Eerie Indiana and the Twilight Zone
Jul. 14th, 2021 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
“A World of Difference” fits very efficiently into that genre of “Twilight Zone” episodes in which our lead character finds him or herself in a world in which everything and everybody might appear as usual but then a twist emerges that renders our hero’s identity in question. Episodes such as “Walking Distance”, “Shadow Play”, “Person or Persons Unknown” etc. come to mind. One of the tricks to make these episodes work well is for the writers to plot out a logical series of steps for the character to take–a series of actions that we would nod in accordance with as we watched, thinking to ourselves, “Uh huh, okay that’s good, that’s what I’d do to try and figure out what’s happening. Yep. Hmm. Okay so that didn’t solve it, but what if he tried to…” etc. etc.
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