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 Zone, we've seen many examples of the show using various tools to illustrate its message.

Shows about aliens, that aren't really about aliens.

Episodes about robots, but they're not really talking about robots.

Anybody with the most rudimentary knowledge of the Twilight Zone knows that

Sailing was using the show to illustrate various aspects of humanity, conflicts,

universal aspects of human suffering, things we go through in our day-to-day lives,

that Bond does these aspects of the human condition.

But the Twilight Zone isn't the only show to do this.

You know, take for example the original series of Star Trek and the episode, Let That

Be Your Last Battlefield.

And the episode showed conflict between two aliens from the planet Sharon.

One of the aliens was black on one side and white on the other,

and his enemy was black on the opposite side and white on the other.

Now that's probably quite an on the nose example.

You know, you don't have to be a genius to figure out what Gene Roddenberry was going for there.

But using these devices gives the writer a place to explore the issues without commenting directly on actual world events, naming actual people and situations, but still being able to say something

about them. So one storytelling device that writers have used for literally centuries is the size

of a character in relation to another, where a human or humans encounter a being that is either

much larger or much smaller, and if the writer so feels, then the way they interact is usually

telling us something about ourselves. One of the most famous examples of this is the book

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift,

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