1959 Interview with Rod Serling before the Twilight Zone

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ydXkZ_hDztc

He had already written some stuff for Playhouse 90. He had done Patterns, which is a classic. Doesn't sound like it would be interesting but it's really good. (Also Requiem for a Heavyweight but I never watched it because I don't give a shit about boxing.)

I agree with him about just about everything.

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at 5'4 he was the second-chadliest short guy in history (#1 is Deng Xiaoping at 5'0)

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Huh... I never even thought of that because I'm so tall. :marseysweating:

Seriously tho, this guy went up in the mountains of Luzon and killed japs to liberate the country. This is what every red-blooded American boy who grew up reading up his dad's children's books from the 1950s wants to do with his life.

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Me neither. To me he was 6ft6.

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Is this the guy the sausages are named after?

Not sure what the Star Trek: Voyager clip is about but I'll tell you between the two of them, I'll take Torres. Just have to rip her Klingon prosthetic off her forehead. Jeri Taylor I'm sure was a great actress but she got terrible writing. Which is funny because she was fricking the showrunner, Brannon Braga, who had written some of the best scripts ever seen on TV for TNG. But he just gave her terrible horribly diluted Spock material. I dunno what happened to that guy.

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This is gold

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It is. This guy was a fricking genius. He pretty much knew how TV was going to work and most of it applies to the internet and social media. And being a critic of media wasn't his day job, he's just throwing out opinions.

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And a war hero. A lot of people forget that.

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Yeah, there's a huge difference between him or Gene Roddenberry & Gene Coon or a bunch of other guys from that generation, who thought war was bad because they were in it, and the later draft dodgers like Coppola who went to the UCLA film school and made anti-war movies because it was trendy.

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It is the perfect :marseychefkiss: example of differing energies synergizing. You must compare :marseydumbcomparison: and contrast as with all things.

But Rod was different.

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I realized we weren't gonna ever have the same thing again after they killed Vic Morrow and two little asian kids. White leftoids complaining about things they don't understand leading to a bunch of asian kids getting killed. Kinda leaves me with deja vu.

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I may disagree :marseyyesandnosuperspeed: with you politiquelly but I will alwayys approve :marseyclapping: of anyone castigating John Landis and his male feminist :marseyspalrentfree: son

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Wallace being a little bitchy when he questions if Twilight Zone is important three times in a row

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Tbf this is (if I understand it right) before it aired. And there had never been a serious scifi tv show before this. It was all children's stuff like Captain Video. There was a radio show Dimension X which was similar in that it was based on stories from magazines but it was pretty daring to actually try to do it on TV. And remember the world was really really fricking poor back then.

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I've been told many times in the last year that I "hate Jews" because I disagree with blowing up all the houses in Gaza. Frick these cute twinks. I'm more of a real Jew than any of them will ever be. I'm no rabbi but I know one of the foundations of the Jewish religion is trying to do the right thing. That's kind of supposed to be a big deal in their religion.

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I get that sometimes too, though in my case it's a fricking double dose of being opposed to Zionism while being Catholic so I can at least understand why they say it.

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I disagree with blowing up all the houses in Gaza

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