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BG-03: The Lost Warrior
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April 2nd, 2004, 08:41 PM
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Bombadil
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Sure, it was "Sci Fi Shane". But it tracked with the show's portrayal of a universe where good and evil mattered. Morality and ethics were fundamental to the program. Apollo did not ENJOY being a professional killer. Not like in the recent movie which I didn't see, with the "funny" line
"Will I have to kill anybody?"
"Do you WANT to?"
Or in Alice's Restaurant, where Arlo at the draft board pretends to be a deranged psychotic who wants to kill and maim people, and instead of being rejected as a nut case, he gets a medal from a general who says, "You're our kind of man."
Apollo is not Dirty Harry. He is Shane. And that was a good thing.
Bombadil
