To: Mobile Vulgus
Serling, like Gene Roddenberry, and Kurt Vonnegut leaned a little to the left in their politics, but as honorably serving veterans of WWII, I don't begrudge any of them whatever worldview they felt necessary to embrace to make sense of what they'd been through.
IMHO Serling was tremendously insightful not only in the observations he made of human behavior, but in his ability to spin them into didactic fables and allegories.
2 posted on
09/01/2010 8:03:50 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
On Thursday We Leave is an unforgettable Twilight Zone double-episode. Get it from Netflix, watch it with your kids -- and they'll understand the inner world of tyrants. Serling nailed the motivational structure of our super leaders.
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09/01/2010 8:15:43 AM PDT by
RJR_fan
(Christians need to reclaim and excel in the genre of science fiction.)
To: Joe 6-pack
but in his ability to spin them into didactic fables and allegories. Don't forget, some of the best episodes were written by (or based on stories written by) writers such as Ray Bradbury, George Johnson, Damon Knight and Jerome Bixby. Richard Matheson, a good sci-fi writer in his own, co-wrote many of the episodes with Serling.
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