Sandkings
- Episode aired Mar 26, 1995
- TV-PG
- 1h 33m
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7.2/10
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In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.
Brandon Obray
- Todd Brantley
- (scenes deleted)
Kevin Conway
- The Control Voice
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Nathan Lomax
- Background Performer
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis episode is based on the 1979 novelette "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin.
- GoofsAt about 01:09:00 into the movie Dr. Simon Kress is in the bathroom throwing up in the toilet and it cuts to him sitting on the floor of the bathroom next to the toilet, and then the toilet slightly moves. Furthermore you can see that it is not anchored to the floor and doesn't have a water supply line and shut off valve coming out of the wall.
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The Control Voice: Some of man's greatest achievements have been motivated by a driving need for love and acceptance. What happens when that need for recognition becomes a desire to be revered and then worshipped like a god?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Outer Limits: The Voice of Reason (1995)
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Disappointing Adaptation of George R.R. Martin Novella
I read this novella as part of a sci-fi "short story" collection I checked out from my local library in the late 1980s, although it was almost long enough to be it's own book (close to 60 pages). At the time, I had no idea who George R.R. Martin was, or that he'd go on to create something as monumental as the "Songs of Ice and Fire" novel series that is currently in its fourth season on HBO (with some episodes being written by Martin while he also works feverishly to finish the novel series before the TV series catches up).
At the time I was halfway through my college degree and had a journalism professor who was as much or more of a movie buff than a journalism professor (he's been a local movie critic ever since). I discussed the story with him (I don't think he'd read it, but I gave him ALL the high points) and told him what a great movie I thought it would make, but he said he thought it would be too much of "a downer" to be successful in Hollywood. Of course THAT was before so many other successful movies and TV shows with "down" endings came out.
I didn't catch this "The Outer Limits" version until it was in re-runs, and I WAS NOT IMPRESSED. It completely changed the story. I'm not going to go into any details, except to say that in the original story, the central character was no research scientist and the sandkings were the result of NO research project he'd ever been a part of. Rather, he was more of an affluent business man on an unnamed alien planet (or perhaps Earth in the distant future, although from what I recall, it seemed more like an alien planet -- been about 25 years since I read it).
Who knows WHY screenwriters make the choices they do in adaptations? The professor I mentioned taught a course in "The American Short Story" which I took that covered the adaptation process from a PBS series that had done that, with a book made to accompany the series, with the original story, screenplay, and sometimes even commentary on the differences by the original author. It was QUITE enlightening, so I understand why it often NEEDS to be done. In this case, I think it just made a much LESS interesting and MUCH less powerful story.
At the time I was halfway through my college degree and had a journalism professor who was as much or more of a movie buff than a journalism professor (he's been a local movie critic ever since). I discussed the story with him (I don't think he'd read it, but I gave him ALL the high points) and told him what a great movie I thought it would make, but he said he thought it would be too much of "a downer" to be successful in Hollywood. Of course THAT was before so many other successful movies and TV shows with "down" endings came out.
I didn't catch this "The Outer Limits" version until it was in re-runs, and I WAS NOT IMPRESSED. It completely changed the story. I'm not going to go into any details, except to say that in the original story, the central character was no research scientist and the sandkings were the result of NO research project he'd ever been a part of. Rather, he was more of an affluent business man on an unnamed alien planet (or perhaps Earth in the distant future, although from what I recall, it seemed more like an alien planet -- been about 25 years since I read it).
Who knows WHY screenwriters make the choices they do in adaptations? The professor I mentioned taught a course in "The American Short Story" which I took that covered the adaptation process from a PBS series that had done that, with a book made to accompany the series, with the original story, screenplay, and sometimes even commentary on the differences by the original author. It was QUITE enlightening, so I understand why it often NEEDS to be done. In this case, I think it just made a much LESS interesting and MUCH less powerful story.
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