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Nick of Time is one of my favourites. very underrated

Every day is a Twilight Zone day for me.

What do you want to talk about?

thoughts on this new "interactive" Twilight Zone show they are making?

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my favourite episode overall however is Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

My nigga

thoughts on the 1985 and 2002 versions? I own the 2002 version, there are a few good episodes and a couple good sequels and remakes of classic episodes.

This is relevant to my interests. Everyone always talks about how great the original series is but I don't think I've ever seen you guys talk about the 85 series.

AND CUT

>wanting to be in an episode of The Twilight Zone
I guess they never watched it.

Never forget

Can we all agree Fats Brown was Minnesota Fats

>thoughts on the 1985 and 2002 versions?
I don't care for them. I didn't watch much of the 2002 version but the 1985 version tried to add too much of a horror element to it and contrary to popular belief that was never what the original series was all about in the first place. I love Wes Craven, Stephen King, Joe Dante and the like but they just couldn't out write Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, etc. The beauty of the original was fantasy and mystery, not horror.

>Everyone always talks about how great the original series is but I don't think I've ever seen you guys talk about the 85 series.
We barely even talk about the original series here, just occasional threads. There probably aren't many diehard fans here, at best most people only seem to know about a handful of classic episodes that always get name dropped, like Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.

the 85 series is quite hit and miss. Most episodes are meh and a few are ok to cool. It never came close to the originals though. Spielberg is not Rod Serling, but he is a fan. He hired most of his director friends at the time, you have episode by Wes Craven, Robert Downey Sr, John Milius, Atom Egoyan, even one by William Friedkin.
Not a must see though.

>Twilight Zone reboot
>well it's overdue f--
>interactive choose-your-own scenarios

Welp that's not a rebooted TV series, that's a glorified story game.

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

This one and the slot machine episode wrecked my shit as a kid.

Watching them as an adult, I think my favorite is the episode with the old woman being attacked by the tiny human aliens.

>1985

Worth a watch if you like anthology shows, but the tone was all over the place at times. Stories range from "eh" to "really good" to a handful of "great." Segments that I remember standing out in a good way (though a few were more appropriate to Night Gallery than TZ) are Examination Day, Button Button, A Little Piece and Quiet, Dead Woman's Shoes, A Matter of Minutes, Her Pilgrim Soul, A Message from Charity, Dealer's Choice, The Shadow Man, Gramma, A Saucer of Loneliness.

>2002

More bad than good but there are a few good stories. One Night at Mercy, Memphis, The Executions of Grady Finch, and Sunrise are my favorite. Cradle of Darkness ('go back in time and kill baby Hitler'!) is interesting, shame Katherine Heigl was the lead.

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

What's the meme choice?

The Obsolete man

This one has been sampled so many times it's not even funny. Absolute masterpiece.

Walking Distance, by a leauge.

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet for sure. It's good but it's ridiculously overrated compared to other classics that get little attention.

It's the "essential" episode that I think is just okay.

I really like that one where a morally flawed character achieves some goal, the nature of which elucidates their moral flaw, only to discover that the outcome is far less desirable than they anticipated. What was that one called again?

Similar names, both played completely straight by guys who are known as comedians. I guess so. They came out the same year.

Either 20,000 Feet or Time Enough At Last (unless that was The Outer Limits, I forget).

You're a bug, Mr.Wordsworth. A crawling insect. An ugly, misformed, little creature, that has no purpose here, no meaning!

A Game of Pool is also my fav, very good banter exchanged.

see

>Time Enough At Last (unless that was The Outer Limits, I forget).
No that was TTZ.

No. It's not fair! IT'S NOT FAIR! I HAD TIME!

One of my favorites. It probably wouldn't go over well today since it's all about the necessity of religion and stuff.

THERE WAS TIME NOW!!!

Oh my God, what a classic. You happen to know who wrote that one? My gut tells me Ellison.

Serling

That one with Jack Pallance as the "robot" boxer was pretty poignant. It sticks in my head for some reason.

the 80's series was good

I don't view it depicting religion itself as a necessity, but emphasizing that to deny people their humanity based on how useful and practical you view them--and asserting that any aspect of humanity has no value based on how useful and practical and scientifically provable it is (in the episode's case, this includes religion, literature/books, librarians, emotions like compassion and mercy, etc) is dangerous.

>It probably wouldn't go over well today since it's all about the necessity of religion and stuff.

wat

nigga half of pop culture since the rise of new atheism has been about rehabilitating religion as a source of community and shit.

IT'S ON IN 4 MINUTES FAGGOTS

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The Mind and the Matter.

that office guy who thinks everyone should be like him, and then everyone is him, and so he realize what a true asshole he is. I like those episodes too they're very cool.

does anyone else imagine someone else stumbling upon Harold after he breaks his glasses, and helping him find a new pair in the remains of an eyeglass store, or reading to him?

Which one is that?

Where Dennis Hopper is a neo-nazi? Or where the guy is before the panel and they rule that he is obsolete and must be executed because he has a library or somethin?

That was Lee Marvin

Nothing in the Dark with a very attractive Robert Redford.

The second one.

I liked the Masks.

I love the episode where the earth is coming closer and closer to the sun and it's burning up, and then the character wakes up from their dream and the earth is actually drifting away and freezing.

Pretty fun little twist and a solid set piece performance with the cast.

I think that's what I like about a lot of Twilight Zone episodes. The writing is very strong, and the episodes may not hold up stylistically or technically, but they're compelling and interesting stories.

What are your favorite war/military based Twilight Zone episodes?

The Purple Testament is mine

No, I imagine him crawling around blindly, looking for and eventually finding the revolver he threw away and then blowing his brains out.

That Burgess Meredith was such a great actor.

>Dealer's Choice
>It's one thing being the devil, it's another thing being a total jerk

love this episode

for me the obsolete man should be always seen with The Eye of the Beholder as a follow up.
I just imagine that TEOTB is the same society long after the events of TOM. It's creepy as hell to watch them back to back, but goddamn this show is goat.

Ahh, my bad. Been a while.

he's alive
GOAT episode

Those melting oil paintings.

at least the Eye of the Beholder society doesn't kill the ugly people, though. In the Obsolete Man anyone disabled, weak, otherwise an outlier gets executed. TEOTB just get isolated in their own ugly villages.

The one with the time-traveling Air Force pilots. Was that the same one?

No, the Purple Testament is about a man who can see when people are about to die because of a glow on their face.

They had an episode with a time traveling passenger airline around NYC. That was a good one.

On the subject of time travel, The Rip Van Winkle Caper is fantastic.

Ohhh I remember that. Good one!

Odyssey of Flight 33, right? I should know this.

A Small Talent for War from the 80s revival.

Ugly villages produce a beautiful person. Would would happen?

the old man in this one was great

If that's the one where they're all disappearing from memory, then yes. It really freaked me out that not only did they cease to exist, they just never were.

And the state actively pays for surgery to try to get the ugly people to look acceptable, too. And treats them with mercy. Granted, the type of mercy and pity you'd give to a freak, but hey.

Truthfully, I'd imagine there would be some type of population control going on in the ugly villages.

If there was a beautiful person born to an ugly couple, though, I'm sure the government would make the couple give it up for adoption.

To Serve Man

No. Flight 33 is the one where a plane time travels and they see dinosaurs and stuff.

First two seasons were the best, very experimental:

The Hunt
Elegy
People are the Same All Over

I don't remember the episode name, but that one where the guy is addicted to reading and his glasses break at the end of it when he finds a library.

Fuck me that was a good episode. It reminds me of a segment of a book that gave me some feels. Essentially this kid's soul just ceased to exist because he believed it so and the whole universe felt it, even the sun grew just a single thousandth of thousandth dimmer with his soul being extinguished.

Gotcha. This one I'm talking about was essentially "The Philadelphia Experiment 1.0," just with planes instead of a boat.

season five, save for a few episodes, is pretty trash

The silence

Annoyed by a club member's constant chatter, a man bets him he cannot remain silent for a year, living in a glass enclosure in the club basement. A year later the bet is won by the man, but at a very high cost and for nothing in return.

What's the name of the one where Hell is essentially wish-fulfillment till you're sick of it? I liked that one, too.

a nice place to visit

That one's got a pretty relevant message for today's society.

I always liked Third From The Sun, where a father realizes a nuclear war is going to happen soon and tries to escape the planet with his family. It has this creepy paranoid feel with surveillance and neighbors spying on each other and everybody's happy about the nearing war in which they'll probably be wiped out.

This one was great. Sort of reminds me of Eraserhead, for some reason.

That's And Then The Sky Was Opened

fun fact

episode number 142, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"—a 1962 French-produced short film which was modified slightly for broadcast—received the Academy Award for best short film in 1963.

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Time Enough At Last.

Spooky one.

sterling tells you that at the begging of the episode

>That's And Then The Sky Was Opened
Thanks!

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>Sort of reminds me of Eraserhead, for some reason.

It's really just The Seventh Seal for primetime TV in the '60s. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Based Ambrose Bierce.

Thanks for that.

What are some TZ episodes that disappointed you?

In The Arrival, a commercial plane lands with no people on board. It starts out excellently creepy but before long it meanders and it gives an explanation which makes the situation less mysterious but isn't satisfying.

Pic related redeems it though.

ZONE?

I really didn't like the one with Buddy Ebson and the pond. I *think* it was him.

Most season 4 episodes tbdesu. Some interesting premises but they go on for too long and they lose all mystery and charm after a while, like Passage on the Lady Anne.

the Bewitchin' Pool

the discrepancy in the children's voice's always tickled my autism

also, that mom was hot

Thanks. Your knowledge is pretty amazing.

Another I didn't like was the one with the guy recording the folk song. The accents and dialogue just sound a bit too hokey to someone who's actually from that part of the country,'

The one where Rosco comes back from the dead was awesome, though,

I've been thinking about it a lot recently and I might have to agree that season 1 is the best overall, even though they're all great.

>Where Is Everybody?
>One For the Angels
>Walking Distance
>Time Enough at Last
>The Lonely
>Perchance to Dream
>The Four of Us Are Dying
>I Shot An Arrow Into The Air
>Third From The Sun
>The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
>A Nice Place To Visit
>A Stop at Willoughby
>A Passage For Trumpet
>The Chaser
>A World of His Own

I mean season 1 was just hitting home runs the whole way through. Rod Serling only appearing at the end of the season finale was a nice touch too, and it's the only one where any of the characters are aware of his presence. And despite not having the iconic music, it probably has the best intro monologue of any season. It's just great. Even the whimsical episodes like Mr. Bevis and The Mighty Casey are fun.

Season 5 has some of the fewest "essentials" of any season but also some of its most underrated ones too.

>Another I didn't like was the one with the guy recording the folk song.

I do like the song in that episode... just not the actual episode.

The Hunt is pretty comfy.

>Perchance to Dream

You guys ever catch those couple of Twilight Zone-esque episodes of MASH - the one with the nightmares and the one with the ghost soldiers?

That one feels weird for it to be the series finale. I guess it's because it wasn't originally supposed to be. But being an anthology series it probably could have ended on just about any episode.