I like the part where Valentine says, "I thought this was for only like school teachers and like that." And PIP says, "Oh, we have some school teachers here."
This episode is awesome because it is designed for him personally. So if you do the same things over and over again. You will get bored fast. You don't want to live your life where you always win and now you can get anything you want. There is no drive or ambition to do anything
A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he’s ever wanted. And he’s going to have to live with it, for eternity, in the Twilight Zone.
I think it was some theologian who said= Hell is being cut off from God. Valentine has everything he wants in the world, but no spiritual connection. Thus he is in Hell.
I own a book entitled, "The Twilight Zone Companion". It's a great and thorough book, where the author examines each and every episode. In relating to this particular episode, the author wrote that the actor who plays "Rocky Valentine' was miscast, and over acted the role to a point of being a B movie gangster. I respectfully have to disagree. I think "both" actors played their roles perfectly. I also think that this is one of those underrated episodes which gets less than it deserves. The very end, where "Pip" laughs demonically over Valentine's horrific revelation, was chilling. One of my all-time favorites.
I love this interpretation of Hell, because in a sense it very well be what Hell is actually like. Eternal gluttony and vice, which may sound like paradise, but the torture comes from boredom of everything being predictable and not meaning anything.
Funny thing is.. If you pay attention Mr. Valentine’s “angel” was trying to tell him the whole time what was really going on, but Mr. Valentine kept cutting him off
What I learned: There is no value without scarcity, there is no accomplishment without challenge and there is no freedom without risk. Welcome to paradise, get a helmet.
I LOVE this episode, this actually pulls the viewers into the episode like Rocky had actually gone to Heaven and not the other one, but then when Pip actually says "WHAT gave you THAT idea Mr Valentine? THIS IS the other place!", we all realize that we were suckered in by Satan himself as Pip/Satan laughs maniacally at Rocky whilst he's trying to escape.
Best part is how Fats never technically lied to him
I like the part where Valentine says, "I thought this was for only like school teachers and like that." And PIP says, "Oh, we have some school teachers here."
This episode is awesome because it is designed for him personally. So if you do the same things over and over again. You will get bored fast. You don't want to live your life where you always win and now you can get anything you want. There is no drive or ambition to do anything
A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he’s ever wanted. And he’s going to have to live with it, for eternity, in the Twilight Zone.
I think it was some theologian who said= Hell is being cut off from God. Valentine has everything he wants in the world, but no spiritual connection. Thus he is in Hell.
This is probably one of my favorite episodes because it shows that Hell (the other place), is not always how we perceive it.
I own a book entitled, "The Twilight Zone Companion". It's a great and thorough book, where the author examines each and every episode. In relating to this particular episode, the author wrote that the actor who plays "Rocky Valentine' was miscast, and over acted the role to a point of being a B movie gangster. I respectfully have to disagree. I think "both" actors played their roles perfectly. I also think that this is one of those underrated episodes which gets less than it deserves. The very end, where "Pip" laughs demonically over Valentine's horrific revelation, was chilling. One of my all-time favorites.
I love this interpretation of Hell, because in a sense it very well be what Hell is actually like. Eternal gluttony and vice, which may sound like paradise, but the torture comes from boredom of everything being predictable and not meaning anything.
I think it's interesting that this episode, which aired in 1960, did not say the word hell..yet it still works..
The evil laugh at the end sold it.
"This IS the other place"
"...and you're my guardian angel, or something like that!"
Funny thing is.. If you pay attention Mr. Valentine’s “angel” was trying to tell him the whole time what was really going on, but Mr. Valentine kept cutting him off
What I learned: There is no value without scarcity, there is no accomplishment without challenge and there is no freedom without risk. Welcome to paradise, get a helmet.
My favorite part is Pip being polite and accommodating the whole episode and then dropping the guise for the big reveal at the end.
so it's been 63 years today and Mr. Valentine is still in that room somewhere in another universe...
It’s like living it up at the “hotel California.”
I LOVE this episode, this actually pulls the viewers into the episode like Rocky had actually gone to Heaven and not the other one, but then when Pip actually says "WHAT gave you THAT idea Mr Valentine? THIS IS the other place!", we all realize that we were suckered in by Satan himself as Pip/Satan laughs maniacally at Rocky whilst he's trying to escape.
This is the greatest ending out of the whole series.
I love the somberness with which Pip says "Your record." Almost telling Henry where he is.