TV General : James Camerson stole from these 2 Outer Limits episodes

James Camerson stole from these 2 Outer Limits episodes

He combined elements from "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand" by sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison.

Soldier: A soldier from the far future is accidentally teleported back to 1964. The psychiatrist assigned to examine the soldier realizes that he has been bred purely as a killing machine, but he believe he can reawaken the warrior's humanity. Meanwhile, a second soldier arrives, dedicated to hunting and killing his enemy.

The closing narration of "Soldier": For answers lie in the future. Is it a future in which men are machines, born to kill, or is there time for us? Time. All the time in the world… but is that enough?

Demon with a Glass Hand: For reasons unknown to him, Trent was sent into the past via a "time mirror", located in the building. A captured Kyben tells Trent that both of them are from a thousand years in the future. In that future, Earth has been conquered by the Kyben, but all the surviving humans except Trent have mysteriously vanished. The aliens are being obliterated by a "radioactive plague" that is killing all intelligent life on the planet, apparently unleashed by the humans in a last-ditch effort to repel the invasion.

There's a scene in Terminator where Kyle Reese tells Sarah that the first Terminators were recognizable because they had rubber skin. In Demon, the bad aliens/robots are recognizable as they wear panty hose on their face.

Ellison brought suit against The Terminator production company Hemdale and distributor Orion Pictures for plagiarism[2] of this episode, since both works involve a soldier from the future who goes back in time and saves the life of a present-day woman from an enemy soldier from the future. According to the Los Angeles Times, the parties settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount, and an acknowledgement of Ellison's works in the credits of Terminator.

Soldier: this looks like the future battle scenes in Terminator.



Demon with a Glass Hand: (even the opening score at the beginning is similar to Terminator's score)

Re: James Camerson stole from these 2 Outer Limits episodes

Good analysis.

Re: James Camerson stole from these 2 Outer Limits episodes

The Watchmen comic is very similar to the Outer Limits episode "The Architects of Fear"

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The world has entered a Cold War-like setting in which nuclear holocaust appears imminent. In the hope of staving off an apocalyptic military confrontation between nations, an idealistic group of scientists working at United Labs plans to stage a fake alien invasion of Earth in an effort to unite all humanity against a perceived, common enemy.
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