Speaker 1: Day twenty of the Twilight Zone podcast at Van Khalan
Speaker 1: and our old friend al Sharedzmas says, we think of
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone episodes as always having a twist at the end,
Speaker 1: but not all of them do. So, which is your
Speaker 1: favorite non twist episode and why so I'll hand over
Speaker 1: to you Zac.
Speaker 2: You know this was hard because it's true not every
Speaker 2: episode has a twist. And then you think to yourself,
Speaker 2: what is a twist? Like is a reveal a twist? Right?
Speaker 2: What defines a twist, especially in this context, in this format.
Speaker 2: But you know, I guess I'd go with it's a
Speaker 2: good life because there's no twist. There's no moral message.
Speaker 2: I think he says that in the episode as well,
Speaker 2: just to terrifying, like what if of that reality? Yeah,
Speaker 2: just this kid has powers and he's taken over this
Speaker 2: town and it's going to be that way forever. No twist,
Speaker 2: just here it is right, submitted for your approval, as
Speaker 2: he says. Right, So, yeah, you know, I'd say a
Speaker 2: lot of episodes don't have twists. But thinking about it now,
Speaker 2: it's hard to think of them off the top of
Speaker 2: my head, I guess On Thursday, with Leave from Home Too,
Speaker 2: I guess, right, just a conclusion to that escalating power
Speaker 2: play they've been building towards, right, It just it's just
Speaker 2: kind of a yeah. And stories that's the thing, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, twist stick with you, right, But stories that
Speaker 2: come to like natural conclusions also stick with you because
Speaker 2: everything just comes together perfectly. And I think that's that's
Speaker 2: a case for something like on Thursday, we'll leave for home.
Speaker 2: So those are the ones that come to the top
Speaker 2: of my head. I mean, those are some of the
Speaker 2: best episodes. That's another reason they come to the top
Speaker 2: of my head.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I was exactly the same. I was
Speaker 1: probably second guess on myself too much as to what
Speaker 1: actually constitutes a twist, because I was thinking, well, the
Speaker 1: Odyssey of Flight thirty three, is that really a twist?
Speaker 1: They just keep on flying, you know, But is the
Speaker 1: twist the fact that they end up is like this
Speaker 1: airplane version of the Marry Celeste or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: Is that a twist? So it's really tricky when you've
Speaker 1: got to try and define what a twist is. So
Speaker 1: I took the same route as Uzac, But I also
Speaker 1: think it helps that it's a good life is genuinely
Speaker 1: top ten for me. So you were absolutely right that
Speaker 1: the kind of whole point of the end is that
Speaker 1: there's no twist. It's like, there you go, this is
Speaker 1: what happened, and Rod's close and narration have actually got
Speaker 1: it here, he says, no comment here, no comment at all.
Speaker 1: We only wanted to introduce you to one of our
Speaker 1: very special citizens, little Anthony Fremont, aged six, who lives
Speaker 1: in a village called Peaksville, in a place that used
Speaker 1: to be Ohio. And if, by some strange chance you
Speaker 1: should run across him, you'd best think only good thoughts.
Speaker 1: Anything less than that is handled at your own risk,
Speaker 1: because if you do meet Anthony, you can be sure
Speaker 1: of one thing. You've entered the twilight zone. So what
Speaker 1: a great closing narration. It's like you say, it's just
Speaker 1: like there it is, man, And if you end up here,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah,