if it’s New Year’s Eve......then it must mean a Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci Fi Channel. Sci Fi pisses me off quite frequently, but then it goes and does stuff like this, and I love it again. support
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posted by Mimi (Wed Dec 31 08, 3:41PM)
A local channel used to do this for Thanksiving AND New Year's when I was growing up in LA. Then someone (SciFi?) bought up the Twilight Zone rights, and that was the end of that. Ahhh, the memories. Nice to know it's still going on somewhere (won't be catching it myself, here in rabbit-ears land).
posted by MaryAnn (Wed Dec 31 08, 7:22PM)
Yeah, Channel 11 used to do TZ marathons here in NYC, too. But now Sci Fi owns the broadcast rights. At least they're using them... and also showing episodes that I've never seen before. Every marathon there's at least one episode, it seems, that's new to me.
posted by Mina Rhodes (Wed Dec 31 08, 10:06PM)
I grew up watching The Twilight Zone, and every year that the SciFi Channel has marathoned it in my lifetime, I've watched, except for last year.
And now that I'm watching it this year, I find myself wondering... has it always been this insufferably obvious, didactic, moralizing, and campy? If I see one more heavy handed parable about sinister fascist governments declaring God nonexistant (gasp!), machines rendering good ol' hard workin' men obsolete (shock!), or men falling prey to the sinister clutches of gambling (horror!), I'm gonna gag.
Granted, there are still several brilliant episodes, but it seems a great number--more than I remembered, at least--of TZ's are clunkers. Depressing.
(Anyone else remember Futurama's parody of The Twilight Zone? "It's man!"
Spot on.)