Day 15 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar and our friend Cerebral P says the holidays bring a time of reflection and sometimes different perspectives.

Which episodes upon further viewing or analysis of have you had a polar turnaround in your

opinion of?

Have any stories you may have dismissed or overlooked brought you a new appreciation for?

Okay, Zach, I'll let you go first on this one, man.

Any that you've had to turn around on?

You know, re-evaluation is such a trendy thing these days, especially online and in fandom,

like hot takes, you know, it's like hot takes, like Batman and Robin was actually good, right? Stuff

like that. It's like, okay, I don't know about that. But, you know, I don't think any of my opinions on Twilight Zone episodes have radically

changed either way.

Really?

Like, there certainly haven't been any that I like less.

But I, when I was thinking about this, I thought about kick the can.

And that's one I avoided for a long time because I saw the movie version first and thought

it was pretty lame and then when I finally saw the episode I was like oh wow this is a much

better approach to this story so that's that would be my answer and I guess another one I could

have a more to the question answer answer to the question would be King

Nine will not return when I first saw it. I thought it was a bit of a shallow rehash of previous

Twilight Zone tropes and ideas. And I mean, I think I still kind of do, but I don't like actively

dislike it, you know, having seen it more than once now. So those would be my answers.

I completely know what you mean about the reevaluation thing. And this is not my quote. This is your

quote when I seen you kind of talking about it online where you're like, you know, that thing

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