Re: Abi's Expository Outburst!

From: chance <chance_at_unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:43:14 -0700

>chance chastised:
>> In the case of poor Dr. Abi above, the audience had to be told that
>>the dig they were working on was the "Katchu Picchu dig" (setting up the later
>>appearance of KP himself)
>Well- this is the way yers truley would have handled it: ABI: "Make sure
>those tarps are tied down- if they blow away it'll set us back for months!"
>INTERN/SLAVE: "Yeah- Katchu Picchu's waited for 6,000 years, he can wait
>until this storm's over to be rediscovered!" ... or something to that effect.

Yeah, that works so much better, and how that expository line made it
through no less than three revisions - one by the story editor himself - makes
you wonder what their mental picture of the audience was. Here's a possible
explanation:. that ep was penned by Glenn Leopold, and Glenn *is* the story editor..

(He also was reportedly responsible for the offending MASA groundcrew lines
  in "Destructive Nature" while exercising his story editor powers over someone
  else's script. It's not evil or anything, just a bit annoying).
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