tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post1590184684940871799..comments2024-03-23T05:23:21.009-07:00Comments on My Life in the Shadow of The Twilight Zone: Episode Spotlight: "Stopover in a Quiet Town" (4/24/1964)Craig Beamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01039251711343080950noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-43947036607228588172022-02-07T07:02:24.117-08:002022-02-07T07:02:24.117-08:00hi i always wondered the squirrel is it an alien ?...hi i always wondered the squirrel is it an alien ? and the little girls room stuffed animals are they modeled after alien lifeforms? it is an alien planet so there lower lifeforms would not look like ours.germanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16492075450639076732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-62001199217673289122015-03-31T18:55:12.303-07:002015-03-31T18:55:12.303-07:00"Frazier also directed two episodes of Star T..."Frazier also directed two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (“Coda” and “Message in a Bottle”)..."<br /><br />I'm being a little OCD in pointing out that you probably meant to type "Malone" there. <br /><br />As for Rod ripping off earlier episodes...<br /><br />Well, that's not an invalid argument. On the other hand, there's some cliche or other about how there are only seven or so kinds of stories to be told, and so it's a matter of how you tell it/them. In that light, I don't have a problem with the 'Where is Everybody?' recycle(/rip-off?); in fact, it doesn't really seem to me all that relevant story-wise- in being just another way to tell a story after all, but then that argument may once again be accounted to my sensitivity to music cue moods and mise-en-scene details overriding basic matters of story structure that appear to be more obvious to others. Oh well. <br /><br />Not that I say 'Stopover' is one of the best episodes, but more than passable, yeah. If anything, I always have a problem with that final music cue, which seems conspicuously out of place with the tone of the rest of the episode, almost jarring (cf. the outro for "Escape Clause", unaccountably tragic, given the light humor treatment previously throughout). Though when I try to imagine a better music cue to go out with in 'Stopover', darn if I can come up with anything. It is, as they say, a conundrum- worthy of the Twilight Zone?ishkaneihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18366175422920085918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-38161715422194312202014-04-25T08:26:58.044-07:002014-04-25T08:26:58.044-07:00Hi Craig.
For a fifth season episode, "Stopov...Hi Craig.<br />For a fifth season episode, "Stopover" certainly ranks above most of the recent offerings.<br />However, like you said, there are just too many similarities to "Where is Everybody?" for me to consider this episode upper echelon Zone.<br /><br /> Scott Stevensonnoreply@blogger.com