Watching "A Kind of Stopwatch", I did not think it was time travel; it was more of pausing time. The basic plot line of this Twilight Zone episode was that a man got a stopwatch from a stranger at a bar, and whenever he clicks the button on it, it pauses time. It seems like fun at first, but then he drops and breaks the watch when the world was on pause, making the world forever paused and he is the only thing that is not paused. Uh oh. If he the only person moving, how would he survive? Would the plants still grow so that he can grow his own food so that he can survive? Would he go crazy (I am assuming he would because I know that I would)? Hmmmm. This episode shows us that if we think that time is a fun thing to manipulate, that things can go wrong when we have too much fun, and if we misuse it. Misusing anything always turns bad anyway, so why misuse it in the first place? Because it makes a good movie, book, and/or television show. And that is how the world works, misusing things for fun and ending up with bad results, just like the Twilight Zone episode. If the dude did not think that he could do whatever he pleased, the world would never have stopped. It is as easy as it sounds. If the guy would just listen to my advice, the world would never have been paused. Until next time!
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