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krpalmerGoing back to a list of Twilight Zone episode titles time and again might have let “Long Live Walter Jameson” stand out a bit more to me. Rod Serling’s next-episode preview getting to the point of showing a still image I could imagine featuring in it also helped the general idea of the episode stick in my mind. As ever, of course, there were details beyond that.
The impression the episode involved someone who’d indeed “lived long” happened to make me think of a Star Trek episode I know only from supplementary materials. So far as thinking back went, Walter Jameson being someone who can teach history “as if he were there” also had me thinking of the way the American Civil War was remembered as it approached its centennial, and about judging the past. Getting away from that, the episode, as with some other Twilight Zone episodes, managed to impress me for packing more into its length than just “a fantastic situation” when a fellow professor who’d aged while Walter Jameson didn’t seem to have changed at all started to penetrate the mystery.
It’s easy enough to suppose trying to present what a life lasting thousands of years would be like might choose to steer away from something like “it’s great! No complaints! I feel sorry for everyone else...” I’ll admit to letting a specific example of something watching The Twilight Zone is supposed to be at least a bit of a change from come to mind and thinking about how the anime Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End should be starting again quite soon. Then, I’ll admit, I started thinking about fanfiction again for the second episode in a row, and how one of the bits of wish fulfilment loaded into Undocumented Features indeed pretty much amounted to “no complaints” (and getting to stay entertained by stuff taken in in university or before for pretty much eternity...) I at least managed to reflect on how “Escape Clause” had its own take on the beginning of a life of unnatural length. This episode did have its own different bite before the end.
The impression the episode involved someone who’d indeed “lived long” happened to make me think of a Star Trek episode I know only from supplementary materials. So far as thinking back went, Walter Jameson being someone who can teach history “as if he were there” also had me thinking of the way the American Civil War was remembered as it approached its centennial, and about judging the past. Getting away from that, the episode, as with some other Twilight Zone episodes, managed to impress me for packing more into its length than just “a fantastic situation” when a fellow professor who’d aged while Walter Jameson didn’t seem to have changed at all started to penetrate the mystery.
It’s easy enough to suppose trying to present what a life lasting thousands of years would be like might choose to steer away from something like “it’s great! No complaints! I feel sorry for everyone else...” I’ll admit to letting a specific example of something watching The Twilight Zone is supposed to be at least a bit of a change from come to mind and thinking about how the anime Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End should be starting again quite soon. Then, I’ll admit, I started thinking about fanfiction again for the second episode in a row, and how one of the bits of wish fulfilment loaded into Undocumented Features indeed pretty much amounted to “no complaints” (and getting to stay entertained by stuff taken in in university or before for pretty much eternity...) I at least managed to reflect on how “Escape Clause” had its own take on the beginning of a life of unnatural length. This episode did have its own different bite before the end.