With sharp observational skills, he watches as SS Officers at another table are photographed - he sizes up the power elite in his high-stakes gamble to cultivate heir friendship.One of them, pacifist leader Virginia (Jane Alexander) shared their food with Star, when the site suddenly came under attack by a giant Harvester robot - and Virginia and others were grabbed by giant, multiple clawed pincers and deposited in massive Transporter cages, to be brought northward to San Francisco.Again, he waves the vehicle past while engrossed in studying his map.But instead of going around, the intense lightsrise straight uplike a rocket above his truck.The first indication that something isn""t right occurs when his flashlight catches sight across the road of a row of rattling, jiggling mailboxes moving back and forth like they were in an earthquake.Their dances were usually filmed with only one or two camera positions or setups in real-time, without alot of editing and cross-cutting.