Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!dday From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: Twilight Zone question & comment Message-ID: <434@gymble.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 18:40:02 EST Article-I.D.: gymble.434 Posted: Thu Nov 7 18:40:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:18:54 EST References: <19200047@uiucdcs> Reply-To: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 29 In article <19200047@uiucdcs> place@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes: > >Ok, so my children threw a tantrum Friday night, but they threw it >during the first story on Twilight Zone. Please tell me (go ahead >and explain it in complete detail, if you want) what happened? >I saw the beginning with the parents worried their son would fail >the intelligence test. I don't recall hearing anything about what >happens if you fail the test. I saw the parts where the boy shows >that he's really like you and me, except he's more sensitive and >likes books a lot more. Of course, these is way ahead of the nerdy >civilization around him. I saw him go in to take his test. The >next thing I know they're calling the parents telling them their >son failed the test and was destroyed/terminated/whatever. >QUESTION: What did I miss? If the answer is nothing, then I feel The point of the episode was that they were living under a future totalitarian government that had decided that people who were too intelligent were a danger to the government. So the kid was killed for doing TOO WELL on the exam. It was predicatable but well done and economically told. Presumably there would be a privileged class (there always is) associated with those in power who are exempt from taking the test. -- UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!dday Dennis Doubleday CSNet: dday@umcp-cs University of Maryland ARPA: dday@gymble.umd.edu College Park, MD 20742 Fan of: Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, OU Sooners (301) 454-4247