A Sci-Fi must-see for people who lived in the 1990s, The Outer Limits revival was huge!
It got 7 Seasons. It was nominated for 49 Awards and won 18, including a Primetime Emmy.
Season 7 was its last and this Episode was the final one ever...
A man flies his Ship to a Base.
After a whole thing where they pretend to try and steal his ship, they reveal that he is one of 4 Candidates for an important job.
The Trials will take place using a VR device...
These Trials make up about half of the Episode's runtime.
It wouldn't be so bad, but they are all Clips from previous Episodes, like Season 4, Episode 20 (aka Nightmare)...
Or this 'Trial' which is just Season 4, Episode 3 (Hearts and Minds).
This one is actually mined for clips later, so more filler.
...or this Trial, which is just the climax of Season 5, Episode 7 (The Human Operators).
...or, lastly, the extended finale of Season 1, Episode 15 (The Voyage Home).
There is at least a vague throughline here, but still.
Our Hero is told to watch the last applicant (repeat offender here Lochlyn Munro) and shoots him.
He wakes up and learns that EVERYTHING after he sat down in the VR Helmet the first time was a simulation!
Everyone was real and was tested, but only he passed.
The twist- he's so loyal to commands that he's now going to be turned into an AI Program!
We see a quick shot or two of him being tortured virtually ('Monster', 'In the Blood' and 'Worlds Within') and he's even Eric McCormack being attacked by a space bug (Season 3, Episode 9's 'Tempest') as we fade to black.
The End.
To be fair, I have seen worse Clip Shows. This one at least isn't just people teeing up 'memories' in silly ways.
They did build a Plot here. The idea was sound.
You knew things would turn out bad, since the Good to Bad Endings Ratio on this Show leans towards the latter.
You knew things would turn out bad, since the Good to Bad Endings Ratio on this Show leans towards the latter.
That said, once you realized that they were just teeing up Clips in THIS way, it was a little disappointing.
They did credit the Actors (as SAG I'm sure mandated), but were they paid again? Did this Episode count towards their residuals?
For a Show like this to do a Clip Show isn't great.
For a Show like this to have their Finale (planned as such or otherwise) be one is just sad.
For a Show like this to have their Finale (planned as such or otherwise) be one is just sad.
Take us away, 90s Morph Effects...
On the plus side, I've got 5 other Episodes in the 'Death and Beyond' DVD and one was already better.
Even so, what a wet fart of a finale.
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