The Midnight Sun - Twilight-Tober Zone 

Please Review Over the Garden Wall and the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV (not RU-vid) series.

Well the idea of eventually burning up or freezing to death in a world going way off orbit is scary enough. What really frightened me was when the intruder broke into Norma's apartment! I was afraid at first because I thought that he was going to rape them! But when he told of losing his wife and baby to the heat I simply felt sorry for him.

I liked it immensely, the suspense was very well built up, and I didn't see the ending coming.

You left out the little-known fun fact that this is perhaps the only episode, where Rod Serling's presence is noticed by the characters. Also, in my opinion, it's better for the Earth move away from the Sun than towards it because then, people can move underground where it's warm.

Loved it!

What's worse, burning or freezing to death?

@@brandonmedina494 Whichever it is, if you're doing one, you'd probably wish for the other.

Having the Earth doomed to an ice age is a lot better because people can still play with snow for a while unlike having the Earth burn and everyone living their life in hell.

​@@brandonmedina494at least you can find warmth if it were freezing. Don't know how you'd escape a heating earth, except going deep underground

In an ice age scenario a handful of humans could still probably survive underground using geothermal heat, at least for a time. In a scenario where the Earth is inevitably going to crash into the Sun, there's really nowhere to hide.

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""The Midnight Sun" features a very simple, but massive in scope premise that effectively captured and maintained the viewers attention across it's twenty-six minutes. " - Description of the video Wow, congratlations. You tried to do the trick every high school student did; rephrasing sentences to try to get away with plagiarism.

@@mad_max21 lol But tbh that's fairly common, rephrasing or rearranging sentences

Soooo true

Agreed, impending doom can easily happen, especially after the pandemic, we can easily relate.

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The way the threat isn’t a person or someone who can be reasoned with makes it scarier. This is a natural phenomenon on overdrive, at its most extreme. All that’s left to do is to deal with the situation when there’s no end in sight.

He claims the episode says nothing other than “Humanity doomed in case of doomsday”. This is very wrong! Midnight Sun is a story of desperation and a person’s final acts while at death’s door: will they be selfish, will they panic, will they prioritize the happiness of others? Does it matter when they all die all the same? Why should we be kind in our final moments? Will our kindness be rewarded? Does the absence of reward make a kind person kinder? Question upon question…

Agreed. Both suck but at least with the cold you can get nice and snug before you die of dehydration or something. With the heat it's suffering right up until you finally black out.

And at least the cold will let you gently die, just nod off to sleep and never wake again.

As much as I hate the snow I rather take that over the humidity, I’m more of a autumn person than winter person.

It would’ve been funny if an instrumental version of that song were playing as the soundtrack.

The other issue being that while you'd lose a great deal of humanity theoretically life could still survive underground. Water would the Frozen but accessible geothermal heat would still exist and so on. A nightmare scenario to be sure of course, but if the Earth went hurtling towards the Sun all the water on the planet would evaporate let alone the Planet itself would cease to exist entirely when the sun enveloped it.

VERY well analyzed! Add to: The nightmare heat was Norma's own FEVER dream!

It's also notable how even though everyone is doomed, the basic animal drive to survive leads people to do stuff like steal water just to prolong life a little longer.

Definitely going to give this a watch this month I’m really enjoying the twilight zone and Walter’s review of the episodes are great.

i usually hate those twist because it makes the story meaningless, you know like in twilight or that episode from the new adventures of batman, but here is one of the few examples in how to do it right

@@motor4X4kombat I disagree. “Over the Edge” (the Batman episode I assume you’re talking about) was exploring a what-if without having to break the status quo. Having it be a dream helped that aspect be clear, as well as turning it into a character study into the psychology of Batgirl, a well-established character. This TZ episode making it a dream doesn’t add anything to the story. It just sets up an irony for irony’s sake. Ergo, this episode’s use of the all-just-a-dream ending is meaningless compared to the Batman example.

@@BlackCover95 sure and batgirl entire subplot in the killing joke was needed to "understand" her character. I don't care if its a "what if", honestly i wouldn't be mad if it was an actual what if and not a just a last minute dream, unlike something like "perchance to dream" were they give you hints at the beggining that it can, or not, be a dream, theres ZERO hints that it was a dream specially since barbara barrelly has a part in that story outside of the ending and beeing fridged at the begging. hell the episode didn't even started with batgirl getting knockout, it started with batman and robin beeing chase down by the police and the entire episode acted like shit got real and this is actually happening like the friggin red wedding from game of thrones. But nope it was a dream making it more frustrasting than someone dreaming an oposite apocalipse from the one shes living, plus she is not even a recuring character like the bat family she is just one story arc character like the boy who yell the wolf or ebenezer scrooge.

Then she wakes up and it turns out the Eaarth is hurtling away from the sun.

Yes. This all the way. I grew up watching reruns of Night Gallery as a kid and that was the one show/movie situation that scared the hell out of me. There are episodes I'm pretty sure I'd still refuse to watch because they creeped me out so bad as a kid.

coming 2026?

@@NewPaulActs17 or even before why not

@@clown599 I'd say Walter already spends a good chunk of the year between each October putting this series together.

@@MandleRoss ooh i know.. Just tossing ideas for distante future

yes, that was ingenious!

Sounds a lot like global warming!

are you from ecuador?

Welcome to Arizona. Where its hot majority of the year and only during late fall to winter is it colder. : D

@@UrSammich In my city, it's all year long. There are only two seasons: rainy and dry. In the rainy season, when it's not raining, it's EVEN HOTTER.

California summers here are brutal. I consider it a blessing when rainstorms happen.

beats the dream cliche b/c it of the fever-flip!

Not really, I'd much rather freeze. Dying from being too hot is agony all the way, when you're frozen you'll get too a point of being numb and won't feel it at the end. Note we're talking about dying here, not just being uncomfortable.

It was, for the most part. I’m with you, with disliking the “it was all a dream” most of the time, but sometimes it works

Easier yo heat up than to cool down.

@@Omar-wq9dz The "It's all a dream" can work if the reality is harsher, or if it is a deus-ex machina in universe that the main character begged for (as seen in grant morrison's animal man)

What made the Zone ep work is that the "only a dream" part was b/c of the fever! The climatic horror of the ending, blazing heat - including PAINT melting and running - SOLD the closing reality that her fever had "reversed" reality. Wow.

True. Even when most people were moving further north or south depending on both scenarios they were only prolonging the inevitable.

Which is why it's so stupid right now with all the nonsense about trying to stop "climate change." The climate is always changing! In the 70s it was global cooling, LOL!

Ever thought of moving to a colder climate?

@@graciegj63 Teachers lie when they say there's no such thing as a stupid question.

@@graciegj63 I live in Missouri where the weather changes constantly. The saying is ,"If you don't like it, wait a couple of hours and things will change." Not to mention, financial constraints keep me from moving. I am just saying when the heat becomes extreme like in July and August is when I am most likely to become seriously ill. Luckily, I work from home so I only go out when I absolutely have to and do things to combat that heat like showering in the middle of the day instead of at night or drinking lots of water. The migraines occur whenever a cold front comes through and severe storms pop up. I usually take medicine and lie down until it passes. However, because of these physical discomforts in my real life, that's why The Midnight Sun for me is one of those episodes that I find the most haunting.

@@julieporter7805 Ok, yea I didn't figure in financial reasons for why you can't move. But at least you found a method to deal with it until winter gets here. :)

Same here!