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Do ANY of the Outer Limits end with a happy ending? |
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Posts: 30709 (10/11/08 10:55 AM) Not a Registered User anymore |
My dad put it on the tivo pass and I've been watching and pretty much every one ends with mankind doomed, somebody completely fucked over, or the earth
about to be destroyed.
I've so far only found one that ended well, with a guy jumping through time and at the end he's placed back in the first jump he did. |
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Posts: 4 (10/11/08 11:09 AM) |
the only happy ending is when you've seen every episode. Do not miss one! There are quite a few with bittersweet endings, but can't off the top of my
head think of a happy ending.
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Posts: 845 (10/11/08 11:27 AM) Registered user |
Outer Limits is like a modern day Twilight Zone. I think the Outer Limits started on Showtime(?) and then crossed over to network television.
There are a few other series that have wierd endings. Anyone remember Tales from the Darkside? Classic example, but these stories were a little more on the horror side. Anyway, the endings are supposed to be unexpected/have a twist/leave the door open, so the story continues. I love shows like this. (Is this supposed to be an Outer Limits Thread?) |
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Posts: 3254 (10/11/08 11:31 AM) Registered User |
Outer Limits started in 1963.
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Posts: 16775 (10/11/08 12:07 PM) Registered user |
I've never like the new ones...prefer the black and white ones.
Since i've seen every Twilight Zone a billion times, I have started watching a episode of Outer Limits and then a episode of Alfred Hitchcock presents every once in a while to see how they compare. Shockingly Outer Limits would be the worst of the three. |
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Will |
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Posts: 30717 (10/11/08 1:10 PM) Not a Registered User anymore |
Cydonia Leo wrote:Yes it is. and Yes I do, Chiller runs TFTD all the time now. I have the same issue with TZ as I do with OL, I just want there to be at least a few happy ending for the people who didn't do anything wrong. I also remember one episode where Ensign Ro started to use the time machine to kill killers after the original woman saved her own self from being raped. I guess that's kinda happy even though it's going to end with Ro fucking up her brain.
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Posts: 4635 (10/11/08 1:32 PM) Registered user |
I remember one with Thora Birch (before she turned into a hideous teenager) that was happy.
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Posts: 36 (10/11/08 5:37 PM) |
I like the episode that had Luke Skywalker in it.
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Posts: 6163 (10/11/08 8:46 PM) Registered User |
The 60's Outer Limits scared the crap out of me. I seem to remember one where a little girl rolled over in bed into the wall. Another dimension thing. I
was scared to go to bed after that.
My bed was against a wall... |
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Posts: 12796 (10/12/08 11:38 AM) Registered User |
I just saw a happy episode if Outer Limits a few weeks ago. There was some sort of big chemical warfare thing or something and because of it people couldn't reproduce, they had massively fucked up babies (so happy!!) and the government was trying to find the "perfect" couple to have a non fucked up baby. Enter Blair Underwood and his knocked up wife, who while being int he government baby making facility discover the awful truth, and after giving birth the baby is taken away and they're told they'll have to keep pumping out babies. BUT, of course, there's a resistance group, and of course, they have some people on the inside, so they get mom, pops, and baby out and take them way out in the woods where it turns out there's a little top secret community with a whole crapload of non-fucked up kids so yay! mankind will live on the end.
Blair Underwood was pretty hot in that episode. |
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Cydonia Leo |
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Posts: 846 (10/12/08 12:01 PM) Registered user |
One of my favorite Outer Limits starred Kirsten Dunst and Joshua Jackson (1997):
A young researcher encounters a mysterious alien signal that sounds like noise to adults, but music to children. When the music causes odd behavior, followed by physical changes, a quarantine is declared. Anyone that could "hear" the music were slowly transformed into a "new" human version if they welcomed it. The signal was sent as a warning because their sun was evolving and would emit incredible amounts of ultraviolet light or something. Anyway, anyone over a certain age couldn't "transform." By the time the transofrmation was over, their skin turned a brownish/stone color with gold flecks. They were bald/hairless, and I think their eyes changed too. Any humans that didnt want to change, or were too old basically had to live the rest of their lives indoors. |
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Posts: 22868 (10/13/08 10:51 AM) Registered user |
I thought of the Dunst one too.
I'm sure there are many. One that sprung to my mind was the one with Kevin Nealon who got trapped in the time loop. He saves the day, leaving the bad guy to be stuck in an endless time-loop of death. Tthe quantum worlds one ended up happy. The guy is about to shoot himself, and finds himself sucked into an alternate dimension, with many other versions of himself. And it ends with him taking the place of the guy with a chance at the girl he loves (who died in his reality, I think), and the bad guy returning to his old body just as the trigger is being pulled. |
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