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"The Outer Limits" Final Appeal (2000)


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"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 21 -- Part one of a two part episode. Amanda Plummer reprises her role as  Dr. Theresa Givens from 'STITCH IN TIME.' Dr. Givens is put on trial for using technology (her time machine) in the future where all technology is outlawed.

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7.9/10   41 votes
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Sam Egan (writer)
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3 September 2000 (Season 6, Episode 21)
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This was Charlton Heston's final guest appearance on a television series before his death on April 5, 2008. more

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Science or no science?, 2 May 2007
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Author: sonnyschlaegel from muenster, germany

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

It's the year 2076. After a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions in 2059, brought about with the help of technology, science and technology were banned. Dr. Theresa Givens has been sentenced to death because she traveled from the 1990s to the future and brought both her time machine and other technical equipment to the year 2076. She says that she took this equipment to the future and gave it to a rebel group because technology is - in her opinion - vital to averting another catastrophe that she witnessed when she traveled even further into the future. So not only Theresa's life is at stake in the appeal proceedings. The judges will have to decide if the anti-technology laws will be kept or abolished - and thus they will influence the fate of the whole human race - their decision could mean survival or it could mean death.

This episode has two parts, so it has double the length of the other episodes (about 90 minutes, or two hours if you include the commercials). There's also another episode about Dr. Theresa Givens, 'A Stitch in Time' (season 2, episode 1), but I can't say anything about it because I haven't seen it.

The discussions about the advantages vs. the dangers of science and technology in this episode are really interesting in my opinion. For example, in one passage they discuss if science is as dangerous as the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (which meant the loss of Paradise) or if science should not (or cannot) be suppressed forever anyway because curiosity is one of the basic human qualities (given to man by God). But the discussions are also repetitive, so some passages are dragging a bit. There's only little action and most of it is supplied by short clips from previous episodes (shown as examples for the dangers or the advantages of technology, respectively). But it has a twist ending that I liked. And the cast is really good, especially Charlton Heston and Amanda Plummer (who you will probably remember as 'Honey Bunny' in 'Pulp Fiction').

I think it should have been less repetitive, but it's a really interesting and good episode in my opinion.

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