Do you have a favorite Rod intro? I think mine is "Third from the sun"....."quiting time at the plant... time for supper now... time for a cool drink on a porch ..." LOVE the picture he paints with his words. A perfect introduction to what's to come. My second favorite is "Long live a Walter Jameson". A wonderful telling of a nightmare that begins at noon. Beautiful...
What's yours?
Good choices.
For me it's Serling's intro to "Judgment Night": "... For the year is 1942, and this particular ship has lost its convoy. It travels alone like an aged blind thing groping through the unfriendly dark, stalked by unseen periscopes of steel killers ... "
There isn't any one complete intro that I love, but particular lines jump out at me:
"They make a fairly convincing pitch here." (It's as though Rod, and we, are on equal footing as we engage in a critical analysis of this company's marketing campaign.)
"Their task is even harder. They've got to find a Martian in a diner."
"Mr. Gart Williams, ad agency exec, who in just a moment will move into the Twilight Zone--in a desperate search for survival."
You nailed it ! This is the essence of a true and successful writer, when he can create vivid mental imagery with his words.
share"You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. - This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths - in The Twilight Zone." -- "The Obsolete Man"
shareGreat choices guys! That "Obsolete Man" intro is timeless
shareOh, I get it ! Serling had a mesmerizing presence. The dark, intense features; the perfect baritone voice; the cadence of his delivery. He was a master narrator.
shareHow about "The Old Man In The Cave"?
"What you're looking at is a legacy that man left to himself. A decade previous, he pushed his buttons and, a nightmarish moment later, woke up to find that he had set the clock back a thousand years. His engines, his medicines, his science were buried in a mass tomb, covered over by the biggest gravedigger of them all: a Bomb. And this is the Earth ten years later, a fragment of what was once a whole, a remnant of what was once a race. The year is 1974, and this is the Twilight Zone."
"You're watching a ventriloquist named Jerry Etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence. His alter ego, sitting atop his lap, is a brash stick of kindling with the sobriquet 'Willy.' In a moment, Mr. Etherson and his knotty-pine partner will be booked in one of the out-of-the-way bistros, that small, dark, intimate place known as the Twilight Zone." -- "The Dummy"
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