![]() ![]() I think it would have worked far better if he did not know what he just killed. Frankly, I think this was a massive mistake. When he gets back to the base, he says he killed one of them. I had been wondering in that moment: did he know that was a Zanti or did he mistake it for a particularly nasty looking desert insect. He encounters a creature attacking Lisa, throws a rock at it, killing it, and runs off. But what lead Steve to believe that the creature attacking Lisa was a Zanti? Until that point, everyone thought that these beings are “people” of some sort. ![]() Conceptually great stuff, and worth the price of admission! But his first encounter with them is when he saves Lisa, a lowlife who’s run off with Bruce Dern rather than stay in her happy marriage because she likes bad boys and is sick of being “safe”. Don’t get me wrong: I loved the discussion about super-human, sub-human, or just non-human and even loved the foreshadowing of their appearance with the ant on the wall that Steve flicks off. ![]() And this leads to the biggest fail of the episode for me. Earth as a penal colony what could be easier? It’s not that dissimilar to shipping people to another country, like Australia! When we are introduced to our main protagonist, Steve Graves, he is busy speculating on what the people of Zanti look like. The episode opens properly when the Control Voice introduces us to the plot: a hyper-evolved race that has no death sentence, must do something about its criminals and the people of the planet Zanti have a solution: ship them off to our planet. While I dislike the pre-credit sequences, if they have to do it, let it be done where it maintains a sense of mystery. In fact, what they do, while still giving us another sneak peak, is audio only: we hear only a very eerie voice on a speaker to let us know that something strange is coming. I think The Zanti Misfits is one of the stronger Outer Limits episodes and doesn’t even spoil the big punch like so many other episodes by giving us a glimpse of the alien in the pre-credit sequence. ![]()
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