| A Clockwork Tomato | 06-20-2005 12:17 AM |
This is an other "forest for the trees" issue. The show has endless time motifs, many of which involve hourglasses or clocks with no hands.
Of course, if the clock DOES have hands, they have to be set to a time. The most common time, as I recall, is between 11 AM and 1 PM, because there are a number of scenes where Dorothy wakes Roger up after he's slept in till those hours. In at least one episode, the clock strikes the hour during such a scene.
Let me point out that Bible verses start at 1, not 0, so there is no verse corresponding to 11:00.
Also, there are no verses corresponding to a clock with no hands, or an hourglass at any stage of fullness.
The time motifs are important. Time was running out throughout the series, though mostly the characters were not aware of it. I'm more than half-convinced that the world would have fallen apart and needed to be reset even without Alex Rosewater. In short, the world of Paradigm works like an hourglass; there's only so much time before everything comes to a halt, and then it needs to be started over.
Of course, if the clock DOES have hands, they have to be set to a time. The most common time, as I recall, is between 11 AM and 1 PM, because there are a number of scenes where Dorothy wakes Roger up after he's slept in till those hours. In at least one episode, the clock strikes the hour during such a scene.
Let me point out that Bible verses start at 1, not 0, so there is no verse corresponding to 11:00.
Also, there are no verses corresponding to a clock with no hands, or an hourglass at any stage of fullness.
The time motifs are important. Time was running out throughout the series, though mostly the characters were not aware of it. I'm more than half-convinced that the world would have fallen apart and needed to be reset even without Alex Rosewater. In short, the world of Paradigm works like an hourglass; there's only so much time before everything comes to a halt, and then it needs to be started over.