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littlemissattitude · 15th January 2004, 09:08 PM

This is a bit off-topic as well, but I had a thought while I was at my friend's watching "The Two Towers" Saturday. I knew all through that and "Return of the King" both that Gollum was reminding me of someone or something. And then it came to me. Does anyone here remember "Lost in Space"? (For those who don't, it was a rather campy science fiction series on American television in the mid-1960s. It looked fine before "Star Trek", but awful afterward. I think they've re-run episodes on SciFi, on cable, in the past few years.) Anyway...Gollum, I realized, reminds me of Dr. Smith, who was one of the regular charaters on that show. He was a stow-away on the Robinson family's spaceship; he was scared of everything and quite the drama queen. And it seemed to me that Gollum had some of those same characteristics.

This resemblance may just be my weird perspective.

15th January 2004, 09:08 PM	#12 (permalink)
littlemissattitude Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: California Posts: 3,368	Re: Smeagol and Gollum This is a bit off-topic as well, but I had a thought while I was at my friend's watching "The Two Towers" Saturday. I knew all through that and "Return of the King" both that Gollum was reminding me of someone or something. And then it came to me. Does anyone here remember "Lost in Space"? (For those who don't, it was a rather campy science fiction series on American television in the mid-1960s. It looked fine before "Star Trek", but awful afterward. I think they've re-run episodes on SciFi, on cable, in the past few years.) Anyway...Gollum, I realized, reminds me of Dr. Smith, who was one of the regular charaters on that show. He was a stow-away on the Robinson family's spaceship; he was scared of everything and quite the drama queen. And it seemed to me that Gollum had some of those same characteristics. This resemblance may just be my weird perspective.