A Game Of Pool
What A Lame ending.
Everybody knows there is nothing wrong with being the greatest of all-time. Mr Sterling should know that and should know better.
I never cared for this one.
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I completely agree, frisky. This is among my favorite episodes, too.
shareBut that was part of the message. To be the best you got to be obsessive and it's wrong to be like that. I doubt anybody will ever beat Jesse but that was the message as it usually takes complete obsession to become No.1
share"A Game of Pool" was written By George Clayton Johnson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734540/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
what's your point?
shareWell, by writing "Mr Sterling should know that and should know better." I got the impression that you (and frisky2006 now that I look at his contribution) thought he had written the episode, which is not true. However it is true he was the executive producer and I guess he could have rejected it if he didn't really agree with the denouement George Clayton Johnson had used at the end of the episode.
shareI'd imagine athletes might have a problem with this episode because fanatic obsession often reap rewards.
....and EVEY boxer goes in thinking that they will be the best ever.
I liked it (and Klugman in this), and I got the message. It was more than being the best, it was wanting to be a legend. Most of us will die and in 100 years, no one will remember who we were. The Babe has been dead for more than 80 years, and not a minute goes by that someone doesn't think or him or discuss him.
A lot of TZs have messages that aren't really reality, and this is one of them. Still, it's very entertaining. But it is science fiction, and the story and the "moral" here is that being a legend comes with a price.
Jesse was obsessed with being the best, to the point of practicing so much to be the best that he had no friends and never even fell in love. His obsession with being better than Fats meant that he had to defend his legendary status.