Favorite war "Zone"?


I'll go with "Judgment Night."

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Probably the Civil War "Zones" of The Passersby and Still Valley. The latter doesn't get much love, but I like it. For modern war, I don't really have one. Not sure why. Maybe it's that the "combat" ones all seem set in the Pacific theater, the more European focused ones like Judgment Night are too moralistic for me.

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But I love "Judgment"'s mood which for me compensates for the squirm-inducing moralism ( and preachy or not Serling's outro is bitchin').

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I'll go with "The Shelter". I guess the Cold War still counts.

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Oh I would say "The Purple Testament", about this soldier in World War II [spoiler]who finds out he has developed the ability to predict (by seeing a certain light in their face) who is going to become a fatality in the near future [/spoiler], despite the crazy person who thinks this episode includes no supernatural element. :)

A close second would be "A Quality of Mercy", which stars "Dean Stockwell" as an overly enthusiastic Lieutenant [spoiler]who suddenly finds himself, the day of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and only 9 days before Japan surrenders, as a Lieutenant of the opposing forces he was at war with and was ready to slaughter without mercy a little while ago[/spoiler], notwithstanding this same unfathomable person thinking this is also an episode that includes no supernatural elements. :)

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