A Stop at Willoughby
Does this Ray Bradbury Theater episode seem like it's based on "A Stop At Willoughby"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcF4B2WZ8Co
Maybe it's not, I just thought it was similar in some ways.
a stop at willoughby seem to be viewed by many as a sombre story with a depressing ending, but i always looked at it as a positive episode, obviously he is troubled through much of the time and reaches a breaking point, but he meets the kind woman on the train (she is not in the tv episode, but in the radio drama) as they talk about this place he longs for that no one else has heard about in the present day, and finally he steps off at this town willoughby. for a long time i looked/listened to this without catching the "willoughby funeral parlour" in the end but i think the episode worked just as good without that last twist.
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shareyes, its mentioned real fast in passing at the end, it just went by me. i get the ending, but i figure as his body lays dead in the snow in present day, he has actually went to another time in willoughby. i would advise any fan of the twilight zone to check out the twilight zone radio dramas, i'm surprised if not everyone has, they stay true to the original tv series and sometimes have added things supposed to be in the legendary episodes forced out cause of budget.
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I feel the same way about it. He is off to a better place so its not a sad ending.
shareI never really saw the episode as dealing with suicide. I believe that in Gart's mind he was just stepping off the train in Willoughby. He at least didn't intend to kill himself. He just wanted to get to be in a place like Willoughby. I have always seen it as a happy ending because Gart gets what he so desperately wants in life. A calm simple life in a place called Willoughby.
shareThis is what I keep saying, but it doesn't seem like most people agree with me. He basically just thought, "Next time the train stops at Willoughby, I'm going to get off and look around." From his perspective, it was just that simple.
shareThat's the way I see it. I wish the final scene wasn't even included, but, don't know how else they could have ended it?
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