![]() #TWILIGHT ZONE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER FREE#Like, for instance, the doctor says, "I wish these ugly people could just live among us!" And the nurse says, "Oh, no, don't say that, you'll be accused of treason." Right from those two lines, a bright viewer will catch that, not only are people not ALLOWED to be ugly in this world, but FREE SPEECH is illegal, and you can't THINK about progress, or nonconformity! This is clearly an Orwellian society, and I just don't know why, when a plot relies so heavily on the viewer perceiving the hospital as a normal hospital, there are so many dead giveaways.Īnother dead giveaway comes when the nurse says, "It's time for the LEADER'S MANDATORY SPEECH". But there are lots of points in the doctor's dialogue where we feel like something is a little off. We're supposed to assume that the hospital is just a normal hospital treating a lady with some kind of facial disfigurement. The problem with their dialogue is that it isn't even very subtle. Before the big reveal, the script has to fill about a half an hour, so the doctors and the nurses talk about things for a while. That's the problem with this story.Ī few more problems. It would ruin the twist to show their faces, but it ruins the twist to hide their faces, too. This one, though- you can see a twiss of some kind, involving their faces, from a mile away. ![]() Or the one where the guy asks the psychic salesman for too many things and he gives him a set of shoes and he gets run over by them. Or the one with the guy who can stop time with his watch but breaks the watch when he's robbing a bank. Like the one with the guy on the boat who's the good version of the evil Nazi guy and he tries to warn everybody on the ship but they're all ghosts and so on. Good twists have to take you by surprise. That's why I feel the twist doesn't work. No other Twilight Zone episode has all the characters walk around with their faces obscured in shadow. Even if we've never seen the episode before, we KNOW that something is being hidden, that there must be some REASON for obscuring their faces. WE, as an audience, know something is WRONG with their faces. We never see their faces until they get revealed. And it's true, their faces DO have to stay hidden. ![]() You might think that this seems rather obvious, as their faces have to stay hidden until the big reveal. Namely, the problem is that none of the doctors, or nurses, can show their faces. I'll start off with the most obvious problem when running a story like this. My problem with the episode, I guess, depends on the way it was executed. The makeup is good, the dialogue is good. I just think it was poorly executed, is all. ![]() ![]() It was desperately needed at a time when beauty was highly overrated and most magazine ads were for beauty products. Kudos to the TZ people for coming up with a concept like this. To begin, the concept is brilliant, very brilliant. Some have even gone so far as to call this one the best episode of ALL TIME, like this guy, here, who put it at the top of his top 10 list: Everybody seems to like this one, and I tend to question unanimous decisions. #TWILIGHT ZONE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER SERIES#I've caught some flack for this little series of rants about episodes I don't like, but I'm willing to keep, going, so keep your shirt on as I tell you just how this episode fails. ![]()
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