The President

The President

The Day 21 of the Twilight Zone podcast, Adven calendar, Jay says, what is Rod's best post-Twilight Zone work?

So, straight to the point.

Zach, what do you think?

Well, I think it's pretty obvious, right?

It's Planet of the Apes.

Right?

Well, the thing is, though, none of those words are rods, you know, Can it really be clasped as rods?

I mean, he's definitely in the DNA.

I mean, he's definitely in the DNA.

So that's on you then.

No, you're absolutely right because he's the one who gave it shape, isn't he?

You know, if it wasn't for him, they'd still be trying to make that thing. So, yeah, okay, good answer. Yeah, I mean, obviously, he wrote a version of what became the first film as based off a novel and there was a whole movie series afterward and a TV show and a reboot and a reboot franchise. So like, but it all stems from that first. He was really the spark that, as you said, got that thing going. Who knows if they didn't have that, that one singular kind of person to push it through and make it into something that then could be tweaked and changed and adapted and formed. But he kind of did the, the built the foundation for what that is, I think. And even though his words aren't there, like his, his, his, his themes are there and his ideas are there. And even though they're, ironically, the more I learned about it, you know, a lot of your coverage, learning about it through that, like, wow, like it really, it's totally different than what his intentions were, but it seems so surly, even the twist ending, right? Even to that, the humbug condition, all that stuff.

So the DNA is so present there, even if it's not, you know, like you said, I think there's no one line of dialogue that he wrote that appeared in the film ironically. But, but to me, I mean, that's what stands out.

I think you made your case there, Zach. I think you made your case. So I'm going to go with something different. That never popped, even though my huge plans to the Apes fan, that never popped into my head straight away. I was thinking, well, what about Night Gallery? But, you know, even Rod wasn't happy with Night Gallery. It's all over the place some of them are great some of them are

terrible there's just no consistency there i think for you know a sort of consistent body of work

i would say the loner because while i don't think all of them are top tier, I don't think any of them

are really bottom tier. It's a pretty consistent show and some of the best episodes of that show

are right up there with some of Rod's best stuff, you know, and he's going for all the stuff

that he wants to talk about that he was

doing in twilight zone and he's still not at that stage in his career later on where he's in

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