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    41 year ago

    I never forgave them making Jim Phelps a bad guy. Worst entry in the series for me, but I really wanted to like it. Sounds petty, I know. It just dishonoured the original series.

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      71 year ago

      There was a book or something on the making of the TV series, and every year they’d get at least one new writer in who’d be all ooh, I have the best idea for a story, let me tell you about it, and it’d be the same idea: they were misled into the mission. And the show runners had to shut that down every single time. They said that one of the core tenets of the show was that the voice on the tape (the people sending them on missions) had to be absolutely 100% reliable.

      I’ve never forgotten that line from the book. Nor have I ever quite forgiven the movie makers for thinking up the same ‘clever’ idea everyone else had already had, and so drastically misunderstanding one of the core tenets of the series.

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        1 year ago

        It seems like every movie always has the same plot anyways. The government betrayed him. A part of the plot of the last one was even about how many times the government betrayed him lol.

        Did that happen in the series a lot?

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          I don’t remember any episode where the government betrayed any member of the team.

          Oh, and I’m pretty sure the book was The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier, which is described as

          Recounts the origins and history of the popular television series, discusses the contributions of the cast, crew, writers, and directors, and provides plot summaries for each episode.