You are absolutely right. I don't think of the films as having any links to
the series. I also don't think the 80s series has much relationship to the
original. I would like to get a set of the 80s series because I am a fan of
Peter Graves.
Dora

-----Original Message-----
From: Parker Gabriel [mailto:parker_gabriel@...]
Sent: 11 October 2003 11:10
To: MissionImpossible@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MissionImpossible] Regarding the late 1980s missions and after


The late 1980s missions displayed perfectly why the recent feature films
were so poor. In the films, the director (Brian DePalma for the first,
John Woo for the second) and a single member of the mission team (Ethan
Hunt, as whom Tom Cruise seems to follow Robert Hanssen's illegal lead in
too many ways) were spotlighted, both of which the late Bruce Geller
always tried to avoid when he produced the original missions.

Likewise, the individual, referred to as James Phelps, who supposedly
died a traitor in "The Code-Names List Mission," so to refer to the first
motion picture, could not possibly have been the real James Phelps. The
real James Phelps called for the resignations of Rollin Hand and Cinnamon
Carter, respectively the most effective disguise expert and the most
effective decoy he had ever recruited to any of his mission teams, when
they married. The supposed Phelps was described as having had a wife, who
likewise supposedly died as guilty of treason as the supposed Phelps was.
That alone should have alerted most "Missionaries" to the fact that an
impostor had stolen Phelps's identity.

Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, between the two of them, did much more
damage than even either of them realized. We Missionaries cannot idly sit
by and watch the conspiracy, so to describe it, of Tom Cruise and Paula
Wagner continue to worsen that damage.

--Parker Gabriel
MAILTO:Parker_Gabriel@...

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