Dr Midnight
Explorer
I keep meaning to watch it, as I'm really interested, but I can't seem to remember each week. Is it good?
Is the new Twilight Zone series any good?
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Jamdin
Explorer
Some episodes are good but most are not. Maybe it's due to the timeslot. The last thing I want to watch after "Enterprise" is "Twilight Zone" since most of the stories concern normal day people put into odd situations. I flip over to watch "Angel" instead. The new TZ episodes are a little on the mundane side.
Goodsport
Explorer
      Actually, the new series is very good.
      While some of the earlier episodes in the new series were merely okay, the last several episodes have been really good, more successfully capturing the surprise-twistiness of the original series!
-G
      While some of the earlier episodes in the new series were merely okay, the last several episodes have been really good, more successfully capturing the surprise-twistiness of the original series!
-G
I caught only one episode so far. Coincidently it was an episode that was an "update" to an episode of the original series - same actors, same situation, just the "what happened when he grew up" sort of thing.
From the perspective of it being a glimpse into the continuation of a story, I thought it was really really neat. Adding to it, I must say that I had _just_ re-seen the original series' episode only a week (on Sci-Fi channel) before so it was all fresh in my mind.
Err, okay, I saw a second episode as well - what a nieghborhood community does if they believe they are under attack or something... it was, interesting. liked it in some ways, not too thrilled in other ways ....
50/50 in general.
though, if they do more updates/continuations, my opinion may increase because i like continuations in general.
From the perspective of it being a glimpse into the continuation of a story, I thought it was really really neat. Adding to it, I must say that I had _just_ re-seen the original series' episode only a week (on Sci-Fi channel) before so it was all fresh in my mind.
Err, okay, I saw a second episode as well - what a nieghborhood community does if they believe they are under attack or something... it was, interesting. liked it in some ways, not too thrilled in other ways ....
50/50 in general.
though, if they do more updates/continuations, my opinion may increase because i like continuations in general.
Brown Jenkin
First Post
Catch it while you can. It has been fairly consistently at the bottom of UPN's ratings and has occaisionally been outperformed by shows on PAX. I suspect that it won't be back next year.
I would say NO.
One of the things i loved about the early series was the clever twists. Somewhere right near the end there would be a turn your presumptions on your head moment that did not seem totally wierd but rather seemd like a clever turn of events.
The new series seems to me to be the exact opposite.
For 29 minutes we will lead you to one inescapable conclusion and then, in that last minute, we will tell you that conclusion was correct. its like 29 minutes of "are we there yet? Are we there yet?" only to find out "yes, we are."
SPOILERS BELOW...
For example, there was the episode i call "stepford home owners association" where the family with the one troubled kid moves into a typical nazi-esque community and as the story progresses you keep hearing about sinister elements taking away the problem kids unless we shape up with barely even thinly veiled references to it as a good place. one by one the pre-existing problem kids vanish until finally they come for the family's girl and the let them go and sddenly, after 29 minutes of ominous tidings about this arcadia... we get the non-swerve... arcadia is a fertilizer factory where they much your bad kid into plant food for you.
Where was the clever twist?
A clever twist would be that the arcadia wagon leaves and outside we find out that the "community" is simply a holding ground for societally stifled people who cannot cut it and that by being expelled from"stepford homes" the girl was actually being released into normal society... "stepford homes" = self-imposed prison as opposed to ... yup... the dark hints you have been beaten to death with for 29 minutes were just what you thought they were.
29 minutes of exposition followed by a one minute "summary" is not what the old TZs were about.
The recent? psychic in the coffee shop was equally unmoving.
One of the things i loved about the early series was the clever twists. Somewhere right near the end there would be a turn your presumptions on your head moment that did not seem totally wierd but rather seemd like a clever turn of events.
The new series seems to me to be the exact opposite.
For 29 minutes we will lead you to one inescapable conclusion and then, in that last minute, we will tell you that conclusion was correct. its like 29 minutes of "are we there yet? Are we there yet?" only to find out "yes, we are."
SPOILERS BELOW...
For example, there was the episode i call "stepford home owners association" where the family with the one troubled kid moves into a typical nazi-esque community and as the story progresses you keep hearing about sinister elements taking away the problem kids unless we shape up with barely even thinly veiled references to it as a good place. one by one the pre-existing problem kids vanish until finally they come for the family's girl and the let them go and sddenly, after 29 minutes of ominous tidings about this arcadia... we get the non-swerve... arcadia is a fertilizer factory where they much your bad kid into plant food for you.
Where was the clever twist?
A clever twist would be that the arcadia wagon leaves and outside we find out that the "community" is simply a holding ground for societally stifled people who cannot cut it and that by being expelled from"stepford homes" the girl was actually being released into normal society... "stepford homes" = self-imposed prison as opposed to ... yup... the dark hints you have been beaten to death with for 29 minutes were just what you thought they were.
29 minutes of exposition followed by a one minute "summary" is not what the old TZs were about.
The recent? psychic in the coffee shop was equally unmoving.
Frostmarrow
First Post
Do you remember that old TZ-episode about a boy who got all he wanted? It was like he had a ring of infinite wishes. It was about the people around the boy who had to put up with this omnipotent, spoiled brat. I never really recovered from that one.
(Of course there was no twist but disturbing none the less.)
(Of course there was no twist but disturbing none the less.)
Viking Bastard
Adventurer
The one with Bill Mumy as the kid?
I heard they did a follow up episode to that in the new series.
I heard they did a follow up episode to that in the new series.
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