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The Twilight Zone Podcast

Nothing in the Dark

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Some would say Nothing in the Dark is George Clayton Johnson's masterpiece, join Tom Elliot in to see if he agrees...

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0:00.0

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

0:16.0

a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

0:20.0

Your next stop, the

0:21.7

twilight's on. In the multiverse that is the Twilight Zone, I often try and make sense of why it does what it does,

0:48.3

why some are punished while others aren't.

0:53.3

And it's easy to see why the cosmic justice dished out to some is deserved.

0:59.0

But every now and again, something happens seemingly for no reason at all.

1:06.0

I think it's in our nature as human beings to try and make order out of chaos and in

1:13.1

our nature as fans to try and join the dots.

1:18.5

Maybe to try and create continuity where there is none.

1:24.5

In this show, the Twilight Zone, the only true constant is our host, Rod Sailing, and you could argue

1:32.4

that Sailing isn't a character in the show at all, but I would argue differently.

1:39.4

There is Rod Sailing, the writer who comes on screen after the story is finished and tells you what's

1:45.5

coming next week. But then there's Rod Sailing who introduces and closes out our episode with

1:52.2

this beautifully phrased and insightful poetry. That Rod Sailing, for me, is part of the twilight zone he may be god or guide or something completely beyond our

2:06.6

understanding but he is the constant in this crazy multiverse but is he the only one in a manner of speaking no

2:17.1

in the howling man we meet the devil, and when he

2:21.2

spoke of, he's described as appearing throughout history in various forms, but always war and death

2:28.9

would follow him. And in the twilight zone, we see several of those forms. We've met him in

2:36.2

escapeclaws, a nice place to visit, and of course the Harlem Man. His presence was felt in Still

2:44.2

Valley and we'll meet him again before this journey is over. But tonight's Twilight Zone wraps up a trilogy of stories

2:53.6

concerning another recurring character

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