Number 7 Looks Just Like You

Okay...this isn't an entry on science fiction per se, or the Twilight Zone episode "Number 7 Looks Just Like You," I am just so sick of being bombarded by TV commericals where skeletally thin women tout the use of diet drugs like Hydroxy Cut, or Weight Watchers and Jenny Craid tout their services (at least Valerie Bertinelli and...the new woman she's partnered with...have curves!)

Then there's Yahoo News and other gossip site on the internet, where people get all hot and bothered about the clothing the female actresses wore to some function ("Best and Worst Dressed at the Emmies, Lady GaGa's Style Mistake), crap like that.

Then, because I watch crime dramas like CSI on the Spike Channel, I have to see these revolting commericals for series like Blue Mountain State, and it just makes me think...the coarsening and dumbing down of America is complete.

The one thing cable has over satellite

I've been DVD-R-ing the Twilight Zone marathon all day yesterday and today... except now at 11:37 pm I can no longer do it because it is raining here in torrents...

And the rain is preventing the satellite signal from reaching my satellite receiver...

So all I have on my delightful TV is the blue box of the DirectTV logo bouncing up and down and around!

And some of my favorite episodes were coming up, too!

Not that it's a complete loss.

These programs, being shown on the Sci Fi Channel, have had bits and pieces cut out of them, in order to make room for all the extra commercials that are being shown.

If you've never seen the originals, you might not know what you're missing, except there'd be a little bit of a disappointment in each episode, a little resonance that is lost... but if you have seen the originals then you know you've been cheated!

ANother thing that annoys me about the Twilight Zone marathon is that, although it's done every year for the 4th of July, they never, ever show them in chronological order. And I'd love to see them in chronological order, with the progression in the types of stories done and in the sophisticatedness of the plots, which you miss when they jump all around like this.

Which is why if you've got the moolah, you should buy the complete set, from Amazon.com



28 discs, ....

Oh, it just came back... halfway through The Lonely, in which convicted murderer Jack Warden is presented with an android, played by Jean Marsh, with human feelings and emotions... whom they leave behind when he's picked up at the end of the episode...