Posted on 09/24/2022 4:31:10 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
I recently bought the entire series on DVD . Seasons 1-3 the best . Season 4 went to an hour with a different producer and I stopped watching after 1 episode . Like watching a soap opera . Season 5 is hit and miss .
A very, very good post, man.
2 thumbs up!
The obsolete man, was written by Rod Serling himself.
Watching it now....
Rod Serling was a genius.
I’ve seen it at least twice, and how prophetic it is! It has certainly illustrated what can happen in a totalitarian state.
There are a few episodes that touch on that theme.
I wonder if Serling was a right winger.
The tirade against Romney by the chancellor is epic ,snarky, power mad....the way he compares words and printers ink with opiates....they certainly don’t write stuff like that no more for tv or movies. Fritz Weaver did a great job.
Brilliant.
I remember that one, too!
It’s time to revisit them…
Right after my wife and I married, I tried to get her to watch an old black and white movie with me. She said she didn’t LIKE old movies, because the plots were always simplistic, and easy to predict. I said “Is that so?”, and pulled up an episode of TZ. We watched it right to the point where it turns, I paused it and asked “OK, tell me what’s going on here, and where this is going?” She gave me the whole plot as she saw it. Then I unpaused it, and watched her shock as it hung a hard left. :-) GREAT stuff.
Relevant.
An analogous storyline might be government declaration “maga people are obsolete”. Farfetched?
Serling served in the 11th. Airborne Division in the Pacific during WW2. His unit was involved in the fighting in and around Manila. He related a story of how him and his buddy were with their unit awaiting an airborne re-supply drop after a vicious firefight.
He and his friend were in a clearing as the drop came in and
his friend was standing a few feet from Serling when a heavy package on which the chute didn’t open struck and killed his friend. Serling said that affected very profoundly for the rest of his life ans he often employed this kind of dichotomy in his writing.
Like the story where Burgess Meridith plays the little book worm who loves to read.
One day, as a teller in the bank where he works he’s asked to retrieve something from the basement and a nuke goes off. He’s the ‘’last man’’ on Earth and as he’s ready to read a stack of books he drops his glasses and now he can’t read the print.
“There was so much time!’’ he yells in frustration.
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