4th of July Marathon concluded

Everett Sloan has The Fever

Watching a few episodes before sleep, The Fever with Mr. Gibbs as he hears his name being called by a coin slot machine in Vegas, sweating and  rude to his very tolerant wife, eventually going out a window while Corey needs water, water, water because he's just so hot and thirsty, taking sneaky, underhanded advantage of the astronauts with him in I Shot an Arrow Into the Air. Both Mr Gibbs and Corey are serious pieces of shit. Not a Syfy marathon or IMDb Twilight Zone message board anymore, either, but concluding the day with some earlier recordings off Syfy during the week hours.

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It was fitting that the final episode I would watch on the 4^th was Walking Distance, an episode about holding onto the past as many TZ fans on different other sites (like the Reddit TZ board or another “All Movies” platform where some of the ole IMDb users occasionally frequent). The nostalgia of Syfy (or Sci-fi Channel, in its incarnation I fondly hold onto but eventually realized was long gone) showing TZ marathons during the 4^th or New Years was in force right before Midnight, and I acknowledged that even as this is a tradition soon to be fully disbanded, we are still quite fortunate to locate our favorite episodes, uncut, in a number of formats available to us. Syfy, even sometimes upsettingly editing episodes (the Midnight Sun edit is inexcusable) for extra commercial interruption, will soon follow up their dismissal of TZ on 4^th of July with the end of New Years marathons as well. And I guess much like Gig Young’s older, disenchanted Martin in Walking Distance, returning home to realize that perhaps it is officially time to move on, I should, too, because inevitably Syfy will consider TZ ready for the retirement home, one last holdover from a different time when its channel skewed to a different demographic than where they turn their antenna towards those who jaunt to the San Diego Comic Cons. Watching Will the Real Martin Please Stand Up? earlier in the day prepared me for what my future experiences for the show will ultimately provide…the chance to create my own marathons, except no longer depending on the ghost of Syfy’s past to provide the schedule.