Posted on 03/02/2006 8:00:21 PM PST by Indy Pendance
The Outer Limits Versus the Twilight Zone, which is better?
WND IMO, isn't credible, too many stories over the years have been debunked here. That's the beauty of FR. But for me, I was a newsmax junkie in the 90's. Same story. Kinda sad, isn't it?
That's a tough decision. Comparing eps like Eye of the Beholder and To Serve Man with shows like Sixth Finger, Wolf 359 and Galaxy Being is like the choice between the proverbial apples and oranges. I love both of the series (the originals, that is), and there are memorable shows and unforgettable visual images in both.
Twilight Zone, hands down [and I liked both].
I loved both The Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits.
I felt Twilight was the best, though. I have lots of episodes on tape and watch them sometimes if I feel I need to relax a little.
I don't know, Indy:
"Demon With A Glass Hand"
"Chameleon"
"Archiects Of Fear"
"The Zanti Misfits"
"The Invisibles"
"The Hundred Days Of The Dragon"
"The Sixth Finger"
"The Man Who Was Never Born"
"O.B.I.T"
"The Special One"
"Tourist Attraction"
"Controlled Experiment"
"Fun And Games"
"A Feasibilty Study"
"It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork"
"Soldier"
"Wolf 359"
"The Inheritors"
VS
"Time Enough At Last"
"Nightmare At 20,000 Feet"
The legion of episodes rolled out during every 3 Day Summer Weekend on Sci-Fi.
I'd have to go with the Original "Outer Limits". The best low budget "Bang For The Buck" B&W Sci-Fi Anthology ever! A treasure trove of technique, tricks, style, music and use of shadow!!!
Replete with then no-named actors (Robert Culp, Michael Ansara, Carrol O'Connor, Nick Adams, David McCallum; Martin Landau, Robert Duvall, etc) doing some of their best work in story lines that were true Science Fiction in the 1960s, yet commonplace today!
Jack.
Twilight Zone rules......
Not to mention Rod was cremated in Rochester, NY.
My Dad was a Funeral Director in Rochester and I had a front row seat for Rod Serling's cremation at Mt. Hope Cemetery... Rochester, NY.
A DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET
Thriller popped up in my mind also, but then so did "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
Old outer limits, or new outer limits? New outer limits is great, and I love it that they kept the old opening: we control the horizontal, we control the vertical, even though nobody probably knows what they are talking about any more!
However, Rod Serling rules! What a cutie pie he really was.
"They were able communicate to each other through the internet and one of them had to press a button so that nuclear, biological, chemical weapons would not be launched all over the world."
So that's where the "Lost" people got that idea!
I was responding to the "I haven't seen it" part.
Touchy aren't we.
The modern-day Outer Limits is good, but I've noticed some of its episodes either preach communism or portray Conservatives in a false manner.
The ones that preach communism include one about this group of spacers who find a capsule containing an escaped convict. At one point, it has one of the spacers narrating about how "the company holds all the power and the workers are left with practically nothing" and another episode where this group of soldiers are hunting insect-like creatures and it turns out that they've been drugged to see innocent people as bugs (apparently, both sides were drugged by their governments, who were after energy sources; i.e. war for oil)
The ones that portray Conservatives in a false manner include the "I, Robot" one where a robot kills his creator and there's a trial over whether he can be tried as a human being. The defense attorney was a liberal who believed the law needed to be changed, while the prosecutor was a conservative who was against changing the law for any reason. Also at the end, the judge stated that the Constitution was a living, breathing document to be interpreted and reinterpreted at will, which anybody knows is bull.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.