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krpalmerMoving along to the second season of The Twilight Zone, the opening theme changed to match my expectations going into the series of “the theme” (although the altogether different first theme, if not “instantly quotable” the way this one seems from having been expected, wound up with its own certain interest to me). The visuals of the opening still have more resemblance to the one that showed up late in the first season than to expectations the front of the Blu-Ray case might have seeded, if with the title lettering itself reverted to the showier and familiar original. With all of those points made about the opening alone, I suppose I was approaching this episode without a preview to have set a first few expectations in my mind and still wondering just what “King Nine Will Not Return” meant.
Another element I’d been expecting did show up when Rod Serling got on camera to deliver the opening narration now, if not all the way out into the desert to stand in front of the downed World War II medium bomber named “King Nine.” One man picking himself up in front of the plane had me thinking a little of having seen a recent “air war in Europe” TV miniseries, but I did wonder about his clothes not including any obvious elements of an air force uniform. Voiceover monologue surprised me, too, but as I sorted out the bomber’s commander was in the desert alone I was imagining concluding twists even as I thought back to previous episodes involving “the terror of loneliness.”
As it turned out the twist was one I hadn’t imagined, if one that explained a certain earlier moment and had me thinking about how much time separated particular moments beyond this episode. It moved past a one-man show and did involve explanations to the audience rather than to the main character, which was also a little familiar. In any case, with the opening changes of this new season accepted more fundamental things about the series are staying familiar.
Another element I’d been expecting did show up when Rod Serling got on camera to deliver the opening narration now, if not all the way out into the desert to stand in front of the downed World War II medium bomber named “King Nine.” One man picking himself up in front of the plane had me thinking a little of having seen a recent “air war in Europe” TV miniseries, but I did wonder about his clothes not including any obvious elements of an air force uniform. Voiceover monologue surprised me, too, but as I sorted out the bomber’s commander was in the desert alone I was imagining concluding twists even as I thought back to previous episodes involving “the terror of loneliness.”
As it turned out the twist was one I hadn’t imagined, if one that explained a certain earlier moment and had me thinking about how much time separated particular moments beyond this episode. It moved past a one-man show and did involve explanations to the audience rather than to the main character, which was also a little familiar. In any case, with the opening changes of this new season accepted more fundamental things about the series are staying familiar.