The Arrival - 4th of July Marathoning

How I felt about the twist of The Arrival

 Flight 107 out of Buffalo, lost in the fog, for reasons unknown...that one case Mr. Sheckley was unable to lick. This was mentioned on Reddit as a plane episode, among others, "superior to that overrated Nightmare at 20,000 Feet episode". There is a contingent of Twilight Zone fans who just feel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is way overhyped and ridiculously overpraised. I'm not one of them, but I do see where they are coming from. You see them mention a ton of episodes they consider far better than it which get far less mention. That's far for the course of any fandom. I expected that would eventually be the case for Twilight Zone as well. But I do like when those fans bring up episodes that they consider worthy of evaluation and examination perhaps not focused on as much. Or maybe they might have been in the mid-to-late 1990s if folks like me had an internet similar to today. The Arrival is maddening to me because I feel it had a magnificent first half and a severely flawed second half. I've talked about it ad nauseum on the blog before, but it was mentioned by others on the Reddit sub that the mass delusion theory by Sheckley could have been such a fascinating concept as a twist, not the "it is all in his head" tormented aviation investigator who went back to the hanger to relive his greatest whale that he couldn't defeat. Still, I love that first half with all my heart. Those eerie shots inside the plane of everyone missing, lost and never found, just gives me goosebumps, and the anxiety of everyone in the hanger trying to figure out what the hell is going on remains such a thrill to revisit time and again.