Re: a kind of sadness

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Doug
Freyburger of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:

Methuselah Jones wrote:
Verb wrote:

M Night Shamylan started his film career by "just" writing...
After watching "Signs" I kinda wish he stuck with it.

As one person said, Night has been cursed with his own success. In
"The Sixth Sense", the surprise at the end was a major element of the
story.

After I saw "The Sixth Sense" I started to wonder what people thought
the surprise was.

That the shrink was a ghost? I figured that was so obvious throughout
that I would be surprised at others being surprised.

I didn't realize it until the end. But then, I wasn't looking for
anything. I didn't know that there was a "surprise ending", so I pretty
much took things at face value.

--
Methuselah
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
-- Groucho Marx

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