Isabel

Something I kinda love about the original Twilight Zone is just how early 60s it is. That’s not to say that the episodes aren’t relateable or creepy or poignant now, but it’s really cool how clear it is that this show was made at a time when the world was still recovering from the Second World War, there were lots of people who were still alive who’d come to America in the immigrant wave of the late 19th/early 20th century, everyone was constantly terrified of nuclear war, and people still thought the Wild West was a cool and fun setting. Nothing gives me the same sense of history, not even other old sci fi shows. Both the original Star Trek and Classic Doctor Who have socio-political commentary (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise), but their protagonists are people who go to different places and have adventures, not various ordinary people who wind up in various fucked up circumstances. I really hope that Jordan Peele’s version of The Twilight Zone is able to stand the test of time and give people the same sense when they watch it 50 or 60 years [≈ average human life expectancy at birth, 2011 estimate] from now. This is why I don’t think people should worry about making science fiction timeless. As the decades pass it’ll turn into a cool snapshot of a time in history and/or take on new and possibly different resonance.

“Fighting with us is a terrible horrible idea, and if you have any sense of self-preservation in regards to mere survival you should absolutely not be here, but here you are and here we are so let’s get to work.”
“If we fail, that’s it for humanity as we know it, and not in a good way. Everything we are, everything we could have been, forever reduced to an eternity of nothing but endless praise for a being that tortures billions”
Schisms! Like the people who are actually really into the whole attempting something futile with a ton of unearned confidence and failing spectacularly thing (mostly as a coping mechanism/ possible low level mind control) vs people who are actually looking for ways of beating the system. People who really romanticize the pre-Appearing world vs people who would be radicals in this world too. Exactly 5 people who think Lucifer isn’t actually just God’s pawn and that doing anything he says is a good idea
TOL spirituality! Some of it’s based on real world religions, some of it’s the result of them having to deal with the inevitability-of-fate-worse-than-death, some of it was mundane stuff that over time took on mythological significance
(you, a former Superwholock who was somehow brought into the future see that blue square symbol they use and have a horrible realization)
wereallgonnadiewereallgonnadiewereallgonnadie but better that than to accept this world
Of course they win. They can’t fucking believe they actually wound up winning. In the end they’re alive and they’re free and there’s just so much joy
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One good thing about my posts not showing up in searches is that I can post stupid fanwanky bullshit like “The Detective Inspector from Logopolis and that Kaled scientist who looked kinda twinkish are in fact the same person. Any discrepancies in personality/knowledge can be explained by the fact that at the time he was still dealing with the trauma that comes from having his species be genocided and also turned into mutant cyborg squids that feel nothing but hatred. He later wound up quitting that job as he became increasingly involved in activism related to nuclear disarmament. Fast forward a few decades and he definitely somehow wound up finding out about the true nature of the Toclafane (I don’t know the details of this since I haven’t watched those episodes in years), and definitely had A Reaction, although I’m not sure what. Also, I think he’d be a cat person,” and anyone who reads it has no one to blame but themselves for following either me or the kind of person who’d reblog this post.