A Matter of Minutes story
A married couple awakens to find reality being reconstructed around them. Directed by: Sheldon Larry. Story by: Theodore Sturgeon, Rockne S. O'Bannon.
5 total · 5 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| husband and wife | major | The Wrights awakened to a crew of blue-clad construction workers reconstructing reality around them. |
| speculative effect | major | The viewer is shown a theory of time that was analogized to time being like the boxcars of a train. Also blue men had to construct each unit (i.e. boxcar) of time into the future. |
| time travel | major | Michael and Maureen Wright somehow skipped ahead a few hours in time to find that this future time was still in the process of being constructed. The orange-clad foreman of the work crew explained how every minute is essentially a separate world which must be built, maintained, and torn down once it is over. |
| what if I could never go home | major | The Wrights were forbidden to go back to their own time by the orange-clad foreman, but they refused to accept it. |
| what if I were in a tight spot | major | The Wrights awakened to a crew of blue-clad construction workers reconstructing reality around them. |