tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post3627875625900905486..comments2024-03-20T15:28:13.030-05:00Comments on The Twilight Zone Vortex: "Eye of the Beholder" ("The Private World of Darkness")JPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14808904189056290207noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-27508028817290993362022-09-04T09:15:30.870-05:002022-09-04T09:15:30.870-05:00I can't believe that I'm the only person t...I can't believe that I'm the only person to have ever seen "Eye of the Beholder" who thinks that the handsome "Mr. Smith" is taking Janet Tyler off to a Nazi-style death camp at the end. No society as cruel and exclusionary as the one we see in the story would even consider affording those it defined as "misfits" a safe place to live, even on a subsistence level. The Nazis created this sort of lying mystique, to a limited extent, around the camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin), allowing those who were sent there to think that it was a catch-all for "undesirables", who would be allowed to live out their lives there. In point of fact, it was nothing but a transit camp to Auschwitz. When Anne Frank's family was arrested, and the supervising Gestapo officer found out that Mr. Frank had served honorably in the German army in World War I, he exclaimed "Why on earth did you hide? All they would have done was send you to Theresienstadt." The unspoken answer was that Otto Frank, unlike Janet Tyler, wasn't taken in by the regime's lies.Thomas DiMaggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528586971282008329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-21752975659780227722019-02-26T06:12:08.322-06:002019-02-26T06:12:08.322-06:00That sample, more importantly, WAS supposed to ori...That sample, more importantly, WAS supposed to originate from what had been intended as the closing theme for the second season episodes, before Marius Constant's percussive one was selected.naruto65https://www.blogger.com/profile/12170480906969053086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-67134039712781426782019-02-24T19:44:02.378-06:002019-02-24T19:44:02.378-06:00You don't see it much anymore in syndication, ...You don't see it much anymore in syndication, but the little intro graphic to close out the second act of each episode, there was a sample of the score (Where Is Everybody) to highlight the IG in all other 1st and 2nd season episodes, but the sample chosen for Eye Of the Beholder was taken from the scene in The Howling Man when the Devil materialized, I assume to add to the creepiness of the episode. It can still be found in DVD collections,though.naruto65https://www.blogger.com/profile/12170480906969053086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-9214050570336802742019-02-24T19:32:45.938-06:002019-02-24T19:32:45.938-06:00Now here's an episode worth celebrating. We al...Now here's an episode worth celebrating. We all think so, and I'm no exception to the rule. To be sure, this is THE perfect episode in all ways of execution. Dr.Bernardi is one of my favorite TZ characters. All compassion through his own long suffering dealing with Miss Tyler's aesthetic plight. But an ultimately promising if momentarily resigned ending for Miss Tyler. She not only will live in a new, accepting world of people sharing her disability, but she actually in making a friend in Walter Smith, may have found a future husband as well!! A proven fact; beauty IS in the eye of the beholder, and always WILL be.naruto65https://www.blogger.com/profile/12170480906969053086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-14785457239267146982018-06-29T12:24:11.437-05:002018-06-29T12:24:11.437-05:00I remember back in the fall of 1979 while attendin...I remember back in the fall of 1979 while attending WCSU in college we used to watch the Twilight Zone on WPIX Channel 11 following Star Trek the Original Series and at that time I only remembered a few episodes as there was no VHS tapes and the ending scared the life out of me! My friends pulled a prank on me on night and wore masks and crept into my room! Geez I was scared! I own the entire series on DVD and I never get tired of that episode. A similar episode without the pig people though which is my all time favorite and IMO is "Obsolete Man" with the late Burgess Meredith. Another Dystopian tale as to how powerful the State can be as how little value humankind can be if they don't conform entirely with the state! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314582582238025846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-24509857855271374382013-02-25T18:22:37.678-06:002013-02-25T18:22:37.678-06:00Probably the most iconic episode of the show, or a...Probably the most iconic episode of the show, or at least in the top five most instantly recognizable. Tuttle's makeup is the star of the show and he did a masterful job and his work has been imitated again and again in the years since. Love watching the Zone on MeTv too, Jack. There's just something about catching it in broadcast form that is more appealing than just throwing on a DVD. JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14808904189056290207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1318310043864039191.post-17822037578458445772013-02-25T15:57:58.688-06:002013-02-25T15:57:58.688-06:00Excellent writeup, guys! Douglas Heyes really is o...Excellent writeup, guys! Douglas Heyes really is one of the stars of TZ. I often think of this episode, occasionally when I see a facial feature that reminds me of the makeup. The expression "No change!" also pops out of my mouth from time to time.<br /><br />We have a station here called Me TV that shows TZ on Sunday nights. Last night, I saw part of "It's a Good Life" and thought, "I can't wait till the Vortex gets to THAT one!"Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.com