A Thousand Points of Light. So yeah, apparently Allen's choice of the week, The Legend of Hei, is going all enviromental on us, and not necessarily in a good way. I guess it's hard not to get political in a review when the show itself is so heavily steeped in it. Anyway, next week, it's time for a classic that kinda got a rough start on the whole remake thing, as a lot of them do. See you all then. -Stig Høgset.
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