A story of racial disharmony became one of the show's most controversial episodes.
The Big Picture Though The Twilight Zone has never been a stranger to tackling weighty social themes, one episode handled its subject matter in such a way that led to it becoming pulled from syndication by CBS for over 50 years. The episode in question was Season 5's "The Encounter," a story of wartime trauma, suppressed prejudice, and racial disharmony.
Arthur, meanwhile, expresses his discomfort. "I get bugged by 'boy,'" Arthur retorts to Fenton's condescension, "I'm a full grown man. I work for a living. I answer to Arthur, Takamori, or—believe it or not—Mr. Takamori." He doesn't like being there. Why would he? Fenton's ceaseless microaggresions are exhausting.
Arthur's identity is ultimately distilled to being the child of a military traitor who used his American identity to aid a wartime enemy. It's a needlessly patriotic and undermining plot twist that only lends to collapsing the metaphor upon itself. Fenton's senseless assumptions about Arthur, though no less credible, are almost excused through the episode's fractured moral lens. Arthur Takamori deserved better treatment. He deserved more depth and characterization.
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