WAS ROD SERLING INFLUENCED BY C. S. LEWIS IN HIS VIEW OF HELL??
WAS ROD SERLING INFLUENCED BY C. S. LEWIS IN HIS VIEW OF HELL ??
I am old enough that I saw The Twilight Zone when it first aired in days of yore. Was one of my favorite shows. The only one, though, that I remember in detail was the one on Hell. Channel 32 on Direct TV is now airing old shows, and on Tuesday night they aired that one on Hell, in which a very bad man suddenly is killed and then wakes up and sees he is in a big beautiful house in which he finds great clothes for himself and is given (by a big man who he thinks is his guardian angel) sexy women and slot machines where he always wins, etc. etc. just like he wanted! BUT after a while he gets tired of this and says to his "angel" that he would prefer to go to "The Other Place", who replies to him thusly, "Where did you ever get the idea that this is Heaven?? This IS The Other Place!!".
Now here is why I ask if Serling got this idea from C. S. Lewis. Lewis said that when we face God on Judgment Day, Christians will say to God, "Thy Will Be Done", while to the unsaved, God will say, "Thy Will Be Done." Does anyone know if Serling knew of this and created this Twilight Zone episode based on it??
Sincerely,
Forrest
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