The Twilight Zone: A World of Difference

After returning from Christmas vacation, I started another Blu-Ray disc of Twilight Zone episodes (although it was merely the last disc to be watched from the first of six “sides” stacking and overlapping discs in the case). Whatever Rod Serling had said about the first episode of that disc in his preview hadn’t stuck in my mind. Even the title, “A World of Difference,” didn’t feel quite familiar any more. I was willing to be intrigued by not expecting anything specific, and when an opening twist hit I was downright amused. At the same time, though, I was conscious all over again of a familiar feeling that to make a big deal of being surprised is to deny that surprise to anyone else. As ever, the most I can do is put some of my content behind a “cut” for now and hope that someone running across this later won’t take everything in with a single glimpse.
( A digression within )