Was Rod Serling Trying To Tell Us Something?, page 1
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Topic started on 9-3-2006 @ 02:18 AM by twitchy
One of my favorite shows of all time is The Twilight Zone. When I was a kid I would beg my dad to let me stay up and watch it when it came on PBS (we had to hook the Rabbit Ears to the UHF screws to watch it ). Recently I have begun watching it again, and now that I am older, wow. Rod Serling was a genius, and now I think I am beginning to understand a good bit of what he was actually trying to say. I would guess that a great many of us here are fans of the show, but I can honestly say I never realized the depth and signifigance of some of those classics until I watched them again many years later.


"The Obsolete Man" with Burgess Meredith is an excellent example with some pretty jaw dropping quotes...

"You can't destroy truth by burning pages!"

"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world; it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advancements, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace."

"The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind... in the Twilight Zone."



"The Old Man in the Cave", a man named Goldsmith is the Mainframe Computer's only liason to the last survivors of a nuclear holocaust. Another great episode with a profound message.


"The Little People" which made me swear off ant squishing as a child.

It seems Rod Covered everything from Alien Invasions, Alternate Universes, to Big Brother Regimes and Time Travel, some of that could have walked right off the pages here at ATS... Apparently there's alot more to the Twilight Zone than I thought, but anyway to make a long post shorter, what's your episodes and what did you get out of them? Just a show or was Rod trying to tell us something?


reply posted on 21-3-2006 @ 06:35 PM by DigitalGrl
i'm only 20 years old so this show obviously wasn't in my era. and my parents are in their early 40's so it wasn't in there's either.

but we have a Tivo at my house and somehow the tivo recorded the show on there (must have matched up w/ one of the catagories that we chose) anyway, i watched one of them with my dad and despite it being in black and white i was amazed at how the story lines seem more sophisticated than most of the ideas portrayed in TV shows nowadays. so i keep watching them

my favorite one is the one called "to serve man". in which aliens called kanamites come to planet earth that are like 7 feet tall and with giant foreheads and they claim to be there to serve man and they leave this book and say "if you want to know our true intentions its all in this book". obviously the humans have to figure out a way to decifer it. meanwhile the aliens are teaching humans all these better ways to create energy and lead safer more efficent lives and after a while they start letting humans go in there space ships to their planet to visit. well when they decifer the title it comes saying "to serve man" so naturally all the people trust them even more. well right at the end this cia guy or something has finally gotten his chance to take a flight with the aliens to their planet and the lady that has been trying to decifer the pages in the book runs up and says "dont get in i decifered the book! its a cook book!!!" and the aliens shove the guy in the space ship. and it ends with the cia guy talking to you from the ship as they are trying to fatten him up warning human beings about the faults of their human nature.

"to serve man" its only natural for us to think something would want to come and serve us...too bad not in the way we thought...pretty clever

Kind Regards,
digitalgrl

[edit on 10/01/2004 by DigitalGrl]


reply posted on 21-3-2006 @ 11:48 PM by dgtempe
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Entire transcript of "To serve Man"

[edit on 21-3-2006 by dgtempe]



reply posted on 13-2-2010 @ 11:53 AM by ofhumandescent
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Excellent post.

In my gut, I have a feeling that Rod Sterling's "to Serve Man" is correct.

www.imdb.com...

If "they" show up, be afraid, be very afraid.

No, I don't believe in our "space brothers", will come here to save us.

Watch a fish pond. The bigger, smarter fish eat the smaller dumber fish. I'm sorry but I bellieve and I feel this is the law of not only Earth, but the universe.

I'm not saying to shoot first and ask questions later, but to be cautious, very cautious.

[edit on 13-2-2010 by ofhumandescent]


reply posted on 13-2-2010 @ 11:59 AM by ofhumandescent
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Good post and I agree.

Rod Sterling for whatever reason was "connected" he had an insight that nobody else in his time had.

So much of his stuff rings true.

[edit on 13-2-2010 by ofhumandescent]
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