Lately, I've been watching season 2 of The Last Ship.
Yesterday I started watching the episode "Achilles". It's about a nuclear submarine attacking the Navy ship.
Then later Tim and I watched our nightly episodes of The Twilight Zone. The second episode we watched was "Judgement Night". The plot involves a submarine attacking a ship.
I think that's quite a coincidence. It would be less so if I often watched ship and/or war related things. But I don't.
So is it random? Or is the universe trying to send me a message?
I'm thinking that submarines probably could symbolize the subconscious. So maybe I'm being warned that my subconscious is going to attack my conscious. That might be exciting. And terrifying. Maybe it will be exciting in a terrifying way.
OR maybe it's the universe telling me I like submarine stories, and I should seek out more of those. Because "Judgement Night" was probably my favorite of the episodes we've watched recently. And I think "Achilles" is my favorite episode of The Last Ship so far. On top of that, when Jack was a little lad, I would let him choose my library books for me. He chose these navy books which seemed like something I would never like. It's certainly not something I would have chosen for myself. But I remember liking them a lot. I wish I remembered what they were and who wrote them.
Getting back to Twilight Zone episodes....
I also liked the other episode we watched last night, up to the ending—"Perchance to Dream". It reminded me of Nightmare on Elm Street. Well...until the ending.
I finally saw the famous episode "Time Enough at Last". I've heard about that episode so many times but have never seen it.
I didn't like it. It was too upsetting.
And mean.
I think I'd be okay with the ending if he was just a busy guy who didn't have time to read vs someone who was bullied about reading.
And maybe I would have appreciated it more if I hadn't known the ending. Maybe then it would have been a matter of only a brief moment of shock. Oh shit! Oh no! Instead I was filled with dread throughout the episode. And it was so hard for me handle, I was frantically writing fan fiction in my head. Okay, the glasses will break, but see...eventually he'll find a dead body that has glasses. And yeah. Maybe he needs a special prescription. But maybe he'll find glasses that are good enough.
Oh! Maybe he'll take a walk and eventually find an eyeglass shop that wasn't destroyed. That could happen. Right?
