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Season Two, Episode 7
An extremely young Bill Shatner stars in this episode. Although not 'tarot-related' I don't know where this discussion fits in!
Young couple on honeymoon has car problems and kills time in local diner during car repair. The napkin dispensers have these penny-a-pull Devil-headed fortune telling machines that dispense paper slip answers to Yes/No questions. All the answers to the questions are vague and innocent enough, but they answer the couple's questions to a 'T' - including if Shatner will get his job promotion. He calls his office and the promotion is confirmed. Then things get freaky.
The reason I bring this up (with no where to put it) is that these vague responses spit out by the machine are highly significant to the couple. After a predicted close call, the husband wants to keep asking and the wife wants to stop asking questions.
How often do we see this - especially with those readers we call 'bad readers' who have 'fortune-cookie answers' that 'seem' to come true and the hapless Querent returns and returns to get the next 'right' answer and becomes paralyzed in the process? At one point the wife says 'all the machine gave you was a vague answer - you are the one who added all the details that makes the answer true.'
Interesting episode - with a surprise twist at the end. The 'Nick' of course - refers to 'Old Nick.'
An extremely young Bill Shatner stars in this episode. Although not 'tarot-related' I don't know where this discussion fits in!
Young couple on honeymoon has car problems and kills time in local diner during car repair. The napkin dispensers have these penny-a-pull Devil-headed fortune telling machines that dispense paper slip answers to Yes/No questions. All the answers to the questions are vague and innocent enough, but they answer the couple's questions to a 'T' - including if Shatner will get his job promotion. He calls his office and the promotion is confirmed. Then things get freaky.
The reason I bring this up (with no where to put it) is that these vague responses spit out by the machine are highly significant to the couple. After a predicted close call, the husband wants to keep asking and the wife wants to stop asking questions.
How often do we see this - especially with those readers we call 'bad readers' who have 'fortune-cookie answers' that 'seem' to come true and the hapless Querent returns and returns to get the next 'right' answer and becomes paralyzed in the process? At one point the wife says 'all the machine gave you was a vague answer - you are the one who added all the details that makes the answer true.'
Interesting episode - with a surprise twist at the end. The 'Nick' of course - refers to 'Old Nick.'
"The Night of the Meek."