#ZANTI WINDOWS CRACK#

The best thing that comes of his death is the very disconcerting view of his contorted face when Lisa sees it through a crack in the rocks. HeвЂ™s merely a more disposable version of вЂњBarbara WrightвЂќ, there to be menaced by the Zanti equivalent of a Dalek plunger as we see the stop-motion antenna poking through the window as Ben approaches. As a result, BenвЂ™s death is a footnote and of little interest. So when we meet Bruce DernвЂ™s Ben, we see only that he вЂњwould never kill a reasonable manвЂќ, but the security guard just wasnвЂ™t вЂњreasonableвЂќ.

#ZANTI WINDOWS MOVIE#

A movie gets more time to work with that, as does a series, but a single episode is a challenge.

#ZANTI WINDOWS TV#

The 50-minute format certainly hurts TV anthologies in some ways: the writers have a very limited time to build the characters and have the audience care about them. But it does lead to another question when we see the base-under-siege that the episode transforms into once the menace is revealed: how many Zanti creatures fit into that small capsule? No wonder they were so ornery! There had to be at least 50 of them вЂ“ one for every minute of the show! Of course, this could simply be the limitation of the 50-minute format. Upon finding out, the threat of destruction might have been far more believable and we could have built off of that. I think it would have worked far better if he did not know what he just killed. Frankly, I think this was a massive mistake. When he gets back to the base, he says he killed one of them. I had been wondering in that moment: did he know that was a Zanti or did he mistake it for a particularly nasty looking desert insect. He encounters a creature attacking Lisa, throws a rock at it, killing it, and runs off. But what lead Steve to believe that the creature attacking Lisa was a Zanti? Until that point, everyone thought that these beings are вЂњpeopleвЂќ of some sort. Conceptually great stuff, and worth the price of admission! But his first encounter with them is when he saves Lisa, a lowlife whoвЂ™s run off with Bruce Dern rather than stay in her happy marriage because she likes bad boys and is sick of being вЂњsafeвЂќ. DonвЂ™t get me wrong: I loved the discussion about super-human, sub-human, or just non-human and even loved the foreshadowing of their appearance with the ant on the wall that Steve flicks off. And this leads to the biggest fail of the episode for me. Earth as a penal colony what could be easier? ItвЂ™s not that dissimilar to shipping people to another country, like Australia! When we are introduced to our main protagonist, Steve Graves, he is busy speculating on what the people of Zanti look like. The episode opens properly when the Control Voice introduces us to the plot: a hyper-evolved race that has no death sentence, must do something about its criminals and the people of the planet Zanti have a solution: ship them off to our planet. While I dislike the pre-credit sequences, if they have to do it, let it be done where it maintains a sense of mystery. In fact, what they do, while still giving us another sneak peak, is audio only: we hear only a very eerie voice on a speaker to let us know that something strange is coming. I think The Zanti Misfits is one of the stronger Outer Limits episodes and doesnвЂ™t even spoil the big punch like so many other episodes by giving us a glimpse of the alien in the pre-credit sequence.