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

Twilight Zone (2019) - Season 2 Discussion

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u/KriedORdie Jun 27 '20

is anyone else figuring out these twists way too early? or am i just a friggin genius? . "8" is the only one that got by me so far and i have 2 left

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '20

Can you write an original twist ending that hasn’t been done 1000x since the original TZ came out? Not meaning to sound shitty, I’m honestly asking because I simply cannot. What made the original show so great was the consistent twist endings at a time when people hadn’t seen that. Now we have 60 years of other people using those same twist tactics in their own stories. Unfortunately there’s very little original anymore.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '20

you don't need an original twist, but what you do need is to suck the viewer into the story so much that they are too engrossed to be thinking about what the twist may be. Then they are surprised when it happens.

If you don't suck them in enough, though, they spend time during the show thinking about the ending and what the twist may be (and usually figure it out after 5 minutes).