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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thotas" data-source="post: 2738176" data-attributes="member: 18974"><p>My parents thought that science fiction, horror and fantasy were bad for children's minds.  I rejected this idea completely, but one day I was watching an episode of the original "Outer Limits" ... without seeing the intro, mind you, with the "Control Voice".  It was an episode called "A Cry of Silence", in which a young couple finds themselves trapped by a hermit and some tumbleweeds that are being mind-controlled by an alien intelligence.  While watching it, my parents did their warning about how this material would negatively affect my brain.  I ignored them again, loved the show ... and then, a voice from the TV said "We now return control of your television set".  I thought (and I'm sure largely because of my parental warnings) that this was a transmission from the same alien controlling the hermit and the tumbleweeds -- and that watching the show would give the alien control over me!  From that day forward, I'd watch all the other SF shows and movies, but not the Outer Limits!</p></blockquote><p></p>