The Outer Limits is fun to look back on. You can see so many actors who later went on to bigger roles getting a start. It is a bit like Perry Mason was for an earlier generation of actors.
In this episode you see Ian Tracey looking disturbingly sexy who went on to Da Vinci's Inquest and Jason Gray-Stanford who went on to Monk.
This is one of the more complex Outer Limits episodes. It is not just the usual matter of vainly trying to escape from some science experiment gone awry. A number of people all face the same difficult problem (an alien "invasion"), and react in quite different ways. It is more a character study than an adventure story.
Two things jarred me. The first was the tiny, and apparently random, staff the President took with him to his nuclear bunker. That just does not make sense. He would need a substantial support and advisory contingent, not to mention a cook and cleaning staff. This would all be carefully planned, and would certainly include the president's son.
The second was the several flowery references to God in the supposed messages from the Russian leader. Russian leaders are atheist. It was so jarring it yanked me out of the story trying to figure out what heck. I felt angry that some scriptwriter put in this "ad" for Christianity in a most inappropriate place.
In this episode you see Ian Tracey looking disturbingly sexy who went on to Da Vinci's Inquest and Jason Gray-Stanford who went on to Monk.
This is one of the more complex Outer Limits episodes. It is not just the usual matter of vainly trying to escape from some science experiment gone awry. A number of people all face the same difficult problem (an alien "invasion"), and react in quite different ways. It is more a character study than an adventure story.
Two things jarred me. The first was the tiny, and apparently random, staff the President took with him to his nuclear bunker. That just does not make sense. He would need a substantial support and advisory contingent, not to mention a cook and cleaning staff. This would all be carefully planned, and would certainly include the president's son.
The second was the several flowery references to God in the supposed messages from the Russian leader. Russian leaders are atheist. It was so jarring it yanked me out of the story trying to figure out what heck. I felt angry that some scriptwriter put in this "ad" for Christianity in a most inappropriate place.