Ear Of The Beholder: LIW The Twilight Zone Review

In this episode, Phoenix watches his real fears played out for him in the form of social unrest. This is one of the classic episodes of The Twilight Zone. Or at least it should be. It is by far the most relevant episode nowadays. Don't think so? The city of Dallas would disagree with you. That's what I thought. Anyway, Phoenix talks about how bullshit it is that at first Rod says "Maple Street, USA" which implies it's the only and then at the end they say "The world is full of Maple Streets." Which is it??

In this episode, Phoenix is once again bothered by the basic premise of the episode itself. Don't get it wrong, it's a good episode, but when it states that the mirror image person is there to replace you, it has to then replace you. It doesn't do that. It just is also there. No replacing at all. Nonsense. Anyway, this episode features a female character that doesn't cook or clean or any of that stereotypical nonsense. Instead, she's a business woman with a head on her shoulders and all that other female stereotypical nonsense. She's not type A. She's type B.

In this episode, Phoenix tears up a character for not realizing a clearly fake dog was fake, despite landing a GIANT FUCKING ROCKETSHIP feet away from it and it not running away while shitting itself in fear. He also talks about how a town full of "flesh-and-blood" people that can't move are easy prey for a lonely astronaut without something to fuck on the reg. It would happen. I'm not saying it's right but it would 100% happen.

In this episode, Phoenix tears up a character for not realizing a clearly fake dog was fake, despite landing a GIANT FUCKING ROCKETSHIP feet away from it and it not running away while shitting itself in fear. He also talks about how a town full of "flesh-and-blood" people that can't move are easy prey for a lonely astronaut without something to fuck on the reg. It would happen. I'm not saying it's right but it would 100% happen.

In this episode, Phoenix talks about the money making gift of being able to see if someone will die soon. Not in war though, it's useless in war. He also goes in depth on a scenario about choosing which soldiers should go, seeing which ones will die, taking them out and then seeing which ones will die because of that.... and the endless cycle of choosing the perfect war team would be. He also discusses this episode of The Twilight Zone.

In this episode, Phoenix talks about the money making gift of being able to see if someone will die soon. Not in war though, it's useless in war. He also goes in depth on a scenario about choosing which soldiers should go, seeing which ones will die, taking them out and then seeing which ones will die because of that.... and the endless cycle of choosing the perfect war team would be. He also discusses this episode of The Twilight Zone.

This is the only lost episode in the LIW catalogue. Not sure what happened but it's ironic that in this TZ episode about time travel and being lost in the clouds, the episode got lost and Frank and Phoenix had to go back in time to record a past episode to replace it. Phoenix liked this episode a lot more the second time around and Frank says it's in his top 10 episode list which if you're an astute listener, Frank now has 40 episodes in his top 10 and Phoenix has 3. Anyway, enjoy this episode that is being inserted as if it were the original. We're just ignoring the discrepancy from here out.

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Original show notes if you're curious:

(In this episode, Phoenix is baffled by the nonsense version of time travel this episode attempts to pass off. He also goes off on how the Major in this episode was amazed at "white clouds" and how he thought that was specific enough to warrant a miracle. Good episode though. Not amazing. Good TZ "crazy man that nobody believes" stuff here.)

This is the only lost episode in the LIW catalogue. Not sure what happened but it's ironic that in this TZ episode about time travel and being lost in the clouds, the episode got lost and Frank and Phoenix had to go back in time to record a past episode to replace it. Phoenix liked this episode a lot more the second time around and Frank says it's in his top 10 episode list which if you're an astute listener, Frank now has 40 episodes in his top 10 and Phoenix has 3. Anyway, enjoy this episode that is being inserted as if it were the original. We're just ignoring the discrepancy from here out.

www.LIWstudios.com

Original show notes if you're curious:

(In this episode, Phoenix is baffled by the nonsense version of time travel this episode attempts to pass off. He also goes off on how the Major in this episode was amazed at "white clouds" and how he thought that was specific enough to warrant a miracle. Good episode though. Not amazing. Good TZ "crazy man that nobody believes" stuff here.)

In this episode, Phoenix tears up a character for not realizing a clearly fake dog was fake, despite landing a GIANT FUCKING ROCKETSHIP feet away from it and it not running away while shitting itself in fear. He also talks about how a town full of "flesh-and-blood" people that can't move are easy prey for a lonely astronaut without something to fuck on the reg. It would happen. I'm not saying it's right but it would 100% happen.

In this episode, Phoenix talks about the money making gift of being able to see if someone will die soon. Not in war though, it's useless in war. He also goes in depth on a scenario about choosing which soldiers should go, seeing which ones will die, taking them out and then seeing which ones will die because of that.... and the endless cycle of choosing the perfect war team would be. He also discusses this episode of The Twilight Zone.