A Feasibility Study

Seemingly a dying planet Luminos, that inhabitants getting a decease that getting older all them, it should be a good premise, not for me, otherwise it seems an awkward offering due it appears on those fog and mug on the ground, the dying aliens choose a small town in the middle of America countryside, they teleports the whole city leaving in the usual place a deep crater, somehow the whole thing falls apart due a small city wasn't enough to supplied a enough food for all alien planet.

Even worst the aliens got a decease of hugely contagious even for earthlings, thus the vast prospect to decrease the labors there is highly odds-on, what the catch for such solidary reviewers is the human agreement to all them preclude the Aliens on feasibility study that episode borrowed the name, if the hard decision to get in touch the decease will spreading faster and then became impossible such kind of slavery.

This episode has a great premise, although stumble in sharp look, displaying some blatant unsoundness that pops up in the screenplay here and there, also emphasizing the Christian faith to get strongest against the evil Aliens, wrong approaching, great casting as David Opatoshu, Sam Wanamaker, Phyllis Love, Joyce Van Patten and the priest Frank Puglia.

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First watch: 2023 / Source: DVD / How many: 1 / Rating: 7.5.

An extraterrestrial civilization performs an experiment with amazing characteristics. They abduct an entire neighborhood from Earth and transport it to their planet, they need to know if humans have antibodies to a virus that affects them. The inhabitants of the neighborhood begin to notice strange phenomena, lack of energy and disconnection of services among other things, but the worst will happen when they cross the limits of their streets and find horrified that they are on a dark and nebulous planet. A story of great creativity that over time has become an emblematic episode of this series and that was one of the few chosen to make a remake in the series of the 90s.

This is one of those episodes that was repeated in the second incarnation of "The Outer Limits." An alien race (of course) takes a six block chunk of turf, including all the structures and inhabitants, an teleports them to Luminos, a dying planet. This is a feasibility study which is designed to test whether the earth people will accept slavery. Once absorbed into the society, they will be put in labor camps to spend the rest of their lives waiting on these insipid creatures who look like marshmallow men. The problem is if the humans are touched by the aliens, they begin to be infected with a horrible disease. We are give a look at the ugly life that is posed. If the study is "successful," the rest of Earth will follow suit; if not, they will move on. It is up to the people living on this slab of land to decide what to do. This is both a depressing and uplifiting episode.

This is one of the better episodes of "The Outer Limits" and it seems to have it all--excellent writing, lots of originality and some exceptional guest actors. In particular, Sam Wanamaker, David Opatashu and Joyce Van Patten help to make this one better since they all are very good actors.

The show begins with an alien species kidnapping a group of humans by literally chopping part of a town out of the Earth and bringing it to their planet. At first, the humans don't realize what has happened but they soon come to realize many BAD things--that they are not on Earth, the aliens are infected with a horrible virus and this is all part of a study to see if ALL the people of Earth can be enslaved to serve these brilliant but evil aliens. How the humans handle all this makes this one great--and very, very poignant. The ending, in particular, is one that might just make you shed a tear or two! Really. This is just exceptional throughout and I won't say more, as I don't want to spoil it.

A Feasibility Study is directed by Byron Haskin and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Sam Wanamaker, Phylliss Love, Joyce Van Patten, David Opatoshu and Frank Puglia. Music is by Dominic Frontiere and cinematography by John M. Nickolaus Jr.

Season 1 - Episode 29

Episode sees an entire neighbourhood transported to the planet Luminos, where the inhabitants, Luminoids, are suffering from a disease that renders them as living statues. They are conducting a study to see if humankind can be used as slave labour, and thus this neighbourhood are the guinea pigs.

Super concept on offer here as the key twist in the tale revolves around a critical choice the humans have to make. This choice gives The Outer Limits one of its better episodes because it leads to an emotionally pumped, poignant and unforgettable finale. 8/10