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do you remember when I took “taking a brief break I’ll be back by april or may” out of my pinned post.

well,

I Forgot About Finals Week And All Of My Exams

Late june it is I guess, stay tuned while I face the biggest horror of them all

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When I write my episode posts I usually use the ttz wiki as a reference and just summarize the episodes quickly, and I’m wondering if I’m giving myself more work than I need to

so, will you guys still be interested if I just link the wiki page instead of writing out the whole thing? Or are the majority of you people who have listened to tma and not ttz and find my summaries helpful? (Go vote in this poll where I’m asking that question btw)

have I mentioned I’m still working out how I want to run this blog

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Edit: also, if you’re following me you should totally go vote on this poll to help me figure out the best way to run this blog :P

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do you remember when I took “taking a brief break I’ll be back by april or may” out of my pinned post.

well,

I Forgot About Finals Week And All Of My Exams

Late june it is I guess, stay tuned while I face the biggest horror of them all

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Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened

The Spiral

Opening narration:

Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours.

The narration continues after the introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes (Rod Taylor).

But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.

This episode definitely shows the fear of madness and the fear that your brain and the world is wrong. The characters all face the distressing fact that no one else remembers the other crew members, making them question their sanity. They disappear with the intense and ominous feeling that they do not belong in the world and it is wrong.

i’m too eepy to summarize the episode so here’s the link to where you can read it. I don’t usually just use the ones on the wiki just because I think they're a bit too long

the wikipedia page and the fandom page

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Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened

The Spiral

Opening narration:

Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave Desert after a thirty-one hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidental data: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours.

The narration continues after the introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes (Rod Taylor).

But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of a tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door.

This episode definitely shows the fear of madness and the fear that your brain and the world is wrong. The characters all face the distressing fact that no one else remembers the other crew members, making them question their sanity. They disappear with the intense and ominous feeling that they do not belong in the world and it is wrong.

i’m too eepy to summarize the episode so here’s the link to where you can read it. I don’t usually just use the ones on the wiki just because I think they're a bit too long

the wikipedia page and the fandom page

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The Twilight Zone S1E10

Judgement Night

“The year is 1942, and this particular ship has lost its convoy. It travels alone like an aged blind thing groping through the unfriendly dark, stalked by unseen periscopes of steel killers. Yes, the Queen of Glasgow is a frightened ship, and she carries with her a premonition of - death.”

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The Twilight Zone is The Magnus Archives for people over 60

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Episode 10: Judgement Night

This episode is The Stranger

Opening narration: Her name is the SS Queen of Glasgow. Her registry: British. Gross tonnage: five thousand. Age: Indeterminate. At this moment she's one day out of Liverpool, her destination New York. Duly recorded on the ship's log is the sailing time, course to destination, weather conditions, temperature, longitude and latitude. But what is never recorded in a log is the fear that washes over a deck like fog and ocean spray. Fear like the throbbing strokes of engine pistons, each like a heartbeat, parceling out every hour into breathless minutes of watching, waiting and dreading... For the year is 1942, and this particular ship has lost its convoy. It travels alone like an aged blind thing groping through the unfriendly dark, stalked by unseen periscopes of steel killers. Yes, the Queen of Glasgow is a frightened ship, and she carries with her a premonition of - death.

(my summery is a liiiiiitle long so im going to put it under the cut)

I think that this episode is the stranger, mostly because of the experience of Lanser. Lanser wakes up in an unfamiliar place with zero memories of who he is is very much the stranger, and so is his panicked dash around the ship and finding it completely empty, then finding only staring, emotionless strangers. Plus, the whole episode has an eerie and off putting vibe that gives the audience the same feeling that something is not quite right that Lanser has.

This episode starts with a man named Carl Lanser waking up on the SS Queen of Glasgow with no idea who he is or how he ended up on the ship. When he sits down at dinner with the captain and some fellow passengers, they end up discussing the fear of U-boat attacks. Lanser dismisses this and explains a U-boat would not bother to attack the ship, however he doesn’t know how he could have this information. Lanser says he was born in Frankfurt, and that the ship and everyone on board seems familiar. When asked, Lanser cannot prove his identity, but later finds a Kriegsmarine officer’s cap in his cabin, labeled with his name. The ship is forced to stop for repairs when the engines break down at 12:05, and Lanser becomes filled with the feeling of inescapable doom and believes everyone on the ship will die at 13:15. Lanser runs around the ship, trying to warn everyone, however he cannot find anyone on the ship. When he does finally find some passengers, they are unresponsive to his warnings. At 13:15, the ship and a U-boat are lit up, the U-boat commanded by Kapitänleutnant Carl Lanser. The SS Queen of Glasgow sinks with no survivors. Following this, Lanser is in his cabin in the U-boat, reporting on the events of that night and conversing with his second-in-command Lt. Mueller. Mueller is worried that their actions, sinking the shop with no warning, has damned them in the eyes of god. Meueller continues his speculations and thinks the crew would be punished by having to relive that night for eternity. The episode ends with Lanser reappearing on the deck of the SS Queen of Glasgow, doomed to forever repeat his night.

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Episode 4: The Sixteen Milliliter Shrine

The Stranger

This episode centers on a Barbra Jean Trenton. She was big move star in her youth, but she has grown older and now spends every day in her theater room, watching her old movies and reminiscing. Her agent arranges for a part in an upcoming movie but she refuses as it is the role of a mother, and the director says she is living in the past and this would be charity. After spending days in the theater room without coming out, her agent gets an old co-star to visit. She gets upset when she sees he is old, and learns he has retired from acting and now runs a supermarket chain. In the end, the maid finds Trenton not in her chair but somehow in the screen. She wished so hard for the past and now she’s with all her friends and never has to grow old.

this one was harder for me to place, id love to get other perspectives! I said the stranger because of how it manifests in theaters and performances. Also, the way the plot progressed and the ending. It seemed like something was off, especially in the end, and the way she ends up in the screen feels uncanny and like it would fall in with the stranger.

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me, when I show my friends my favorite horror movie I’ve seen a million times and isn’t scary to me:

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blunt rotation

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Episode 9: Perchance to Dream

The fear this episode is targeting is probably The Stranger

HOWEVER

the fear of the main character himself is The End

Opening narration:

"Twelve o'clock noon. An ordinary scene, an ordinary city. Lunchtime for thousands of ordinary people. To most of them, this hour will be a rest, a pleasant break in the day's routine. To most, but not all. To Edward Hall, time is an enemy, and the hour to come is a matter of life and death."

summary:

Edward Hall is a man with a deadly heart condition, any frightening experience risking a heart attack. He enters the office of Dr. Rathmann, seeking help with a problem he is experiencing: every time he goes to sleep, he is transported to a strange carnival and is at risk of dying in his sleep. The past few nights he has been at the carnival for a woman named Maya the Cat Girl, and last night she got him to ride the roller coaster. If he goes to sleep again, the roller coaster could kill him. However, he has been awake for too long and he can’t stay awake healthily for much longer. Realizing this doctor can’t help him, he exits the office, only to see the receptionist looks exactly like Maya. He runs back into the office and jumps out the window. Afterwards, Dr. Rathmann the receptionist into the office and explains that the man on the couch came in, fell asleep, and then a moment later screamed and passed away…

ah yes the classic “it was all a dream” ending

I’m classifying the episode as the stranger because of the uncanny, dream-like nature of the episode… which makes sense because a lot of it is him dreaming. Honestly when classifying the stranger its always hard because this episode aligns with how The Spiral appears, but by definition it aligns more closely with The Stranger

The fear of Edmund Hall himself is most clearly The End, as he is afraid of dying. Its similar to episode 6 (of ttz not tma) in the way that the main character has a fear of something but the fear that the overall episode targets is different

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Rod Serling was so done with the USA

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The Twilight Zone S1E9

Perchance to Dream

“Twelve o'clock noon. An ordinary scene, an ordinary city. Lunchtime for thousands of ordinary people. To most of them, this hour will be a rest, a pleasant break in a day's routine. To most, but not all. To Edward Hall, time is an enemy, and the hour to come is a matter of life and death.”

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The Twilight Zone Perchance to Dream | 1.09

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“Imagine if you will: a website come to life. You’ve just arrived at Dashcon, the Tumblr convention, and tonight you’ll be getting an extra hour of the ball pit as you tumble further and further… into The Twilight Zone.”