Saturday, October 29, 2011

The Twilight Zone: "A Kind of Stopwatch"

I wouldn't really consider this episode time travel. I think It is more like time freezing. I also think that time travel is more likely to be possible than time freezing. I do think it would be awesome to have a stopwatch like this though. And it had some interesting ideas. Basically what happens is that a weird drunk guy gives McNulty a really old stopwatch. McNulty messes around with it and figures out that it can freeze everything around him, including time. And when he presses it again, it unfreezes time. So for people other than him, they don't even realize that anything happened. He tries to convince people that it really works, but of course no one believes him. When he stick stuff in their pockets, to them it would just seem like it suddenly appeared there, and they would have no recollection of being frozen. And most of it is because no one likes him. He then decides people would really like him and he would become famous if he just had a lot of money, and he knows just how he can get some. He freezes time and takes a bunch of money on a cart from the bank. But on his way out, the stopwatch drops out of his pocket and shatters. He panics and tries to unfreeze time, but it won't work. No matter what he does, no one will move. What I wondered was, now that time is frozen, even though he is still able to move around would he age at all? Or just be immortal? Now you think about that now.

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