(1) I know of no-one that seriously believes that the London Symphony Orchestra is holed out on the same ball of rock as our heroes. So perhaps we should treat the explosions as part of our own cinematic experience.

(2) My new cellphone has a touch screen. To make it easier to use I can set it to vibrate when I touch the right part of the screen. Perhaps the sounds that the characters hear and virtually created by the ships computer. In the heat of battle it makes sense that ALL senses are active and being able to hear the space craft approaching (in Dolby surround sound, naturally) may be of tactical advantage.

Or it  might be something else… If anyone is reading this. What do you think?

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There is much of what has done that I have not liked. But he has created a show that has followers from 6 to 60. And I suspect that the bits of the show that offend my adult sensibilites would be the very bits that I would be recreating in the playground when I was 6 myself.

Russell has rehabilitated a show bring it back from geekdom (and I know, I was one of those geeks) to mainstream.

And for that he deserves our praise.

Thank you Russell.

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