Kain's Domain

Well, it was a rather uneventful day today. I woke up late, due to my alarm clock not going off for some odd reason. I had just changed the time to one hour earlier last night, so I definitely know it was set to go off.

When I woke up, I flipped through the digital cable channel list, and found that the Sci-Fi channel was showing a Night Visions marathon. Yet another good show that Fox decided to cancel, while renewing crap that shouldn't have been put on the air to begin with. Ah yes, sweet non-judgmental Fox, where coming in third is a triumph!

I grew up watching these type of anthology shows when I was a child. The most famous, of course, being the original Twilight Zone (which I saw in re-runs, obviously, I'm not that old,) as well as the 1985 version of Twilight Zone, and shows like Freddy's Nightmares, Tales from the Darkside and Monsters. In this series, Henry Rollins of the "Rollins Band", plays the Rod Serling role of introducing and wrapping up each of the half-hour stories in the hour-long show, which usually considers of a sentence or two spinning an old adage in a twisted way.

Like Twilight Zone, Night Visions is a series of stories unrelated to each other, where unusual and often supernatural event occur, and attempts to spin our heads with a surprise twist ending. Being more modern, the stories in Night Visions are more gruesome than in Twilight Zone; while audiences were spooked by episodes such as "Twenty-Two" in Twilight Zone, where a hospitalized woman has reoccurring nightmares about visiting room 22 (the morgue,) we are treated in Night Visions to episodes such as one where stranded teens are captured by hippies, who peel off our travelers' skin to make clothing and instruments from them.

In most cases, the surprise-twist in Night Visions is very predictable. Episodes like "Dead Air", "Renovations", "The Maze", and "Harmony" have endings that I saw miles away. However, then you have stories such as "Afterlife", where the surprise-twist is totally unexpected. I don't mind that I could guess most of the surprise-twists before the story was half-way through, as sometimes the journey is a lot more fun than the destination.

I saw a few episodes of Night Visions when it first aired, but in their infinite wisdom, Fox decided not to handle the series very well, often replacing it with other crap, or moving it's time slot. And it just got to the point where I could never catch it on. Next thing I know, they had canceled the program before the first season was even over. They never did air the last six episodes, however the Sci-Fi Channel eventually showed them when they picked it up. I would certainly love to see the entire 26-episode season released on a "Series Box Set" DVD.

After Night Visions, I played a little bit more Valkyrie Profile, before surfing the web some and having a Subway sub for Dinner. I love these things.