Edited 12/20/11: Unfortunately this episode is no longer online.
Speaking of The Twilight Zone, I just noticed that my favorite episode of The Outer Limits from the ’90s is now online. (With ads, unfortunately.) It’s called “Quality of Mercy,” and stars Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, The X-Files) as a captured star pilot who shares a cell with a female cadet who’s being subjected to genetic experiments that are slowly transforming her into one of the hideous aliens that Earth is at war with.
This was the first episode of The Outer Limits I ever saw, and it blew me away, so much so that for the next year or so I tried to catch the show whenever I could, which wasn’t easy because it was on at some ridiculous time — I think Sunday nights at 1 a.m. This was while I was in college, and I didn’t have a TV, so I’d be sitting there in the lounge at 1 a.m. watching TV and sometimes someone would walk by and look in on me and just be like, “What the hell are you doing?” And I’d be like, “It’s The Outer Limits, man! It’s awesome.” Unfortunately, aside from this one episode, none of the others I saw were really all that good.
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