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YouTube won't stop recommending me TZ episode clips, and I can't stop watching them. I have yet to run into a bad one. What a drat good show. What are some of your fave Twilight Zone eps?
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 02:36 |
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the one where the kids were obliterated by a helicopter
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 02:56 |
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The original Twilight Zone is really loving good. The majority of the episodes still hold up and a lot of the messages are even more relevant today than they were back then.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:12 |
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I like the one where the prime minister had to gently caress a pig on live television.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:23 |
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I did not like the one where Donald Trump is president.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:24 |
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Jose Oquendo posted:The original Twilight Zone is really loving good. The majority of the episodes still hold up and a lot of the messages are even more relevant today than they were back then. This happens to be the show I'm talking about, sorry, I actually forgot they made another Twilight Zone.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:25 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdo3BP3m42I
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:27 |
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rod serling was 5 foot 4
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:28 |
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One of the best TV series ever made and you can see how many movies or episodes of other shows stole ideas from it.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:30 |
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Gologle posted:This happens to be the show I'm talking about, sorry, I actually forgot they made another Twilight Zone. I knew it was There have been 3 revivals and a movie. The 80's revival wasn't too bad really. It had some good talent on the writing, directing, and acting. Unfortunately, the show also looks like rear end and it has that feel of a lovely syndicated show because part of it was. The 2000's revival...I have never seen an episode of it and I never hear a word of it, so I'm guessing it was bad. The current revival on CBS All Access is...ok. The show wants you to think it's telling these thought provoking stories, but most of them are dumb. It's like the writers are huffing their own farts while writing the episodes.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:31 |
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eSports Chaebol posted:rod serling was 5 foot 4 Imagine if you will, a manlet, scorned by women and men alike. But this is no ordinary short man. This one is about to put on a fedora, in the twilight zone.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:32 |
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It's interesting to see episodes with actors early in their careers. People like Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:32 |
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:38 |
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It's good that you made this topic. Real good.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:43 |
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:47 |
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I watch a few intermittently on Hulu, and am by no means an expert. Of the bundle I’ve seen I particularly like the rich guy who wants people who he feels slighted by to apologize to him, and he tries to coerce an apology by trying to convince them a nuclear war is beginning. Another is robbers who steal some gold, are artificially frozen, and their gold is of no value by that point. Overall, a lot of great episodes and are re-watchable.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:47 |
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rod sterling s history is amazing. He basically didnt want the sponser meddling so the series of an analogy. I always like "an obsolete man" and "to serve man" this was also pretty good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invaders_(The_Twilight_Zone)
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:49 |
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I sing the body electric
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:49 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQvBIyOC6Y How many eps ended with a surprise appearance by hitler
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:51 |
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I watched every episode from about April to June, and I actually put together a list of all the ones I thought are still genuinely worth watching even now. With a bonus list of all the ones that I still did not regret watching but that are not exactly must-see. I think overall I put more than half of the episodes on one of the two lists, which is mind-blowingly amazing for a show starting in the 1950s. That is impressive for a show from the 2000s, honestly "Time Enough At Last" is the one you need to watch to instantly retroactively get that one joke that has been made countless times across all other media Edit: I might as well post my killer list lest someone accuse me of trying to beg someone to ask me to post it; I think if you seriously want the "this is not terrible" list you might as well just watch all the episodes yourself since that definitely gets way more subjective) Time Enough At Last King Nine Will Not Return The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street In His Image The Encounter The Shelter Elegy And When the Sky Was Opened Mr. Bevis Third From the Sun The Old Man in the Cave The Hitch-Hiker The Rip Van Winkle Caper Twenty Two It's a Good Life (astounding how they time-travelled and satirized Trump) Static The Big Tall Wish Walking Distance Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up Queen of the Nile The Passersby The Midnight Sun The Jungle Once Upon a Time To Serve Man Little Girl Lost (I think this would have scarred me for life as a child even though as an adult it is not specifically terrifying) Young Man's Fancy I Sing the Body Electric On Thursday We Leave For Home In Praise of Pip (probably only if you are a parent) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet Living Doll The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Night Call The Jeopardy Room An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (I mean this should not count but it is technically a Twilight Zone episode) The Brain Center at Whipple's The Fear (just gets credit for seeming like a modern horror movie yet somehow being hilarious) Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 17, 2021 |
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bossy lady posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQvBIyOC6Y All of them
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:54 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:I watched every episode from about April to June, and I actually put together a list of all the ones I thought are still genuinely worth watching even now. With a bonus list of all the ones that I still did not regret watching but that are not exactly must-see. I think overall I put more than half of the episodes on one of the two lists, which is mind-blowingly amazing for a show starting in the 1950s. That is impressive for a show from the 2000s, honestly Post it bitch
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:57 |
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I like the episodes where people are tormented and confused for 20 minutes, and then you find out they're really toys but there's no moral.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:57 |
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Full Metal Jackass posted:Post it bitch
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 03:58 |
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The one where William shatner turned out to be a gambling addict is really realistic and does a good job
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:04 |
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They were all pretty good taken one at a time but if you watch more than a few in a row it turns into a real chore. I can only take so much of one actor running around for thirty minutes trying to figure out if he's crazy before I really stop giving a drat
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:05 |
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The one where the dude was obsessed with books and the world ended and he was happy that he was the only one left and had a pile of books to read. Then broke his glasses and was blind!
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:09 |
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Dr. Quarex posted:I watched every episode from about April to June, and I actually put together a list of all the ones I thought are still genuinely worth watching even now. With a bonus list of all the ones that I still did not regret watching but that are not exactly must-see. I think overall I put more than half of the episodes on one of the two lists, which is mind-blowingly amazing for a show starting in the 1950s. That is impressive for a show from the 2000s, honestly Missing Number Twelve Looks Just Like You, but otherwise a good list.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:12 |
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I'm suprised He's Alive isn't on that list, it's near prophetic.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:17 |
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If I remember correctly, it has a happy ending, but The Night of the Meek (the Santa Clause one) always depresses me to no end. The unrealistic aspect of it is relatively small, while the realistic portion takes up the majority of the episode and is incredibly relatable
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:21 |
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Rod Serling was a goddamn hell of a writer. He wrote an insane amount of the entire run of episodes. Love me some Twilight Zone.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:21 |
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Full Metal Jackass posted:Missing Number Twelve Looks Just Like You, but otherwise a good list. Gologle posted:I'm suprised He's Alive isn't on that list, it's near prophetic. "He's Alive" would probably have seemed even more relevant if I had watched it eight months later, true, and I would certainly endorse adding either of those to the list. I would be surprised if anyone advocated for an episode I outright thought was horrible, though I am looking forward to that very thing happening immediately now
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 04:28 |
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I'm sure most people itt will know this factoid but it bears repeating in case anyone doesn't know, Rod Serling was a veteran of WW2 and saw extensive combat in the Pacific theatre. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/rod-serling-twilight the article posted:After weeks of intense combat, many of the paratroopers, Serling included, began to wilt under the pressure. His experiences as a member of his company’s demolition platoon—generally considered suicide duty—left him deeply scarred. In one instance, Serling’s good friend, Private Melvin Levy, ventured out to watch an aircraft drop off food crates to the beleaguered paratroopers. Levy was joking about where the food would fall when one of the crates landed on his head and decapitated him as Serling looked on in horror. Although he was injured twice during the fighting, once in the kneecap with a wound that would plague him to the end of his life, Serling was not medically evacuated. That's the bit people usually share but the rest of the article is worth reading. I always knew he saw combat but I didn't realize how much.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 05:18 |
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PinheadSlim posted:I'm sure most people itt will know this factoid but it bears repeating in case anyone doesn't know, Rod Serling was a veteran of WW2 and saw extensive combat in the Pacific theatre. Sterling's opinions on war and imperialism were so apparent. I always loved this bit from "no time like the past". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne4bMAeW9lI
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 05:40 |
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3 packs a day holy poo poo.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 05:46 |
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I grew up watching TZ marathons on TV, and even as a dumb kid I was enraptured by the thing. I think the fact that it's a black and white work helped make it a weird kind of classic yet timeless thing. Unlike, say, I Love Lucy, TZ had a real Noir, almost cinematic, look in some episodes. And it had the benefit of not doing way out sci-fi creatures a bunch (which has dated The Outer Limits). Thinking about it over the years, I think the success of the series is a mix of a few things: * B&W making sure it didn't look too cheap * pulling from established authors/stories (I think An Occurrence at Owl Creek Ridge may have been picked up from a foreign production, for example) * Serling or the producer's oversight on stories * drawing from Radio Play production for that really emotive presentation * Maintaining a human element to the stories A lot of the greats are just the human condition with a bit of fantasy thrown in to help you buy into it.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 06:30 |
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That dinner table scene linked above is still so good.
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 06:45 |
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Buttchocks posted:I like the episodes where people are tormented and confused for 20 minutes, and then you find out they're really toys but there's no moral. Five Characters in Search of an Exit lol
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 06:52 |
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The Old Man in the Cave and The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street have stuck with me since I was a kid extremely upsetting, generally accurate depictions of human beings in groups
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# ? Jan 17, 2021 06:59 |
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I still think of Forrest Whittaker as 'that Twilight Zone guy'. True story.
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