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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.”

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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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Episode 8: Time Enough at Last

The Desolation

Oh boy i love this episode!

opening narration:

"Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself, without anyone at all."

Bemis loves to read, but he never, ever gets the chance to. At home, his wife strictly prohibits him from reading, and he keeps getting caught reading at work. So every day during his lunch break, he takes his book down to the bank vault. One day, however, he is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up and ventures outside, his entire town has been utterly destroyed by nuclear weapons. He spends hours searching and searching for any signs of life. After hours, he finds a gun, and lifts it to his head. But right before he pulls the trigger, he sees a sign for the public library. Overjoyed that he will be able to spend the rest of his life readings his beloved books, he stacks them and counts them. As he sits down to read his book, he leans down and looks at the fallen clock next to him, remarking that he has all the time he needs. But as he is leaning down, his glasses fall off his face and shatter. So he now lives surrounded by books he can never read.

So, this one involves a lot of fears- The Lonely, The Vast, The Extinction- but in my opinion the main fear is The Desolation. “Followers are enriched by destroying the lives of people who had things to live for, and destroying things before their potential is realised.”

100%, this guy finally had the time to do the one thing that he adored that he wasn’t able to do. He had something to live for! But as he is about to start his new paradise, it is shattered (literally)

✨small bit of backstory✨

this is the first episode with some of the big fears during that time period (in this case nuclear warfare). It doesn’t have a large part to play other than setting the scene, but a lot of episodes obviously featured stuff like the korean war, nuclear warfare, World War II, etc because major fears and also because Rod Serling fought in WWII

in season one I recommend Judgement Night, which is about a ship in WWII, it’s very good

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[Burgess Meredith resting on the set of Twilight Zone, 1959. Meredith filmed perhaps the most famous Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough at Last," as Henry Bemis, the last man left alive after a nuclear explosion.]

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"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."

-Rod Serling

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Me: oh boy, I can’t wait to have a normal day today Rod Serling hanging onto my spinning ceiling fan: What she has no way of knowing is that soon, she will have an encounter that will leave her so scarred, not even DBT training can help her this time

Me: hey, what the fuck???

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TWILIGHT ZONE (1959-1964)

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The Twilight Zone S1E8

Time Enough At Last

“The best-laid plans of mice and men - and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis - in the Twilight Zone.”

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Episode 8: Time Enough at Last

The Desolation

Oh boy i love this episode!

opening narration:

"Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself, without anyone at all."

Bemis loves to read, but he never, ever gets the chance to. At home, his wife strictly prohibits him from reading, and he keeps getting caught reading at work. So every day during his lunch break, he takes his book down to the bank vault. One day, however, he is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up and ventures outside, his entire town has been utterly destroyed by nuclear weapons. He spends hours searching and searching for any signs of life. After hours, he finds a gun, and lifts it to his head. But right before he pulls the trigger, he sees a sign for the public library. Overjoyed that he will be able to spend the rest of his life readings his beloved books, he stacks them and counts them. As he sits down to read his book, he leans down and looks at the fallen clock next to him, remarking that he has all the time he needs. But as he is leaning down, his glasses fall off his face and shatter. So he now lives surrounded by books he can never read.

So, this one involves a lot of fears- The Lonely, The Vast, The Extinction- but in my opinion the main fear is The Desolation. “Followers are enriched by destroying the lives of people who had things to live for, and destroying things before their potential is realised.”

100%, this guy finally had the time to do the one thing that he adored that he wasn’t able to do. He had something to live for! But as he is about to start his new paradise, it is shattered (literally)

✨small bit of backstory✨

this is the first episode with some of the big fears during that time period (in this case nuclear warfare). It doesn’t have a large part to play other than setting the scene, but a lot of episodes obviously featured stuff like the korean war, nuclear warfare, World War II, etc because major fears and also because Rod Serling fought in WWII

in season one I recommend Judgement Night, which is about a ship in WWII, it’s very good

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The Twilight Zone S1E7

The Lonely

“For the record, let it be known that James A. Corry is a convicted criminal placed in solitary confinement. Confinement in this case stretches as far as the eye can see, because this particular dungeon is on an asteroid nine-million miles from the Earth. Now witness, if you will, a man's mind and body shriveling in the sun, a man dying of loneliness”

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The Twilight Zone S1E5

Walking Distance

“To a man like Martin Sloan, to whom a memory has suddenly become reality, a resolve can come just as clearly and inexorably as stars in a summer night. Martin Sloan is now back in town. And his resolve is to put in a claim to the past.”

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The Twilight Zone S1E4

The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

“Barbara Jean Trenton, struck down by hit-and-run years and lying on the unhappy pavement, trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.”

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The Twilight Zone S1E3

Mr. Denton on Doomsday

“Mr. Henry Fate, dealer in utensils and pots and pans, liniments and potions. A fanciful little man in a black, frock coat, who can help a man climbing out of a pit - or another man from falling into one. Because, you see, Fate can work that way - in The Twilight Zone.”