The Shelter Skelter episode is so painfully slanted it is basically propaganda. Anyone who might have a fear of government/state or has an iota of preference that people have gun rights is marginalized into a survivalist nut case who deserves to be entombed in a sealed, irradiated hell. And the most evil person in the whole production, the wife, is set up as some sort of heroine of the piece. SHE knows full well her husband is likely alive and well, yet apparently made no attempt to retrieve him. That little slanted smile of hers at the end is chillingly evil, but I'm sure the production staff thought it charming. The main message is "can't all you individualist nutcases see that if you just turn yourself over to the benevolent state, everything will be just ever so wonderful?" And people like this wife, who is tacitly portrayed as being correctly on board, has no problem whatsoever leaving another human being in a living hell. Nice, twisted, malformed massage from pure evil that just doesn't grasp that it is. No, don't save the guy and divorce him for shooting guns and being thoughtless and getting a blop of beer on you, no, leave him in a living hell because he deserves it. And YOU are the saint in this twisted logical world. No wonder some people would prefer to have a gun against such "benevolence" portrayed in this episode.
Classic Twilight Zone did not stoop to have justice meted out by man. I guess those horrible Reagan 80's still held enough room for the media left to change those rules.
Classic Twilight Zone did not stoop to have justice meted out by man. I guess those horrible Reagan 80's still held enough room for the media left to change those rules.