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106: '''Escape Clause''' ''[[1959]] [[November 6]]'' | 106: '''Escape Clause''' ''[[1959]] [[November 6]]'' | ||
(First watched 2023-05-23) I feel this episode failed at what it was going for. It was a story about being careful what you wish for, and not making deals with the devil... but the main character was a stupid prick, so the impression it left me with was "Gee, this dipshit couldn't make the deal work for him, but '''I''' could do a hell of a lot better!" | |||
Dipshit apparently craved a life of excitement that totally went away when he no longer had a fear of death. But for a guy like me who craves a life of, like, watching 60 year old television shows? Not an issue. Even if I did want to fear, there's plenty of not-me things I would feel fear about going away! People, places, things, all the best nouns. But this jackass only cares about himself, so even the death of his wife meant nothing to him. | |||
He hoped for the electric chair, but was dismayed when he only got life imprisonment instead. What was he expecting to happen? That they'd fail to kill him in the chair and just let him go? Being stuck in prison as a freak of nature was the best he could've been hoping for. And if he hated being in prison so much... dude, you've potentially got eternity and a body impervious to damage that makes your chances of escaping from a 1950s prison pretty damn good. If you're potentially on the run indefinitely? There's your damn excitement. | |||
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107: '''The Lonely''' ''[[1959]] [[November 13]]'' | 107: '''The Lonely''' ''[[1959]] [[November 13]]'' | ||
(First watched 2023-05-24) This episode would probably do more for me if in my 40 years I hadn't already watched or read more stories about the gray area between man and machine than possibly existed by 1959. But, still kind of amusing that everybody pronounces the word "robut" like Zoidberg. | |||
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108: '''Time Enough at Last''' ''[[1959]] [[November 20]]'' | 108: '''Time Enough at Last''' ''[[1959]] [[November 20]]'' | ||