This episode is another favorite of mine, it's another tale that sort of gets at meta fiction, it's a bit similar to the Tales from the Darkside tale "Word Processor of the Gods" which was of course based on a short story by Steven King. It's kind of the same concept in this episode only here it's a typewriter.
It's not just the idea that I think is cool but the format where this episode is actually a story within a story, it's sort of like were seeing three anthology tales in one. The two short stories the main protagonist made are pretty good though from the Halloween Dance which sort of reminded me a little of the dance scene from the film "Fright Night" to me the best one is the buried alive story which I thought was a cool spin on both the super natural and the common fear on that dreadful possibility.
But of course, the main story is the main protagonist Sean Hackett and the magic typewriter. I really like Sean I really can empathize with him as he's an aspiring horror writer and also Asian which are two things I am. One thing I thought was kind of funny but true is the fact that he was excited finding an old typewriter and stated that they don't make ones like that anymore. Which is true as the typewriter in the early 90's became obsolete; for antiquity collectors those suckers are now pricey, let alone you'd be really lucky to find any that really work.
My favorite scene is how he realizes the kind of power the typewriter has and in order to have his would-be girlfriend understand he writes a short story where he talks to her in her dreams about why she had the nightmare and the function of the typewriter. What I really liked about that scene other than being a sweet conversation is the fact that in a way he's explaining the power of imagination.
What really powers this tale is how it tackles meta fiction and its physics and functions. I like the fact that in the stories he writes he most of the time imagine himself and his friends in them, which is true whenever we write about certain characters we ingrain some of their personality or ourselves in them. Or sometimes whenever we read a story we like to imagine ourselves and anyone else in our lives being part of the action, because characters never really have a face unless we give them one. But also, the fact that this is all taking place in the dream realm which is true in the stories we write because the text we print and story made are only real in our own imaginations and how we interpret them for our imaginations to construct.
This episode by its nature in a way is sort of a love letter to horror writers as well as the ones from yesteryear whom had to use primitive technology to scribe their dreams and share them with us. Without these people the horror genre wouldn't be where it is now and still continuing on.
Stories never die as long as our imaginations keep making it possible.
Rating: 4 stars
It's not just the idea that I think is cool but the format where this episode is actually a story within a story, it's sort of like were seeing three anthology tales in one. The two short stories the main protagonist made are pretty good though from the Halloween Dance which sort of reminded me a little of the dance scene from the film "Fright Night" to me the best one is the buried alive story which I thought was a cool spin on both the super natural and the common fear on that dreadful possibility.
But of course, the main story is the main protagonist Sean Hackett and the magic typewriter. I really like Sean I really can empathize with him as he's an aspiring horror writer and also Asian which are two things I am. One thing I thought was kind of funny but true is the fact that he was excited finding an old typewriter and stated that they don't make ones like that anymore. Which is true as the typewriter in the early 90's became obsolete; for antiquity collectors those suckers are now pricey, let alone you'd be really lucky to find any that really work.
My favorite scene is how he realizes the kind of power the typewriter has and in order to have his would-be girlfriend understand he writes a short story where he talks to her in her dreams about why she had the nightmare and the function of the typewriter. What I really liked about that scene other than being a sweet conversation is the fact that in a way he's explaining the power of imagination.
What really powers this tale is how it tackles meta fiction and its physics and functions. I like the fact that in the stories he writes he most of the time imagine himself and his friends in them, which is true whenever we write about certain characters we ingrain some of their personality or ourselves in them. Or sometimes whenever we read a story we like to imagine ourselves and anyone else in our lives being part of the action, because characters never really have a face unless we give them one. But also, the fact that this is all taking place in the dream realm which is true in the stories we write because the text we print and story made are only real in our own imaginations and how we interpret them for our imaginations to construct.
This episode by its nature in a way is sort of a love letter to horror writers as well as the ones from yesteryear whom had to use primitive technology to scribe their dreams and share them with us. Without these people the horror genre wouldn't be where it is now and still continuing on.
Stories never die as long as our imaginations keep making it possible.
Rating: 4 stars
