Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Twilight Zone Episode: "A Kind Of Stopwatch"

The episode, "A Kind Of Stopwatch" from The Twilight Zone I do not think is necessarily time travel, but does have a lot to do with what can happen when you mess with time. It is surrounds the life of a man name McNulty who no one really likes being around. He is a very talkative man who is stuck-up and annoying. McNulty was fired from his job shortly after the show starts. He heads to the bar he always goes to after work and talks to the bartender who is really his only friend. Quickly, the two of them, and one other man are the only ones in the bar, since McNulty seems to drive everyone out of wherever he goes to. The only man left, calls McNulty over and they get to talking. Of course, McNulty seems to be the only one who is talking, but the man, whose name is Potts, does not seem to mind it. Potts soon hands him a stopwatch, which is claimed to be an old family heirloom. McNulty seems to think that it is an odd gift, but takes it anyways. This turns out be not a very great idea. Later on the next day, at the bar with the bartender, McNulty gets out the watch and presses the button on the top. He realizes that pressing the button stops all of time. He uses it on the bartender, and finds that it when you press the button again, time starts itself as if nothing happened and the bartender finishes the sentence right where he left off. McNulty then uses the watch for personal gain. He first tries to get him job back by trying to show how the stopwatch works. He fails at this. He goes to the bar and tries to convice eveyone that the stopwatch stops time, and fails at this too.Then he decides to use it for something else, robbing banks. When he gets to the bank and is about to leave with the money, he drops the stopwatch and breaks it while everyone is frozen in time. McNulty tries to get it to work again, and tries to get at least one person to respond, but no one does. Everyone is frozen in time forever and McNulty is all alone. The episode ends with him shouting, "Somebody move! Talk! Say something! HELP!" I wondered if Potts had known what the stopwatch could do, and gave it to McNulty out of kindness, or to get him to stop being so rude. But maybe he had not even known what it did at all.

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