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The River of Stars", the Christmas offering from "Space: Above and Beyond", is hopelessly sentimental, awash in emotionalism, and framed in predictability. I loved every minute of it.
The key to enjoyment of this show is to disengage the cerebral cortex and just throw your heart in gear. Morgan and Wong's dramatic leanings are towards melodrama, not documentary, so the question in any episode of their series is not "Is the action/dialogue/computer graphics authentic?" but "Are the emotions...