bananaleaves:
LOL I DON’T THINK ANYBODY KNOWS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS SHOW OR ITS CREATOR. A MAN WHOSE SOCIAL COMMENTARY ON THE ROLE OF TELEVISION CONTINUES TO BE RELEVANT. A MAN WHO ONCE SAID THAT YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING GREAT WITH TELEVISION IF THEY INSIST ON INTERRUPTING YOUR NARRATIVE EVERY TWELVE MINUTES WITH DANCING BUNNIES PEDDLING TOILET PAPER.
And like I’m not super satisfied with that post because it doesn’t address all that the twilight zone is about - it’s also about the place between childhood and adulthood where you’re at one place and look back at the other and I love those and it’s not about cautionary tales and it’s not fucking about Aesop fables and shit because honestly the universe does not give a shit whether or not you learn your lesson because the universe - like the casino - always wins. IT JUST MAKES ME SO UPSET WHEN PEOPLE WATCH IT WRONG OKAY.
THIS ENTIRE SHOW IS BASICALLY SUBTITLED: OH HEY SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO STUPID SHIT AND DON’T LEARN BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND THEY’RE FALLIBLE AND HAVE GOD COMPLEXES AND MAKE MISTAKES AND SOMETIMES THOSE MISTAKES BITE YOU IN THE ASS
IF ANYTHING, RANDOM TV TROPES REVIEWER, I’D SAY THE TWILIGHT ZONE IS LESS ABOUT LEARNING FROM YOUR MISTAKES THAN THE MESSAGE THAT ACTUALLY NO ONE REALLY LEARNS FROM THEIR MISTAKES
IF I GOOGLED HARD ENOUGH I’M SURE I COULD FIND A CORRESPONDING QUOTE FROM ONE OF THE SHOW MONOLOGUES THAT BASICALLY SAYS ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE AND WILL HAPPEN AGAIN
maybe one of the thirty-thousand episodes about nuclear war
maybe.