I Shot An Arrow Into The Air - Twilight-Tober Zone
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2020
- "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" has an interesting story behind the creation of it and is remembered quite fondly by most fans, but does Walter agree? Find out now on a new episode of the Twilight-Tober Zone.
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"I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is episode 15 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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I quite liked it, though the twist ending was a little similar to "Third from the Sun", only this time, they actually WERE on Earth all along! 🌎🌞
The title is I Shot An Arrow In The *Air* Walter!
You forgot to mention that Rod Serling wrote the screenplay to the Planet of the Apes.
I always thought this episode was kind of an interesting one and pretty funny for me personally because I was born and raised in Reno Nevada.
I agree with you. This definitely isn't among my top favorite episodes. I usually skip it.
I dont think the acting at the end was bad. He cracked. He just killed two men he likely knew for years because he thought he was in a kill or be killed situation. I do agree that They could have made his transition more subtle.
They kinda addressed it with his two colleagues asking each other if they saw what happened to him, as in maybe a TBI during the crash is responsible for the personality change, keeping it clinical, as opposed to a literary matter of personality development.
Walter as usual gives absolutes when he misses the point, which makes him look a little silly
yeah but that laugh really sounds like Elmer Fudd, so...
His acting at the end is the highlight for me! happy, laughing at the Irony, and sad all at the same time
Fun fact, Rod Serling worked on the script for the original Planet Of The Apes movie, which has the twist about being on Earth the whole time, similar to this episode's ending
Hmm, what a twist, that makes sense, and explains the similarities somewhat! 😂😉
I went in expecting him to mention that, thanks for doing it instead!
Thanks for ruining the 50 year old movie for everyone :P
Similar, yes, but in "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" the only ape was Corey.
Ah. Very interesting.
This is actually one of my top episodes. It makes perfect sense that he’d laugh. He finally realized how ironically stupid he’s been acting, and the realization that they easily could have survived by cooperating and that he’d just murdered two people over a couple extra sips of water drove him insane. While this episodes isn’t what I’d call Lovecraftian, suddenly going insane at the realization of a sudden, unimaginable truth smacks of his writing.
It’s a weak episode with below average writing from Serling
Imagine them seeing a Rat, and them saying, "Look! Alien life!"
Yeah, they would have at least seen birds, ants, and other common life and realized, but yeah: Twilight Zone.
I think that they would've caught on had they'd saw birds in the sky. Unlike Abbott and Costello!
Convergent evolution. On alien planets, life evolved in the same way as our planet
"We just crash landed back on Earth"? Why isn't that the obvious first assumption?
Because it’s the twilight zone
because in 50s writing, as soon as you reach space its like a magic fasttravel hub to reach any ridiculous location within moments
@@oriondye3212 I know, but this is a hard sell for me. (It would've been even harder if it was in colour)
I love how it was an inverse of the previous episode, which took place on a planet that we were lead to believe was Earth!
@@S1nwar And I guess you needed to wait for only a decade for this logic to make sense (Planet of the Apes).
There was a story in the Green Lantern 80th anniversary issue that copied this twist. Hal believes he’s on an alien planet and uses the last of the power in his ring to send messages to people, only for power to run out and he not only realises he’s on Earth but there’s no recall function on the messages.
I think the ending would have been much improved if it had that montage of him walking and climbing for miles and miles, then he dies in seemingly the middle of nowhere and the camera pans over the ridge to see the highway
Watch the episode, whenever Cory drinks water, half of it just goes down his chin
I think in movies and cartoons many times they do this so the watcher feels extremely uncomfortable. It WORKS so well.
@@Szokynyovics
No fairly sure they do that to show how extremely thirsty the character is by showing them trying to take in as much water as they can but it pours into their mouth faster than they can drink and spills down their chin.
@@Szokynyovics NO it doesn't, it just feels stupid.
It really bothers me; if I were in that situation I'd be making sure literally not a drop was wasted. They're so casual about dying of thirst.
If Sterling was that inspired by this story, then that woman could’ve been something great
Luckily she knew her place.
Wtf
Yeah wtf?
Not necessarily, there’s a lot of people out there wherein they have one great idea, or one great song, or one great inspiration, then nothing. A good example would be all the” one hit wonders” songs. Not everyone is a font of creative genius held down by the oppressive patriarchy 😜.
@@oriondye3212
What are you being so defensive about? Nobody said anything about patriarchy. There literally are more misogynistic than feminist responses in this thread, yet *this* is what you choose to speak up about?
Nice little hint as to the next episode at the end there. “The Hitchhiker” was one of the spookiest episodes that in my opinion doesn’t get out done until the Season 5 Episode “Terror at 20000 Feet” with William Shatner.
As for “I Shot an Arrow Into the Air,” I agree with you. The pacing was off pretty badly. Those 15 or 20 or however many minutes after Donnely’s death (when Sterling is narrating for Corey to “keep walking”) could have been cut and that extra time used for the development of Corey’s character and his descent into madness.
@@KairuHakubi Right? It really didn't feel like it belonged there at all.
I actually saw a Green Lantern anniversary issue use this set up. The ending was less tragic tho as the other JL members laughed at Hals messages he sent when he thought he would die.
i was just about to comment about this
The sad part in every survival scenario is that the jerk is almost always pragmatically right: YES, that dude with the broken leg will slow us down. YES the chasing bear will get the least fit person first. YES the bleeding one will attract predators (Riddick reference anyone?) YES the panicking and crying one will doom everyone when hiding and stealth is essential. (Mass Effect had a side-storyline about an Asari soldier who had to "silence" a little girl in order to stay hidden and survive , and was traumatised by the act)
I bet this would’ve been a terrific hour-long episode in the fourth season.
Agreed. I wish it were longer so the nightmare builds tension.
I actually really liked this episode. I didn’t see the twist coming mainly because the twilight zone loves itself some wormholes and unexplainably quick travellings of long distances, so when they show up on this planet you do just kind of assume that’s what happened. I actually liked his acting at the end because it looked like it was finally snapping completely and I could see the journey throughout the episode that made use of the time they had. First comes the decision to not give some of your limited water to someone who’s already dead, then the decision to take water from someone who dies from a fall, then the final decision of straight up murder.
I remember watching it and just KNOWING it was going to Planet of the Apes me. I had to look up the two programs airing dates and was surprised and pleased to see that Twilight Zone was 8 years before Planet of the Apes, Serling did it first.
Sadly, the "we were on Earth all along" trope has been done to death and robbed this episode of it's shock.
Exactly. When I first saw this episode, just a few minutes in, I knew that they never left Earth which was why they couldn't be tracked out in space. This trope has been to death so much, that this one felt rather disappointing twist-wise.
Rod Serling wrote Planet of the Apes.
I didn’t see it coming at all. Because they built up the water aspect I thought the twist was going to be, THERE WAS A PARADISE ALL ALONG or THERE WAS AN ALIEN CIVILIZATION ALL ALONG where it would make it so the deaths were pointless but instead it hit me with IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG and I was like no fucking way *insert gaped mouth pikachu face* 😂
It always bugged me, how fast the Cory guy went coocoo at almost the first sign of unfortunate events. I mean, they're supposed to be the best of the best, people who's sent to space, right; they're supposed to have training for these kinds of bad situations, be better about reacting to disasters, managing stressful situations, surviving in bad conditions. But here's this guy acting hysterical, irrational, and helpless *right off the bat*, so I asked myself, who actually trained him? who evaluated his psychological state and deemed him suited for any space mission?.. I understand that this is pure fiction so the plot could get a little wacky and the characters could be-- unrealistically unprepared for the events of their plotline, but still. In my opinion, too, if the main charater was shown first as a capable individual who gradually succumbed to madness and selfish need to survive at the price of his brethren's lives, it could be more believable and dramatic. It wouldn't habe even needed to have more screentime or anything, some timeskips, and little details/changes in the behavior, and, like, small moments of some inner monologues maybe, could have shown the slow descent of human sanity and morals good enough. But it's just me, I'm no screenwriter nor director, so I could be totally off about this stuff.
You're describing literally ALL sci-fi Hollywood movies/series. This one at least has the honor of not being cliché yet. but when you get to shit like Interstellar having characters acting EXACTLY in this same irrational way, you see why almost no sci-fi movie works, apart from Alien, Blade Runner and 2001.
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 haha probably. As I said, i'm no professional, just saying what i think :b
@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 The Veronica Cartwright character in Alien acts irrational from nearly the outset.
i think they wanted him to be despicable from the very beginning. if they wanted to show gradual descent to madness then yeah, they didn't do a good job at it 😅
So far in this series this is one of the things I find most unrealistic- people go crazy so quickly. The guy with his past self and younger parents in Walking Distance, the guy whose copilot disappeared in And When The Sky Was Opened, how quickly the reader was ready to commit suicide after the H-Bomb hit, etc..
"I sneezed a sneeze into the air,
It fell to the earth, I know not where.
But hard and cold were the looks of those,
In whose vacinity I had snoze. "☺️
I agree cory’s “development” was rushed and the story didn’t have enough time to be fully flushed out but it kept me on edge and interested while it’s not one of my top favorites it’s still pretty good
I think the character's motivations are completely understandable and relatable if you put yourself in his shoes. As far as he is aware he's on an asteroid somewhere hurtling through space, and the chances of any kind of rescue are slim to none. Obviously in that scenario you'd want to survive as long as possible, and with limited resources, and little hope of getting more it's not a huge leap to assume that those resources would last a lot longer if you didn't have to share them with two other people. Also the assumption that they're on an asteroid removes the fear of dealing with the consequences of his actions. You can't be tried for murder if there's no one around to answer to but yourself. I Shot an Arrow into the Air is not one of my favorite episodes, but that's only because there are so many other episodes that I think are a lot better. It's a good episode though, and I like it because I feel it shows the links that we're all probably capable of reaching whether we want to admit it or not.
I think to make the episodes pacing and development to work better, I would change 2 things.
1. No one starts acting properly desperate and survivalist till at least a bit later
2. The driving force of suvivalist nature shouldn't have been held on the shoulders of one man but balanced across the other actors turning into an almost free for all until one victor emerges
Among us - Twilight zone edition
It's one of my favorites! The performance of the actor who played Corey was hamfisted at best, but the Captain's performance made up for it! It's the story that grabs me, one of most bitter of the show, in that the compassion of the captain is so easily snuffed out by panic and desperation, a word of caution to remember during Corona times: having an everyone themself attitude can make a terrible situation even more horrible!
I always found it funny how when the lead goes “we just crashed back to earth” or whatever at the end of the episode, I was like “thanks for the VERY necessary observation”
Would've preferred "So... they call this planet 'Nevada' do they?" Then he just goes on observing how similar planet Nevada's lifeforms and culture are to those on Earth. "This is a great martini. It's almost like the ones they have on Earth" and the cocktail waitress just slowly backs away.
@@purerasslin91 I would change it with him standing at the top of the hill, then starts to laugh. As he’s continues to laugh, we see the signs and phone lines. Then Sterling’s narration comes on as in the background we still hear the astronaut laughing. We can come to the conclusion they never left from just seeing the sign of Reno and phone lines.
@@purerasslin91Um sir,this is a Chile's?
I think desperation for survival and the reveal that the heroes were not as far from help as they thought may have been done better elsewhere, but I'll let this episode have credit for influencing the trope.
Definitely my favorite episode so far
I'm never this early! I love these little breakdowns of episodes i loved to watch as a kid.
There is an excellent song by the band Murder by Death called, "I Shot an Arrow," named after this episode.
One huge plot hole is this:
If Pearson found the highway and the truth, why did he go all the way back to his crewmates?
Why didn't he just sit down by the road, flag down a ride to the nearest diner and phone HQ?
This was one of the most memorable episodes, my Pop and I loved the twist at the end!
Ted Otis, who plays Pierson, is still with us, and at 88. In fact, with the death of Dewey Martin (Corey) in 2018, Otis is the last living cast member of this episode.
“I shot an arrow into the air, it landed I know not where”
Oh my God, i was wrong! It was Earth all along!
I Love You Dr Zaius!
I like how they have absolutely no survival training. "Man it's awfully hot out here in the sun, unlike the obvious shade in every shot." "Somehow the four of us survived but there's no remains of the ship large enough to make a shelter from." "The first priority is to bury the dead." "My resources are best spent marching you at gunpoint miles away to where you claim you didn't kill our colleague."
This is one of the few where I actually guessed the ending. The twist (it's the Twilight Zone, so inevitably there is one) was planted when they mentioned the sun looked to be the same size as when viewed on Earth. There's some good drama here in following Donlin's fruitless attempt to maintain humanity in a hopeless situation, but Corey is just an asshole from start to finish. If he's not overplaying his lines or wastefully letting half the water pour out of his canteen, there's a half dozen other reasons to loathe his character.
I really hope they get to a nice place to visit. Its my favorite episode.
I remember watching this episode and figuring out the twist ending based mostly off of the title alone.
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Damn just realised now after all these years thanks to you lol
@@daleksupreme2913 Happy to help!
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My favorite episodes of the Twilight Zone are "A Stop at Willoughby" and "The Mighty Casey.' Both were original stories by Rod Sterling, however there were some differences from the actual stories. in "A Stop at Willoughby" The railroad that the main character travels on is mentioned. The railroad in question is the New Haven Railroad, an actual railroad known officially as the "New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad" that ran from New York City to Boston. in the episode the railroad's name is never mentioned and we never see the outside of the 1960 train, but we do see part of the outside of the 1888 train. In the story "The Mighty Casey" the team that Casey plays for is the Brooklyn Dodgers an actual baseball team that played in the National League from 1890 to 1957 before moving to Los Angeles in 1958 and becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers. In the episode the team is the Hoboken Zephyrs.
If the story had kept going after the ending twist, It makes you wonder what story that guy would have come up with to cover his actions :)
I loved this episode and it was one of my first TZs.
These reviews by Walter are the only things worth watching on this channel anymore.
It is mentioned that his crew was the first to be launched into space in history. So, basically, this episode retcons the And When the Sky Was Opened, which also mentioned that crew shown in that episode was also the first one in space.
that crew literally disappeared from existence
Me: reads title.
My brain:... arrow roulette
Love these reviews!
Amazing series
There is one imposter among us...
Please bring back the intros to twilight tober zone!
Great Episode
One of my favourite episodes
for thoes interested Its The Arrow and The Song :
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
by Henry Longfellow i believe
Been waiting for this one
One of my favorites
Just bought the complete series. You guys sold me on it.
Enjoy!
This was the episode that got me hooked on Twilight Zone
Awesome :)
I was never bothered by the acting in this episode...the twist at the end is worth it anyway :)
I like these so much I decided to subscribe. Like the other content too so I might stick around.
Definitely one of the more memorable twists. I wonder if The Mist's film ending was inspired by it
I haven't seen it lately, but one of Cory's big mistakes is right after killing Donlin for his water. When he approaches the colonel, he ACTS like he's had plenty of water. He should keep on complaining instead.
Where survival is more important than helping your fellow man? Sounds like Among Us to me
4:18 That actually made me laugh more than it should have
Is the next episode "The hitch-hiker"!? I love that episode!
I love this episode
I liked the episode because of the ending but you made really good points
love it. make tracks Mr Corey make tracks
3:54 That goofy laugh, though.
Remember watching this one when I was younger!
Next time The Hitchhiker!
I just realized that Loki in the first Avengers Movie said a line similar to the title of this episode.
What doesn't make sense in this episode is that they thought that they had traveled through space. This would be like taking off in an airplane to Japan, crashing in Kansas then just assuming you're in Japan because that is where the plane was supposed to land and you have some sort of robot brain that only processes things in a binary manner. I don't remember them explaining anything like being Foxen or Hyper Sleep to try and explain the lapse either. It's almost like Rod took the idea from this and the other episode The Rip Van Winkle Caper to form the basis of his script for the Planet of the Apes to make sense. Like there needed to be something to make them question why a trip was super short.
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I love the Drago shout out!😆
I agree, maybe it might have been better in the hour long season?
As someone else said, the laugh at the end was definitely that of someone who's completely cracked at a horrific realization.
This seems more real than other episodes as it's something that could potentially actually happen... except they should have space suits on till realizing they're on Earth.
You're not alone, when I finish watching the series or even the season one episodes (as of me writing this, this is the most recent episode I've watched), I doubt I'll remember this one.
I was impressed with the launch sequence. The rocket/spaceship looks different than what we see today, but the launch sequence looks authentic. I don't believe you could fake a launch to look as if it were reaching orbit or do a launch without some FAA approval. I imagine that was part of the stock footage and likely from NASA. Anyone know the source?
First! I loved this twist, it was delightful.
Aw yes! I like this one.
I remember this episode, I understand why they did what they did. But, the disloyalty among the crew rubs me the wrong way. I agree with you, if things where paced and written better it would have been a great story. Being a crew they should have worked together longer before the survival instincts kicked in and they started killing each other. Great episode but far from my favorite.
it's also gotta fit the 22-minute rule of tv , so you only got so long for the setup and punchline. So I can see what it would be rushed
@@darkmyroThis episode fits in the " If only it could have been a two parter" group.
The only series I click instantly on
I just watched this episode yesterday
1:51 Looks like upside-down Pacmen in the background. Foreshadowing or am I high?
His acting is good
ive never been this early. until today.
I liked it.
I've been watching the Twilight Zone for the first time. I already knew about the show's twisty nature so I began to see if I could guess the twist before it's revealed. Sometimes, I don't bother because the story is so good, I don't want to dwell on it and would rather just enjoy the show. Regardless, I've been right only once so far. For this episode, I initially saw Corey's actions as a red herring. He was so antagonistic, it almost felt too obvious. I wondered if the twist would be that the Captain was the one who snapped. I had another theory. When Person drew in the sand, I thought it was a airplane/ship. The twist was going to be that there was a functioning ship just past the mountain and that Cory killed his crew for nothing. But when I saw the real twist, I thought "That's so much better. Bitterly ironic."
Oh my God, I was wrong! It was Earth all along!
So you finally made a monkey!
(Yes we finally made a monkey!)
So you finally made a monkey out of me!
I love you Dr. Zaius!
It was interesting episode
This was a rare installment that I guessed the ending when I originally saw it a MILE away...far too obvious for a decent TZ entry, IMHO, I'm with the narrator on this one...;)
To be fair, I'm not entirely sure the twist was ever supposed to *not* be predictable. The episode is named for a (what was then) fairly well-known poem: "I shot an arrow into the air; *it fell to earth* I know not where"; the poem itself is quoted at one point during the episode (though with the reference to explicitly falling to earth removed); the fact that, unlike I think any other space travel TZ stories, we actually keep seeing the folks at NASA (or whatever the organisation was) trying to find out what's happened to them... The twist couldn't have been more foreshadowed if someone had come right out and said "know what, guys? I bet we're all still on Earth right now".
Granted it could have just been bad writing but part of me does think that it was less about "WHAT A TWIST" and more about hoping the audience catches on before the characters do and watching it as a piece of extended dramatic irony, similar to a Shakespearean tragedy.
I interpreted that crazy laugh at the end as already being so far gone in crazy selfishness, that he doesn't even really care.
I shot an arrow in the air is a reference to the poem "Song of the Arrow" by Longfellow. The next line is a big giveaway about what happens if you know the poem.
That's an amazing story of how this episode got conceived. I wish I could make a good story that a big shot show maker would take. :03
With today's technology, this would be much less believable. For the sake of the plot twist, and the interplay between the surviving crew members, I still like it. Speaking of "today's technology", look at that road at 4:08.
It had no fantasy element, like Where Is Everybody, Nightmare As a Child, and several subsequent episodes to come.
Agree with your review. Martin in playing Corey was shocking. I especially hated that stupid laugh at the end, very irritating. But the premise was good. Actually the first man in Space was Yuri Gagarin a Soviet citizen on April 12th 1961, with probably occurred after this episode was written
Television series weren't taken as seriously as they are now back then, which meant lower budgets and a lot of people on the job not taking the material seriously. Most series just needed to be coherent and Mass producible. They really tried to focus on quantity over quality back then. But I feel like the Twilight Zone was a huge leap forward out of that mentality. It exposed people two concepts and ideas that were otherwise unheard of in the 50s and 60s.
I thought this was the one which three guys are in the desert with gold bars
It's good for a half hour show,!
5:05
The acting was fine. They only had a 25-minute window to work it all in. One of the best. This, and Third From The Sun. They established that it was the trauma of the crash that 'turned' Corey -- good enough for the format.
I totally guessed the twist. I must be psychic.