The Twilight Zone: Mirror Image
Dec. 17th, 2025 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAware in advance that “Mirror Image” was another Twilight Zone episode with a female lead, I was still guessing at what the episode might involve. Another comment from Rod Serling’s next-episode preview, enduring if imperfectly so in my mind as an impression that he was “taking on again whether he could write a female lead role,” did have me wondering about “answering comments,” and somehow ahead of their time.
The episode seemed a bit slow to get started after an opening narration perhaps just a little more keyed up than normal. Being set in a bus station might have also diminished things a little. (Still, I did manage to contrast a bus station to thoughts of “the last days of ubiquitous passenger rail.”) A bit of voiceover monologue from the main character had me thinking of the last Twilight Zone episode with a female lead, but in getting away from that as the element of the fantastic deepened at last (and with the use of a term different from what I might have thought before that now had me thinking a bit of an element of the fantastic that seems quite common these days, even if it’s become grander in scope in the process) I started wondering about interpretations of the episode as at least commenting on “women are more emotional.” That gave me a bit more to carry away.
The episode seemed a bit slow to get started after an opening narration perhaps just a little more keyed up than normal. Being set in a bus station might have also diminished things a little. (Still, I did manage to contrast a bus station to thoughts of “the last days of ubiquitous passenger rail.”) A bit of voiceover monologue from the main character had me thinking of the last Twilight Zone episode with a female lead, but in getting away from that as the element of the fantastic deepened at last (and with the use of a term different from what I might have thought before that now had me thinking a bit of an element of the fantastic that seems quite common these days, even if it’s become grander in scope in the process) I started wondering about interpretations of the episode as at least commenting on “women are more emotional.” That gave me a bit more to carry away.