Rod Serling's Key of Imagination

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Witness if you will a writer: Rod Serling. This is the story of a man with a vision -- a vision of what television could be if only men ceased to operate out of fear and greed. But Rod Serling has a plan. He will use the camouflage of monsters, both real and imagined, to reveal what cannot be said about society, and what Mr. Serling himself cannot say about his own fears and regrets. And those monsters dwell in a state of mind called . . . The Twilight Zone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:05.3	our disbelief.
0:06.6	I always enjoy good Rod Sirling in personation, because his voice is just so much fun to
0:13.3	do.
0:14.3	I offer you a recipe, combine one part small town neighborhood with a dash of missing
0:19.2	trophy and what you're left with is a gumball fit only for a matma.
0:23.1	The time is now, on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed.
0:28.6	There's any fear of consideration, Springfield, an average little town, with a not so average
0:34.4	monster.
0:36.9	But Rod Sirling wasn't doing an intentionally spooky voice, that's just how we talked.
0:41.7	Also that style of writing, tonight, for your approval, a podcast.
0:45.5	That was not intentionally affected, that's just how he wrote.
0:49.4	And along the same lines, it's been difficult to revive the Twilight Zone, certainly not for
0:54.5	lack of trying.
0:56.1	There's a movie in 1983, a reboot in 1985, another reboot in 2002, and of course the latest
1:02.5	one is on CBS All Access.
1:05.8	In the verdict in all of these reboots has been the same, something's missing.
1:10.0	In fact, the latest series has inspired a lot of think pieces about what's missing, from
1:15.6	the fact that you can show and say anything on TV now as opposed to the 50s and 60s, to
1:20.9	the fact that the new show is an hour long instead of half an hour.
1:24.4	And as many people have pointed out, we already have a Twilight Zone in our era.
1:28.6	Black Mirror.
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