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Allen
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I love to use this phrase when people ask me where someone went. "They've gone into another dimension known as the Twlight Zone." (Cue scary music and I walk away with a big smile on my face.)
I personally love "The Obsolete Man" despite it's religious nature. It reminds us that government should never become so powerful that they decide what we believe and who is useful or not. I also love the one where an alien vistor brings a mysterious gift. Out of fear, the visitor is destroyed and his gift discovered to be quite useful, but useless now as it has been destroyed.
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DotheBartman
Liquid Emperor
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That does sound horrible. The charm of "Monsters on Maple Street" was that it could essentially be applied to any point in time ("aliens" is a broad term that could symbolize anything, such as terrorists), and thus the episode remains so, well, timeless.
Anyways, I haven't seen nearly every episode yet (I have four of the five dvd sets though), but its become one of my favorite shows ever. Favorites include "Monsters are on Maple Street"(simply subperb social commentary), "The Hitchhiker", "Time Enough at Last", "Living Doll", and many others.
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Wonderbee31
Starship Captain
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« Reply #7 on: 08-23-2003 17:47 »
« Last Edit on: 08-23-2003 17:47 »
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Almost every episode with Burgess Meredith was great, the man was just damn good. I also like the five people in a holding area, in search of an exit, with Willliam Windom. The episodes with the hideous woman in bandages, and "a pitch for the Angels" are also great, but probably one of the all time greats, was "the Invaders", with the poor old woman terrorized by aliens in her attic. Yes, the Twilight Zone does have a timeless quality to it, I think one of the things that made it great was Rod Serling. The man was just a good storyteller, and he brought a presence to the show that has been missing from every anthology show since then. p.s. I can't remember all the episode titles off the top of my head, and I know that some of them aren't exactly as I described, I just don't want to spoil the twist, as there are some that will still make you go, "oh my...", that's wild.
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Coop
Professor
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I remember my favorite episode, but I cant remember its name. Its about a confederate soldier troup that walks into a town full of yankees, but the thing about it is that they are all frozen. Then they find a book of devilish magic and ect ect.
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MuscaDomestica
Professor
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I like the Invaders and the one with the people in the caffe where one of them might be an Alien, a good episode.
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Idan_Aharoni
Professor
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Originally posted by Grim: The only New Twilight Zone I thought was good was the one where Jason Alexander Guest starred as death, death attempted suicide and the effect of death was negated, I havent seen too many of the old ones unfortunately That wasn't scary... it just made you think that all this time George Costanza was actually death... Seriously though, the new episodes are all shitty. Nothing is scary, or makes you go "hmmm?". After The X-files, and Poltergeist (the new which-didn't-last-for-long-series), "The twilight zone" just doesn't cut it.
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