SYFY TZ Marathon - Time Enough at Last

 About 5:50 in the evening here Central time in the States is when SYFY started to bring out some of the most popular episodes of Twilight Zone. "Time Enough at Last", came and went. I still wonder why the Bank President and Henry's wife hated books so much. Helen (deWit) crossing out poems in a book and tearing the pages out while calling Henry (Meredith) a fool, almost sadistically out of spite and Henry's boss, Carsville (Vaughn Taylor) smiling all Machiavellian when told by his bank clerk about Helen's keeping all reading materials from him...poor Henry seems whipped in every part of his life. Why he ever married Helen or wished to work for Carsville, Henry just seemed like someone willing to be deprived and victimized. Maybe he lived too much in his books and even after he had "all the time he needed, all the time he wanted" thanks to nuclear holocaust, perhaps such overwhelming dedication to the printed word, with the very sense needed (sight) to make sure he got to experience each and every story, laid out for quite some time with anticipation and giddy enthusiasm, was sort of a "cosmic undoing".

Henry almost kills himself when he realizes no one is around, including Carsville, found dead under rubble in what was once a fancy Bank President office, his hand still clutching his mic to a dictation recorder...meetings adjourned. Unfortunately for Meredith, all that time for reading is lost. He probably wouldn't be able to see to find the gun he might would use after those glasses break on the stairs.