Twilight Zone/The Outer Limits thread

Twilight Zone/The Outer Limits thread

DAE think The Outer Limits was superior to TTZ?

Alfred Hitchcock Presents was better than both.

AHAHAHAHAH
LMAO

To Serve Man is still my favorite episode to this day. Total mind fuck.

Most twists from TZ were predictable and took too long to deliver

Bull fucking shit. None of them were predictable and the delivery was on point. S1 and 2 are amazing.

Don't try to bullshit like you could tell any ending was coming. I bet you haven't even seen most of it.

I recently watched the first sixteen episodes of the Outer Limits. I am very familiar with The Twilight Zone. I was a little surprised that these Outer Limits episodes are like 45 or 47 minutes each, as I had previously understood that series to have played in an half-hour time block, ala Twilight Zone.

I found these Outer Limits episodes to be much more primitive in their production, at times even farcical in their production, than Twilight Zone. The special effects were very very crude. A couple or more of the episodes (The Man who was Never Born, The Mice) involved an actor running around in a dorky monster outfit. As well I found the dialogue of these episodes usually, or at least often, to be somewhat amateurish and dumb.

I'll acknowledge that the plots of these Outer Limits episodes were generally imaginative and okay. It was merely nearly everything else about them that I found very often wanting. But yeah, the plots tended towards the ambitious. The Architects of Fear, The Human Factor, The Hundred Days of the Dragon, and others were ambitious and interesting plots. It's the implementation that I consistently found wanting.

I'm curious how others perceive the comparison between Outer Limits and Twilight Zone, and somewhat interested to hear opinions as to whether subsequent episodes of Outer Limits had improved quality.

I never liked Outer Limits, really. It was the monster of the week show Rod Serling dismissed it as. They're lumped together despite being in different leagues both in concept and quality.

>not including Amazing Stories

The camera that takes pictures of the future one was my favorite. Especially that last few moments.

>not "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
>not "The Howling Man"
>not "The Shelter"

I remember liking the 90's outer limits as it aired, but don't remember much about it. worth revisiting over TZ/black mirror/Hitchcock presents? what should I dive into?

Most of the "it's not/it is Earth!" twists were very predictable after the first. If the episode involved space there was a good chance it was one or the other.

The Borderland is a really good episode. I really like the way that all the scenes in the power plant were lit.

>Twilight Zone

Roger Sterling was a genius.

Many TZ endings are relatively predictable today though, but it's mainly because those endings are so iconic that they're been parodied throughout media for the last fifty years, so it's likely you've seen some of those endings in other movies/shows in different renditions of those stories even if you haven't seen the TZ episodes they came from.

>worth revisiting over TZ
no

The Howling Man was fuckin' GOAT. Also Walking Distance, And When the Sky was Opened, The Hitch Hiker, and The Midnight Sun.

is the newer twilight zone worth it?

not really