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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
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 18:40:02 1985
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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.

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