Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

In article <070520081400282565%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> ravenlynne <ravenlynne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Just once I wish a movie would end this way.  No writer wants all the 
> > people dead though..except in that book Dead Rising where every single

> > person died. that was cool.
> 
> I think there are two reasons why this doesn't happen. One, happy
> endings make people walk out of the theater feeling good while tragic
> endings make them walk out feeling down. Two, one aspect of sf in
> particular is that it is optimistic - every problem has a solution,
> every obstacle can be overcome - and encourages us to move ahead
> despite difficulties. 
> 
> OTOP, there are several Martian Chronicles that end "everyone dies."
> Also, histories like "Custer". And didn't Lucifer's Hammer end with
> everyone dead, or did they run to the mountains and survive?

ack, no.  Lucifer's Hammer ends with the survivors carving out 
civilization again.  The cannibals are defeated, the anti technology 
nutcases are defeated (although the wizard dies), the nuclear plant is 
saved, and as an airplane from another pocket of civilization flies over 
it, one of our heroes thinks "we still control the lightning"

And then another big hunk of space rice krispy begins it's long journey 
towards the sun . . .

-- 
Star Trek 09:

No Shat, No Show.