He was a TOTAL SCUMBAG! He pursued Robin, shot Ruby, abused people, threatened to turn in Robin's family, etc. I wanted Ham to grind him into paste but Steven did it off-screen. Daniels scream was PRICELESS!!!
well i was somewhat surprised but was expecting an experiment on daniel, but used for food wow, well he did deserved death, after watching this scene again i couldn't help feeling sorry for him.
As a kid in the 80's, this was on every Friday night (UK) and it was the most amazing sci-fi show that I had seen. On the Monday, I, and my friends would talk about the latest episode in school.
Did your mum and dad know you were staying up that late? I mean, so did I - from what I recall it was all stripped un the Late Night Late slot, and the mini-series episodes went on til 1am or thereabouts... to be followed by Cinemattractions and some US chart show...
Not in my city because they always blocked it and started running the hulk for the 1980s f****** bastard I called the TV station and asked him why did they block it it's a lot of the churches started complaining because of the reptilian angle I thought to myself that f****** figure
I am from the UK too my friend and as I recall, 'V' was on telly during the summer of 1984, so no school the next day! because I remember watching it before switching over to watch the LA Olympics (which was held between the end of July and mid Aug) something I remember with great fondness. Staying up late and no nagging from my mother to go to bed - epic!!! 😂
Yeah they showed V a few times during the mid-late 80s, in the summer of 1986 and then ITV aired V in January 1989, the 1989 broadcast I remember watching and taping. Sky One showed V in May 1994 (I taped a few of those but no longer have them) but they showed each episode in 30 min parts, and I think there was alot of cuts to scenes like the scenes of visitors eating. Channel 5 also showed V in 1999 (again I taped them but no longer of them), but again, they cut them. As far as I know V has never been shown on any UK terrestrial channel since the late 90s.
But they still took a risk. They didn't know for sure that the Visitors were going to believe that Daniel sold Brian out. I mean one anonymous phone call hardly qualifies as strong evidence!
What makes this even more sweeter is that his Grand Father is a holocaust survivor and despite his protests he sides with the Visitors while his Grandfather fights with the resistance. A fitting end to a Jewish NKVD agent. Poetic justice.
Their interrogation method were probably hideous. Hostile, sadistic aliens with advanced technology could probably inflict far more pain than clubs, electric shock, hot irons, or just about any other method humans might use (except, maybe, burning to death), and keep their victims alive and conscious throughout.
@@LBF522 Oh, he deserved it. But I felt bad for him, and was kind of shocked when I saw this. He's already been tortured, and then to be told he's about to become a meal on a platter....
He probably tasted like hammered shit. I can see Diana "I get the first piece.....PUUUHH, THIS IS AWFUL"! John tastes it - "Ugh"! Steven - "Tastes like cat piss, get this out of here, feed it to the swine".
The really bad thing about this was that they changed it from the book. The visitors come to his parents house to take Daniel away. Daniel says: "Mom? Dad? You're not going to let them do this to me, are you?" Daniel's father says "So now it's 'Mom and Dad, is it?" After telling Daniel that he is disgusted by the fact that he has thoughtlessly killed their friends and betrayed them, he then says that they 'have no son', after which the visitors take Daniel away.
Glad they changed it that would have been more traumatising. I got this on dvd couple years ago. Watch it was not prepared for this screen gave me nightmares for weeks lol. There’s a screen in angel like this. Wonder if it was inspired by it
I also remember that the book didn't say exactly what happened to Daniel afterward... but it did have a passage where Donovan's mother asked Steven what they'd done with Daniel, and Steven responded, "My dear... you DON'T want to know."
@@quietman71 I never knew there was a book. When I read synthonaplinth synthonaplinth about how this scene was changed from the book, I thought this miniseries was based on a book
I’ve seen that To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone. This episode was put together extremely well considering it was the 1960s. Opening narration edit Respectfully submitted for your perusal - a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment, we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone. Plot edit A man named Michael Chambers lies on a cot in an otherwise empty, locked room. A voice offers him a meal, delivered through a small aperture in the wall, which he grimly refuses. The setting changes to several months earlier, on Earth. The Kanamits, a race of 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) aliens, land on Earth as the planet is beset by international crises. As the Secretary-General of the United Nations announces the landing at a news conference, one of the aliens arrives and addresses the assembled delegates and journalists via telepathy. He states that his race's motive in coming to Earth is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing their advanced technology that can easily and inexpensively solve all energy/food shortages and prevent international warfare. After answering questions, the Kanamit departs without comment and leaves behind a book in his language; Chambers, a cryptographer working for the United States government, is pressed into service to decipher it. International leaders express wariness of the Kanamits' uninvited arrival on Earth, but start to believe their claims of benevolence upon seeing their advanced technology at work. Patty, a member of Chambers' staff, translates the title of the book as To Serve Man, further bolstering public trust in the Kanamits. One member of the race submits to polygraph-monitored interrogation and is determined to be telling the truth. The Kanamits deliver on their promise to turn the world into a Utopia, transforming barren deserts into blooming fields, and each nation is given an impenetrable force field that leads to the virtual disbandment of all militaries. Humans soon begin volunteering to travel to the Kanamits' home planet, which is described as a paradise, and the Kanamits set up embassies in every country on Earth and weigh all passengers boarding their ships. Even though Chambers' staff no longer have any real work to do, due to worldwide declarations of peace and the dissolution of the United States Armed Forces, Patty continues her efforts to decode the Kanamits' book. Some time later, as Chambers is boarding a ship for his own voyage to the Kanamits' world, Patty pushes through the waiting line and shouts for him not to go. She has successfully translated To Serve Man and discovered that it is actually a cookbook for preparing dishes from the human body. Chambers tries to flee, but a guard forces him onto the ship and closes the hatch so it can lift off. In the present, Chambers angrily throws another meal across the room when it is offered to him. A Kanamit picks up the food and encourages him to eat so that he will not lose weight. Chambers reluctantly does so, addressing the viewers directly to ask whether they have left Earth yet and remarking that the Kanamits will eventually cook and eat all of humanity.
I’ve seen that To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone. This episode was put together extremely well considering it was the 1960s. Opening narration edit Respectfully submitted for your perusal - a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment, we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone. Plot edit A man named Michael Chambers lies on a cot in an otherwise empty, locked room. A voice offers him a meal, delivered through a small aperture in the wall, which he grimly refuses. The setting changes to several months earlier, on Earth. The Kanamits, a race of 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) aliens, land on Earth as the planet is beset by international crises. As the Secretary-General of the United Nations announces the landing at a news conference, one of the aliens arrives and addresses the assembled delegates and journalists via telepathy. He states that his race's motive in coming to Earth is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing their advanced technology that can easily and inexpensively solve all energy/food shortages and prevent international warfare. After answering questions, the Kanamit departs without comment and leaves behind a book in his language; Chambers, a cryptographer working for the United States government, is pressed into service to decipher it. International leaders express wariness of the Kanamits' uninvited arrival on Earth, but start to believe their claims of benevolence upon seeing their advanced technology at work. Patty, a member of Chambers' staff, translates the title of the book as To Serve Man, further bolstering public trust in the Kanamits. One member of the race submits to polygraph-monitored interrogation and is determined to be telling the truth. The Kanamits deliver on their promise to turn the world into a Utopia, transforming barren deserts into blooming fields, and each nation is given an impenetrable force field that leads to the virtual disbandment of all militaries. Humans soon begin volunteering to travel to the Kanamits' home planet, which is described as a paradise, and the Kanamits set up embassies in every country on Earth and weigh all passengers boarding their ships. Even though Chambers' staff no longer have any real work to do, due to worldwide declarations of peace and the dissolution of the United States Armed Forces, Patty continues her efforts to decode the Kanamits' book. Some time later, as Chambers is boarding a ship for his own voyage to the Kanamits' world, Patty pushes through the waiting line and shouts for him not to go. She has successfully translated To Serve Man and discovered that it is actually a cookbook for preparing dishes from the human body. Chambers tries to flee, but a guard forces him onto the ship and closes the hatch so it can lift off. In the present, Chambers angrily throws another meal across the room when it is offered to him. A Kanamit picks up the food and encourages him to eat so that he will not lose weight. Chambers reluctantly does so, addressing the viewers directly to ask whether they have left Earth yet and remarking that the Kanamits will eventually cook and eat all of humanity.
So Daniel gets a dinner invitation of sorts, guess it was well deserved. His expression/outburst after Steven said "where else, on a serving platter", was rather priceless.
When I was a kid watching this I never realized the white coats on those visitors were blood stained until I got older. That should have given Daniel the heads up that it was curtains for him 🤣
Do you think Stephen really believed Daniel set up Brian, or did he just need a fall guy and blamed it on Daniel because he was convenient and Stephen wanted to put this down as a case solved? Stephen's slimy enough to do it. He didn't seem to have any evidence against Daniel aside from an anonymous phone call.
good point considering Diana had a fool proof truth serum she could have used it to prove daniel was set up and make steven look imcompetent over his own command (security ) he made of point earlier in the mini series letting her now HE was in charge ...its surprising he not lose his postion after John got unmasked and Diana promotes Brian (one of her lovers) in his place making her effectively in control of both science dept and security ..sounds like plot worthy of her eviliness
@@reesepacker7983 - in fairness Steven wasn't entirely at fault for John being unmasked... The Visitors hadn't realised that the Fifth Column were working against them at that time... In other scenes in the series Steven was shown to be a skilled and capable fighter. I think Steven's motive was purely that Daniel had embarrassed his command earlier by being the only one who fired at Julie when she tried to escape the medical centre, and he wanted quick vengeance for what he felt was a personal insult at Daniel's hands
Loving these clips - keep them up! Favourite of mine is Ham Tyler executing Steven with the Red Dust - him dying in agony sprawled over the Vistor flag is very poignant.
Daniel got exactly what he deserved. Here is what Daniel had done to receive the punishment he got: 1. Daniel was accused of stealing from the register and let go from his job. 2. Daniel got his mother and father arrested and his father tortured. 3. Daniel got his Grandfather arrested who was later killed or put away by the Visitors. 4. Daniel tried to inform on the Robert Maxwell's family. 5. Daniel made unwelcome sexual advances on Robin Maxwell. 6. Daniel Smoked Pot. 7. Daniel made a medical student lick his boots. 8. Daniel shot and killed a doctor at the hospital. 9. Daniel got Julie captured by the Visitors. 10. Daniel killed his childhood friend Ruby for spying.
1- Dany was not proven guilty of stealing. 2- Dany didn't want his parent to be arrested. 3- Officially the grand fathet was ill. And the visitors tried their best to cure him. We don't see any othet version. 4- Robin father was a Sci, trying to steal visitor technology. 5- the advance was to give a way for Robin to protect her familly. 6- Dude ... seriously ? 7- The doc was acting in a very antagonistic way towards daniel. Dany did nothing to the other ones. 8- He shoot in legitimate defence. The doc would have ran over him with a car. The doc was also protecting a very dangerous terrorist. 9- She was a very dangerous terrorist. 10- Ruby helped the terrorist Parish to escape. But yeah, that was a mustake, he should have subdued her so she can give informations.
What makes Daniel truly despicable is his reaction to two men in white coats means he's already well aware of what the Visitors are doing with people. No confusion or incredulity at Steven's words. He knows.
Daniel: What are you going to do with me, Steven? Steven: Send you where you'll serve us well. Daniel: Where's that? Steven: Where else? On a serving platter. Daniel: NO!! STEVEN! STEVEN! NO!! NOOOOOOOO...
The Visitors generally cannot appreciate concepts like personal loyalty. Everything was a power struggle--be it by intrigue (Steven and Pamela), direct violence (Diana), or sex (also Diana). In the regular series, a human character at one point summed it up: "Red blood is thicker than green."
@@TommygunNG It's also the fact that they didn't trust the human slaves. They always would find against them when they stepped out of line, according to the Visitors.
It was at this moment Daniel realized, he fucked up. Traitor deserved it. He turned in his own family, he was high with a power trip, he thought he was something big. He learned he was nothing but a pawn.
A lot of people hate Daniel the worst (understandable: he caused the most harm to the good guys), but I always felt Donavan's mom was the worst collaborator. I can't help but feel a twinge of sympathy for Daniel: he had courage (he stood in the path of that van and kept shooting, that's how they caught Julie) and he was loyal to his masters to the very end. He had a little bit of virtue compared to Donavan's mom, who was a selfish slime.
Daniel was a disenfranchised kid that got caught up in a power trip. I would put him and Donavan's mother on equal scumbaggery though. The both sold out their families.
@@xenofett7008 yes they did Donovan's mother sold out her neighbours and her own son then tried to kill him , she grassed Sancho up when he smuggled out Robert Maxwell and his family to safety because he was an anthropologist, then Daniel sold his parents out and grandfather then boasted about killing Ruby so in essence they deserved their fates.
Donovan's mother at least repented at the end, even if only under pressure and with minimal action to show it. She died with at least some honor and redemption. I get (sorta) how one might say that Daniel was loyal to the end, but that was loyalty in his treason. For those willing to overlook his treason, any loyalty from him at that moment was by default, not choice. But that said, the "NOOOOO!" was kinda resistant. If he was so loyal, he ought to have walked proudly to his fate as finger foods for his masters.
Nah, there was no repentence with Donavan's mom: she was just trying to save her own skin. Dan's reaction was horror, yes, but before that, when he thought the resistance was about to kill him, he was still brave. And even his cry of 'No' wasn't rebelling, it was a loyal dog's plea to its master.
Stephen probably knew it was a resistance trap but he was also aware that Diana was having an affair with Brian so he wanted to make Daniel a scapegoat
I think when he got the call about Brian being captured and Daniel was the one who set him up, he got suspicious. He even checked on what Daniel said about Maggie setting his dick up but told Daniel there wasn't any nurse registered there so he didn't believe Daniel's story. The whole thing is that Steven would side with the Visitors over the humans on any situation, even the humans who were cooperating with them.
you're right, no matter how many facts Daniel presented to Stephen he wasn't trying to hear none of it, Daniel's fate was already sealed and he was food for the lizards.
@@ihategoogle6066 Daniel seemed to actually think that he had skills and talents the visitors recognised and appreciated. When really he was just a weaselly scumbag who'd sell out his family for a uniform and a power trip and if he'd sell out his family for a uniform and a power trip why wouldn't he set up Brian? Stephen knew how worthless Daniel was.
Daniel had repeatedly shown he had no real loyalty to anyone and any loyalty he had to the Visitors was solely for his own advancement. Stephen figured "This worm sold out his own family, if he could do that he can never be trusted. Best to be rid of him."
Poor Daniel. It looks like he had suspicions about the Visitors, because he seemed nervous about what Steven was going to do to him. The horror on his face as the troopers drag him out, plus his screams are too genuine. What goes around comes around! Now, all we need to see is Steven's death...
He knew. The idea is to say that concentration camp prisoners who collaborated with the Nazis, and those from occupied countries fighting for the Germans, knew about the Holocaust, and thus were culpable as well.
"The horror on his face as the troopers drag him out, plus his screams are too genuine." Well, it seems that halfway through filming, the actor demanded a raise. He was... talked out of it, and then this scene was filmed. Great realism. [NOT TRUE, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE]
@@3dartistguyOh, I'm sure they chowed down on him that evening. The butchering was obviously about to happen, and the Visitors didn't store processed meat. In the regular series, a woman asks Willie about being a cook, saying that the Visitors could only eat living (or recently deceased) flesh. Willie responded, "I'm a veterinarian." To this day, I'm not 100-percent sure if that was intended as one of Willie's slips in speaking English, or if he literally was an animal doctor (in civilian life back home at Sirius) and loved critters too much to eat them.
@@TommygunNG well im sure they just froze him like all the other humans they put into cold storage...as far as fresh meat, they liked to eat small animals on the ship. But it was nice to see that unrepentant traitor get his just deserts after what he did to Ruby and all the other humans he betrayed to the visitors.
I saw a comment on another video talking about how Steven wanted to eliminate Daniel. That does make sense. In the first movie Daniel was just an angry teen with no direction, but even though he did start to slowly turn into a dark evil person, there was still apart of him that was still loyal to humans especially trying to make sure his parents and grandfather wouldn't be arrested for offering sanctuary to The Maxwells, its clear that when he finds out that his familt was arrested he was angry at Brian. However once he was bought and paid for by Diana and Brian promoting him thats when his loyalty to humans was gone. Now fast forward to this movie. Daniel is currupt, ruthless, aggressive and power hunger, however he was also very arrogant and because he was hungry for power he kind of became a deer in headlights to the Visitors so maybe Steven knowing that Diana thought highly of Daniel (keep in mind by this time Diana was having to walk on egg shells with Pamela.) By eliminating Daniel, it would ge a step to Diana being stripped of her command.
I like to think they gave him a tour of the (working) abattoir first and then introduced him to the chef who enthusiastically revealed to him the menu he’d planned from his butchered carcass. Sauces, paired wines, the lot.
Wish Daniel was iced up and Diana freed him on the TV series. This way Daniel could continue to hunt down the resistance but then be defeated by his family or friends.
You know it's really crazy hes so nice in the beginning and then he joins the aliens youth program and he turns on everybody his friend's his family was so sad
Rewatching it, you can see there's hints of who he really was though. He couldn't keep a job, they said he didn't have any real friends, he was antisocial. At first you thought maybe he was some harmless awkward guy, but he had sociopathic qualities.
Despite his issues in keeping a job, I'm not sure if it was completely right that he had no real friends at all - he seemed on friendly terms with the Maxwells initially. Robert and Kathleen welcomed him into their home to watch the Visitors arrival on TV with no reluctance or caution, he seemed affable with Robin (although his crush on her was unrequited), and the two younger daughters both seemed to have a good rapport with him too. Even when he first began exhibiting signs that he was being corrupted, he still showed concern for his parents and grandfather, and was persistent that they kept to their promise of amnesty... Alas, the more he got away with, the worse his behaviour got........
I just bought this series on Blu Ray. I've watched this scene about 20 times already. Never gets old.
He was a TOTAL SCUMBAG! He pursued Robin, shot Ruby, abused people, threatened to turn in Robin's family, etc. I wanted Ham to grind him into paste but Steven did it off-screen. Daniels scream was PRICELESS!!!
well i was somewhat surprised but was expecting an experiment on daniel, but used for food wow, well he did deserved death, after watching this scene again i couldn't help feeling sorry for him.
Smug bullies like Daniel are always the most cowardly and weak-willed . Shrieked like a girl.
As far as Robin I don't blame him I would be pissed off too especially somebody else got her pregnant
@@Joshuajacobson95 He got what was coming to him.
And he ordered to a medecine student to lick his boots...
Daniel got actually what he deserved this was one of the best scenes in the series
As a kid in the 80's, this was on every Friday night (UK) and it was the most amazing sci-fi show that I had seen. On the Monday, I, and my friends would talk about the latest episode in school.
Did your mum and dad know you were staying up that late? I mean, so did I - from what I recall it was all stripped un the Late Night Late slot, and the mini-series episodes went on til 1am or thereabouts... to be followed by Cinemattractions and some US chart show...
Not in my city because they always blocked it and started running the hulk for the 1980s f****** bastard I called the TV station and asked him why did they block it it's a lot of the churches started complaining because of the reptilian angle I thought to myself that f****** figure
I am from the UK too my friend and as I recall, 'V' was on telly during the summer of 1984, so no school the next day! because I remember watching it before switching over to watch the LA Olympics (which was held between the end of July and mid Aug) something I remember with great fondness. Staying up late and no nagging from my mother to go to bed - epic!!! 😂
Yeah they showed V a few times during the mid-late 80s, in the summer of 1986 and then ITV aired V in January 1989, the 1989 broadcast I remember watching and taping. Sky One showed V in May 1994 (I taped a few of those but no longer have them) but they showed each episode in 30 min parts, and I think there was alot of cuts to scenes like the scenes of visitors eating. Channel 5 also showed V in 1999 (again I taped them but no longer of them), but again, they cut them. As far as I know V has never been shown on any UK terrestrial channel since the late 90s.
I like how they went for a creative route instead of having Ham simply snap his neck.
They also prefer their food to be living... what's going to be on that serving platter? 😅 (really great acting in the scene...)
@@ShamrockParticle And, hey! The beating torture had the side benefit of tenderizing!
But they still took a risk. They didn't know for sure that the Visitors were going to believe that Daniel sold Brian out. I mean one anonymous phone call hardly qualifies as strong evidence!
What makes this even more sweeter is that his Grand Father is a holocaust survivor and despite his protests he sides with the Visitors while his Grandfather fights with the resistance. A fitting end to a Jewish NKVD agent. Poetic justice.
"On a serving platter." So those two Visitors in white took Daniel to the kitchen and basically made him the evening meal, yes?
Big time
kosher meal
I think they shot him and then cut up his dead body for different parts to eat.
sha11235 I wouldn’t be surprised if they served him while he was still ALIVE. To keep the meat fresh, you know?
@@tyrantgregcagkaiju71 Nah, I see him as killed first.
So they were tenderizing him as well as interrogating him.
lol
Going by the scene, you're right. Out of respect they should have used Lawry's seasoning.
In the soup as well.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Their interrogation method were probably hideous. Hostile, sadistic aliens with advanced technology could probably inflict far more pain than clubs, electric shock, hot irons, or just about any other method humans might use (except, maybe, burning to death), and keep their victims alive and conscious throughout.
Loved this scene. Daniel so deserved his fate.
Why? He got set up by the resistance. He was loyal to the visitors.
@@Megatron-sl5us Yes he was loyal to the visitors but a traitor to humans.
@@LBF522 Oh, he deserved it. But I felt bad for him, and was kind of shocked when I saw this. He's already been tortured, and then to be told he's about to become a meal on a platter....
His loyalty was with the enemy Visitors, not with the Resistance and Fifth Column. He had it coming.
He did, the traitor.
How nice of Steven to invite Daniel to dinner after all that.
Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣excellent first choice meat ,human meat.
@@severinefisteberg8893 oh come on i heard human meat is too fat and flavorless, they should be out looking for more dog
After the beatings tenderized the meat...
You mean have Daniel for dinner! 😆
@@lj6769 Danny under glass.
Daniel was loyal and the Vistors really enjoyed him to the end, literally
Wrong loyalty for his ass.
With a dash of salt. 😂
He probably tasted like hammered shit. I can see Diana "I get the first piece.....PUUUHH, THIS IS AWFUL"! John tastes it - "Ugh"! Steven - "Tastes like cat piss, get this out of here, feed it to the swine".
Of course, a paradox must be addressed.
Was Daniel chicken, or did he taste like it to the aliens?
😂
Perfect revenge for him killing Ruby…
And Abraham and all the other people he bullied.
Probably the most satisfying scene in the entire series.
I really like these V videos. Thanks!
It's ironic. Daniel found his job appetizing to his ambitions. The aliens found Daniel just plain appetizing.
A favorite scene of mine. Daniel is finally SERVED BY THOSE HE SERVED. Another good one is seeing Steven "BITE THE DUST"! 😛😬
Steven should have showed him the cookbook "Serving Mankind" 😂
The really bad thing about this was that they changed it from the book. The visitors come to his parents house to take Daniel away. Daniel says: "Mom? Dad? You're not going to let them do this to me, are you?" Daniel's father says "So now it's 'Mom and Dad, is it?" After telling Daniel that he is disgusted by the fact that he has thoughtlessly killed their friends and betrayed them, he then says that they 'have no son', after which the visitors take Daniel away.
Glad they changed it that would have been more traumatising. I got this on dvd couple years ago. Watch it was not prepared for this screen gave me nightmares for weeks lol. There’s a screen in angel like this. Wonder if it was inspired by it
I also remember that the book didn't say exactly what happened to Daniel afterward... but it did have a passage where Donovan's mother asked Steven what they'd done with Daniel, and Steven responded, "My dear... you DON'T want to know."
What book?
@@robertherrick6703 the novelization by A. C. Crispin.
@@quietman71 I never knew there was a book. When I read synthonaplinth
synthonaplinth about how this scene was changed from the book, I thought this miniseries was based on a book
Lol.."To serve man"...."it's a cooking book!!!!"..."A cooking book!"
Devil worshipers operate that way They tell you the truth up to your face without telling you the truth if that is supposed to make any kind of sense
I’ve seen that To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone. This episode was put together extremely well considering it was the 1960s.
Opening narration
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Respectfully submitted for your perusal - a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment, we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.
Plot
edit
A man named Michael Chambers lies on a cot in an otherwise empty, locked room. A voice offers him a meal, delivered through a small aperture in the wall, which he grimly refuses.
The setting changes to several months earlier, on Earth. The Kanamits, a race of 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) aliens, land on Earth as the planet is beset by international crises. As the Secretary-General of the United Nations announces the landing at a news conference, one of the aliens arrives and addresses the assembled delegates and journalists via telepathy. He states that his race's motive in coming to Earth is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing their advanced technology that can easily and inexpensively solve all energy/food shortages and prevent international warfare. After answering questions, the Kanamit departs without comment and leaves behind a book in his language; Chambers, a cryptographer working for the United States government, is pressed into service to decipher it.
International leaders express wariness of the Kanamits' uninvited arrival on Earth, but start to believe their claims of benevolence upon seeing their advanced technology at work. Patty, a member of Chambers' staff, translates the title of the book as To Serve Man, further bolstering public trust in the Kanamits. One member of the race submits to polygraph-monitored interrogation and is determined to be telling the truth.
The Kanamits deliver on their promise to turn the world into a Utopia, transforming barren deserts into blooming fields, and each nation is given an impenetrable force field that leads to the virtual disbandment of all militaries. Humans soon begin volunteering to travel to the Kanamits' home planet, which is described as a paradise, and the Kanamits set up embassies in every country on Earth and weigh all passengers boarding their ships. Even though Chambers' staff no longer have any real work to do, due to worldwide declarations of peace and the dissolution of the United States Armed Forces, Patty continues her efforts to decode the Kanamits' book.
Some time later, as Chambers is boarding a ship for his own voyage to the Kanamits' world, Patty pushes through the waiting line and shouts for him not to go. She has successfully translated To Serve Man and discovered that it is actually a cookbook for preparing dishes from the human body. Chambers tries to flee, but a guard forces him onto the ship and closes the hatch so it can lift off.
In the present, Chambers angrily throws another meal across the room when it is offered to him. A Kanamit picks up the food and encourages him to eat so that he will not lose weight. Chambers reluctantly does so, addressing the viewers directly to ask whether they have left Earth yet and remarking that the Kanamits will eventually cook and eat all of humanity.
I’ve seen that To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone. This episode was put together extremely well considering it was the 1960s.
Opening narration
edit
Respectfully submitted for your perusal - a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment, we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.
Plot
edit
A man named Michael Chambers lies on a cot in an otherwise empty, locked room. A voice offers him a meal, delivered through a small aperture in the wall, which he grimly refuses.
The setting changes to several months earlier, on Earth. The Kanamits, a race of 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) aliens, land on Earth as the planet is beset by international crises. As the Secretary-General of the United Nations announces the landing at a news conference, one of the aliens arrives and addresses the assembled delegates and journalists via telepathy. He states that his race's motive in coming to Earth is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing their advanced technology that can easily and inexpensively solve all energy/food shortages and prevent international warfare. After answering questions, the Kanamit departs without comment and leaves behind a book in his language; Chambers, a cryptographer working for the United States government, is pressed into service to decipher it.
International leaders express wariness of the Kanamits' uninvited arrival on Earth, but start to believe their claims of benevolence upon seeing their advanced technology at work. Patty, a member of Chambers' staff, translates the title of the book as To Serve Man, further bolstering public trust in the Kanamits. One member of the race submits to polygraph-monitored interrogation and is determined to be telling the truth.
The Kanamits deliver on their promise to turn the world into a Utopia, transforming barren deserts into blooming fields, and each nation is given an impenetrable force field that leads to the virtual disbandment of all militaries. Humans soon begin volunteering to travel to the Kanamits' home planet, which is described as a paradise, and the Kanamits set up embassies in every country on Earth and weigh all passengers boarding their ships. Even though Chambers' staff no longer have any real work to do, due to worldwide declarations of peace and the dissolution of the United States Armed Forces, Patty continues her efforts to decode the Kanamits' book.
Some time later, as Chambers is boarding a ship for his own voyage to the Kanamits' world, Patty pushes through the waiting line and shouts for him not to go. She has successfully translated To Serve Man and discovered that it is actually a cookbook for preparing dishes from the human body. Chambers tries to flee, but a guard forces him onto the ship and closes the hatch so it can lift off.
In the present, Chambers angrily throws another meal across the room when it is offered to him. A Kanamit picks up the food and encourages him to eat so that he will not lose weight. Chambers reluctantly does so, addressing the viewers directly to ask whether they have left Earth yet and remarking that the Kanamits will eventually cook and eat all of humanity.
So Daniel gets a dinner invitation of sorts, guess it was well deserved. His expression/outburst after Steven said "where else, on a serving platter", was rather priceless.
Daniel was foolish enough to believe the Visitors' lies and he paid the price. That's what you get for selling out humanity, Daniel!
Daniel Bernstein was a useful idiot.
I wonder if towards the end Daniel knew that they were lizards.
Selling out to a bunch of night crawlers!!!
When I was a kid watching this I never realized the white coats on those visitors were blood stained until I got older. That should have given Daniel the heads up that it was curtains for him 🤣
It is hard to notice because the shot is so quick.
Well, Steven’s pretty tranquil with his fury.
@@joshuafoote5144 not bad for a Hotshot
Thats because in the 1980s you were watching a 25” TV with shitty resolution.
Right yuck . Daniel on tartare lol. I Nevers realized too until i was grown up.
Kudos to the actor. He played it to the LIMIT!
Thank you for these. Brings back memories
Movies, television, and music are our real life time machines 😊.
Food for thought.
Do you think Stephen really believed Daniel set up Brian, or did he just need a fall guy and blamed it on Daniel because he was convenient and Stephen wanted to put this down as a case solved? Stephen's slimy enough to do it. He didn't seem to have any evidence against Daniel aside from an anonymous phone call.
good point considering Diana had a fool proof truth serum she could have used it to prove daniel was set up and make steven look imcompetent over his own command (security ) he made of point earlier in the mini series letting her now HE was in charge ...its surprising he not lose his postion after John got unmasked and Diana promotes Brian (one of her lovers) in his place making her effectively in control of both science dept and security ..sounds like plot worthy of her eviliness
I think Stephen just felt that since Daniel was human and Brian was a visitor, Daniel had to be guilty.
@@sha11235 But the visitors was our friends ... wasn't they ?
@@reesepacker7983 - in fairness Steven wasn't entirely at fault for John being unmasked... The Visitors hadn't realised that the Fifth Column were working against them at that time... In other scenes in the series Steven was shown to be a skilled and capable fighter. I think Steven's motive was purely that Daniel had embarrassed his command earlier by being the only one who fired at Julie when she tried to escape the medical centre, and he wanted quick vengeance for what he felt was a personal insult at Daniel's hands
I don't think he particularly cared either way. Danny was going to end up on the serving plate anyway, when he was no longer useful.
He serviced the visitors well. On a serving platter.
Loved the way Caleb, Ham, Maggie and Mike set him up!
One of my favourite V scenes
Loving these clips - keep them up! Favourite of mine is Ham Tyler executing Steven with the Red Dust - him dying in agony sprawled over the Vistor flag is very poignant.
One of the best scenes in all of television.
It was the carpet, not the flag.
@@sha11235 Saying "the Visitor carpet" would've sounded comical - flag was to imply their insignia.
@@retrotechnical So say the carpet with the insignia on the floor.
Here is a link with the scene you like. It's at the end...but worth the wait: czcams.com/video/VVxEpH0lB-o/video.html
Gee, you can’t tell Steven is angry just by looking at him.
You could see it in his eyes when he said "transfer you" obvious he was up to something. Great performances by both actors
Daniel got exactly what he deserved. Here is what Daniel had done to receive the punishment he got:
1. Daniel was accused of stealing from the register and let go from his job.
2. Daniel got his mother and father arrested and his father tortured.
3. Daniel got his Grandfather arrested who was later killed or put away by the Visitors.
4. Daniel tried to inform on the Robert Maxwell's family.
5. Daniel made unwelcome sexual advances on Robin Maxwell.
6. Daniel Smoked Pot.
7. Daniel made a medical student lick his boots.
8. Daniel shot and killed a doctor at the hospital.
9. Daniel got Julie captured by the Visitors.
10. Daniel killed his childhood friend Ruby for spying.
1- Dany was not proven guilty of stealing.
2- Dany didn't want his parent to be arrested.
3- Officially the grand fathet was ill. And the visitors tried their best to cure him. We don't see any othet version.
4- Robin father was a Sci, trying to steal visitor technology.
5- the advance was to give a way for Robin to protect her familly.
6- Dude ... seriously ?
7- The doc was acting in a very antagonistic way towards daniel. Dany did nothing to the other ones.
8- He shoot in legitimate defence. The doc would have ran over him with a car. The doc was also protecting a very dangerous terrorist.
9- She was a very dangerous terrorist.
10- Ruby helped the terrorist Parish to escape. But yeah, that was a mustake, he should have subdued her so she can give informations.
"6. Daniel Smoked Pot"
...are you for real?
What makes Daniel truly despicable is his reaction to two men in white coats means he's already well aware of what the Visitors are doing with people. No confusion or incredulity at Steven's words. He knows.
Every time I see the scene I think the classic song, Kiss ‘em Goodbye: 🎵🎵NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH HEY HEY HEY GOODBYE 🎵🎵🎵
Steven WAS RIGHT when he said “the ambitious have NO friends.”
1:03 Daniel thinks he’s off the hook...for a few seconds 😆
Then he went on the hook. A meat hook!
thought you had the hookup with that dinner the next thing you know you're getting hooked up on the hook
Daniel: What are you going to do with me, Steven?
Steven: Send you where you'll serve us well.
Daniel: Where's that?
Steven: Where else? On a serving platter.
Daniel: NO!! STEVEN! STEVEN! NO!! NOOOOOOOO...
He got his just deserts!
LOL! Good one.
He was dessert!
@@nunyabizness3866 Or entree, more like.
On a serving platter !
He certainly did, for betraying humans, causing his grandfather's death and then murdering Ruby.
Love this scene.... Steven is like Daenerys Targaryen with the dragón
You reap what you sow Daniel
lol seeing a collaborator get theirs always brightens my day!
Always thought he finally got what he deserved!
Collaborators well deserved fate.
The only time daniel was ever innocent.
The Visitors generally cannot appreciate concepts like personal loyalty. Everything was a power struggle--be it by intrigue (Steven and Pamela), direct violence (Diana), or sex (also Diana).
In the regular series, a human character at one point summed it up: "Red blood is thicker than green."
Karma at its best. He would die as an innocent, with innocent blood already covering his hands.
What goes around comes around
Ironically
@@TommygunNG It's also the fact that they didn't trust the human slaves. They always would find against them when they stepped out of line, according to the Visitors.
Everyone loves this scenes, just like Joffrey Baratheon's last banquet
The guys in butcher outfits scared the piss out of me as a kid in the 80s
It was at this moment Daniel realized, he fucked up. Traitor deserved it. He turned in his own family, he was high with a power trip, he thought he was something big. He learned he was nothing but a pawn.
A lot of people hate Daniel the worst (understandable: he caused the most harm to the good guys), but I always felt Donavan's mom was the worst collaborator. I can't help but feel a twinge of sympathy for Daniel: he had courage (he stood in the path of that van and kept shooting, that's how they caught Julie) and he was loyal to his masters to the very end. He had a little bit of virtue compared to Donavan's mom, who was a selfish slime.
Daniel was a disenfranchised kid that got caught up in a power trip. I would put him and Donavan's mother on equal scumbaggery though. The both sold out their families.
But Daniel at least stayed loyal to the end and demonstrated some courage.
@@xenofett7008 yes they did Donovan's mother sold out her neighbours and her own son then tried to kill him , she grassed Sancho up when he smuggled out Robert Maxwell and his family to safety because he was an anthropologist, then Daniel sold his parents out and grandfather then boasted about killing Ruby so in essence they deserved their fates.
Donovan's mother at least repented at the end, even if only under pressure and with minimal action to show it. She died with at least some honor and redemption.
I get (sorta) how one might say that Daniel was loyal to the end, but that was loyalty in his treason. For those willing to overlook his treason, any loyalty from him at that moment was by default, not choice. But that said, the "NOOOOO!" was kinda resistant. If he was so loyal, he ought to have walked proudly to his fate as finger foods for his masters.
Nah, there was no repentence with Donavan's mom: she was just trying to save her own skin. Dan's reaction was horror, yes, but before that, when he thought the resistance was about to kill him, he was still brave. And even his cry of 'No' wasn't rebelling, it was a loyal dog's plea to its master.
And this was before Lord Voldemort fed his victims to Nagini, the large snake. 🤣
Stephen probably knew it was a resistance trap but he was also aware that Diana was having an affair with Brian so he wanted to make Daniel a scapegoat
I think when he got the call about Brian being captured and Daniel was the one who set him up, he got suspicious. He even checked on what Daniel said about Maggie setting his dick up but told Daniel there wasn't any nurse registered there so he didn't believe Daniel's story. The whole thing is that Steven would side with the Visitors over the humans on any situation, even the humans who were cooperating with them.
you're right, no matter how many facts Daniel presented to Stephen he wasn't trying to hear none of it, Daniel's fate was already sealed and he was food for the lizards.
@@ihategoogle6066 Daniel seemed to actually think that he had skills and talents the visitors recognised and appreciated. When really he was just a weaselly scumbag who'd sell out his family for a uniform and a power trip and if he'd sell out his family for a uniform and a power trip why wouldn't he set up Brian? Stephen knew how worthless Daniel was.
Daniel had repeatedly shown he had no real loyalty to anyone and any loyalty he had to the Visitors was solely for his own advancement. Stephen figured "This worm sold out his own family, if he could do that he can never be trusted. Best to be rid of him."
Oh dear poor Daniel NOT !!!
Poor Daniel. It looks like he had suspicions about the Visitors, because he seemed nervous about what Steven was going to do to him. The horror on his face as the troopers drag him out, plus his screams are too genuine. What goes around comes around! Now, all we need to see is Steven's death...
He knew.
The idea is to say that concentration camp prisoners who collaborated with the Nazis, and those from occupied countries fighting for the Germans, knew about the Holocaust, and thus were culpable as well.
"The horror on his face as the troopers drag him out, plus his screams are too genuine."
Well, it seems that halfway through filming, the actor demanded a raise. He was... talked out of it, and then this scene was filmed. Great realism. [NOT TRUE, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE]
I wonder if he still made it to the serving platter even when the Visitors were defeated.
@@3dartistguyOh, I'm sure they chowed down on him that evening. The butchering was obviously about to happen, and the Visitors didn't store processed meat. In the regular series, a woman asks Willie about being a cook, saying that the Visitors could only eat living (or recently deceased) flesh. Willie responded, "I'm a veterinarian."
To this day, I'm not 100-percent sure if that was intended as one of Willie's slips in speaking English, or if he literally was an animal doctor (in civilian life back home at Sirius) and loved critters too much to eat them.
@@TommygunNG well im sure they just froze him like all the other humans they put into cold storage...as far as fresh meat, they liked to eat small animals on the ship. But it was nice to see that unrepentant traitor get his just deserts after what he did to Ruby and all the other humans he betrayed to the visitors.
Damn that scene gets me every time.
I wonder if Steven ate Daniel's LIVER with FAVA BEANS and a NICE CHIANTI?
The butcher's coats and helmets are a nice touch.
ended up getting a promotion feeding the lizard army literally
Daniel became FRESH FISH!!!! 😂😂😂
Caleb was right. This is better.
I can picture Emeril Lagasse preparing him. BAM!
I saw a comment on another video talking about how Steven wanted to eliminate Daniel. That does make sense. In the first movie Daniel was just an angry teen with no direction, but even though he did start to slowly turn into a dark evil person, there was still apart of him that was still loyal to humans especially trying to make sure his parents and grandfather wouldn't be arrested for offering sanctuary to The Maxwells, its clear that when he finds out that his familt was arrested he was angry at Brian. However once he was bought and paid for by Diana and Brian promoting him thats when his loyalty to humans was gone. Now fast forward to this movie. Daniel is currupt, ruthless, aggressive and power hunger, however he was also very arrogant and because he was hungry for power he kind of became a deer in headlights to the Visitors so maybe Steven knowing that Diana thought highly of Daniel (keep in mind by this time Diana was having to walk on egg shells with Pamela.) By eliminating Daniel, it would ge a step to Diana being stripped of her command.
Daniel Bernstein was the biggist rat the Visitors ever ate!
Yes! saw this in the 80s as a kid, so satisfying.
Wonderful end for Daniel's character.
I still wish that Ham had been able to get five minutes with the little punk.
Yeah he should have least boxed him up a little for what he did to Ruby.
@@ihategoogle6066 Agreed. How many fingers does Ham break? Or both hands....Then knock him out and make that phone call to Stephen.
Ham would of killed Daniel as many times as he could !
I remember he screwed his parents over just to get ahead I'm glad they were able to use that against him
Daniel is what we now call an INCEL. Fear these guys, they now walk among us.
You are an incel roleplaying as a female
In Canada, Incel is now considered a terrorist ideology.
Thumbs up! Who wants to see a, "V: The video game?"
Daniel reminds me of a cult follower willing to do anything for a corrupt leader. He realized he was in too deep when he wound up in Stephen's office
To serve man, he's in the cookbook!
Yesssssssss 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!
I like to think they gave him a tour of the (working) abattoir first and then introduced him to the chef who enthusiastically revealed to him the menu he’d planned from his butchered carcass. Sauces, paired wines, the lot.
Daniel is going to end up a blue plate special
Wish Daniel was iced up and Diana freed him on the TV series. This way Daniel could continue to hunt down the resistance but then be defeated by his family or friends.
He may not have wanted to do the series.
@@sha11235 I don't think the actor was well-liked.
Of course not.he watched Dominique Dunn get strangled to death and did nothing
LoL, I like how they are just dressed like folks from a slaughter house.
Awesome!
I remember seeing this and saying to the screen, "I'd recommend a white wine, it's good with swine!"
Be cool if they showed a scene of him being eaten
More than well deserved!
They turned him into Visitor Poop.
Karma
He got was coming to him Dinner for the king!!!
Great... The Visitors have a sence of humor...
Daniel, the anti heroe of the series. I like his character.
Anti hero ?? He was a piece of shit
I wonder what they are Daniel with? Fries? Salad? On toast? Beans? And how was he cooked, was he medium rare or rare?
Well at least he would be kosher
You know it's really crazy hes so nice in the beginning and then he joins the aliens youth program and he turns on everybody his friend's his family was so sad
Rewatching it, you can see there's hints of who he really was though. He couldn't keep a job, they said he didn't have any real friends, he was antisocial. At first you thought maybe he was some harmless awkward guy, but he had sociopathic qualities.
Despite his issues in keeping a job, I'm not sure if it was completely right that he had no real friends at all - he seemed on friendly terms with the Maxwells initially. Robert and Kathleen welcomed him into their home to watch the Visitors arrival on TV with no reluctance or caution, he seemed affable with Robin (although his crush on her was unrequited), and the two younger daughters both seemed to have a good rapport with him too. Even when he first began exhibiting signs that he was being corrupted, he still showed concern for his parents and grandfather, and was persistent that they kept to their promise of amnesty... Alas, the more he got away with, the worse his behaviour got........
"Well, I guess that truly... (puts on glasses) served him right :D
No one deserved it more
He did, the asshole traitor.
End of line man.
This scene was pretty satisfying. Waited a whole year to see him get his just desserts. Maybe be dessert. Lol
Since you never actually see daniel killed it would have been interesting if he had been brought back just for at least one episode in v the series
No, he was dead as a doornail and that was that. He was mentioned at one point in the series though.
Daniel was set up. He did nothing wrong.
I wonder if he still made it to the serving platter even when the Visitors were defeated and driven off from Earth...
The Visitors’ defeat was still at least 2 or 3 days away, so I’d assume that he was definitely served in a buffet with an apple in his mouth.
He was dead by then and burning in hell.
@@tyrantgregcagkaiju71 Hell, it wasn't that close. I'm sure it was a little longer than that.
@@tyrantgregcagkaiju71 And not a spit roast maybe while he was still alive?
For Ruby 😡
Daniel did find out about the food part from the Visitors. It wasn't like he could pull off an escape like Mike Donovan.
So now Daniel joins his grandfather in death, but he goes to hell. But I wonder where his parents were?
They show his parents in the last scene where they triumph over the Visitors after they let off the red dust from the hot air balloons
@@ihategoogle6066 Wonder how they felt about their son's death? Guess they felt they had lost him long ago.
0:33 Pretty much describes Diana which is why she killed Pamela.
Awesome decade.
This was one of the most satisfying scenes. I loathed Daniel!
What would happened to the other members from Visitors Youth!?? 🤔🤔
For this time, he was not guilty!!!!