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fuzzybluemonkeysAs suspected, The Silence was not a Doctor Who reference despite his ability to go back and make it one. I actually think I've seen it before because it's one of those ones that seems familiar and then I remember what the twist is halfway through.
I definitely have not seen Shadow Play or The Mind and The Matter although I kept nitpicking the latter to the point where I realized the moral was directed at me and I just refused to accept it. Because it's a guy who basically wishes all the people away and then he's lonely, but like he goes to work and is bored like of course you're bored you're at work at an insurance company with no one to insure, go do something fun you idiot. So then he wishes the people back but makes them all like him which is dumb and he realizes it and puts everything back the way it was, but seriously if you can change the world with your mind, why not make there be less people? Which then gets tricky because which people get to stay and which ones go, so leave the people there and just make it so you don't have to commute on the crowded train or cram yourself in the crowded elevator (and I relate to the hatred of crowds so much) because you don't have to work at all. Like give yourself a nice house somewhere uncrowded such that you can avoid people when you want to and go see them when you get lonely. It's not an all or nothing proposition, dammit. There are ways to avoid people without removing them from existence. So yeah, I maybe related to the guy's motivation a bit too much, if only he hadn't been so ridiculous on the execution (and I do realize that part of the point is that no matter how you change things, it'll still be messed up in some way, see The Lathe of Heaven, but stop telling me I ought to like people, Mr. Serling, you're not the boss of me!)
I definitely have not seen Shadow Play or The Mind and The Matter although I kept nitpicking the latter to the point where I realized the moral was directed at me and I just refused to accept it. Because it's a guy who basically wishes all the people away and then he's lonely, but like he goes to work and is bored like of course you're bored you're at work at an insurance company with no one to insure, go do something fun you idiot. So then he wishes the people back but makes them all like him which is dumb and he realizes it and puts everything back the way it was, but seriously if you can change the world with your mind, why not make there be less people? Which then gets tricky because which people get to stay and which ones go, so leave the people there and just make it so you don't have to commute on the crowded train or cram yourself in the crowded elevator (and I relate to the hatred of crowds so much) because you don't have to work at all. Like give yourself a nice house somewhere uncrowded such that you can avoid people when you want to and go see them when you get lonely. It's not an all or nothing proposition, dammit. There are ways to avoid people without removing them from existence. So yeah, I maybe related to the guy's motivation a bit too much, if only he hadn't been so ridiculous on the execution (and I do realize that part of the point is that no matter how you change things, it'll still be messed up in some way, see The Lathe of Heaven, but stop telling me I ought to like people, Mr. Serling, you're not the boss of me!)
