{"id":18923,"date":"2017-10-03T05:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18923"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:16:03","slug":"the-original-ending-to-will-the-real-martian-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18923","title":{"rendered":"The Original Ending to “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re a Twilight Zone<\/em> fan,<\/em>\u00a0then you have to admire Rod Serling’s writing.\u00a0 Best known for his twist endings, Serling could lead you down a path to believe one thing and then in the last scene come up with a reveal that made you understand something else.\u00a0 It was often the difference between a good story and a great one.<\/p>\n

One of the best\u00a0Twilight Zone<\/em> twist endings takes place in Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?<\/em>.\u00a0 Serling’s tale unfolds as a typical sci-fi story with a potential crashed alien space craft and a group of travelers stuck in a remote dinner during a bad snowstorm.\u00a0 Serling ups the ante by dropping clues that one of the passengers is the alien!<\/p>\n

To ratchet the tension Serling makes a case for each passenger being the alien.\u00a0 Then like all really good scary stories, Serling makes us think all is well and – BAM! – he drops the twist ending on us… except in Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?<\/em>, Serling follows the twist with a second twist that turns the episode into a classic.<\/p>\n

Would you be surprised to know that wasn’t the ending that Serling had originally written?\u00a0 Over at Shadow & Substance<\/a> they have the lowdown on the way the story was supposed to end (it still would have been good, but without the classic double twist).\u00a0 Click over and you can read Sterling’s original ending and learn more about the episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re a Twilight Zone fan,\u00a0then you have to admire Rod Serling’s writing.\u00a0 Best known for his twist endings, Serling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18926,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923\/revisions\/18926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}