Twilight Zone - A Small Talent For War

[largestclassifieds]

The alien is wearing a Vera Wang costume.

[MattFoleyMotivation]

Brilliant.

[russel96]

i just saw it a few hours ago, and went to here to watch it again lol, guess i like it

[CynicalVision]

Pretty disturbing episode.

[mmitchellhouston]

This has always made me laugh! It's also a perfect counter to the absurdity of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

[FeminaReal]

Sylar's dad!!

[mrgudmartin]

an alien from a 80s music vid

[snake189921]

I wonder if the Soviet guy started an all-out brawl took place when the alien left at the end; that was a pretty big "I told you so" from the USSR guy!

[newguy33X]

Why would the USSR guy say something like "prove it"....it wasn't like there were demands. They were told they would die, that's all. If you don't believe it, that's great. It makes sense after the U.S. guy asks for time and they have to start working together...or so they think.

[kitsa42]

He said they raised them for "finer things" than war. Then he says they misunderstood him when they all negotiate peace? It's like an alien that came from a planet filled with Wall Street felons. And if they've been "monitoring" them all the time, why didn't they just step in and say, "No, we meant FIGHT one another!"

[newguy33X]

@kitsa42 Well, he notes how pathetic the methods of war, and lack of clear victory are, so "finer things" could be understood to mean much more advanced war. He was clear from his biased point of view. If they took it another way, they were doomed in his eyes anyway. "Where is their warrior spirit?" he would think.

[arscon]

Like The Day the Earth Stood Still but turned on its head. Great!

[takky9298]

Isn't the alien the guy you see when you've been Rickrolled? Well, he's some 80's glam rocker anyway.

[blakefish80]

@takky9298 The Rickroll guy is Rick Astley. Hence why they call it being "Rickrolled". The actor who plays the alien in this is called John Glover. He has been in loads of movies and tv shows but this generation will probably know him as Lionel Luthor from Smallville.

[fighttheclub]

good stuff. this is why the hour long format was great

[DJBuckCallYo]

is the twilight zone advocating war?

[FreeworldJTP]

@DJBuckCallYo no matter how advanced you become no conscious living thing is exempt from war all it takes is conflict

[afterzlin]

as soon as the alien try to destroy Earth , they eliminated by Q. Otherwise the captain

Picard will never meet the Q in the future.

[CanadaDan1971]

@afterzlin Don't give away the ending in comments! Ok!

[carlsetzer]

Why does the soviet emissary look like Dick Cheney?

[sergiomiguelmarques]

Love the human body language! Bad Alien actor!

[3055DOG]

I am immediately reminded of the aliens in Heavy Metal.

[mannyblacque]

the alien ambassador looks and acts much like The Chancellor in the episode "The Obsolete Man" from the original Twilight Zone series (i know it's not really him, just saying).

[Crazydog7]

Best twist ever. 

[daart1234]

Alien looks better with long hair and red beard and putting down Lex Luthor.

[MrWaeseL]

Bit hamfisted. Why would an ambassador speak in riddles, and it sure is coincidental that Haley's Comet (appearing once every ~75 years) happened to appear on that day

[TalksWithDirt]

I think I last saw this in 1986. For the hell of it I searched, and ... NICE! Damn good science fiction!

[DNAChallenge]

That's me with the moustache at 5:07 in the left hand side facing right. It was a fun shoot, got to meet and work with John Glover, he's the one who plays the alien and a great actor who has been in a lot of great roles since this was shot, a little bit of trivia, all this was shot at the Sunkist building in the San Fernando Valley.

[Grandhoohah]

I think their appropriate response would be, "Well......this sucks!"

[richardhutnik]

The game Sin & Punishment: Star Successor on the Wii has a similar storyline.

[1upp]

Lionel Luthor is the alien.

[warningfellow]

what does this episode mean about? (warning no swear word and no false lies)

[TalksWithDirt]

@warningfellow It was meant to be ironic. Science fiction, good science fiction is supposed to make you think. The idea of this episode was to turn the concepts of war and peace, right and wrong on its head. So you might consider the problem from another point of view.

[Chairmangoodchild]

Short, and to the point. If it were 25 minutes long, it would have been a shaggy dog story, but they did it in 8, which was the exact right amount of time needed. Excellent. I really like this one.

[GreggJulian]

I like how every show from this time period references Haley's Comet

[joenkike2006]

Boy George!! OMFG... So typical...and so freak I love it

[10beandude]

What did he mean the light in the Earth will be destroyed?

[SuperDrufus]

This crappy Type 0 civilization finally got what it deserved.

[StanDellone]

I had an idea for a movie... I thought it was awesome... Then I saw this... And it had already been done... In the Twilight Zone...

I guess it's suicide for me.

[nitwit005]

The one problem with this one is that the alien has no motive to talk to the humans. Would have been a bit better if he had appeared to offer the last chance.

[egg64]

I BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR THIS! Great upload.

[charlesvan13]

They sure are judgemental, intolerant, and authoritarian for a supposedly advanced species.

[htgnef]

@charlesvan13 Yeah, but they don't claim to be anything but. They don't even accept the premise that those are bad qualities in a species.

[charlesvan13]

Guess he forgot the cookbook.

[TenkuNoWind]

wow that was a kick in the nuts at the end x.x

[DSkehan2004]

whoa! look how john glover looks.

[invincibleironman3]

4:30 look at that terminal...with the florescent green read out! .... classic! looks archaic!

[forceimpulse1]

WHAT A TWEEST

[joecostello]

I envisage a similar scenario when I present a proposal to my employers next month that involves them not pointing us all in the direction of the Job Centre.

[abnamrol]

wow now turns out that lionel luthor is a kryptonian xdddddd

[db4whisk]

Saw this 20+ years ago. Loved it then and still do.

[nooyawker319]

I remember watching this. the end cracked me up

[Jahan917]

One of my favorite episdoes, I defintely liked the ending the most.

[imperialpod]

Yes me to.

This episode always stayed in my memory due to the ending.

[lobstertexas]

they casted the russian guy perfectly for a classic 1980s no-nonsense Soviet-looking hardass ..

[LauraSeabrook]

very neat little story, this one. I love it!

[Teflon65]

Sort of like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" meets "To Serve Man"...

[region1111]

goddamn those aliens have bad hair.

aliens look like they're from a david bowie video

[LauraSeabrook]

i particularly like the way he's lighted towards the end, however

[waitew]

The beginning certainly is a lot like the beginning of 'To serve man' from the original series.

[megavic77]

great episode

[senseisakornsin]

This episode of Twilight Zone defined why this series was so great!

[marxman00]

Totally brilliant , I remember this one ,hope its not true,It would explain a lot !!!

[buttflasher]

owned

[smalltalentforwar]

According to Wikipedia- written by Alan Brennert and Carl Scholz. My other favorites are Nightcrawlers and To See the Invisible Man. This series is SciFi junkie heaven- go see it

[lilredbite]

Brilliant! I must. Watch. All!

[thequick1]

Great episode! Only heard of it amid all the "Watchmen" hoopla. Thanks for uploading.

[aaaabbbbccccghhhhhhh]

that is one of the best ones I have seen

could this happen one day ?

[m8570131]

12-21-2012 maybe

[jaklyman]

phhhh, we can take them.

[aartie]

Awesome episode, haven't seen it since the 80s! Russian guy looks like Dick Cheney. Thanks for uploading.

[bombasticfoku]

Love this episode. One of my most favorite TZ. Thanks for putting this up.

[nterpri]

Really interesting episode!