I guess this episode would be classified as a science fiction story but it\u2019s so wacky that I don\u2019t know how to call it that.\u00a0 Three astronauts are somehow lost in space.\u00a0 Their rocket is about to land on an asteroid (of course) that is something more than five hundred million miles from Earth.\u00a0 Now how you get lost in the solar system is sort of hard for me to understand but we\u2019ll put that aside.\u00a0 When they get out on the asteroid it of course is exactly like Earth from our time.\u00a0 Just to fill in the back story this episode is taking place in 2186.\u00a0 Two hundred years earlier, the Earth was devastated by an atomic war and only recently had advanced back to the space age.\u00a0 So, this replica of Earth resembles the pre-war atomic war Earth.\u00a0 But all the people are lifeless.\u00a0 The are frozen in place going about life in various tableaux.\u00a0 There is a man running for mayor and a homely woman winning a beauty contest and an old man on a romantic date with a beautiful young woman.\u00a0 But no one is alive.<\/p>\n
Finally, a living man named Wickwire shows up.\u00a0 He tells them that this is a mortuary.\u00a0 Rich people from 1985 paid to have their corpses preserved in the moment of some life long dream and maintained in that scene forever.\u00a0 He is the caretaker for the graveyard.\u00a0 While he is telling them, this story he offers them some wine and of course the wine is the embalming fluid that will prepare them to join the establishment.\u00a0 As they are dying, they ask him why he did it.\u00a0 He tells them that as caretaker his job is to make sure everything is peaceful and since they are men they must be killed because there can be no peace where men are.\u00a0 This must refer to the atomic war.<\/p>\n
Before poisoning them, he asked them what their fondest wish was and they said being on their rocket headed back to Earth.\u00a0 So sure, enough after they die, he poses them in their ship as if they are in route to Earth.<\/p>\n
Boy, Serling really likes to pound away at the atomic war thing.\u00a0 Humans make war, war bad, therefore humans bad.\u00a0 There\u2019s really not much here.\u00a0 And what there is doesn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense.<\/p>\n
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