OK, I cheated a bit, I posted a one-liner so I could go back and read everyone else's comments to gauge the thread.

Since I have mentioned TZ a time or two already around here, I thought I'd lay low on that comparison, but, as a TZ lover also, the similarity in this episode is one reason I found it so riveting. For some reason, I can get picky with certain perceived absurdities in some of the episodes that have a "real world" base. But, because life in a TZ type world is intrinsically absurd, it didn't bother me at all that gas, oil and groceries never disappear in Hanover Hills, etc.

I loved the scene in the diner where the malcontent spouted off about how it sucks that, among other things, his kids never grow up!

Here are comments I wholeheartedly second:

As is often the case in speculative fiction, immortality is not all it is cracked up to be. What is the value of life if we cannot grow and change and evolve?


...when it was explained by E.G. Marshall how this kind of life disallows one from being able to look forward to new things, made me realize that maybe it wasn't such a great thing afterall.


I enjoyed the music in this.


I love it when, during the aforementioned "into the mist" scene, Beal describes it as "like a disco". (Would have been funny if he'd have encountered John Travolta in a white leisure suit on the other side of that stone.

Very good choice, Hamlet! I hadn't heard this one before and I really enjoyed it. A solid 4+ episode.