The Last Flight - Twilight-Tober Zone
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2020
- "The Last Flight" is a really well made episode that puts the focus on story, premise, and characters while drawing you in with a time bending situation that our main character is put in. Join Walter on this worthwhile plane ride through The Twilight Zone.
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"The Last Flight" is episode 18 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Part of the production was filmed on location at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California. The vintage 1918 Nieuport 28 biplane was both owned and flown by Frank Gifford Tallman, and had previously appeared in many World War I motion pictures.
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What an episode! What did everyone think of The Last Flight?
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I thought that it was fantastic, although bittersweet, which is just what you want in a memorable Twilight Zone episode! 😁
I said it in my other comment but this episode is never brought up with other greats like "conform to the norm", 'to serve man', "Nightmare at 20,000ft', 'A Stop at Willoughby'', 'Time Enough at Last', 'Hitchhiker' etc. Especially when you pair it with Walking Distance it makes for an invaluble and wholesome life. Kenneth Haigh was the lost Beatle
Hey Doug this is ironic since you did a review of Con Air this year on Nostalgia Critic. 🎥
Excellent story - soap opera acting. So much unnecessary shouting.
Looking at that actor in his period costume was giving me flashbacks to Kirk Douglas in 'Paths of Glory'.
Loved the ending. Decker was able to redeem himself. He was a coward but when given the chance to go back and change what happened he did, even if it would kill him.
I agree, Decker was the epitome of a cowardly Lion. He was scared of death, but ultimately chose to tackle it and save his friend, even if it resulted in his own sacrifice. 💖
@@trinaq I haven’t watch this yet, but he died at the end?
@@trinaq that is the definition of courage; performing an action in spite of being scared of it.
We are all Decker in some way. At a critical moment in our life, we all make a bad or wrong decision (not necessary life or death choices) and would give anything to go back and make it right. In the end, Decker was given that chance and took it.
I swear this is a true story! Can anyone back me up?
I love the bittersweet episodes of the Twilight Zone like this one. He flies into battle knowing he’s going to die but it’s worth it because his friend lives
Ditto, it's poignant, sad, yet heartwarming all at once, which is all you could ask for in an ending.
I'm not sure that he knew he was going to die. He was willing to risk it in order to save his friend and the lives of others whom he was told about in World War II.
It's also for the people his friend will save.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
JOHN 15: 13
He was not just saving his friend, but also all the lives that is friend would later save.
Time travel is at it's best when the stakes are most precious to the traveler. Going back to undo a wrong or keep the present in it's correct state is excellent drama when played right. This is how you play that tension right.
Yesterday's Enterprise is an example I like of this.
“a significant number of my crew members have expressed a desire to return even knowing the odds. Some because they can't bear to live without their loved ones, some because they don't like the idea of slipping out in the middle of a fight."
Captain Garrett, ’Yesterday‘s Enterprise’
It's the difference between Scott bakula's quantum leap and the present version
This episode actually almost gave me tears when i first watched it. He went back to save his friend, even if he knew what would happen to him eventually. Nothing beats a good redemption story.
This has one of my favorite closing narrations from Serling.
"Dialogue from a play, Hamlet to Horatio. 'There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' Dialogue from a play written long before man took to the sky. There are more things in heaven, the earth and the sky than dreamt of. And between the heavens, the sky and the earth...lies the Twilight Zone."
Last Flight out of 2020, boarding now!
I'll gladly take that flight, two months in advance! ✈️🙋🏽♀️
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Haven't seen the episode, but from I've gathered from this video, it works better without the ticking clock of Mackaye's arrival. It would've made the story into a typical "go do the thing or the temporal paradox will tear the space and time apart" story, where Decker is forced to go back. But the way it was done, it makes it more about Decker's personal choice and decision to go back, an actual character growth and redemption.
Agreed! It's more powerfulbecause it's Decker's choice to go knowing full well what's going to happen.
If he had not gone back I'm sure Doctor Who would have shown up to put things in order.
They could have had the limiting factor just be how long he could be gone, in other words time passes for him the same speed as it's passing for his friend in the past. If he spends 20 minutes in the present he will be 20 minutes missing in the past. But doing so would have required bringing in way too much extraneous information anyway and still would have slowed the story down too much.
When he said he woulda wanted a ticking time clock that just felt like he wanted the ending spoon fed to him. It would add nothing of value to the story.
There were a number of “man out of time” stories in Twilight Zone classic. But this was one of the best.
There's something beautiful about this episode. A man facing his own weakness for the sake of his friend. All it took was the smallest belief that his actions could matter. That they had purpose, and he could be better than the man he thought he was.
...Moves me to tears. It really does.
It would be great to be able to see the future in some way and know what were doing now is actually worth it. Instead we just have to have faith in our thoughts and believe in our actions!
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One of my favorite episodes of the series. The actor for the British pilot really brings it all home. The ending made me tear up.
Decker is such a sweet lead character. Kenneth Haig really brings that vulnerability and nervousness,,then redemption in him
I have a faint memory of the cartoon, “Tailspin”, based an episode on this.
That was real.
I think you are referring to the episode where Baloo helps a out of time pilot return a lost shipment of silver.
The episode is called "Bygones" it's on Disney + you can watch it there to remember it or on UA-cam if it's on this website.
I love this one. We've all done something or NOT done something we regret, and wish we could go back and do it differently.
Love this one! It reminds me a little of "One for the Angels", where the main character also sacrifices himself to save a friend. 😇
There's an anthology edited by Stephen King called Flight or Fright that's a great Halloween present ;)
That is wasn’t aware of this.👍
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is in that anthology.
This episode was likely inspired by a possibly real case of accidental time travel that happened to a british air force pilot in the 1930’s. His name was Victor Goddard and the story goes that he was one day flying over an abandoned airfield, and when he flew into an odd looking cloud he somehow got a view of how the airfield would look when re-opened four years later. Meaning, he was looking four years into the future via some sorta hole in space-time that he’d supposedly flown into then back out of. It is said that what he saw turned out true years later when the airfield re-opened.
Would this be RAF Montrose?
Is this Montrose or East Lothian?
When I still had Netflix, I remember the watching the early seasons of TZ and this is one of my favorite episodes. It painted the scenario I think most of the soldiers that fought in "The Great War" had, that they were all young men, scared out of their wits, but find the courage to fight, not for themselves, but for their brothers and the people they left behind to fight for.
I just watched it and loved it! There's a moment where Major Wilson questions Decker about how a WWI pilot ended up there, and I thought it would have been so fun to see Decker's reaction to hearing that he was from "WWI," but we don't see that on screen. Wilson then talks about how Mackaye was a hero in the Blitz in the second war and references an off-screen conversation they apparently had earlier where Decker was told about "the second war." It would have been cool to see more of Decker's reactions to events in his future on screen, or at the very least it would have been a good segue to commercial for him to say, "I'm sorry, did you say...world war 2?"
Yeah, I also expected him freaking out like "what do you mean ww1?"
Yeah i was expecting something like that, his reactions to WW2 and the Cold War that already started at that time. The problem is that it was a 30 minute episode so they had to rush things as naturally as they could.
This was a fantastic episode. The portrayal of Decker was amazing and you emphasized with him from the beginning. Every time I watch it, I feel sad that he died during the WWI dogfight, but in doing so, he saved the lives of hundreds of people during WW2. What a great story. Season One was filled with compelling character driven stores like these, which is why it's the best season of the TZ.
Another detail in the episode is that the American Colonel addresses McKaye as "Old Leadbottom" A nickname that only McKaye himself and the deceased Decker would have known about.
This is one of my favorite episodes very simple not overly done
This is my favorite episode. With a great British writer (Matheson also wrote Somewhere in Time) and two great British actors. Robert Warwick, who played the older Air Vice Martial, had been a great actor of British stage and screen in his younger day, with so many great swashbuckling roles, and now finishes this great episode in his twilight years...
What a great writing in those days.
I like the twist star trek did with "Yesterday's Enterprise."
What a beautiful story
Another of my favorite episodes. Very well performed by all the actors, putting a very realistic spin on a time travel theme. I love the way Twilight Zone, and especially episodes like this, bring us to an entirely different and magical space.
It all starts with epic storytelling. The Twilight Zone will always be one of those shows that you can go back to time and time again.
-"Cait 'storyteller' Jackson is a classic lady who even looks great in black and white."
I definitely need to see that one, just the description made me want to cry
Its a top tier episode without any of the recognition
It was very wholesome
I love watching these during my breaks at work, the twilight zone is the best
We can relate to wanting a second chance, and I think that’s why audiences gravitated to the episode in particular
One of my favorite as WWI aviation as always been a favorite subject of mine. I like how they don't dwell on the phenomenon but more on the implications of the character's decisions. On another note this episode really drives home the develop of the 20th Century. In 1917 they were flying fragile crates and by 1959 they were flying jets and ten years later landing on the moon.
Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood did an episode similar to this called Out of Time where the Torchwood team look after a few people (a female plane pilot, a middle aged man and a young girl) who came from the year 1953 after flying through the rift.
That was a really good episode!
@@lovetolovefairytales Indeed. It would almost pass as a Christmas episode as it's set during Christmas as well.
I could see a modern version of this. With a Vietnam era pilot flying a F4 Phantom from 1970 into Okinawa in 2020.
Meh!
One of my favorite episodes of the show.
Wow you set that up perfectly , the best that i had ever watched. This was one of my favorite episodes that i have a hard time finding it. You did an excellent job in this video. Thank You
Glad you enjoyed it!
The moment the description of this one started, all I could think was "Oh, so that's where Torchwood got the idea from".
Can you continue reviewing all Twilight Zone Episodes after October. The love you have for the TV show is obvious.
One of the best episodes.
5:18 He runs like an anime school girl.
*Twilight Zone is my favourite anime.*
This is one of, if not, my favourite episode
I loved this episode
Would you do a review of: "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" ?
Loved this episode!
Interesting. The pilot accidentally comes to the future where he coward from battle in the past so he went back in time to fix his mistake, making a new timeline where he was brave and his friend lived.
But juxtapose the dilemma: Does he live like a coward? Or does his friend live with survivor's guilt?
Or do they work together to stop WWII from happening, seeing as how both have their own demons to contend with?
Or it was always the same timeline and him traveling into the future was a course correction required to keep the timeline intact.
I know his name is Decker, but I can only think of one name: Steve Trevor
Frank Tallman was incredible stunt pilot. He could fly a barn door with a engine on it if he had too. Sadly, his fellow stunt pilot, Paul Mantz, a great pilot in his own right, died in flying the plane in the "Flight of the Phoenix" . For aviation enthusiasts, seeing his lovely Nieuport 28 alone is worth watching the episode, though the British RFC never flew it. The Nieuport 28 unfortunately had a problem with its upper wing shedding fabric in a dive. Tallman probably owns the 28A version, with the upper wing problem corrected. American pilots like ace Rickenbacker started out in the Nieuport 28 before transferred to Spad XIII's.
I cannot help but think that Matheson was inspired by the story of the great French ace Guynemer, with 54 victories, who disappeared into the clouds in his Spad during his last combat flight, and never seen again. His plane and body were never found. Legend had it that he flew straight to heaven.
I really liked the running clock method of time travel rules. Really makes it high stakes.
There were quite a few time travel stories on the show, like the one with Buster Keaton, but this was a better one that I still remember.
The anthology film Amazing Stories was made into a series by NBC. There's a great episode directed by Steven Spielberg titled "The Mission" set during a WWII bombing flight with Kevin Costner, Casey Siemaszko and Kiefer Sutherland. Though not exactly in the time travel vein the ending does require a good deal of suspended belief.
Is that the one with the kid who likes to draw, and it saves his life? I love Amazing Stories!😁
This’s a good one...one of my favorites.
Ah another one of my favorite episodes. Classic stuff.
Absolutely one of my favorites!!
I remember watching this last year on either Halloween or the Fourth of July and that was my very first time watching The Twilight Zone
Friendship is much stronger than Death .... in the Twillight Zone .
a brave fremceman? that is a twist!
This is one of my (many) favorite episodes!💜
Alternate title: "Old Leadbottom"
I couldn’t remember if it was Old Leadbottom or Steelbottom. Thanks!
I have the whole series yet this is one I always rewatch for its performances and visuals.
One of my favorite episodes.
The past and the present intersect and circle around the Twilight Zone. And again, a person is given a second chance and takes it even though understands the why about it!
I liked when they made this story into a torchwood episode
That was actually the first episode I ever watched, and maybe my favorite.
This is a beautiful episode
Definitely one of my favorite episodes from season one!
one of my favorite episodes.
It's been a worth wild plane ride through Twilight-Tober zone! I love Twilight-Tober Zone!
This along with "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and "Two" are my 3 favorite TZ episodes.
What a great episode. Classic Twilight Zone!
A superior episode !
Was nice to see the Delta Daggers and the Super Sabres parked at the Air Force Base
😎💙
Kenneth Haigh nails it in this episode. RIP Sir
This episode is stronger for its use of great writing and the ending when they have to sit the vice-marshal down is great and when they call him led bottom his reaction is priceless
I've really been loving this series, I hope you do it again next year too!
It's one of those episodes where we are faced with our destiny. At the same time we are faced with a choice. Be the person you're meant to be or the alternative. The alternative may seem pleasing, but in the end, worse than death.
Just watched this on paramount plus! Im hooked on season 1 all the episodes are well written
Ah good old days when I was still young and used to watch all these episodes in a loop.
another one of my favorites
Another favorite of mine.
I've always liked the few time travel episodes of "The Twilight Zone." This episode and "The Odyssey of Flight 33" were (and remain) brilliant in every regard.
Don't forget the episode NO TIME LIKE THE PAST.
@@calvinjackson8110 -- Yes! That's another great episode. So is "Walking Distance." You CAN go "home" again -- even if it's only for a short time. Cheers. -- W
I love this
A very moving episode
I love this one
A great episode.
Man, I'm going to be sad when October's over (assuming these won't go on into November). These episodes are great!
My favorite episode
This episode is ABSOLUTELY my favorite! What Lieutenant Decker did, every man should aspire to. He puts me COMPLETELY to shame!
Wonderful. Love the Twilight Zone. True to life.
Yesss. Theres something on the wing!
The Twilight Zone, the original series, was definitely one that made you think. Almost every story They told we're both interesting and compelling.
I think a major part in his determination to get back was the fact that he learned that Mackeye saved thousands of people during ww2. He saved him to save all those people.
Awww... That's touching.
I love that it was his choice to go back. So I'm glad there was no ticking clock added lol.
Love it
Amazing
It’s my favorite episode xxxx
First TZ episode I ever saw. Amazing
As great as unique camera angles and haunting cinematography can make an episode be, sometimes it's the simple ones that can also stand out.
The story is always the most compelling part.
I always watch the Twilight Zone marathons. I think I was about 10 years old when it ended and went into reruns.
This episode was way I joined the Air Force.
I've really enjoyed these month long looks into tv shows Walters been doing lately. I'd like to share one of my personal favorite episodes, but I don't know if it might end up appearing on the list. So I'll hold off until the months end to make sure I don't spoil an episode I found to be really good.
I just downloaded the original series a few days ago and somehow didn't notice you were doing this series. What a nice sync there 👍🏻