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Posted on 01/28/2024 12:06:31 PM PST by DallasBiff
Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
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I think he dies by jumping of the train and his body is put in the mortuary hearse...and the name on the back of the hearse is “Willoughby and Son...
You might be thinking about “walking distance”
I think he dies by jumping of the train and his body is put in the mortuary hearse...and the name on the back of the hearse is “Willoughby and Son...
You might be thinking about “walking distance”
Gilligan’s Island and Leave It to Beaver were positive shows, not liberal.
Yikes...apologies for 3 posts....my connection wasn’t working so I thought it was me...then the connection came back and remembered my 3 keystrokes. Apologies
Good point. Most of them were nearly identical in thought except some of the social issues. Kennedy worried about the balance of payemnts for example.
He sounds more stern than Trump could ever be!
Actually Orwell was a socialist. He didn’t like communism which of course makes him pretty odd from our view point. But he saw a line between them and liked one but not the other
Well...he was a paratrooper in US armed forces...so I guess he was ready to jump into a morass of human dark negativity.
The fear of another huge war and the possible re-use of nukes was big in those days. After seeing 75 million or so humans killed during WW2 worldwide and the post WW2 wars continuing....aiming for peace was not radical but a temporary goal to aim to avoid war...after all, Truman and the UN exerted big diplomatic pressure against Russia if the commies didn’t stop fomenting violent takeover of Iran and leave the country. Iran Crisis of 1946. Who knows what would have happened if communist Russia didn’t leave. We probably could have destroyed Communist Russia then. They would haveen taken over by Communist China and other countries.
Only we had nukes in 1946.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quality_of_Mercy
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I totally agree with you, if anything, I as an adult find the original “Twilight Zone”
to be leaning more towards the conservative side. That is, those episodes that had any sort of political direction to them.
I finally have Time Enough To Last to watch all The Twilight Zone episodes (reaching for the tv remote, glasses fall off and shatter...) Darn!!
Walking Distance is one of the most haunting,stunning 25 minutes in TV history
“””””I as an adult find the original “Twilight Zone”
to be leaning more towards the conservative side. “”””””
We see that a lot, the more people are moved left the more their perception changes of past TV, movies, politicians, and books as being less liberal than they were, forgetting that to be successful the left had to make it subtle enough for the time period when they were trying to sell it to the public. To work, entertainment used to have to gently feed the themes, ideas, and new sensitivities to the audience
People trying to turn JFK into a conservative fall for that.
When the Twilight Zone first came out, I was too young to comprehend (I was only 4) anything on tv, although I do have a memory of seeing Eisenhower giving a speech. Plus I don’t think my Dad was a Twilight Zone fan, he was more of a Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, and Wyatt Earp kinda guy.
My perception of Twilight Zone now, at least the episodes that can be perceived as having a “political” bent to them, is that they were more anti-government than pro. Otherwise, I just enjoy them for the inventiveness that went into creating them. I don’t care who wrote what episode.
No question that it was a great series.
The only thing I remember from age 4 is a vague memory of fog, big boats getting too close to our little boat, and being rescued by the Coast Guard.
I recently found his daughter Anne posts about her father on X.
Some of these posters have such a delusional view of their own supposed superiority, that it's shocking; not to mention hysterically funny!
And their assumptions about others ( ME! ), are likewise not only patently ridiculous, but really too funny for words.
What's next, you ask? I don't even want to contemplate what that might be.They live in their own fantasy world, that no sane person can decipher/pretend to be able to know.
Willoughby is the man's vision of Heaven; at the end,he's DEAD ,even though we see him in Willoughby, where there is no stress/no "push, push, PUSH"! Modern life, was, for him, a living HELL!
So no, it does NOT "end badly for him', when seen in that context. And before anyone jumps on me, re suicide, he was delusional/out of his mind, when getting off the train and then run over by another train. He REALLY thought that he saw Willoughby and got off the commuter train, any way he could.
The shows that I DO now and have watched on PBS, are NOT lefty ones at all! Are plays by Shakespeare Lefty? Hows about series taken from books written by Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey, Robert Graves, and Winston Churchill?
You have less than NO idea what I have read and/or watched on T.V.; yet have decided to tar with your rather puerile and pathetic very broad brush of assumption!
True, but I have now explained that to you.
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