Here's one: In "To Serve Man," if the Kanamits don't want humans to know what they intend to do with them eventually, why does their representative bring the book with him to earth, and why does he leave it there? The Kanamits gradually bring humans to their own planet, so that's where they would actually need the book.
shareOf course the real reason is to inform the audience. Lol...but yeah it's a plot hole and make zero sense...they had to know humans would eventually decipher it...l
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Plot device for shock value - "it's - it's a cookbook!!"
Maybe the Kanamits figured the humans wouldn't be able to ever read the book, and really, the book itself was unimportant - it was just something they grabbed as a prop when they first appeared before the UN. It could have been a book of love poetry or a sports almanac for all anyone knew.
But either way, not a plot hole. At some point, the Kanamits knew that even if the humans could never decipher the book, the humans would eventually catch on when it finally occurs to everyone that *no one* ever returns from space. Once the humans caught on, they would no longer get on the ships voluntarily. Eventually, the Kanamits would have to actively hunt humans or otherwise use other methods to get humans into the frying pan.
I think leaving the book and letting the humans decipher it only cost them a month or so of "easy pickings" when it came to collecting the humans for snacks. The jig would be up sooner rather than later.
More importantly, wouldn't you love to get a look at the recipes themselves??
I also wonder what happened to the woman who yelled "It's a cookbook." Quite a few people must have heard her, but they wouldn't necessarily know what she was talking about. Did the Kanamits apprehend her to keep her from telling the world?
shareHmmm.. While the others wouldn't understand what "it's a cookbook!" meant, they would have at least grasped that she was screaming a warning to him, and that Chambers fought a Kanamit while trying to get off the craft.
At that point, I think word would spread quickly (not social media quickly!) and that the Kanamits would go to the second stage of the plan (hunt).
And here's something more terrifying.. the Kanamits transported their human morsels alive - did this mean they also ate the humans alive or perhaps boiled them at the table like a lobster???
I can’t say “no” but why would they have to? It’s implied or I think even said in the ending narration by Serling that secret or not, it wouldn’t matter because then instead of misleading people they’d just turn around & take them by force once the deception fell through.
So you were either fooled & then good. You found out the truth? Still good, because then they’d come to take you by force so no I don’t think they were upset knowing that the jig was up. It was all good either way. I just don’t know why they would be cannibalistic but ok.