4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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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 Twilight Zone. |
0:26.4 | In another dimension, the pilot episode of the Twilight Zone wasn't called Where Is Everybody? |
0:40.3 | But it was called I Shot an Arrow into the air. |
0:44.3 | Now of course we all recall the episode of the Twilight Zone called I Shot an Arrow into the air |
0:50.3 | about the rocket ship to crash lands on a seemingly alien planet. |
0:56.0 | But the pilot we almost got resembles that episode in Name Alone. |
1:02.0 | This version concerned an intelligent young boy whose father was killed when his homemade rocket ship exploded. |
1:11.6 | And because of this, the boy is somewhat of a laughing stock amongst his peers, |
1:17.6 | so he tends to be quite a solitary soul. |
1:20.6 | And as a result, while he's taking a walk alone one day in the woods, |
1:26.6 | he finds a wounded alien and the two become friends. |
1:30.3 | So the boy helps the alien and he's able to leave Earth in his spaceship and head for home. |
1:37.3 | So because of this, the boy grows up inspired and succeeds where his father failed in becoming an astronaut. |
1:47.1 | And when he makes it into space, he again meets up with the alien who he helped in the woods. |
1:54.1 | The title I shot an arrow into the air which came from the first line of a poem about |
1:59.8 | friendship called The Arrow and the Song |
2:03.6 | seems to fit this story better than the episode that it actually ended up being the title of. |
2:10.6 | But that's in another dimension. In this dimension, that version of I shot an arrow into the air |
2:18.3 | is another example of rod sailing keeping something |
2:22.3 | that maybe didn't quite work in reserve, |
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