I have the two disc 2002 deluxe version, the one with the live recording of Tommy and I think that it's an excellent album. You also get the full recording of the main concert as well. I'm not sure exactly what you get with the "Super-Deluxe" version but that might be a bit of overkill.

Yeah, one of my favorite albums growing up. I spent the part of my senior year in high school listening to side two of that album. My father had just died in September of that school year and I found that album to be very comforting and soothing for some reason.

Agreed, "Face Dances" was always one of my favorite albums growing up. I think it was completely unrealistic for fans to expect the same old Who after Moon's death. Kenny Jones also receives way too much criticism. Townshend had sobered up by then and was in his mid 30's plus Moon's death left a huge impact on his…

That abomination of formatting, "classic rock" reduced The Who to "Who's Next," 3-4 tracks before 1970 and 4-5 tracks after 1971. Their first 3 albums and singles from 1965-1969 are very good and were virtually unknown by American fans.

Yeah, what I'm really talking about are the special effects in the prom scene, the fire hose etc. Those scenes seem very dated and very cheap even by 1970's standards. Like I said previously they remind me of the the kind of effects they used on those low budget live action 70's Disney movies.

Yeah, there are so many scenes that just look so goofy and dated. John Travolta's character in the book is pure evil and in this film he acts like some redneck from Dukes of Hazzard. And then the special effects are so poor and dated. Seriously some of those prom special effects look like something out of "Freaky…

The ending in the book is different than the movie. Carrie drops rocks on her house and her mother is crushed. Carrie leaves the house wounded and finds Sue. She reads Sue's thoughts and learns that she had nothing to do with the prom incident. Carrie lets her live but causes her to miscarriage and lose the child.…

Well in the book, Sue uses sex with Tommy as a bargaining chip to agree to take Carrie to the prom. The Tommy/Carrie dynamic is more accurate in the t.v. film version.

Yeah, you make a valid point.

Yeah, it was a very odd non-review/review. I caught the end of it when the director was talking about Margaret White's concern for her child's welfare etc. and how that's similar to other parents concerns etc. and that she was right all along?? I was like WTF, Margaret White was batsh!t crazy.

In fairness to Julianne Moore, the character in the book was even more batsh!t crazy than the way Piper Laurie played her in the movie. Actually Laurie thought that the film was a black comedy or satire because the character was so over the top crazy.

Spot-on, that's a huge error & alteration that every version has made. Spacek herself was a former homecoming queen with a beautiful body. Hollywood films don't have the "guts" to cast an overweight average looking actress in that role.

In some ways the Cindy character feels spot on as you had a bunch of "young conservatives" created during those early Reagan years.

That episode is mostly famous for being the first on screen inter-racial kiss in American t.v. history but I like that there are some excellent philosophical moments about the question of revenge, tolerance and acceptance.

There's also the episode "Plato's Step Children" from the original Star Trek in which the inhabitants use telekinesis although rather cruelly not benevolently. I think Dr. McCoy isolates a chemical and is able to recreate the telekinetic ability so Kirk and Spock can defend and free themselves from the people on this…

I was a really big Beatles fan and had all the albums but I never heard "Working Class Hero" until I was around 25 years old in the early 90's.

I would include "Working Class Hero" on this list.

My parents grew up in German occupied France during WW2 and I grew up in the lilly-white suburbs of New Jersey during the 1970's so I understand what you're talking about. My father had German soldiers living in his house because he lived in a coastal town and my grandfather's car was confiscated by the Gestapo. My…

Easily my favorite episode of the series and IMO the best episode of the series with the possible exception of the pilot.

Good catch, I didn't know they used the alternate spelling for his character.