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"Imp" isn't a painful chore to sit through. It's fairly entertaining and everyone involved gets to act a little silly and it's somewhat funny.
The man from Atlantis with Patrick Duffy

Moby just wants to have fun

A man-child who just wants everybody to have fun poses a serious threat. Whenever he, Moby (Morita), touches someone they start to act funny; enjoying silly pranks and laugh constantly…but also put themselves in serious danger. Mark and his team are on the case. 

A first for “Man From Atlantis” here; three people actually perish as a result of Moby and his quest for everyone to simply have fun. Three workers in an underwater lab go out for a swim and apparently die as a result of Moby touching them. There also seems to be a moment of withdrawal when Moby isn’t in the vicinity of those he’s touched. 

If you think about it; this could actually be a somewhat scary premise in a series that would treat it seriously. But as is here; it’s just played out in the kid-friendly manner we’ve become accustomed to with this series (despite the three deaths). In the end all it takes is for Mark to simply explain to Moby that he’s posing a real threat and he wouldn’t want those people to hurt themselves. Moby agrees and goes to wherever he came from. 

“Imp” isn’t a painful chore to sit through. It’s fairly entertaining and everyone involved gets to act a little silly and it’s somewhat funny. Once again we have a premise that could have gone somewhere interesting but it doesn’t and that about sums up “Man From Atlantis”. Huge potential, good concept and a great leading man but it falls short and doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. But as a Cult TV show; it’s at the very least quite interesting and “Imp” is an OK episode.

Oddur BT

Oddur BT

I mostly enjoy writing about films that fit into the category „Cult“ in one way or another. It‘s, frankly, where my comfort zone lies. It would be easy to just focus on horror films (by far the most films labeled „Cult“ are horror films) but the category also includes so many films that are really un-classifiable. Many of these movies are so truly enjoyable and you don‘t even know exactly why. These are often films that are considered very poor, very cheap, very amateurish and some are just plain old studio films that got panned or performed very poorly when released. This is the stuff I like to write about and I hope you like reading about.

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I mostly enjoy writing about films that fit into the category „Cult“ in one way or another. It‘s, frankly, where my comfort zone lies. It would be easy to just focus on horror films (by far the most films labeled „Cult“ are horror films) but the category also includes so many films that are really un-classifiable. Many of these movies are so truly enjoyable and you don‘t even know exactly why. These are often films that are considered very poor, very cheap, very amateurish and some are just plain old studio films that got panned or performed very poorly when released. This is the stuff I like to write about and I hope you like reading about.

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