There were some people in power, and not a few critics, who thought there was another decision that could have been made. But I believe the movie was an inevitability. There was no other movie to be made that would not have been ghastly under the circumstances."[11] A decade earlier, in his commentary for the television series episode "Fairy Tale", Nesmith called the film the "murder" of The Monkees, an intentional move by Schneider and Rafelson, who had their eyes on bigger goals and felt The Monkees project was holding them back.