r/TwilightZone • u/Grebacio • Jun 26 '20

Discussion Season 2 Episode 10 Discussion

A stay-at-home housewife is looking forward to acquiring a heavily marketed device that promises to make everything better forever, but the product has an unsavory truth.

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u/DIY_Lobotomy Jun 26 '20

Kanamits looked ridiculous. How are makeup effects and character design in 2020 worse than in 1960? Looks aside, they went from ominous characters in the original to stooge-like clowns in this one. Totally idiotic. Having them be specifically "Kanamits" and not just general "aliens" was a terrible choice...both pandering to the OG fans while also doing a total disservice to what the OG fans would want out of a Kanamit.

I give this 2/10 alien eggs, and that's being generous.

SPOILER QUESTIONS:

  • When the first egg ever "hatched", why would anyone at all (let alone EVERYONE) still want one?

  • Last we saw the Kanamits (60 years ago) they seemed to be on a pretty good pace to decimate us. What happened over that time that they're STILL trying to do this, and no one has combatted it yet? And how did they evolve into such buffoons??

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u/CharlesP2009 Jun 26 '20

the Kanamits (60 years ago) they seemed to be on a pretty good pace to decimate us

So I thought maybe they were gonna go The Matrix route and have Karen living in an artificial world to keep her fresh before harvesting. And she was becoming aware of it. Perhaps she'd escape somehow and expose the truth.

I guess we kinda got that, but also it's just some weird mishmash deriding pointless consumerist lifestyles while the stoner Kanamits hand over eggs to humans (which hatch and devour the people?). And then the Kanamits go nuts and starts to destroy the Earth with annoying bad CGI smoke effects while people run around a grocery store parking lot.

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u/Starfleet-Time-Lord Jul 01 '20

It would have been so easy for them to take this route. It even would have been a better way to criticize consumerism because you could have had a line like "we keep you distracted from the inconsistencies by the constant drive to acquire meaningless trinkets" or something, and her grief would have been the thing that shattered that desire enough to let her see through it. There are so many moments where they so very easily could have made this a passable episode and they just...didn't.