Architects of Fear Part One

[denberg2]

What is the monkey for in this story? What is its purpose? Why is it being kept? Thanks.

[spacepatrolman]

@denberg2 before they perform experiments on humans they do them on monkeys [there are monkeys walking around with hip replacements animal experiments are considered cruelty to animals ] the monkey is the alien on a smaller scale [ i have a friend who had an artificial ankle replacement they wanted him for a tv special the body human but it didnt work out ]

[denberg2]

@denberg2 Thanks spacepatrolman, that's a good answer.

[denberg2]

Can someone explain to me what the little monkey in the crate was for? They didn't use him to transplant any of his body parts to Robert Culp. They couldn't have, as the monkey was still alive at the end of the episode. So what was he for? Many thanks.

[intrepidame]

This episode is great , thank you for sharing it with us !

[Bladerunner93]

I'll bet everyone wrote Alan's name down...

[spacepatrolman]

@Bladerunner93 yea its coincidence that the first episode of i spy starts with robert culp and bill cosby watching a movie like this

[forestdweller68]

The Outer Limits is one of the best TV shows ever made- I love the B/W- it allows for eerie shadows and atmosphere. The 1990s series wasn't the same.

[nowaddvideo]

Gee, why is this so familiar... oh yeah, the CIA making Osama bin Laden into a monster to unite the US in fear.

[kokujin1014]

You're not going to believe this,people,but actor Robert Culp has died from an accident!

[FilmsRreel]

Sucks!

[invincibleironman3]

@kokujin1014 ,yeah, I heard about that in March..apparently he fell while he was walking outside his Hollywood Hills home and injured his head, and died later.

[skylur44]

@invincibleironman3 He fell due to a massive heart attack, he did have a small cut on his head as a result of the fall. He never regained consciousness.

[spacepatrolman]

@skylur44 thats too bad dr. atkins fell on the ice and hit his head and went into a coma and died at least robert culp didnt suffer

[skylur44]

@spacepatrolman That's true.

[arkham6]

wikipedia:

This episode is similar to the ending of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book mini-series, Watchmen. According to Moore, while he was writing issue ten, he came across a guide to cult television that featured this episode and was surprised by its similarity to his already planned ending. A belated nod to "The Architects of Fear" is made near the end of Watchmen.

[FKTHPOPE]

Early example of the Globalist agenda .

[MikeHudson65]

I used to love this series when I was a kid, the newer series was awful no where near as good as the original.

[myukus27]

apparently they were planning of making a movie out of this episode

[Mandi7882]

This is my very, very, VERY favorite of the series. I saw this when I was 3 an it scared me (the monster). When I got older, I got the story...excellent. No one knows how to craft drama in horror or sci-fi any more. It's CGI and a bunch of kids. Thanks for posting a classic.

[Bradyfan27new]

I hope this is as good as the twilight zone

[drunkdonutboy]

Inspired the ending in Watchmen...it's awesome to see the thing that inspired the greatest ending to the greatest book of all time.

[torrent29]

In actuality it didnt. Moore already had the ending in mind when he was watching a sci fi anthology and discovered the simliarities, he belatedly placed a nod to the episode in the last books.

[invincibleironman3]

Moore had the theme of "deconstructing the myth of the Superhero" Its interesting to see how graphic comic writers like he and Miller "humanize" the archetypes. As if they exist in their own world with their own morality.

[hotpeach9]

The Classic Outer Limits,one of my favorite science fiction shows.This was one of my favorite episodes.Robert Culp was also great in Demon With A Glass Hand.This was a love story also.The transformation of Robert Culp into the alien was bizarre.A great episode of this classic.

[trikespotter]

Isn't this the episode where George W. got his bright idea for that incident in 2001 about gettin men to unite against one common enemy? Whoops! :D

[lostindreams3]

Never look at an atom bomb. You instantly would go blind. That's what my mom told me anyway.

[1tonykirk]

What if "They" were to try to use this very scenario to scare us into total submission?

The NWO/industrial/military complex is at least 30 years ahead of civilian technology. Not Fiction.

[machinmon]

it is already done, the politics of fear, it was always terrorism

[scotpens]

Except that terrorism is a very real threat. There aren't any space aliens landing on Earth. Not yet, anyway.

[1tonykirk]

look up "project bluebeam" and H.A.A.R.P.

[invincibleironman3]

@1tonykirk , yeah, I read about MJ12 and about H.A.A.R.P - its unbelievable. I believe Raytheon ended up getting a patent on that technology a few years into the Bush administration in 2003-04

[invincibleironman3]

This was the premise of Alex Jones' review of the Watchmen. The Architects of Fear inspired ending - "prepares" us, the masses for the acceptance of the New World Order.

He also said Ozymandias had Illuminati symbolism - but I thought Ozzy patterned himself after Alexander the Great

[torrent29]

Too bad Alex Jones is a half baked moron that spouts any sort of stupidity that enters his mind. Though I suspect that all of his sheep like followers will cry out that everyone else needs to 'open their mind' *snicker*

[invincibleironman3]

yeah. I think he weirded out Austin, TX Theres some open minded people, but he takes themes to extremes.

[tlyoung88]

So what did Alex Jones say?

Send me a link.

ty

[Eyedunno]

@torrent29

I watched his show once, because Doug Stanhope was on it, and he is the best comedian alive. The show, however, was not funny at all, because Jones could not shut the fuck up. At one point, he managed to connect Australian philosophy professor Peter Singer, the UN, and the voluntary human extinction movement (all as part of this supposed New World Order) in one 15 second movement of laryngeal diarrhea.

[SuperOmnicron]

@torrent29 ... he's a half baked moron that gets legitimate guests, sells legitimate dvd's with former economists, politicians, writers, activists and former government agents. Whatever stupidity he spouts, he's much better than so-called media. Even if you hear the truth, people are too convinced by the lie.

[death2utubenow]

@invincibleironman3 \well \i would hate to think Alex Jones wasnt 100% right! But yes Ozymandias saw himself as the new Alexander the Great. The Egyptian theme was because they helped inspire the real Alexander to aspire to Godhood.  The Masons used their symbolism because they were on a "secrets of the pyramids" kind of kick.

[Eyedunno]

@invincibleironman3

Alex Jones is a puppet of the New World Order, and his show points out the workings of the New World Order in order to desensitize us to it. (I don't actually believe this bullshit, but it's about as rational as anything Jones ever says.)

[SuperOmnicron]

@Eyedunno ...interesting take. Whatever the case, "the programming" isnt taking...lots of people are listening and people are aware.

[unclepatrick2]

This episode was a major influcence on Alan Moore's Graphic Novel Watchmen. He even has it playing on the TV in some pannels in the book. I wonder if it will appear in the movie next year.

[jazKeyz]

Absolutely. I got that same vibe right at the beginning when they were talking about creating an enemy to keep people from killing themselves

[platinumbong]

from what i understand. the writing and drawing of the watchmen comic was tense and delayed much of the time with alan feeding the artist only a few pages at a time sometimes. near the end they argued about the similarities of this and the comic. which is why they pay such homage to it in the comic.

[hypnoboy3]

since he was young, i thought they all wrote down alan laton, and he never knew.

[XMIR10B]

Culp was brilliant

[pr9151]

This is one of the three episodes that Robert Culp starred in. The other was "Demon with glass hand". I can't remember the title for the third. But it dealt with mind controling rocks and only Culp could hear them talk to each other. Other great 60's t.v. stars appeared on this show: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and David Mc Callum all were here.

[spacepatrolman]

corpus earthling was the third what about the guy with the third arm in the twilight zone who was the first doctor in star trek john hoyt he was in the outer limits

[1tonykirk]

Jim Marrs' new book " The Rise of the Fourth Reich" just released, mentions this very scenario.

[invincibleironman3]

@1tonykirk , yeah. I have that book. Its unbelievable. The wonder weapons, the nazi escape via the "ratlines" of the Vatican, etc. Truth is stranger than fiction.

[munchkinsozland]

Brilliant concept! Outer Limit's was somewhat goofy. However,when they nailed it they were spot on! This is awesome!

[invincibleironman3]

@munchkinsozland , it was "goofy" by design. They had to include a "monster-of-the-week" with little budget. The better episodes were directed by Gerd Oswald and had cinematography from Conrad Hall (ending up with an Oscar nom for American Beauty)

[OniYawgmoth]

orz @ 1:44.

One of the best eps btw, thanks for posting!

[DoctorWeeTodd]

This is great. I've caught part of it's successor "Afterlife" a long time ago and wanted to see the whole thing. I was surprised to discover that this clever plot was based on an earlier episode.

For those unaware the classic novel "Watchmen" featured a similar plotline and at the end made a nod to this episode.

[hypnoboy3]

i was 9 years old, local cleveland tv station wews channel 5 refused to show the creature and blacked it out due to frightening us!!...the next day,the photo of it was shown in the paper!what great memories the ol invoke!i knew it at 9 and i know it today..the outer limits WAS IT...im still waitng.....

[quesondriac]

You are my mentor!!

But wait, where and how the hell did they get a Thetan?

[ClamLuvr]

A Whatan?

[quesondriac]

The little alien rattling around in the cage.

[ClamLuvr]

Oh, thatan Thetan. Nowtan I understandtan.

[spacepatrolman]

They made it out of a monkey like they do in medical experiments before they do it on humans.

[mattnavey]

DAMN YOU XENU!

[leo12namath]

best episode of the original series

[gthus]

You are my hero!!