Watched the original run of Twilight Zone. There was a bit of proto-woke here and there but for the most part it was really, really mild.
Except for two episodes.
One (I think it was called "He's Really Alive" or something) opens on a group of neo Nazis standing on a street corner holding a pathetic rally with a sweaty, insecure leader who gets his ass kicked by a heckler. I'm like, "ok, I know where this is going." Skip. Didn't even make it to the Rod Serling introduction.
Another (I forget the title) takes place in some guy's attic where he's cleaning up some stuff. He's a WW2 vet who fought in the Pacific theater so doesn't have a high opinion of the Japanese. George Takei walks in (I should have skipped the episode as soon as he walked in) and the vet says some bigoted stuff to him but also immediately laughs it off in an "I'm just giving you a hard time" so I got fooled into thinking, well, maybe they'll actually show these guys getting along and that war is hell.
Well, it didn't go that way and it became pretty clear that George Takei was going to murder him and it was going to be a Good Thing. So I skipped the rest of that because fuck George Takei anyway.
The rest was very good. Men doing man things, women doing women things, and villains getting what they deserve.
Possessed and then abandoned by the literal ghost of Hitler.
George Takei was going to murder him and it was going to be a Good Thing.
That one is a little more murky. Takei's character's dad was a traitor at Perl Harbor who assisted with the bombing. The vet gets impaled and dies but then Takei jumps out the window to his death screaming "BANZAI!" I shit you not. The whole thing supposed to be some statement about haunting guilt.
The woke crowd actually hate that episode because the mere suggestion of treachery at Pearl Harbor means that EO 9066 might have been based on something besides pure racism.
Watched the original run of Twilight Zone. There was a bit of proto-woke here and there but for the most part it was really, really mild.
Except for two episodes.
One (I think it was called "He's Really Alive" or something) opens on a group of neo Nazis standing on a street corner holding a pathetic rally with a sweaty, insecure leader who gets his ass kicked by a heckler. I'm like, "ok, I know where this is going." Skip. Didn't even make it to the Rod Serling introduction.
Another (I forget the title) takes place in some guy's attic where he's cleaning up some stuff. He's a WW2 vet who fought in the Pacific theater so doesn't have a high opinion of the Japanese. George Takei walks in (I should have skipped the episode as soon as he walked in) and the vet says some bigoted stuff to him but also immediately laughs it off in an "I'm just giving you a hard time" so I got fooled into thinking, well, maybe they'll actually show these guys getting along and that war is hell.
Well, it didn't go that way and it became pretty clear that George Takei was going to murder him and it was going to be a Good Thing. So I skipped the rest of that because fuck George Takei anyway.
The rest was very good. Men doing man things, women doing women things, and villains getting what they deserve.
Rod Serling was a progressive jew so yeah The Twilight Zone is woke. I still have a weakness to it, I think it's very good.
Possessed and then abandoned by the literal ghost of Hitler.
That one is a little more murky. Takei's character's dad was a traitor at Perl Harbor who assisted with the bombing. The vet gets impaled and dies but then Takei jumps out the window to his death screaming "BANZAI!" I shit you not. The whole thing supposed to be some statement about haunting guilt.
The woke crowd actually hate that episode because the mere suggestion of treachery at Pearl Harbor means that EO 9066 might have been based on something besides pure racism.