Twilight Zone: To Serve Man. So Totally Poetic Justice
Video for all you who are curious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudBfRa0ETw
To serve man. That is the tittle of the book the Alien leaves on our planet in this TV show from 'The Twilight Zone'. The humans have made an unfortunate mistake. They have made an unfortunate interpretation of the tittle which will cost them there lives.
They all believe that the aliens will "serve man," and that's exactly what they will do, but not in the way they hope so. They believed the aliens would help there world, and would be slaves to humans. They would take advantage of all the aliens technology and intelligence, but this was not to be so. Instead the aliens are taking advantage of the stupidity of the humans, and taking them to there planet, "we ask only that you trust us, you simply, trust us."
Video for all you who are curious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudBfRa0ETw
To serve man. That is the tittle of the book the Alien leaves on our planet in this TV show from 'The Twilight Zone'. The humans have made an unfortunate mistake. They have made an unfortunate interpretation of the tittle which will cost them there lives.
They all believe that the aliens will "serve man," and that's exactly what they will do, but not in the way they hope so. They believed the aliens would help there world, and would be slaves to humans. They would take advantage of all the aliens technology and intelligence, but this was not to be so. Instead the aliens are taking advantage of the stupidity of the humans, and taking them to there planet, "we ask only that you trust us, you simply, trust us."
Indeed, all the humans do believe and trust this alien stranger. They do translate the book but only the tittle, 'to serve man.' But what is the book really about? This book with strange looking letters from an unknown world, and species they just barely met. The man who was suppose to translate the book failed to translate the rest of it, therefore failing to save humanity. But even if he had correctly translated it would they have been saved?
As the man walks into the space ship, we find out that only one, yes one human being, a woman, was smart enough to translate the rest of the book. Running towards the Space ship she announces "its a cook book!" The man tries to escape but its to late. At the end the announcer says that this , "simply stated the evolution of man. The cycle of going from dust, to desert. The metamorphose of being the ruler of a planet, to the ingredient of someones soup."
The poetic justice has clearly been served to the viewer. Humans wanted the aliens to serve them, but instead they are being served to aliens. Humans were once the power of the world, eating animals, but now are weaklings and are being served for dinner.
As the man walks into the space ship, we find out that only one, yes one human being, a woman, was smart enough to translate the rest of the book. Running towards the Space ship she announces "its a cook book!" The man tries to escape but its to late. At the end the announcer says that this , "simply stated the evolution of man. The cycle of going from dust, to desert. The metamorphose of being the ruler of a planet, to the ingredient of someones soup."
The poetic justice has clearly been served to the viewer. Humans wanted the aliens to serve them, but instead they are being served to aliens. Humans were once the power of the world, eating animals, but now are weaklings and are being served for dinner.
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