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Episode 108 – “Death Ship”
Setting a spaceship safely down on a newly discovered planet is fraught with danger, even in the technologically advanced future of 1997 (as represented in 1963, when this episode aired), the year in which Spaceship E89 is traveling around the … Continue reading
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Episode 96 – “The Trade-Ins”
In The Twilight Zone one can often shop for items not usually thought to be available for purchase. In “I Sing the Body Electric” a family shops for a replacement grandmother. In “The Trade-Ins” an aging couple shop for replacements … Continue reading
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Episode 84 – “The Hunt”
There are any number of circumstances in which one might confuse heaven and hell, including when one is in the latter but thinks they are in the former. For example, in A Nice Place to Visit, Rocky thinks he is in heaven for … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, animal cognition, animal rights, death
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Episode 70 – “A Game of Pool”
Woody Allen once said that he didn’t want to become immortal through his works. He wanted to become immortal by not dying. It’s hard to get much distance from Skakespeare’s puzzle about our posture towards death, but this episode is … Continue reading
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