Re: Twilight Zone - long distance call

[Guest guest]

That was an excellent and packed with meaning episode too - thanks

for posting it. Makes you think the Twilight Zone writer (Rod

Serling?) came from a family with some serious dysfunction. I was

slightly relieved that the episode wasn't what I thought it would be

though it was still exceedingly creepy.

To me the first huge " tell " that the grandmother's got a lock on the

boy is when he goes to blow out his birthday candles and she stops

him and tells him how to do it - her way - and then lets him proceed,

her way. It was so sad how the boy just went along with it all

believing she was giving him love - and what else would he do? how

was he to have a sophistication many adults don't? Also

heartrending is when the father begs for his son's life. Anyway

I'll say no more not to spoil the ending if anyone is still to watch

it.

Here's what I feared the episode was about based on what you

wrote...that the grandmother, by way of the telephone line, sucks out

the life force of the boy and he gets weaker and weaker until dead.

I wonder how many of us has felt a small version of that happening on

the phone in real life?

Shiver.

> >

> > There's a Twilight Zone episode called " It's a Good Life " that

reminds

> > me so much of what a BPD parent can make life like for those

around

> > them if they have control. The show is about an omnipotent six

year-

> > old and the destruction that power in a child's hands can cause.

> > Considering those with BPD are like emotional children and their

power

> > as parents with young children is God-like it's a pretty sobering

thing.

> >

> > Here's the episode:

> > part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3v9BBYeQc

> > part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtu5cnJzpjo & feature=related

> > part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7glAsly-USE & feature=related

> >

> > What thoughts does this spark?

> >

> >

> >

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[Guest guest]

I haven't watched these episodes, I hope my computer will cooperate

and I can watch them sometime.

What I find really really interesting after reading these posts is

how obsessed my brother was with the Twilight Zone. I mean

*obsessed* I tried to watch it with him as a kid but never, ever

could understand it or find it the least bit interesting. He

obviously did. He had it much worse, as a child, then I got it

moreso as the adult.

So sad. But now I understand why my brother was so obsessed with the

TZ.

> > >

> > > There's a Twilight Zone episode called " It's a Good Life " that

> reminds

> > > me so much of what a BPD parent can make life like for those

> around

> > > them if they have control. The show is about an omnipotent six

> year-

> > > old and the destruction that power in a child's hands can

cause.

> > > Considering those with BPD are like emotional children and

their

> power

> > > as parents with young children is God-like it's a pretty

sobering

> thing.

> > >

> > > Here's the episode:

> > > part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db3v9BBYeQc

> > > part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=mtu5cnJzpjo & feature=related

> > > part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7glAsly-

USE & feature=related

> > >

> > > What thoughts does this spark?

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

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