>> On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:05:59 -0500, Duggy wrote
(in article 
):
> On Dec 13, 7:22 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:
> 
>>  Alien turned into a franchise with less plot potential than Star
>> Wars.
> 
> SF horror more than Space Opera.  It had 1 alien, 1 dead planet, 1
> derelict and 1 active spaceship and 7 cast members.  Space opera needs
> many, many more of all those things.  That costs. <<
Gotta agree with you here.  "Alien" was not space opera.  It was
a thriller 
that just happened to be set in space.  With an alien.
Amy
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