LOL! And little girls don't speak with such profound irony and angst.
I never saw Powder, but I'll take your word for it. I'm grasping at straws here, but the only explanation I can conjure up is that Spielberg hasn't watched much sci-fi in the last several years because he's too busy trying to destroy the Boy Scouts, so when his writers presented this donetodeath stuff, he thought it was all original. I mean, this is the Sci-Fi channel. The audience is well-versed in Science Fiction. You can't fool us.
There should be WAY more originality considering the resources that Spielberg has at his fingertips.
Steven Spielberg should have rested on his laurels, JMHO. I'm still trying to watch this series (blush), but when I actually fell asleep last night, I realized it must have been b-o-r-i-n-g...snore..
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