tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post2933101502258062346..comments2024-03-23T05:23:21.009-07:00Comments on My Life in the Shadow of The Twilight Zone: Episode Spotlight: "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" (12/06/1963)Craig Beamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01039251711343080950noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-12785332963525157482023-05-19T15:38:17.621-07:002023-05-19T15:38:17.621-07:00You thought WAY too hard about this. It's a gr...You thought WAY too hard about this. It's a great episode, my favorite one in fact, and it is very very well done. You are too critical on the details. Just site back and enjoy the ride through.....The Twilight ZoneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-73623602003234377932021-09-30T22:35:55.246-07:002021-09-30T22:35:55.246-07:00Yes, every time I see this episode, I wonder why R...Yes, every time I see this episode, I wonder why Rod Serling didn't have these 3 National Guardsmen actually DO something? Despite what the review says, I think the acting is quite good especially Warren Oates, whose dialogue is particularly humorous. "I'm going back and if I can, I'll send back a padded ambulance for you two."Robert Gagnonhttp://www.1728.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-58745786357588122912021-01-28T18:44:16.716-08:002021-01-28T18:44:16.716-08:00"The episode can be uncomfortable to watch.&q..."The episode can be uncomfortable to watch." What a sensitive sissy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-80348362877610632072019-11-28T12:56:09.303-08:002019-11-28T12:56:09.303-08:00Agreed. Underrated episode and always watched when...Agreed. Underrated episode and always watched when it runs. The 7th cavalry were their peers in another time. Let’s give it up for them. Warren Oates is one LIKABLE actor. Sam Draculahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10862299666673255766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-17428897565660873442019-07-17T14:23:34.134-07:002019-07-17T14:23:34.134-07:00One of the Best twilight zone movies l know, great...One of the Best twilight zone movies l know, great acting especially from Warren OatesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17901942264691986423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-2488728899131597722013-12-13T06:44:54.238-08:002013-12-13T06:44:54.238-08:00So I "blew it" because my views don'...So I "blew it" because my views don't align with yours? Whatever.<br />Craig Beamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01039251711343080950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-71821273976618128402013-12-11T11:36:09.587-08:002013-12-11T11:36:09.587-08:00Boy, you blew it on this one. Morally out of whack...Boy, you blew it on this one. Morally out of whack, sure by 2013standards, but certainly not in 1963. Here is a comment I made some eight years ago in the Twilight Zone Cafe concerning T7IMUOP:<br /><br />"A nine for me because of an interesting concept, fine acting and a great kicker at the end. This is an episode that I believe got a very bad rap from Zicree in the TZ Companion and continues to suffer from 21st century judgement of 1960's perceptions re: Custer and the American Indians. With all due respect to James BW. B, Rod's view of the Battle of Little Big Horn was mainstream 1964. As per the times, Custer and his men were US soldiers, the Sioux/Cheyenne peoples were at war against the United States and it would have been reasonable for US soldiers of ANY time to join other US soldiers in battle against the "enemy". Kirk Douglas as captain of the Nimitz (an aircraft carrier, not a battleship) says much the same thing in "The Final Countdown", a well done movie that owes much to this Twilight Zone episode. Also remember that "The 7th.." was made pre-Viet Nam, pre-"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", pre-Crazy Horse Monument, pre-Sasheen Little Feather not accepting Brando's Oscar, pre-"Dances With Wolves" and pre-political correctness, in other words a simpler, if less enlightened time. Besides, this episode is not about who was right and who was wrong in the Frontier Wars, it is about duty, duty felt very keenly by Rod as a former paratrooper wounded in action against the Japanese in the WW2 Pacific. It's a great concept: given the choice would a contemporary soldier aid his peers, even if of another generation, to discharge his duty and garner personal honor in the face of certain death, or would he walk away? I suppose if the Guardsmen had been outside San Antonio and happened upon the Mexicans storming the Alamo in 1835 no one would have a problem with this episode today, but Rod has no way of knowing that the intervention of his characters at Little Big Horn on Custer's side would look like a bad choice forty years later."<br /><br /><br />I'll stand by that commnet now. And the acting doesn't suck either.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960961387158712377noreply@blogger.com