A Message from Charity
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ajfuller — 14 years ago(June 07, 2011 12:15 AM)
Her Pilgram Soul is one of my favorites.
I also really like:
Shatterday
Palladin of the Lost Hour
Examination Day
Eye of Newton
Dead Run
Button, Button (loved the different ending)
Wordplay
Healer
Nightcrawlers
To See the Invisible Man
Need to Know (Sidney Sheldon, really?!?)
The Toys of Caliban
I should add, I read a lot of anthologies and so I had read most of the stories these episodes were based on. Button, Button, Examination Day, Nightcrawler, Palladin of the Lost Hour and Dead Run were excellent adaptations. The Star and most especially The Cold Equations, were not.
I have to say though, the most chilling thing about watching the series on dvd, is listening to Harlan Ellison's weird cackle on the audio commentary. Seriously, he should sell that to haunted houses. It is creepy.
I would have loved to have seen him adapt Soft Monkey for the show, though. -
The-Last-Prydonian — 14 years ago(August 16, 2011 05:13 PM)
The Toys of Caliban was a great episode which was at the same time disturbing and quite dark but wonderfully moving and sad. It's a very tragic story about a young man cursed with great powers but the lack of mental capacity and maturity to know how to control it. The ending is areal heart wrencher"
"Gramma" was also a wonderful dark and creepy story. First time I ever saw it years ago it seriously gave me the creeps. The moment where the young boy at the end opens his eyes really sent shivers down my spine.
"To See the Invisible Man" was an interesting and effective one as well as was "Examination Day" which had similarly themed tales about government control.
"Eye of Newton" was a great little comical episode which had It's tongue wonderfully set in it's cheek and a brilliant and ingenious yet simple pay-off which I didn't see coming at all. I laughed out loud at the end of that one!
"Need to Know" was also quite a clever story with a simplistic but also chilling and clever premise. -
damienoujia — 14 years ago(March 12, 2012 05:13 PM)
I liked the one where the man was selfish and did not show compassion and had to live a year of his life like he was invisible. Out of all the episodes in the series, that one has stuck with me for a long time, and is as memorable as any of the best of the episodes from the original run.
I did enjoy "A Little Peace and Quiet," though. That's a good story in the classic Twilight Zone tradition.
As I rewatched it, something occurred to meif somebody was able to freeze time around them, they could do NOTHING while time was frozen. They may be able to move for a little while, but they would suffocate. No oxygen molecules would be moving to supply them with air. And if they could breathe they couldn't move anything.
For example, if time was frozen and I tried to move my remote control, I couldn't. I couldn't even pick it up. For me to pick up my remote control when time is frozen is to take the remote control out from it's present time and move it to a different point in space and time. It would be impossible.
I guess my time freezing story would be boring, because I think too scientifically to think of a compelling way to make the story work. -
damienoujia — 14 years ago(March 13, 2012 09:32 AM)
I watched Nightcrawlers again for the first time in a long time. Such an excellent episode!
I was rather young when the Twilight Zone Movie came out and the subsequent series on TV. For a long time I always thought Nightcrawlers was a segment from the theatrical film. I realize now it wasn't but it should have been in retrospect. It was that good. -
chester-30 — 14 years ago(March 19, 2012 11:29 PM)
I agree, excellence went in to every aspect of the piece. That's what happens when you take a great short story (By Robert Mccammon), have it scripted by a great tv writer (Philip Deguere) and then have one of the greatest film directors directing it (Friedkin). On top of that, add in creative license and you get one of the greatest moments in TV. Too bad this combination is a rarity in television.
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masuka-fan — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 01:37 PM)
A lot of the "wish fulfillment" stories have little logical problems like this. I just watched the season two story about the woman who gets a job in a library where all the books are of people's lives. When she starts messing with them, everything around her changes, but her own memories and position in life remain the same. I think we just have to assume that the central individual will always be immune to the effects of whatever magic they've stumbled onto. After all it is the Twilight Zone, so it can be like a fairy tale.
(In the case of "A Little Peace and Quiet," she was still able to manipulate people and things, so as long as she was physically breathing, she would be moving the air around and displacing it.) -
minhas4 — 14 years ago(March 29, 2012 08:07 AM)
I'd like to add Quarantine.
Man is cryogenically frozen and wakes up over 300 years later in a very different post-apocalyptic society.
The story is great, there is a good twist at the end, and we see the protagonist grow as a character and person. -
enziangenciana — 13 years ago(May 13, 2012 12:43 PM)
For me, it is both "Little Boy Lost" and "Dead Woman's Shoes". I like watching Season Hubley on Little Boy Lost and how pretty she looks and I like how dramaticly Helen Mirren changes in Dead Woman's Shoes. She looks and acts so much differently when she is wearing the pair of shoes. Helen Mirren looks so much different before and after she opens the door to walk down the stairs that it is impossible to believe that she is the same woman who was at the thrift store
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vodka_and_caviar — 11 years ago(November 19, 2014 10:08 PM)
Old thread but I'm reviving it anyway.
My favorite are:
A Message From Charity - Just brilliant. Beautifully written, and the music is perfect. This episode seriously brought me to tears at the end.
A Little Peace and Quiet - Amazing! She finds an amulet to stop time because she can't deal with her problems, but her problems are always waiting for her when she unfreezes time. So should she get the peace and quiet she so craved and live in the world alone, or die if she decides to unfreeze time?
The Shadow Man - Scary and I loved the twist at the end. Little punk kid deserved it for setting someone else up to be killed. And the bully who he tried to set up to be killed actually showed concern about him, telling him to "run, Danny. Come on!" It would have been funny if the Shadow Man from the end was from under the bully's bed.
Teachers Aide - I liked seeing a possessed Adrienne Barbeau rough up those punks and crush a boom box with her bare hands like it was a grape. -
MovieKnut — 10 years ago(May 03, 2015 12:44 PM)
The Last Flight
http://www.imdb.com/board/10734651/?ref_=ttep_ep18
A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air force base in France 42 years in the future.
Nightcrawlers
http://www.imdb.com/board/10734716/
A troubled drifter with an unusual ability terrifies the inhabitants of a rural diner.
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink! -
CarolStarr — 14 years ago(August 05, 2011 07:33 AM)
This was very well done. I had to spoiler myself on part II because I didn't want to watch the end if Charity got burned during the Witch hysteria during her time. And Peter feeling guilty for his part in it. As much as I like the horror themed episodes,(esp. the short "The Elevator" written by Ray Bradbury) this was a nice, touching love story, with two people from two different times, who could communicate in their hearts and minds and that they knew for their sakes they wouldn't be able contact each other anymore. I am curious what got cut out for commercials? This was better than the short "Her Pilgrim Soul".
Are there any other ones like this? I can't stand the commercial cuts on Chiller, but it is what it is.
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FbxCycler — 9 years ago(May 15, 2016 07:45 PM)
The commentary on the DVD with the actress who played Charity and the executive producer of the show is very good.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6533152/1/Payback