Rod Serling Was Prophetic With This Warning - YouTube.
While watching The Twilight Zone’s episode entitled “The Obsolete Man,” I couldn’t help but remember the lessons in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.As a matter of fact, the similarities are striking: books are banned by a totalitarian government threatened by the fear that books and knowledge will bring individual thought, novel ideas, and eventually a distrust of the dictatorship.Rod Serling captures this truth in the 1961 Twilight Zone episode, “The Obsolete Man”, which he himself wrote, where Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith), a librarian in a state without books.Yeah, but I totally dig Twilight Zone. Rod was a genius political commentator, managing to beat the cesors every time. Rod was a genius political commentator, managing to beat the cesors every time. Unfortunately, Kookoo couldn't be bothered to understand the episode.
It seems to me that The Obsolete Man suffers very greatly from an archaic and (now) very dated concept about the Cold War and Soviet Communism. The whole notion of conformance or else (N12LJLY or, earlier in the Season 2, EOTB) was a pervasive theme of Rod's in TZone, along with nuclear armageddon, mechanization replacing humanism and the unknowns of space travel, which played much better in.The Seventh Dimension - The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man. BBC 7, 22 January 2006 18.00. At present this site reflects the contents of the published Radio Times BBC listings. We will retain information submitted to us for possible future use, to help fill in gaps in the data and to help us bring the BBC’s broadcast history to life, but we.
The Twilight Zone is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling.The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, suspense, horror, and psychological thriller, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist, and usually with a moral.A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to common science fiction.
