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Six-year-old Anthony Fremont looks like any other little boy, but looks can be deceiving: He is a monster, a mutant with godlike mental powers. Early on, he isolated the small town of Peaksville, Ohio. In fact, the handful of inhabitants do not even know if he destroyed the rest of the world or if it still exists. Anthony has also eliminated electricity, automobiles, and television signals. He controls the weather and what supplies can be found in the grocery store. Anthony creates and destroys as he pleases, and controls when the residents can watch the TV and what they can watch on it.

The adults tiptoe nervously around him, constantly telling him how everything he does is "good", since displeasing him can get them wished away into a mystical cornfield, from which there is no return. At one point, a dog is heard barking angrily. Anthony thinks the dog is "bad" and "doesn't like [him] at all," and wishes it into the cornfield. His father and mother are horrified, but they dare not show it.

Finally, at Dan Hollis' birthday party, Dan, slightly drunk, can no longer stand the strain and confronts the boy, calling him a monster and a murderer; while Anthony's anger grows, Dan yells for the other adults to kill Anthony from behind, and one of the ladies tentatively reaches for a poker, but no one has the courage to act. Anthony points to Dan and cries out, "You're a very bad man! And you keep thinking bad thoughts about me!" Dan is killed, shown indirectly by his shadow, transformed into a jack-in-the-box with his human head, causing his widow to break down. The adults are horrified at what Anthony had done to Dan and beg him to wish it to the cornfield, which he does.

Because he is angry at what has happened, Anthony causes snow to begin falling outside. His father observes that the snow will kill off at least half the crops. But as the adults look on, worried smiles on their faces, his father smiles and tells Anthony in a horror-tinged voice, "...but it's a real good thing you did. A real good thing. And tomorrow....tomorrow's gonna be a... real good day!"

 

 

 

 

 

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Very interesting,  I never saw the original but read the book and saw the 1980's (or was it 70's?) feature movie of the same story line.

I never caught the amazing resemblance to Yahweh. 

By the same measure, a goodly portion of Star Trek episodes had to do with god or gods (always reflected in a poor light) and I also never caught on to that until much later 

I really like the part right before that too. It all works together.

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But as the adults look on, worried smiles on their faces, his father smiles and tells Anthony in a horror-tinged voice, "...but it's a real good thing you did. A real good thing. And tomorrow....tomorrow's gonna be a... real good day!"



In my opinion that is one of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever. I still love those shows. My favorite one is where the old lady is being haunted by phone calls from a dead man from her past after a storm had damaged the phone lines and lines were down on his grave.
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