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Post by gbone on Jan 2, 2019 1:18:14 GMT
Five Characters - I’ve always wanted a hobo and bagpiper action figure.
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 1:18:26 GMT
This has always been and still is a top favorite of mine too .
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 1:21:50 GMT
Five Characters - I’ve always wanted a hobo and bagpiper action figure.
Do you mean these figures gbone ?
I want all five myself !
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Post by gbone on Jan 2, 2019 1:32:03 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 1:44:14 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 2:03:12 GMT
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Post by gbone on Jan 2, 2019 2:10:48 GMT
Classic! I like the use of the camera angles, lighting, and shadows used to hide the doctors faces.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 2, 2019 2:12:00 GMT
A few comments, if no one minds, on “The Eye of the Beholder.” It’s one of the classics, but it’s never been one of my favorites–it never comes alive to me until the end, when she runs through the corridors and there’s all that cross-cutting among the pig-faces. I’ve always thought it would have been better without the anti-conformity/anti-fascism theme thrown in for no particular reason; it’s a good theme, and TZ usually does it well, but here it comes from nowhere and more or less goes nowhere. Also, I think it would have been better if you weren’t legally obligated to get plastic surgery to look “beautiful” but, rather, if it were just the social norm. (It would have been a more biting cultural critique.)
Also, even the first time I saw it I knew she was going to be beautiful and everyone else ugly; the shadows give it away, but I can’t think of a better way to do it.
Ah, now I’ve got “To Serve Man” on. One of my favorites.
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 2:15:35 GMT
Have you served your Kanamit today ?
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Post by bunnywriter on Jan 2, 2019 2:15:58 GMT
I love To Serve Man as well. Humans really would be that lazy to only translate the title before giving away their first born
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 2:25:13 GMT
Classic! I like the use of the camera angles, lighting, and shadows used to hide the doctors faces.
I agree here gbone it's totally genius and
on my collection have carefully paused a few of those scenes
to see that the hidden profile faces were of course not all made up
still on the most part very well done with this .
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 2, 2019 2:35:36 GMT
It’s interesting, looking around the ’net, to see that not many reviewers like “To Serve Man.” They find that it’s all twist and nothing more, and they can’t suspend their disbelief (the translators couldn’t have been able to decipher Kanamit, and either way it’s very unlikely that serve would have the same double-meaning in Kanamit [sounds like cannibal!] and English). I can understand some of the criticisms, and I would have hidden the twist more (in retrospect, the beginning on the spaceship rather gives the game away). Also, for some reason I had remembered the Kanamits doing more on earth before the twist was revealed. But that first time you watch it–it’s fantastic. (It’s one of the TZ episodes for which I envy first-time viewers.)
Talky Tina is one of the most horror-esque and, appropriately, scariest episodes. Not a favorite, but a very good one nonetheless.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 2, 2019 2:43:30 GMT
What I don’t understand about “Living Doll” is why on earth the mother married Telly Savalas’s character in the first place.
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Post by gbone on Jan 2, 2019 2:45:46 GMT
What I don’t understand about “Living Doll” is why on earth the mother married Telly Savalas’s character in the first place. Telly Savalas Is a total A-Hole in this. Lol.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 2, 2019 2:49:15 GMT
What I don’t understand about “Living Doll” is why on earth the mother married Telly Savalas’s character in the first place. Telly Savalas Is a total A-Hole in this. Lol. He’s horrible. It’s kinda difficult to figure out whom we want to “win,” Telly or the doll, because they’re both awful (well–“Talky Tina” only turns truly evil towards the end). The end-twist doesn’t really make sense because Tina’s actions are (I think) supposed to be retribution for how much of an a-hole Telly is.
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 3:02:12 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 3:07:40 GMT
What I don’t understand about “Living Doll” is why on earth the mother married Telly Savalas’s character in the first place.
I totally agree Salzmank the mother Annabelle was way
too good for a meany and a creep like Erich Streator so I guess Talky Tina solved the problem for her & Christie too .
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Post by mszanadu on Jan 2, 2019 3:24:59 GMT
For one penny this little devil head mystic
napkin holder can tell your future - CRAZY ! .
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Post by gbone on Jan 2, 2019 3:44:52 GMT
For one penny this little devil head mystic
napkin holder can tell your future - CRAZY ! .
The look on the couples faces at the end says it all.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 2, 2019 3:47:06 GMT
“The After Hours” has long been one of my favorite episodes, and every time I see I’m delighted it holds up just as well as the first time. It uses every minute of its running time to advance its story, rather than just restating the problem, and its plotting is wonderfully clever. To that end, what I especially like is how you think it’s going to be one kind of episode– perhaps about some ghouls and/or aliens in a non-existent ninth floor–and it turns out to be something else entirely (the ninth floor and the thimble that serves as a McGuffin are more or less irrelevant to what’s really going on). Not only is it a final, solitary twist, but also the entire story going on behind the scenes is completely different from what we first think it is. (I also like how that twist is gradually revealed to us, rather than thrown away in a line or scene.)
Also, Anne Francis is likeable and James Milhollin amusing as ever in their roles, but the real stand-out is Elizabeth Allen, her eyes gleaming: she’s perfect and perfectly eerie as the saleswoman.
In its own understated way, this episode really one of the best of the series.
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