Let's round out the Top 10 Highest Rated Episodes with a Season 1 favorite.
It's a tale of hubris, desperation and reality setting in!
The catch- he has to wait for all of that boring testing first.
His fellow Professor is getting married to his Sister.
What great news!
He then finds out that he has Cancer and it is nearly impossible to treat.
What bad news!
He's got so much to live for.
What bad news!
He asks the guy to try out the nanites on him.
No such luck.
Desperately, he sneaks into the lab and injects himself.
The cancer goes away and his body improves, as shown by his increased fitness, no longer needing glasses and being able to hold his breath for a long, long time.
Unfortunately, the nanites don't stop there.
They give him gills, seeing the earlier exercise as a thing to improve on.
They try to deactivate them, but they won't stop working 'until they are done.'
The nanites morph his body, giving him strange coverings that act as protection against further medical intervention.
The duo can't see a way out and he finally asks his Brother-in-Law to kill him.
He does and the research is destroyed (understandably)...but his now-former fiancée seems to have them!
The End.
Body Horror on full display here and I'm all for it.
I both love and loathe Body Horror. I definitely find what my limits are- usually eye and mouth stuff- but I love it all the same.
This one builds it up nicely, setting up the context in Act 1, building up to the reveal in Act 2 and going hog wild in Act 3.
The man grows eyes in the back of his head!
The actual Story of the Episode is a good one too, as you can completely understand why the guy would take the risk.
You're with him when things are going amazingly. You empathize when things start to turn.
You're with him when things are going amazingly. You empathize when things start to turn.
His poor fiancée has no idea about any of this and now she's got it. All of the notes and research are destroyed too- whoops!
Sadly, I don't think that there's a follow-up here.
It's easy to see why this one is so highly-rated as it delivers on the promise just enough to freak you out, but also not going so far as to turn him into some sort of 'evolved man of the future' or something.
It's so good that- like most things in the '90s- it was immortalized as a Trading Card!
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Next time, I take a different approach to these and cover the original Series for a bit. Don't worry- there's some overlap to cover in the future. See you then...
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