The prologue—before the killing of the night watchman—reminds the one from "Controlled Experiment" owing to its amount of nightly desolated place stock footages. Great humanitarian alien with a silly-looking bird disguised (recycled in the unaired pilot from "Star Trek": "The Cage") which recites solemn speech like: "Horror is a luxuary the desperate cannot afford!" and even make a small allusion to "The Zanti Misfits" 's opening narration: "Throughout your history, (...)". Don Gordon makes this one accceptable and adds some density to his role but the rest of the characters wander in the limbo of stereotypes, especially the teenagers trio—in my opinion, young conventional characters that you find here (and in "Don't Open Till Doomsday" or "The Special One") don't fit the weltanschauung of "The Outer Limits". For the anecdote, young actress Mimsy Farmer will turn into a hippie icon in the late 1960's with two films: Barbet Schroeder's "More" and Georges Lautner's "Road to Salina". The premise of this one reminds the outlines of "This Island Earth"; the story material is much too short to fill with enthusiasm the audience. This is, after all, an average unachieved space flight which takes roots in a narrow setting: an amusemment park. Watch the space seats from "Men Into space". At the end of Act I, an unfortunate shadow of the microphone is seen while the Empyrian contacts his home planet and he wears an old fashioned cloak on Earth and, Dave Crowell and Mara Mathews, primitive futuristic space outfits. One scene deserves the attention: the space dizzyness of the abducted passengers, after the take off, that is shot hand-held and in low angle. The episode's internal theme is, of course, the redemption, but most of the abducted passengers don't wish to evolve—they're prisoners of their fate and a wall of lies—and to gain a better future. It is also a "huit-clos" where people reveal their true nature: the teenagers clumsily try to attack and stop twice the Empyrian and we even witness a pre-lynching scene where Arjay Beasley asks for blood: "Kill him for real"; During Act IV, Beasley wants to kill Crowell with a knife to go back to Earth. Another episode with a maverick and bitter idealist character ("I belong to whatever I happen to be. I am a drifter"; "Sometimes I wonder. They [the Government] offered me... prizes and honors and even moderate riches. All I had to do was to let them stand over my shoulder and make suggestions. I didn't want that. I... I wanted to go off somewhere alone, and unravel the mysteries I preferred, the ones that mystify the heart, not... not the Defense Department! ... I didn't know there was anything on Earth worth defending"; "I leave nothing behind... except disillusionment in my fellowman and hopelessness in myself", said Dr. Dave Crowell) who escapes from the social life as the lead in "The Guests". By freely accepting the alien's offer, Dave Crowell is similare to Louis Mace from "The Chameleon" and the opposite of Mike Benson. This one doesn't feature an end narration.