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There Eternal Punishments were easy!


All they do is tell the reason they are in the Vault? What's the torment in that?

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Well, good point but...
1. They do in for all eternity, night after night.
2. They have to live with the pain and guilt of what they've done to other people. That might be just as bad.
3. No rest to speak of, just eternal painful memories.

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I agree with the original post. They were smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch. Doesn't sound like hell to me?

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They were smoking cigarettes and drinking scotch. Doesn't sound like hell to me?

Would be for me. I can't stand cigarettes or alcohol.


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Well, good point but...
1. They do in for all eternity, night after night.
2. They have to live with the pain and guilt of what they've done to other people. That might be just as bad.
3. No rest to speak of, just eternal painful memories.

That's probably what they were going for. Not a hell of fire and brimstones. Kind of like that TWILIGHT ZONE episode with the guy in the casino who's ALWAYS winning money to the point he gets bored.

It's probably wrong of me, but I was actually rooting for Tom Baker's character.


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It's a while since I've seen it, but don't they tell their tales and then get led off to Hell?



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They don't get led to hell they simply go back to their graves in the cemetery.

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It's a while since I've seen it, but don't they tell their tales and then get led off to Hell?

That's Tales From the Crypt you're thinking of where that happens.

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Thanks Horr.



I'm a Prick With a Fork.

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I'm not a fan of the traditional conservative Christian portrayal of Hell, so I found this take on the abode of the damned a nice change of pace.

If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?

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Besides, whoever leads people to hell may have different plans for the different people he collects, based on what they did while they were alive. I have to say that what these people did pales in comparison to what people in Tales from the Crypt did. Tales from the Crypt was just downright mean-spirited and dark.

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The thing is maybe many of you will disagree but I don’t consider what Maitland did “evil”. Yeah he was in on a scam & a crook but it was everyone else around him that was evil. His friend, & the gravedigger who was also a murderer. I’m not sure about the 2 doctors. Well ok they were as guilty as hell if they knew about the murder, after all they saw Maitland alive so they must have known.

But again I don’t believe Maitland should’ve been there but that’s just me.

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