thought I would hit him, meatball." Classic.

Stephen J. Cannell has chase scenes, but the show is made because of characters & their interaction. The pilot show had another actor for Rockford's dad, but Noah Beery Jr made the character real. Stuart Margolin was a constant gem as Angel Martin.

The location of the show was important part of the activity. Another reviewer stated the show was weighed down by certain activities, but the pacing of this episode was excellent & it covered a lot of ground. There were multiple threads to the plot & all were handled adeptly.

This film reminds me that Stanley Kubrick is overrated. Admittedly, I had trouble keeping my attention to the film. One trope is that human's humanity is a curse. The people on the spaceship are self-destructive because they are human. This humanist trope is backwards and an insult to humans everywhere. It has an Australian Mad Max feel to it.

The second trope is that a jelly fish can be a genius. They are pretty to look at, but where are the brains. This trope is based on the idea that mother nature is all seeing & all powerful. Ray Bradbury had his genius Martians, but I never quite understood why.

I am disappointed in the human race also, but to quote a football player: 'It is what it is'. The best of humanity is when President Kennedy set the goal of reaching the Moon in ten years & succeeded. He also started the Peace Corps. The worst of humanity was when Martin Luther King & the two Kennedys were assassinated.

I would rather watch the Tom Hanks version of space travel.