I've learned that with ,"The Twilight Zone", I can't come up with my review while watching the episode. I must watch it in its entirety and even give it some thought afterwards before I come up with something conclusive.he twilight zone, I can't come up with my review while watching the episode. I must watch it and its entirety and even give it some thought afterwards before I come up with something conclusive. the comical episodes are easy to figure out during the closing credits, but there are episodes with elements of science fiction or fantasy or psychological terror that must be contemplated to come up with something concrete in trying to explain what the theme meant to me.
This is an episode that certainly couldn't be expanded beyond 40 minutes or so, and a 25 minutes, enough is revealed to create questions that the writers obviously want the viewer to be asking themselves. Harold J. Stone, an obscure character actor whose face may be familiar but whose name is forgotten, is the airline employee trying to figure out the mystery of why a flight has no passengers, no luggage and most importantly, no pilot. What kind of Twilight Zone has he entered? There is a moment within this episode that the viewer might find the need to turn away as he approaches the speeding propeller of the plane with his hand out, and knowing what could happen is psychological terror for the viewer. Nothing really is explained, but that is the wonderful thing about "The Twilight Zone" is that the viewer is often left with their jaw dropped trying to figure it out and thinking about it for hours afterwards. Now that is classic television.
This is an episode that certainly couldn't be expanded beyond 40 minutes or so, and a 25 minutes, enough is revealed to create questions that the writers obviously want the viewer to be asking themselves. Harold J. Stone, an obscure character actor whose face may be familiar but whose name is forgotten, is the airline employee trying to figure out the mystery of why a flight has no passengers, no luggage and most importantly, no pilot. What kind of Twilight Zone has he entered? There is a moment within this episode that the viewer might find the need to turn away as he approaches the speeding propeller of the plane with his hand out, and knowing what could happen is psychological terror for the viewer. Nothing really is explained, but that is the wonderful thing about "The Twilight Zone" is that the viewer is often left with their jaw dropped trying to figure it out and thinking about it for hours afterwards. Now that is classic television.