įor my money, the show foun d its groove somewhere around its 10th episode. But hey, it' s the Twilight Zone - twist endings come with the territory, even when they're easy enough to guess. The co mmi tment to "twist" endings, too, g ets a little formulaic. I imagine this was a decision not to re -inven t the wheel by the powers that be, but it results in going over a lot of well-trodden ground. "Cradle of Darkness" points to another pro blem with this revival : there are an awful lot of stories that have been done man y times an d from many dif ferent angles elsewhere. If it's an English-language production where the characters are all meant to be speaking a different language, why do we need to hear the actors saying " I see nuzink! " etc.? Are they speaking English with a German accent? Is it just to remind the audience that these are supposed to be Germans? Do people really need this? Meh. (There's a twist, naturally, to this.) But Heigl adopts a German "accent" throughout which is horribly distracting. I was genuinely shock ed when Heigl's character, baby clasped to her breast, act ually does kill both the baby and herself by jumping from a bridge. the " What if someone went back and time and killed Hitler" episode. Perhaps something of a statement about the series altogether.Īnother casting coup, Katherine Heigl, stars in the somewhat-old-hat-even-by-2002 "Cradle of Darkness", i.e. It's harmless enough, if not particularly groundbreaking. I rolled my eyes when I first heard it, but it grew on me after multiple viewings. T he theme is reimagined in a very Korn-by-numbers fashion by Jona than Davis (of K orn). I have zero problem with the way Forest Whitaker went about his job, but by consciously channeling Serling in this way, it forces the viewer to take notice of the different relationship between host-and -material in this version. This revival brought back the on-screen host, but Forest Whitaker is digitally transposed on the image and he reads lines someone else wrote for him. The 80s revival retained the narration ( by Charles Aidman) but as voiceover only. The viewer knew that lose or fail the guy on screen waving his cigarette around and breaking the fourth wall approved the scr ipt, if he hadn't written it himself. P art of what made Rod Serling's presence such an integral part of t he original show was that he was n't just the host who stepped into frame he was the head writer and showrunner. It was overseen primarily by Jim Rosenthal and Ira Steven Behr (along with John Watson, Mark Stern, and Pen Densham) and hosted by Forest Whitaker. The latest Twil ight Zone revival aired on the UPN network from 2002 to 2003.
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