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   seanqbiker@gmail.com to Paul S. Person   
   Re: Pop culture and Middle-earth   
   03 Apr 17 15:41:21   
   
   On Sunday, 26 March 2017 09:22:10 UTC-7, Paul S. Person  wrote:   
      
   > PJ can't let five minutes go by without an Action Sequence or he will   
   > go into withdrawal.   
      
   Long have I pondered the truth of your words. PJ even makes action scenes   
   out of episodes not meant to be action. The worst offense has to be where   
   Saruman spins Gandalf around on a magical centrifuge. That kind of action   
   might belong in a James Bond movie (_Moonraker_), but not in an enchanted   
   Medieval world like Middle Earth. When I first saw it I knew I had been   
   betrayed.   
      
   Never, in the field of human entertainment, was so much invested by so many   
   for such a silly result.   
      
   > And, to PJ, all that stuff between Action Sequences is just filler. It   
   > doesn't matter what it contains, because only the Action Sequences are   
   > what matters.   
      
   Does PJ think he's playing to an audience of Philistines (ie the culturally   
   challenged)?   
      
   > And I really do think it is as simple as that.   
      
   Dark have been my dreams of late.   
      
   SPQ   
      
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