past point of view theme

We are shown what things might seem like in the here and now if viewed from a past person's perspective.

39 total · 2 choice · 23 major · 14 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
tng1x26	choice	Clare Raymond, Ralph Offenhouse, L.Q. Sonny Clemonds :: frozen people
tz1959e2x23	choice	Chris, who was from the year 1847, was bewildered by what he found in the year 1961. For example, he mistook a truck driving down the highway for a monster out to get him, he had no idea what to make of a jukebox, and he skeptical when told that there were no hostile "Indians" around.
as1985e1x03	major	A point of the story was to speculate on how an early 19th century American era might perceive and react to encountering his country about 150 years later.
as1985e2x18	major	The Lewise family were dumbfounded by the peculiar habits of their new neighbors. In particular, the neighbors upon receiving a bouquet of roses proceeded promptly to devour several of them. This was all explained with the revelation that the neighbors were, in fact, time travelers from 400 years into the future.
ds94x17	major	Akorem Laan came from 200 years in the past to find his world mired in sin and depravity
ftt1982e6x01	major	Much was made of Rip, who had slept through the American Revolution, being perplexed by the post-revolutionary state of affairs in his village. Rip woke up 20 years hence and anachronistically proclaimed himself not a Democrat, but rather a King's man.
movie: Iceman (1984)	major	The prehistoric man was often bewildered by his modern surroundings. He additionally assumed that a helicopter was a trickster god from his mythology.
movie: Ivan Vasilievich Back to the Future (1973)	major	Ivan the Terrible was puzzled by manifold aspects of life in modern day Moscow.
movie: Radioactive Dreams (1985)	major	Philip and Marlowe viewed everything through the lens of 1940s era private detectives on account that they'd grown up isolated in a bomb shelter filled with detectives stories from that time.
movie: Strange Invaders (1983)	major	The aliens who secretly replaced the residents of Centerville in 1958 kept everything just as it was for 25 years so that the town was as a time capsule of the 1950s.