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| spurgeonryan said: I never thought about it, but you are right he did take the group format away and make it all about himself! Leanord Nimoy would roll in his grave if he saw what happened with his show he was on. |
Yes, he and they guys who made the movie for him (director De Palma, the writers, the producers) decided to literally kill the original team aspect in the very first minutes of MI1. I couldn't believe what I saw when I watched the movie. They threw it in the audience's faces: "Team? Not with us. MI from now on is a TC franchise and only a TC franchise. Deal with it, few fans who still know the original show." It was his obvious attempt to create a sort of US James Bond, but imo he failed despite the commercial success. The people who created the Bourne movies did a much better job at creating a modern US Bond equivalent and in this case the one-man show made perfect sense.
Peter Graves would probably roll in his grave, but Leonard Nimoy (and Martin Landau, the 3rd one from the cast who later became famous and was replaced by Nimoy in the show) not yet. Nimoy and Landau are still alive. Nimoy turned 80 this year (Shatner too, btw).
