gattino
Justified & Ancient
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I'll be going off in a couple of random directions at once with this post. Consider it the equivalent of mumbling on a park bench.
Love the original Twilight Zone. Aware they rebooted it twice over the years and are possibly doing so again soon. The reboots have never worked in terms of staying in the public imagination. To me its simply because they're in colour. There's something about the B&W stageiness of the original series that creates its sense of detachment and eeriness.
Any old how I was browsing clips of and about the series on youtube and it would occassionally pop up with an entirely different, forgotten, show from the same period called One Step Beyond. Not only from the same period but looking like a clear rip off..down to the front of camera narrator ala Rod Serling (in fact this show preceded Twilight Zone by several months i've just read). Anyway this sentence on IMDB..."this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories with supernatural twists and turns, this program sought out "real" stories of the supernatural, including ghosts, disappearances, monsters, et cetera, and re-creating them for each episode. No solutions to these mysteries were ever found, and viewers could only scratch their heads and wonder, "what if it's real?" "
Two thoughts on that.. "the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense". There were indeed a lot of shows of the type.. the Outer Limits being the other biggie... but are there any today? Off the top off my head the only dramatisation of the paranormal on tv involves either glossy American series about beautiful wise cracking demon fighters or talking head documentaries where the real people are interspersed with brief re-enactments. So is there any TZ like anthology show I'm missing out on?
Secondly the idea of creating a modern TZ using "real" experiences sounds a good one to me. Reddit and these boards are an endless source of free plot material for a skilled TV dramatist. He or she can be spared the need to invent uncanny experiences from whole cloth. Is someone missing a trick here? Get Hollywood on the line....
Love the original Twilight Zone. Aware they rebooted it twice over the years and are possibly doing so again soon. The reboots have never worked in terms of staying in the public imagination. To me its simply because they're in colour. There's something about the B&W stageiness of the original series that creates its sense of detachment and eeriness.
Any old how I was browsing clips of and about the series on youtube and it would occassionally pop up with an entirely different, forgotten, show from the same period called One Step Beyond. Not only from the same period but looking like a clear rip off..down to the front of camera narrator ala Rod Serling (in fact this show preceded Twilight Zone by several months i've just read). Anyway this sentence on IMDB..."this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories with supernatural twists and turns, this program sought out "real" stories of the supernatural, including ghosts, disappearances, monsters, et cetera, and re-creating them for each episode. No solutions to these mysteries were ever found, and viewers could only scratch their heads and wonder, "what if it's real?" "
Two thoughts on that.. "the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense". There were indeed a lot of shows of the type.. the Outer Limits being the other biggie... but are there any today? Off the top off my head the only dramatisation of the paranormal on tv involves either glossy American series about beautiful wise cracking demon fighters or talking head documentaries where the real people are interspersed with brief re-enactments. So is there any TZ like anthology show I'm missing out on?
Secondly the idea of creating a modern TZ using "real" experiences sounds a good one to me. Reddit and these boards are an endless source of free plot material for a skilled TV dramatist. He or she can be spared the need to invent uncanny experiences from whole cloth. Is someone missing a trick here? Get Hollywood on the line....
