The Twilight Zone’s ‘Walking Distance’ (1959) episode is an allegory for pol.You can never go home again, goy.Your towns, cities, and countries will never be white and high trust again, goy. Get over it.
>>538489285>You can never go home again/pol/ is my home
great episode. hey anon what other episodes did you watch the other day? you DID have a 4th of july twilight zone marathon, right?
>>538489285in the 50s science fiction was largely hopeful, even optimisticthe Serling in the late 50s and early 60s shifted that to something horrific, introverted, immoral. Life in america was now a weird "twilight zone" where no one has a place and no one understands anythingand in the late 60s he pushed that further into Satanism via Night Galleryspit on this propagandist's memory
>>538489285Whatever. "He's Alive" (1963) is better anyway.
>>538489513Who was actually correct about it though?
>>538489567arsonist correctly predicting the firealso kill yourself kike. or worse, boomer
>>538489285>Your towns, cities, and countries will never be white and high trust again, goy. Get over it.This only matters to white people that don't have predatory criminal minds. I look forward to exploiting and killing shitskins for fun and entertainment. Chaos is my cup of tea. One of the most fun things I ever experienced was a riot. And I've done some pretty horrible shit in life.I'm locked in.
>>538489613You're saying our dystopian hellscape was caused entirely by rod serling? Is that really what you're going with?
>>538489548the only good hour long episode. the 80s twilight zone was actually great cause segments could be as short as a few minutes
>>538489513>in the 50s science fiction was largely hopeful, even optimistic>the Serling in the late 50s and early 60s shifted that to something horrific, introverted, immoral. Life in america was now a weird "twilight zone" where no one has a place and no one understands anything>and in the late 60s he pushed that further into Satanism via Night Gallerypost WWII is the Age of Noirthis optimism you speak of is maybe more from the 30sSerling, a WWII veteran scarred by his experiences and frustrated by the constraints of mainstream TV writing (he was a top "angry young man" dramatist in the 1950s), used The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) to subvert that optimism. He turned the genre inward:Episodes frequently portrayed alienation, moral ambiguity, technology as a trap, conformity as horror, and the banality of evil in everyday American life.Classic examples: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (paranoia and mob mentality), "Eye of the Beholder" (beauty standards and conformity), "The Obsolete Man" (totalitarianism and the value of the individual), or "Time Enough at Last" (a book lover's ironic hell).The "weird Twilight Zone" you mention — where ordinary people are trapped in absurd, nightmarish situations with no easy escape or understanding — mirrored the anxieties of the nuclear age, McCarthyism, suburban ennui, and rapid social change. Life felt like a Twilight Zone for many viewers.
>>538489285my favorite episode.
>>538489650No, that is not what he is saying. He is saying (((Rod Serling))) is a symptom/manifestation of a deeper problem within American media.
>>538489513oh yeah anon there was lots of hope and optimism in invasion of the body snatchers and i married a monster from outer space
>>538489650He's a retard that thinks the 50s were like Leave it to Beaver. Human society is replete with society dysfunction, degeneracy, crime, death, etc, on all corners of the globe across all time periods. Humans are a satanic species by default. It takes a lot of discipline to crawl out of that hole. 90% of humans have no chance of rising above their fallen angel status and remain trash, some of us rise up in righteous fury and become killers of the fallen angels.
>>538489768Except america was actually like that. Are you saying you want media to lie to us and tell us everything is okay? That seems like much worse propaganda than what he made.
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>>538489717>McCarthyism, suburban ennui, and rapid social changethe fears of the jews, which were pushed as the fears of AmericansSerling was one of the earliest propagandists to push the holocaust narrative. that Americans (who were not involved in the holocaust, even if you think it happened) were to blame for the holocaust because they're white.I'm not saying Serling wasn't an important propagandist, he was plainly important and talented. But he was also instrumental in imposing jewish rule.S to spit
check out Anne Francis from S01E34 'The After Hours'
>>538489433for me it's 100 yards over the rise or whatever it's called
theres a lot of underrated episodes
>>538490082for me its the passerby
>>538489285Link?
any WWII vet, or any vet from any era, coming back home after years of brutality would feel as if in a Twilight Zone, watching people who have no clue what they just went through, as if they are all sleepwalking through another reality
>"we now have plenty of money - our new backers are Jews - as soon as 'we' (or 'they') take care of Kennedy..."Country was sold to AIPAC then and there.
>>538489285Your fault for believing that women had it worse than men in every aspect in life and yielded society to these retardsYou deserve your miserable birthrates as well
the worst thing about old media is how cute and feminine the women are and how white everything is
>>538489850A television show was actually real life? Nonsense.The point is (((Serling et al.))) were/are cynics. The people who built America were optimists.
>>538490082>100 yards over the riseJust saw that the other night on OTA TV"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (Season 2, Episode 23) is the episode (the title is sometimes remembered or misquoted as something close to "100 yards over the rise").It originally aired on April 7, 1961. It was written by Rod Serling and directed by Buzz Kulik. Cliff Robertson stars as Christian Horn.PremiseIn 1847, a small, struggling wagon train is crossing the brutal New Mexico desert on the way to California. The group is exhausted, low on supplies, and facing disaster. The leader, Chris Horn, has a dangerously ill young son with a high fever. In desperation, Horn rides ahead over a sand rim in search of water or help — and steps across time into the New Mexico of 1961.It's a poignant time-travel story about hope, sacrifice, a man out of his time, and a father willing to do anything to save his child. Strong location shooting in the dunes, and Robertson gives a heartfelt performance.This one has a more optimistic, redemptive tone than many TZ episodes, which makes it stand out.
>>538489285>polYou have to go back
>>538490325Good to know that there was nothing cynical about america before 1959.
Serling himself was a WWII combat veteran (513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Pacific theater). He was wounded, saw brutal fighting, and carried the psychological scars for the rest of his life. He rarely spoke about it in detail publicly, but it clearly informed the pervasive sense of alienation, absurdity, and "no one understands" that runs through so much of The Twilight Zone.The Veteran Experience in TZMany episodes capture that exact disorienting feeling you describe:Returning home to a world that kept spinning normally while you were in hell.Civilians sleepwalking through everyday life, oblivious to the moral weight, trauma, and surreal brutality you've witnessed.The sense that "normal" America is itself a kind of Twilight Zone — cheerful, conformist, and strangely unreal compared to what you've seen.Episodes like "The Purple Testament" (a soldier who can see who will die next), "A Quality of Mercy" (switching places with the enemy), or even more subtle ones dealing with reintegration and loss of innocence reflect that veteran mindset. Serling wasn't just writing science fiction or horror — he was processing (and universalizing) the gap between the battlefield and the home front.This theme isn't unique to WWII vets. Veterans from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq/Afghanistan, and every conflict have described the same surreal disconnect: the grocery store, office small talk, or family dinners feeling like another dimension while you're still half in the war. The "Twilight Zone" metaphor fits perfectly — a place where the rules are familiar but everything feels wrong, and no one else quite gets it.Serling's genius was turning that personal and generational alienation into stories that resonated with everyone who ever felt like an outsider in their own life. It's why TZ still hits so hard decades later.
If I told a psychiatrist that life was all downhill after 14 I could be committed to a mental institiion.
>>538490513Does the fact that he converted from Judaism to Unitarian Universalism make him more Jewish or less Jewish to /pol/ chuds?
>>538490513nigger literally having AI write his postsliterally kill yourself
>>538490602was this before or after his Holocaust episode?
>>538490139>the passerby"The Passerby" (Season 3, Episode 24) is the episode.It originally aired on May 18, 1962. It was written by Rod Serling and directed by Elliot Silverstein.Main castJames Gregory as Sergeant, a weary Confederate soldier returning home after the Civil War.Joanne Linville as Lavinia, the mysterious woman he encounters.R.G. Armstrong as the Passerby (a symbolic figure).PremiseNear the end of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate sergeant limps along a deserted road toward home. He stops at a burned-out plantation where he meets a lonely woman still mourning her losses. As they talk through the night, a silent, enigmatic "passerby" appears — a figure who seems to represent Death or the relentless march of time and history. The episode is quiet, poetic, and deeply melancholic, exploring war's aftermath, grief, acceptance, and the need to move forward.It's one of the more atmospheric and introspective episodes of Season 3, with a strong sense of Southern Gothic melancholy and a memorable, understated performance by James Gregory.
>>538490093"The Old Man in the Cave" (Season 5, Episode 7) is the episode.It originally aired on November 8, 1963. It was written by Rod Serling (based on a short story by Henry Slesar) and directed by Alan Crosland Jr.Main castJames Whitmore as Major French, the authoritarian military leader.John Anderson as the "Old Man" (revealed to be something else entirely).Supporting cast includes Henry Hull, Rafael Campos, and others as the survivors.PremiseIn a post-nuclear war America, a small group of survivors in a rural town is barely hanging on. They rely on guidance from a mysterious "Old Man in the Cave" who provides practical advice for survival (food distribution, farming, avoiding radiation, etc.). When a hardened Army major arrives with his troops and challenges this authority, tensions rise between blind faith in the machine-like oracle and human leadership. The episode becomes a tense morality play about authority, superstition, mob mentality, and what happens when people turn on their only source of hope.It's a strong, thought-provoking late-series episode with clear Cold War nuclear anxiety woven in. James Whitmore brings real intensity as the major.
>>538490624>nigger literally having AI write his posts>literally kill yourselfThank you for your attention to this matterI am merely performing a service to those interested, not to retards like you, you are free to ignore theseenough already with the 'kill yourself' poltard-speakit is so cringe
>>538490805>>538490748another relevant episode, where a convict on an asteroid gets a state sponsored android gf
>>538490659Long before, in the 40s
>>538489285>one things for sure...no one can ever go home again. ever.
The Lonely will always be the greatest of all.
Thats me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTemvJkURAo
>>538489285>The Twilight Zone’s ‘Walking Distance’ (1959)He killed his wife them himself. Looks like at the end his TZ episode became real life. You cannot go back.
>>538491108interestingdidn't stop him weaponizing the holocaust, did it.not like he faked converting to keep working in hollywood at all
>>538489285pogroms happenevery timeread some history
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>>538491798Truly the most prophetic.
Anyone else in this thread like The Martian Chronicles?
>>538489285Season 1 Episode 7: The Lonely is about sexbots.
>>538491579Well from what I can gather Unitarian Universalism is liberal hippie theism
>>538491836theres something to say for this one too
>>538489285Are moronic chuddies aware that nothing's stopping them from banding together? Oh wait....The thing is that successful whites, intelligent whites or average whites do not care about whatever inane nonsense is spammed by eglin base pedos on /pol/. They have actual problems to deal with on their daily life. And if they become invested in politics then their political read goes a little deeper than "MUH WOKE, MUH NIGGERS, MUH JEWS".The only ones who care are ugly chuddies projecting their failures in life into anything but themselves, also the content of the narratives pushed on /pol/, or twitter, or tiktok, is expertly designed to echo with the twisted retardation of the chud. You're not gonna see those chuddies walk together in plain sight, best they can do is get psyop'd into shooting up a school after transitioning. That's how low you fags are on the pecking order. Lowest IQ impulsive rejects easily manipulated by oligarchs. I'd sympathize but knowing that everything bad happening happens thanks to your stupidity, which is used so the powerful people can distract and get away with whatever evil shit they do, makes it impossible.
>>538492010Yeah. That one is also very prophetic. TZ had some incredible foresight. Personally, The Lonely should've been an hour long episode.
>>538489285>will never be white and high trust againthey never were. high trust societies don't let you die homeless in the street and walk right past you. you live in a miserable rat race. don't long for a past you never had, be hopeful for a different future.
>>538492532you can be arrested in france for your post. Saying jews collude with one another.am I wrong?
>>538489513Fag
It’s an entertaining series but there’s also a lot of Jew pulpit and loxism in it. Good to watch when bored but I wouldn’t take it too seriously. Jews are unfortunately unable to produce any kind of entertainment without stuffing it full of holocaust propaganda and their own cognitive biases and hysteria, even the smartest and most self aware ones have that annoying innate victim complex.
Read HP Lovecraft's The Street
>>538492532>chuddies projecting their failures in life into anything but themselvesthis is an impressive truth nuke holy fuck
>>538492821High trust is a weird concept. When my grandparents left their doors unlocked when leaving their house or babies outside in strollers it wasn't because they "trusted" anyone wouldn't abuse this vulnerability...It was because they couldn't conceive why anyone would. Harmonious society or tranquil society makes more sense, but of course this implies issues stem from lack of cohesion.High trust makes it seem like you just need to have more faith in your fellow man, which is not at all what it's about.
>>538492821suck the cum out of my balls you faggot!!!
The Prisoner is better, more uncanny and representative of today’s world.
>>538492853And I'm sure that kikes represent the singular, unique, only existing group having a negative impact on society. And that browsing and posting on a retarded board 100% under control is the key to disband that group of mischief making scoundrels. Yes. Reading twitter screencaps of grifting influencers, misleading turds all doing everything to keep you divided, weak and revoltingly stupid, that's the way to fight back! It's weaponized stupidity and you are the bullet. Even after getting the confirmation that this board was created by the epstein club to shovel shit inside your skull, even after the hack, even after many mass IP checks showing how 90% of the traffic comes from bots and foreign agitators paid by big groups you cunts are still at it and happily gobbling it up. /pol/'s reaction to Luigi after he killed a CEO told me everything I need to know about /pol/cucks.
>>538489978Whore
>>538493007thank you for reminding me anon, I did download this a while back, I should watch it.
>>538489285Gig Young died in a murder-suicide. He was the killer.
Don't get on the ship. It's a Jewish cookbook.
>>538489285>Your towns, cities, and countries will never be white and high trust again, goy. Get over it.Then it will all burn.
>>538489285>You can never go home againThanks, it was hell. My relatives are from Lovecraft's mind.
>>538493007Be seeing you.
>>538489815You are an idiot. America in the 70's and 80's was fucking awesome because it was mostly White. The only really dangerous parts were the darker areas, just like today. Sure there are nigger Whites, but there are vastly fewer of them than the ratio of black to niggers. We have pictures and film from even further back that show just how wrong you are.
>>538489513by the mid 1950s the jews had actually won and brainwashed an entire generation of boomers to worship israel, culminating with 9/11 and the present iran warthe twilight zones are better than a jewish dominated world, hitler was right
>>538494994>America in the 70's and 80's was fucking awesomelook it's obvious you born afterwards. the country lost a war in vietnam, the union movement was destroyed and wages have stagnated since, there was an aids epidemic, and some cities like new york were horrific in this period. there ARE lots of movies which feature new york in this era, and it's crazy to see the slums and actual ruined buildings which have fallen down. I think you're not just wrong, you're looking at history not truthfully but wishfully
>>538489285You missed the new talking point. That old episode at least acknowledged the past existed. Now leftoids say your childhood world never even existed. A Modern version of the episode would be him going back to his childhood town to find it full of ngubu's and being like ohhh I forgot how diverse it always was!
>>538491039I love the "Rowbit' wife episode too
>>538495245I grew up then. Each era has its challenges, but there was still hope of something better. The 70's and 80's sucked because the jews consolidated their power and were destroying manufacturing and many of the social norms of White society through entertainment and the court system under the guise of "freedom".New York was jew heaven with the crime, porn, prostitution, drugs. Perfect microcosm of what they are turning the entire US into today.
>>538495582>the jewscome on man do you hear yourself? do you like hearing 'all white people' for fucksake anon, please don't allow this place to radicalise you
>>538495658>please don't allow this place to radicalise youYou need to go back VPN nigger.
>>538491798it's kinda funny how he just kinda goes "oh yeah, it's a robot" and leaves immediately, irl people kill themselves for chatbots
>>538489433yes i did fuck your momso crazy
