tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post515939456222859482..comments2024-03-23T05:23:21.009-07:00Comments on My Life in the Shadow of The Twilight Zone: TZ Promo: “Back There” (1/13/1961)Craig Beamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01039251711343080950noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-11467810691344633832022-10-20T21:09:15.023-07:002022-10-20T21:09:15.023-07:00The "point" of the episode wasn't an...The "point" of the episode wasn't any change in the established history, it was a change in the personal circumstances of the time traveller.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13150180902612074981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-894621586638442560.post-7525425279473934552015-04-01T19:28:02.489-07:002015-04-01T19:28:02.489-07:00"* The Professor, incidentally, did have a na..."* The Professor, incidentally, did have a name... it was Roy Hinkley. How many of you knew that?"<br /><br />Dude! I totally knew that! Dignity fail! But whatever. Yeah, the music? Typical Goldsmith, which is to say, brilliant stuff.<br /><br />On the other hand, the idea of just suddenly, conveniently, for no remotely explicable reason, finding yourself in 1865 after a conversation about 'can you go back and change history, yes or no'? Now, when it comes to SF premises with flimsy empirical underpinnings, I can be pretty easy- but come on. Give us <i>something</i> to work with. He rubs a mysterious statue on the way out the door. He says the mysterious phrase local custom says you should never say as he leaves. Somebody slips him one hell of a mickey finn. Just <i>something</i> more than: he walks out the door, gets dizzy, sees gas lamps. I mean, you know, what would the Professor (rest in peace) say to the likelihood of that? And JWB... shouldn't he have been twirling his moustache a la Dishonest John (oops, a mislaid cartoon reference- from Beanie and Cecil, if you're interested). I mean to say, it wasn't just Russell Johnson overplaying his hand in this one. <br /><br />But you know what? What the hell. The music is so good in this one I can forgive the episode being schlock. Just. But when the music is that good, it's that much easier to be gracious.ishkaneihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18366175422920085918noreply@blogger.com