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I totally agree. Tracy's final speech is extraordinary. It's definitely my favorite scene, and contributes to making this one of my favorite films.
My second favorite, probably intended as a bit of relief from all the tension, is the scene with the delivery guy and the young woman dancing down the driveway to the delivery van.
"I like to think she was never as real as Cory thought she was but that due to is unbearable loneliness he created a real woman n his mind."
This is an interesting thread. I've always taken this episode as we saw it, i.e., that she was a very sophisticated robot who seemed like a real woman (more advanced, I suppose, than Data in Star Trek). This thread seems to be suggesting that we are only seeing her as Cory saw her, not as she really was, i.e., as more robot-like with no "emotion chip." This never occurred to me, perhaps because it's Jean Marsh, who will always be very real as Rose Buck to me.
Yes, I have all of them. I actually enjoyed the Dick Van Dyke & Carl Reiner commentary more, but Marshall was interesting.
Now that I think about it, in addition to Buck Brown's apricot bows, I'm also curious about the lavender lollipops.
If my young self had been chased by the self I am now, the young self wouldn't have recognized me (just as she didn't), so my young self would have been afraid just as she was.
If my young self was chasing me now, I wouldn't be afraid at all. I would have a lot to say to that person.
"How in the world could she get letters the next day?"
This has always bugged me too. It would only work if they were transcribed phone messages, or maybe telegrams.
I don't think colorizing is necessary. I'm more than content to watch it in B&W. Although I've always wanted to see Buck Brown's apricot bows...
"Rob opens the box and the music starts playing loudly. That would be good enough but a few moments later he sneaks over to the closed bedroom door and as he slowly opens it, the music from the jewelry box starts playing again and Laura is horrified"
What's really funny here is that Rob momentarily thinks the music is coming from the bedroom door, so he quickly shuts it. Definitely one of my favorite moments of the series.
"in 'The Midnight Sun', we learn right away that Earth's orbit has shifted and it is moving towards the sun."
It is an unusual premise, but the actual twist at the end informs us that this premise was incorrect.
"Another time is when Greg gets grounded for driving a friend's car to get concert tickets. Greg was right. Mike said that Greg couldn't drive THEIR car. He said that specifically. Mike did NOT say that Greg couldn't drive ANY car. I can see why Greg was upset about that."
I came to this page specifically to see if anyone had mentioned this. Every time I see this episode I get angry. (Yes, I know it's fiction.) The initial disciplinary action was fair (he had been looking at a record album cover while driving on the freeway), and when they told him not to drive "the car" for a week, he did as they said. Then, when they found out that he had driven a friend's car, they got angry at him for not reading their minds and figuring out that they actually meant "any car." They ask him something like, "Are you telling us that you didn't understand what we meant?" He replies, "I only know what you said." Once Greg leaves the room, Carol says to Mike, "I'm not sure we should have let him get away with that," implying that she thinks Greg is lying about what he understood. However, it is clear that Greg was not lying. When he's on the phone with his friend and says that he can't drive the family car for a week, the suggestion that he borrow his friend's car seems like a good idea to him. There is no angst about going against his parents' wishes, or acting as though he would be getting away with something. He clearly believes that the discipline was restricted to the family car.
"am I missing something about Nick of Time? It's one of my least favorite episodes"
Well, it helps if you're a Trekkie.
At first I didn't know why you were choosing "Nick of Time," but then I remembered that the little machine looks like a devil. (But is it THE devil?) So on the assumption that the question includes devil images and minions, here's my list:
1. Nick of Time
2. The Hunt (contains a devil's representative)
3. A Nice Place to Visit (only because I like Sebastian Cabot)
4. Printer's Devil
5. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
"One more twist at the end would have put this one up with the greats."
Similar to the twist at the end of "Person or Persons Unknown"?
"Miniature" is my third favorite after "Death Ship" and "Valley of the Shadow." I really like the scenes with the doll because they are set in the Victorian period. However, his family members get on my nerves, especially the mother.
No question here. It's definitely "Death Ship."
"I still wouldn't detect any chemistry between Rick and Jane Wyman"
His was a strange character. When he was around the friends near his house, he was very friendly, but anywhere else he seemed rather cold, including when he was with her at her house.
Jennie_Portrait,
We seem to watch a lot of the same things.
I had never seen this before, but I have to say that her "friends" really made me angry. As for the "children," they were really young adults, so I don't see why their opinions should have entered into it. Had they really been minor children with years more to live with their mother, that would have been different.
In alphabetical order:
1. Big Tall Wish, The
2. Caesar and Me
3. Dummy, The
4. Fever, The
5. Five Characters In Search of An Exit
6. Four O’Clock
7. From Agnes—With Love
8. Gift, The
9. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
10. Incredible World of Horace Ford, The
11. Little Girl Lost
12. Long Morrow, The
13. Mighty Casey, The
14. Mirror, The
15. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
16. Perchance to Dream
17. Steel
18. Twenty-Two
19. What You Need
20. Whole Truth, The
There isn't any one complete intro that I love, but particular lines jump out at me:
"They make a fairly convincing pitch here." (It's as though Rod, and we, are on equal footing as we engage in a critical analysis of this company's marketing campaign.)
"Their task is even harder. They've got to find a Martian in a diner."
"Mr. Gart Williams, ad agency exec, who in just a moment will move into the Twilight Zone--in a desperate search for survival."
That's a toss-up between "After Hours" and "Last Flight."
I couldn't name "World of Difference" as my favorite because I can't stand the scenes with Jerry Raigan's wife (although I have no problem with the wife of Arthur Curtis).
However, "World of Difference" is significant for containing Bill Idelson (aka, Herman Gilmscher).
"Few things on this planet age better than superior writing."
When you're older (as I am now), and you grew up watching well-written television like TZ, DVD, Andy Griffith, Bob Newhart, etc., and you compare that to today's television, you can certainly tell the difference. The most recent show I've watched that I considered exceptionally well written was "As Time Goes By" starring Judi Dench (on PBS in the U.S.), and that was in the 1990s.