You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Your next stop, the Twilight's on.

The Twilight's On. As people, we tend to categorize things, arrange them into neat little boxes so we can say definitively what that

thing is. Inevitably, we do this with our entertainment too. Action, adventure, romance, horror.

And when a film or television show has a foot in a couple of these genres then

we mash up those titles into clumsy hybrids but with science fiction and fantasy

the two of them together like that just rolls off the tongue quite nicely so what is

science fiction and what is fantasy? In a moment

Rod Sailing is going to give you his take on that. But when tonight's episode opens,

there isn't a hint of either of those things. Just an idyllic summer's day. Kids playing baseball with a grandfatherly figure.

Come on, let's play ball. What? Where?

All right. Never mind. Let's do something else. How about Spaceman? Well, all those who wish to

play Spaceman, raise their hands.

Alright, and this time, Jenny, you're the Martian.

No.

Oh, it's your turn.

I know, but gee, Ben, I can't turn into things the way you can.

Oh, come on, Ben. Don't be a dirty guy.

Ben, if only you had listened. Now, in this opening scene, we see that the old man, Ben, don't be a dirty guy. Ben, if only you had listened. Now, in this opening scene we see that the old man, Ben, seems to favor Jenny over the group of boys that they're playing with.

And this relationship between those two in particular is something that we'll talk about throughout the episode.

But I think at this point, Ben is playfully balancing the is something that we'll talk about throughout the episode.

But I think at this point, Ben is playfully balancing things out in the group.

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