Watching "The Outer Limits" (1963-1964)
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Well, it's been a while since I saw it, so my memory may be off.
I thought so, and that's what bugs me. He'd evolved past his "evil" stage into something purer and finer -- why undo that just out of a desire to restore the familiar status quo? Wouldn't it have been a better thing to let him keep advancing?
I agree with you on that one. The closing narration doesn't make much sense.
Pushing aside the fact that the only ultimate goal of evolution is survival, I don't know why the experiment was too soon or too swift. The professor certainly could skip over the advanced, but still violent stages in any further attempts. There's no reason the technology couldn't be duplicated, at least none said on screen.
Alas. It's still a pretty good episode.
Pushing aside the fact that the only ultimate goal of evolution is survival, I don't know why the experiment was too soon or too swift. The professor certainly could skip over the advanced, but still violent stages in any further attempts. There's no reason the technology couldn't be duplicated, at least none said on screen.
Alas. It's still a pretty good episode.
The Man Who Was Never Born
writer: Anthony Lawrence
director: Leonard Horn
It's been a while since I sat down with this series, but I've been recovering from a cold and have had plenty of time in front of the television as a result. So...
This one lives and dies on Martin Landau's performance. Luckily, it's a great performance which breathes life into an okay make-up design. Better still, Landau is able to emerge from the make-up through his character's ability to create illusions. There are several clever transitions from Landau as a normal human to his mutated state.
On the other hand, Shirley Knight's character doesn't have the most believable motivations. I can see her not being in love with the man who is to be her husband. There are plenty of cues that she likes the idea of marriage itself more than marriage with Cabot. But I don't buy into her falling for Martin Landau's character. The notion that she decides to run off with a man whose major romantic gesture is to pull out a gun at her wedding ceremony (just as possibly to kill her as to kill Cabot), and follows that by explaining that her child will bring about the end of humanity and that he's from the future is a little much. She's even the one who proposes she go off with him!
Still, Landau is great, and the entire episode is held together on his shoulders. I still wish they'd drop the pre-credits teasers, though, but I suppose that's the network pushing their monster-angle.
writer: Anthony Lawrence
director: Leonard Horn
It's been a while since I sat down with this series, but I've been recovering from a cold and have had plenty of time in front of the television as a result. So...
This one lives and dies on Martin Landau's performance. Luckily, it's a great performance which breathes life into an okay make-up design. Better still, Landau is able to emerge from the make-up through his character's ability to create illusions. There are several clever transitions from Landau as a normal human to his mutated state.
On the other hand, Shirley Knight's character doesn't have the most believable motivations. I can see her not being in love with the man who is to be her husband. There are plenty of cues that she likes the idea of marriage itself more than marriage with Cabot. But I don't buy into her falling for Martin Landau's character. The notion that she decides to run off with a man whose major romantic gesture is to pull out a gun at her wedding ceremony (just as possibly to kill her as to kill Cabot), and follows that by explaining that her child will bring about the end of humanity and that he's from the future is a little much. She's even the one who proposes she go off with him!
Still, Landau is great, and the entire episode is held together on his shoulders. I still wish they'd drop the pre-credits teasers, though, but I suppose that's the network pushing their monster-angle.
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