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Post by brainwobbler on Oct 8, 2011 5:04:46 GMT -5
Would you say that Gary's experience of finding that passage and being able to go back to 1940 was very much reminiscent of the sort of story that could have been in Rod Serlings The Twilight Zone??, I'm a big fan of The Twlight Zone too so I couldn't help making a comparison, take away the GS comedy element and it would have been Twilight Zone material to a 'T' for me (no pun intended ;D).
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Post by nostradamus on Oct 8, 2011 13:10:32 GMT -5
Would you say that Gary's experience of finding that passage and being able to go back to 1940 was very much reminiscent of the sort of story that could have been in Rod Serlings The Twilight Zone??, I'm a big fan of The Twlight Zone too so I couldn't help making a comparison, take away the GS comedy element and it would have been Twilight Zone material to a 'T' for me (no pun intended ;D). I can go along with that. The Twilight Zone was a good collection of stories, tight in direction and well produced. I see what you mean about taking away the comedy element from Goodnight Sweetheart; the ' zone ' stories always had a darker side to them, Goodnight Sweetheart certainly had that underneath the comedy exterior. As an aside I remember a Twilight Zone story shown in the UK around 1990/1 which had little people appearing to move things around during periods of sleep and/ or lapses in concentration. I forget the absolute reasoning behind it, but it went a long way to explain those ' lost keys ', moments that we all encounter in life.. Classic.  |
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Post by tintwistle on Oct 8, 2011 23:16:00 GMT -5
I am a big fan of "The Twilight Zone" and have seen all 156 episodes of that fine series.
I agree that the opening episode of "Goodnight Sweetheart" would have made a rather engaging TZ, particularly when Gary walks through Duckett's Passage for the first time and notices the ack-ack gun and barrage balloon. That is when he realises that his initial experience in 1940 London was not a theme pub at all, but the real thing.
Of course, GS (being a sitcom) goes for the laughs -- and most effectively so too! That is something missing from Rod Serling's DNA, sort of a blind spot in his writing genius (witness "Mr. Bevis," "A Most Unusual Camera," "The Whole Truth," "Cavender Is Coming," and "The Bard"), but Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks have just the right touch to make this sort of story work as a comedy time-travel adventure.
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Post by pat10 on Oct 9, 2011 8:05:18 GMT -5
I agree i was a fan of the twilight zone as a kid and my fav episodes where the time travel one's and i think that is what drew me to goodnight sweetheart.
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Post by nostradamus on Oct 9, 2011 14:02:46 GMT -5
Good insights, and good posts!
Keep them coming.. :-)
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Post by brainwobbler on Oct 11, 2011 4:31:25 GMT -5
I agree i was a fan of the twilight zone as a kid and my fav episodes where the time travel one's and i think that is what drew me to goodnight sweetheart. There was indeed a few time travel themes in the series, I can think of a particular story from the post-Rod Serling series remake era called 'A Message From Charity', I first saw this when it was broadcast on TV back in the mid-80's, I've now got the DVD, this story like GS also had a...well...what I suppose for want of a better phrase could be called a 'Cross Time Love Story' ;D, in this case though it didn't involve personal time travel, the two stayed physically in their own time but were able to see each others respective time zones through mental focus and of course they could speak to each other too, what's also interesting about this idea of falling in love with someone from another time is it's not as daft or impossible as we realize, I mean, how many of us have seen an old photo of someone who may have lived a 100 years ago and thought "Wow she looked nice...wish I was born earlier"..."He looked handsome...I was born too late", it's not as uncommon as it seems, it's just that few would openly admit that because they are afraid of being thought of as daft but in fact it's quite natural and normal to think that. |
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Post by tintwistle on Oct 14, 2011 10:12:49 GMT -5
What's also interesting about this idea of falling in love with someone from another time is it's not as daft or impossible as we realize, I mean, how many of us have seen an old photo of someone who may have lived a 100 years ago and thought "Wow she looked nice...wish I was born earlier"..."He looked handsome...I was born too late", it's not as uncommon as it seems, it's just that few would openly admit that because they are afraid of being thought of as daft but in fact it's quite natural and normal to think that. That's true, and there are even some "Historical Crush" website threads, such as these two. www.historum.com/general-history/5797-historical-crush.htmlwww.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.283884-Who-is-your-historical-crushTintwistle |
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Post by nostradamus on Oct 17, 2011 12:23:13 GMT -5
I agree i was a fan of the twilight zone as a kid and my fav episodes where the time travel one's and i think that is what drew me to goodnight sweetheart. There was indeed a few time travel themes in the series, I can think of a particular story from the post-Rod Serling series remake era called 'A Message From Charity', I first saw this when it was broadcast on TV back in the mid-80's, I've now got the DVD, this story like GS also had a...well...what I suppose for want of a better phrase could be called a 'Cross Time Love Story' ;D, in this case though it didn't involve personal time travel, the two stayed physically in their own time but were able to see each others respective time zones through mental focus and of course they could speak to each other too, what's also interesting about this idea of falling in love with someone from another time is it's not as daft or impossible as we realize, I mean, how many of us have seen an old photo of someone who may have lived a 100 years ago and thought "Wow she looked nice...wish I was born earlier"..."He looked handsome...I was born too late", it's not as uncommon as it seems, it's just that few would openly admit that because they are afraid of being thought of as daft but in fact it's quite natural and normal to think that. It's all relevant to me! ;D |
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