Greg Morris has my eternal gratitude

I truly believe the actor Greg Morris, who played Barney in the original Mission Impossible, understood the difference between his show and the Tom Cruise version. That's why he walked out of Tom's premier and called it an abomination. The original show was principally about the Cold War. It viewed America and the American government as a source of good and freedom and liberty in the world. The IMF would go behind the Iron Curtain or into a Third World dictatorship and subtly shake things up in the interest of freedom and democracy. The men and women on the IMF weren't realists as the term is known today, but idealists in the best sense of that word. Tom's version, aside from being mostly incoherent, is the opposite. It's about the evils of the American government and the West. It's like the Bourne movies: the U.S. government is the enemy, the source of corruption and all things bad. It's the modern, Hollywood, progressive ideology. Vanessa Redgrave was Tom's co-star. What more has to be said? I'd like to think that Greg Morris realized all this, he must have, and that's why he walked out of Tom's premiere. And for that, I am eternally grateful.  Simon