Talk:The Cold Equations (The Twilight Zone)

This is not really a stub because mostly everythin in this ~20 minute TV is mentioned...--Frozenport 00:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

More of a review . ..
This page reads more like a review; it's too opinionated.

I've removed the following to keep it neutral.

"This is one of the better episodes of the otherwise unsuccessful remake of the original series.[opinion needs balancing] Partly because it is the Twilight Zone. A show which has a reputation for bizarre and or ironic twists. So the audience, knowing this (but not familiar with the original story) is expecting something to happen. Either resulting in the girl being saved, revealing in the end that she never really existed, or some other bizarre twist. However nothing of this is sort happens. The girl, who has spent the entire episode tugging at the audience's heart, is finaly ejected. This in itself becomes the surprise, and emotionally devastating ending."

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While it goes without saying that the Twilight Zone does have a reputation for the bizarre and ironic twists, the above does read like a review. To make the comment more neutral, one can say that it was indeed one of the more emotional stories. A quick search for the short story it was copied from, The Cold Equations, and you'll find http://home.tiac.net/~cri_d/cri/1999/coldeq.html, which does comment on how and why said story was so emotional. I believe using this as a citation as well as changing the wording of the above paragraph would make it neutral.

I would put the following text in at the introductary paragraph.

"This episode, The Cold Equations, keeps up the Twilight Zone's reputation of the bizarre, ironic, and unusual by breaking the cliches that one would usually expect to happen in this story..." "Here is one of the most popular and controversial hard science fiction stories of the last fifty years, a story that stacks the deck and then plays with the reader's emotions with carefully juxtaposed cliches that imply a deus ex machina - then frustrates that false expection......Godwin's story angered many readers when it appeared in the fifties, nearly all of whom wanted the problem solved by violating some scientific principle or law."[citation goes here]

As I do not know how to edit, I would very much like help on this. 72.47.31.146 (talk) 08:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)