Talk:The Jeopardy Room

One of four TZs with no sci-fi or supernatural elements
I deleted the following from the first paragraph:

"It is one of four Twilight Zone episodes containing no supernatural or science fiction elements; the others are 'Where Is Everybody?', 'The Shelter' and 'The Silence'. It is a straight drama, albeit one with a twist ending."

I think this is too open to interpretation. "Where Is Everybody?" involves preparation for a flight to the moon, which in 1959 was certainly science fiction. If it's not sci-fi, then one could argue that "The Obsolete Man" (a future where books are banned) isn't sci-fi, either, and thus should be in the list.

Another story with a similar plot device to "Where is Everybody?" is "One More Pallbearer"; the main character has lost his mind and is imagining nuclear war. The inverse is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (film)", where the main character believes that he hasn't been hung. Similarly, "Sounds and Silences" is an episode where, again, the main character suffers an ironic mental condition, but certainly isn't affected by the supernatural.

Is this deleted paragraph obvious enough to remain as an uncited fact; am I overthinking this or missing the obvious? travisl (talk) 22:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I deleted this similar intro sentence, 8 1/2 years later:

"It is one of only four Twilight Zone episodes (the others being the very first season's first episode 'Where Is Everybody?', season two's 'The Silence', and season three's 'The Shelter') to feature a story without any supernatural or science fiction elements. It does, however, contain one of the series' signature twist endings."
 * It is obviously false; the whole premise is supernatural. Zaslav (talk) 04:01, 5 August 2019 (UTC)