Some were set in the past, some in the future, some in space, some in the then-contemporary era of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but all of them ended with a surprising twist that always managed to shed some light on the human condition. Because each episode was entirely self-contained, these 30-minute morality plays covered an amazing amount of ground.
The creation of legendary writer Rod Serling, who also introduced every episode, The Twilight Zone was designed to tweak viewers' notions of reality and present issues from a new, and usually unexpected, perspective. Out of all of the Twilight Zone episodes I watched, that one made an impression on me and the life lessons learned have stayed with me to this day.Anything can happen in THE TWILIGHT ZONE: People may actually be aliens, and the characters you thought were aliens may turn out to be human beautiful people turn out to be ugly and the characters you're sure are crazy turn out to be the only ones who actually know what's going on. That was a fact that the thieves had not even considered. The humans remark to themselves: “He seemed to think that gold was valuable.” It turns out that in the future, gold was worthless!! Humanity had changed to the point where there was no need for gold. The humans who had stopped for him were confused by my his words and behavior. By the time he does see human beings, he tries to get help for himself, offering to pay them in gold, however … he drops dead! That one who survived found himself with a lot of gold and in a hot desert.
They try to kill each other, and only one of them survives the double-crossing and the betrayal. WRONG! Because even in the future, there is no honor among thieves. When they arrive in the future, they reason that they are now free from being fugitives from justice, and THEY’RE RICH! They can go to the secret place where they hid the gold, divide up the gold amongst themselves, and start living the good life! Right? They reason that, in the future, law enforcement won’t be looking for them because it will be assumed that they died many years ago.
They will go to sleep for several years, like Rip Van Winkle, and when they wake up in the future, they won’t have to worry about going to jail for committing the crime. He tells his friends that they can steal the gold, and evade the law enforcement authorities by getting into this time capsule. The moral of the story was twofold: (1) One can plan for the future but one can not predict the future and (2) Avarice and greed are probably timeless human characteristics.
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