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krpalmerAs one of the handful of Twilight Zone episodes I was already aware of through adaptations, I was interested in “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” I watched it on my regular schedule; however, travelling home the next day for Christmas got in the way of setting down and posting my reactions right away.
From what I knew about the episode in advance I had been wondering if “Maple Street” would be a 1950s suburban environment. The neighbourhood looked a bit more old-fashioned and with better-established trees than that, and I did get to thinking about other “old-fashioned streets” in episodes I’ve already seen. I also knew how the first effort to see if the situation the residents were thrown into was just “The Day Maple Street Stood Still” was interrupted by an awkward boy insisting things were beginning to play out the way they did in “stories” of monstrous infiltration. One thing I’d been thinking about before was how The Twilight Zone preceded “characters in stories becoming all too aware of other stories”; perhaps, though, things had already been beginning to change.
That, of course, was only a slight distraction from how things unravel and the message is delivered. Those taking advantage weren’t anywhere as bizarre as in the comics adaptation I’d seen, and they also didn’t take quite as much advantage as in that adaptation; they did, however, manage to use not just the C-57-D exterior set but the Forbidden Planet uniforms.
From what I knew about the episode in advance I had been wondering if “Maple Street” would be a 1950s suburban environment. The neighbourhood looked a bit more old-fashioned and with better-established trees than that, and I did get to thinking about other “old-fashioned streets” in episodes I’ve already seen. I also knew how the first effort to see if the situation the residents were thrown into was just “The Day Maple Street Stood Still” was interrupted by an awkward boy insisting things were beginning to play out the way they did in “stories” of monstrous infiltration. One thing I’d been thinking about before was how The Twilight Zone preceded “characters in stories becoming all too aware of other stories”; perhaps, though, things had already been beginning to change.
That, of course, was only a slight distraction from how things unravel and the message is delivered. Those taking advantage weren’t anywhere as bizarre as in the comics adaptation I’d seen, and they also didn’t take quite as much advantage as in that adaptation; they did, however, manage to use not just the C-57-D exterior set but the Forbidden Planet uniforms.