Death Ship - Syfy Independence Day marathon 2025

 I was gone all day at my mom's house for the 4th, but I did look at the schedule when I got home later in the evening. Death Ship was at 1:30 PM in the afternoon, which is where I decided to start my own marathon. For some reason, SYFY decided to plop Resident Alien within the marathon inexplicably, and why the network did that is anybody's guest. The Twilight Zone audience wouldn't bother with this show, and if they did, most of us would have done other things waiting for the return after it was over. I know I would have if I had been home. At any rate, Death Ship continues to be a sad experience because it's clear Ted Mason and Mike Carter are ready to go to the afterlife (especially Mason, whose wife and child were killed before his lift off, while Carter encountered a friend and relative before reaching home who had previously died, where no wife was there because she was still alive) while their captain (Jack Klugman's most infuriating, unlikeable character on Twilight Zone) refuses to accept the three of them crashed and remain in a cyclical limbo, repeated liftoffs and landings on a planet they orbit for infinity. 

I hope eventually Mason and Carter will fight off Captain Paul Ross' persistent orders to go up and come back down, go up and come back down. Rod Serling tells us that will not be so, perhaps the three doing the same activities over and over for eternity. That's the kind of hell I hope they can somehow break from at some point. But its the Twilight Zone so it's tragically doubtful.