Christopher wrote:
It's in very poor taste to use something as horrible and traumatizing as rape as a metaphor for something as fundamentally harmless as reinterpreting a work of fiction in an unsatisfying way. We really need to wipe out that idiom.
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Okay. They usually murder the concept. Is that better?
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And really, what concept? It's an anthology! It's a different concept every week! What is there for a purist to get up in arms about?
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Odd question for you to ask, since you already know the answer. You're already on record as saying you didn't feel that the 80s network revival captured the original TZ vibe. As you've also mentioned, there have been many anthologies over the years--
Twilight Zone,
Outer Limits,
Thriller,
Tales From The Darkside,
Tales From The Crypt, even Serling's own
Night Gallery, to name a few-- and they've all had their own themes and aesthetics. And, while there are certainly some areas of overlap, a story or approach that's appropriate for one would generally not be appropriate for the other. The Crypt-Keeper rocks, but should not be considered as a substitute for Rod Serling.