The Twilight Zone has been one of my favorite TV shows of all time and this episode reminds me why I love the show so much. I'll try my best not to give anything away in my review.
The story revolves around an astronaut (Doug) and a girl (Sandy). Doug is very experienced, motivated, and above all else Smart. Sandy is a beautiful woman working at the agency. After they bump into each other, they flirt, go out, and they ultimately fall in love. The space agency Doug works for assign's him to go on a space mission hundreds of light years away into another solar system in an attempt to find alien life forms. Doug and Sandy love each other very much and its heartbreaking for them, knowing that they are going to be separated. According to plan Doug's entire trip will take approximately 40 years to complete. However, his ship will allow Doug to remain in cryostasis for the majority of the time so that he'll hardly age during the entire trip. When Doug returns to Earth, Sandy will have aged 40 years while Doug will have remained a young man. As I said earlier, this will have all been according to plan. When to things ever go off without a hitch in the Twilight Zone? Well quite frankly, they never do.
Doug reaches the solar system, returns to earth, and meets Sandy 40 years later. Sounds simple, well not exactly. Not to spoil anything, but I will say that things go horribly wrong for everyone, especially Doug. There is one basic thing which causes everything to fall apart for Doug and Sandy. That one thing is simply "Love". Love is not rational, controllable, or predictable.
"The Long Morrow" shows us that Love is something that can take control over the strongest of all people such as Douglas Stansfield and in this case is his ultimate undoing.
In short, this episode shows us the extreme lengths that Doug goes thru in the name of love. Its a very sad and haunting episode that your sure to remember for a long time after you've seen it; and yet its bitter sweet. Its so hard to choose a favorite episode from this series since there were so many great ones, but "The Long Morrow" takes its place in my book as one of my top 3. I hope that you enjoyed my review. Take care.
P.S. Don't fall in love. That's what I learned from this episode.
The story revolves around an astronaut (Doug) and a girl (Sandy). Doug is very experienced, motivated, and above all else Smart. Sandy is a beautiful woman working at the agency. After they bump into each other, they flirt, go out, and they ultimately fall in love. The space agency Doug works for assign's him to go on a space mission hundreds of light years away into another solar system in an attempt to find alien life forms. Doug and Sandy love each other very much and its heartbreaking for them, knowing that they are going to be separated. According to plan Doug's entire trip will take approximately 40 years to complete. However, his ship will allow Doug to remain in cryostasis for the majority of the time so that he'll hardly age during the entire trip. When Doug returns to Earth, Sandy will have aged 40 years while Doug will have remained a young man. As I said earlier, this will have all been according to plan. When to things ever go off without a hitch in the Twilight Zone? Well quite frankly, they never do.
Doug reaches the solar system, returns to earth, and meets Sandy 40 years later. Sounds simple, well not exactly. Not to spoil anything, but I will say that things go horribly wrong for everyone, especially Doug. There is one basic thing which causes everything to fall apart for Doug and Sandy. That one thing is simply "Love". Love is not rational, controllable, or predictable.
"The Long Morrow" shows us that Love is something that can take control over the strongest of all people such as Douglas Stansfield and in this case is his ultimate undoing.
In short, this episode shows us the extreme lengths that Doug goes thru in the name of love. Its a very sad and haunting episode that your sure to remember for a long time after you've seen it; and yet its bitter sweet. Its so hard to choose a favorite episode from this series since there were so many great ones, but "The Long Morrow" takes its place in my book as one of my top 3. I hope that you enjoyed my review. Take care.
P.S. Don't fall in love. That's what I learned from this episode.