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- From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
- Subject: Re: VILLAGE OF THE DAMMNE
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.162652.15159@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
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- Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:26:52 GMT
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- In article <1796.360.uupcb@brent.uucp> jeff.kling@brent.uucp (Jeff Kling) writes:
- >-> but the plot is pretty illogical ( ie. no explanation
- >-> for the existence of the children at all) and a silly ending.
- >
- >They didn't explain how they survived the first movie?!!!!! Then I
- >won't bother to see it. One thing I can't stand is the rationale that,
-
- Trivial. There were lots of groups of Children, this was made
- clear even in the movie version of _The Midwich Cuckoos_. Just
- because Zellaby managed to destroy his group, doesn't mean
- that other groups didn't survive completely or partially intact.
-
- Did CofD, or did it not, allow the individuals of one group to
- interact with individuals of another group as if they were
- a single consciousness? TMC specified a more segregated
- consciousness structure that didn't allow even the Boy and Girl
- to share consciousness, though they were of the same group.
-
- John Wyndham is easily one of my favorite writers. His dry
- wit and style survive well over the thirty or forty years
- since his writing.
-
- Wayne
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