> Have you noticed that Spectre of the Gun has the same ending as Arena
> - in both cases, Kirk is forced to fight someone, and he wins yet
> refuses to kill his opponent. Then the Metrons/Melkots are convinced
> that humanity is good.
>
> You could even say Savage Curtain ends the same way except that Kirk
> goes ahead and kills Col. Green. That might be justified from the
> fact that he wasn't really Col. Green, but then neither was that
> cowboy.
>
> Please compare and contrast.

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>> Have you noticed that Spectre of the Gun has the same ending as Arena
>> - in both cases, Kirk is forced to fight someone, and he wins yet
>> refuses to kill his opponent. Then the Metrons/Melkots are convinced
>> that humanity is good.
>>
>> You could even say Savage Curtain ends the same way except that Kirk
>> goes ahead and kills Col. Green. That might be justified from the
>> fact that he wasn't really Col. Green, but then neither was that
>> cowboy.
>>
>> Please compare and contrast.

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> It actually worked out better that way. The incomplete set gave the ep a
> surrealistic "Twilight Zone" type feel. That plus the hard cuts between
> scenes and the way Western characters seemed to pop in and out of nowhere,
> really gave the ep a nightmarish quality.
>
> Most of the episodes of "Twilight Zone" were themselves low-budget, with
> cheap sets and cheap effects. They depended on the script and the
> dialogue to generate this tense, surrealistic atmosphere.
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