12- The End of the World
This episode haunted my psyche to no end when I caught parts of it at age 9. The imagery of a little girl getting her legs run over and then a mother falling off of a ladder and landing on a concrete driveway is still pretty intense to my adult eyes.
This one's about a teenage gal seeing her past in a dream and things she does in her dreams change her reality. It's badly staged and acted, but still watchable. Then the weaker second half is about her premonition of nuclear war and the government's attempts to use her, which is very 80's in its cold war paranoia vibe. Good thing we're not afraid of Russians and nuclear warfare anymore. Living in fear sucks.
The grotesque imagery in the first half and the intensity of about half of the first half's drama make this a classic, albeit a half-assed one.
This one's about a teenage gal seeing her past in a dream and things she does in her dreams change her reality. It's badly staged and acted, but still watchable. Then the weaker second half is about her premonition of nuclear war and the government's attempts to use her, which is very 80's in its cold war paranoia vibe. Good thing we're not afraid of Russians and nuclear warfare anymore. Living in fear sucks.
The grotesque imagery in the first half and the intensity of about half of the first half's drama make this a classic, albeit a half-assed one.
posted by Bryan at 12:02 PM
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