Description: Season 2, Episode 15
Air Date: January 27, 1961
Plot Summary: An old woman is tormented by tiny aliens that land of the roof of her house.
Review: This is another one of those classic episodes I don't think deserves the legendary status. I never really felt this episode was anything special and the twist is cheesy as hell. The story is simply too outlandish and nonsensical with all things considered. I mean, the no dialogue gimmick is interesting, but if I close my eyes it just sounds like I'm listening to porn--all that heavy breathing and moans! There are certainly better episodes that don't receive any recognition, so what makes this one stand out and worthy of the endless reruns?
In a nutshell, the story is simply about an old lady freaking out by little aliens attacking her. We are led to believe that the setting is in the middle of nowhere, or the past, but in reality it is a different planet altogether. The little aliens are not actually aliens, but, are, in fact, human astronauts that have landed on a world with giant humanoids. What I don't understand is why would astronauts land on a planet that would be this hostile? Plus, this is supposed to be the first ship yet they just happen to land on a planet with humanoids? Was there no surveying ahead of time? And while the old lady does start the fight, why wouldn't they simply escape instead of trying to fight her? Ehh, I find the whole situation questionable and forced in an attempt to deliver an underwhelming twist. TZ's typical flair was missing this time around or something. I can appreciate what they were going for, but it could have been a lot better with a less corny twist.
The human astronauts were sure in some round fat spacesuits, they sorta looked like round balls with feet walking. For first time watchers, you really don't see the twist coming, viewers are just made to believe that it's just some country woman in a little rural log cabin somewhere on a mountainside. Even the fact that the woman doesn't talk, but just gasps, screams, and breathes heavy. That's all believable in the human sense under the circumstances. She's alone, and she's scared by these weird little things which suddenly showed up.
ReplyDeleteI didn't look at it in any porn sense, sorry, lol. She was screaming and making noise because she was scared. Except for that she didn't speak any English or any language and just screamed and gasped, every other thing about her seemed exactly just like a typical middle aged woman. I do understand the question about why those "little" spacemen kept coming back to fight her instead of running. If that one spaceman didnt idiotically show up in front of her door, she wouldn't have killed him and thrown him into the fire. They should've fled their spacecraft sooner before the "giant woman" attacked their spacecraft.
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