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50. And When The Sky Was Opened (The Twilight Zone) (19 points)
Nominated by: Shonen_Bat (2/5 remaining)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59dm0u

Importance: 3.5
Fear: 7
Snake: 8.5

Have you ever had a near-death experience? Have you ever felt you like didn't belong somewhere? Have you ever thought you could disappear and it wouldn't matter one bit? The Twilight Zone's existentially chilling episode "And When The Sky Was Opened" dares to explore these questions, pushing human sanity to its breaking points, asking the question, "what does it really mean to exist?" In the episode, three astronauts, Colonel Clegg Forbes, Major William Gart, & Colonel Ed Harrington, crash their experimental spacecraft in the desert after blacking out and disappearing for four hours. Things are relatively fine at first, but Harrington starts to feel ill at a bar with Forbes, and after calling his parents, it's shockingly revealed that his folks deny even having a son at all. Harrington then disappears completely, and no one in the bar besides Forbes remember his existence despite him having a beer there only moments ago. This terrifying turn of events drives Forbes crazy, and even fellow astronaut Major Gart doesn't remember Harrington. Forbes himself starts to experience the disturbing feeling of simply vanishing, and in a blink disappears right outside of Gart's hospital room. Gart experiences the same thing Forbes was going through, with no one remembering Forbes, until Gart himself is gone next.

The mystery here has no explanation and your theories to what happened are endless. Was it Death correcting his mistake? Did it have something to do with their spacecraft? Perhaps they reappeared in another reality where they never existed? The fact that we don't know makes this just as scary to us as it does to the characters in the episode. Each of the actors, especially Rod Taylor and Charles Aidman, encapsulate both the euphoric and horrifying feelings of experiencing such an occurrence. There is arguably nothing more human than feeling like you matter in the world and having meaningful connections to the people around you. Take that away, and our sanity becomes fractured, as the three astronauts in this episode of The Twilight Zone found out all too well.
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If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will!
http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://imgur.com/a/OcdhKKR