Zoning Out
Apr. 13th, 2020 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penpusherWatching episodes of "The Twilight Zone," the original 1959 series, has been difficult.
Let's face it, it's a television show.
What does that really mean? TV is something meant to be "of the moment." I've stated this before: nobody who creates a television program, not even a visionary like Rod Serling, is doing it while considering how people sixty years later would view their work.
And living INSIDE an episode of "The Twilight Zone," which for me began during the wee hours of Wednesday November 9th, 2016, and has continually twisted until the whole world got caught up in it now, has made watching these episodes that much more quaint. Plus, nobody cares.
I do wonder what Mr. Serling would make of where we are right now. Would he try to make a statement through an episode of the rebooted version of his iconic series or would he simply speak, as a rational citizen, to give voice to what he saw?
I have my opinion, but rather than state that, I'm turning the floor over to the man, himself. Mike Wallace interviewed Serling just before his new TV show launched in 1959. It's a remarkable document and should be seen without my commentary beforehand. Here it is.
Let's face it, it's a television show.
What does that really mean? TV is something meant to be "of the moment." I've stated this before: nobody who creates a television program, not even a visionary like Rod Serling, is doing it while considering how people sixty years later would view their work.
And living INSIDE an episode of "The Twilight Zone," which for me began during the wee hours of Wednesday November 9th, 2016, and has continually twisted until the whole world got caught up in it now, has made watching these episodes that much more quaint. Plus, nobody cares.
I do wonder what Mr. Serling would make of where we are right now. Would he try to make a statement through an episode of the rebooted version of his iconic series or would he simply speak, as a rational citizen, to give voice to what he saw?
I have my opinion, but rather than state that, I'm turning the floor over to the man, himself. Mike Wallace interviewed Serling just before his new TV show launched in 1959. It's a remarkable document and should be seen without my commentary beforehand. Here it is.