Reaction Paper for All the Time - thybamfallthetime

Name: Fabia, Bianca Anne M.

Student No.: 2013-72071

Section: THY

Reaction Paper for ‘All the Time’

            The episode ‘All the Time’ was about a man who loved to read but everyone around him tells him to stop because it wasn’t worth his time and he has more important things to do. So one day, when it was time for his lunch break, as usual, he went inside the vault to read. When he began reading the newspaper with the headline about the H-bomb, he felt some sort of earthquake. After that, he went on to check things out only to find out that everyone’s dead and he’s the only one left. At first he was a bit sad but then he became happy. After a day of being alone, he felt lonely and he contemplated on committing suicide but decided against it after seeing the public library filled with books. He felt so overjoyed by that discovery and the fact that he had all the time in the world to read but since life is so unpredictable, his glasses fell and broke.

            After the episode ended, I felt that it was about how a certain event or phenomenon, in this case World War II or dropping of the H-bomb, can also affect us in a personal way even if we’re not directly affected by it.

            If I was to write an updated version or an adaptation of this episode, I’d probably write about how global warming could possibly affect a person in a more personal way. I’ll also include the concept of having time but I think that I’ll put a twist to it. For example, I’d probably write a fictional piece about a person from a country with a cooler climate and how he dismissed the problem about global warming since he thought that it wasn’t really a big deal since his country has a cool climate. But then as global warming gets worse to the point that it’s affecting food production, water supply, and other necessities, he starts to realize that even if he doesn’t feel that his surroundings are changing in temperature the supply of the things he needs are getting scarcer every minute. Then, he was presented a chance to make a technology to reverse the effects of the global warming but given a limit time to make it, would he be able to do it? Then I’ll leave it there with that question to make the audience realize that even if you could have a second chance at reversing global warming could you do it or would you rather act now to prevent it from getting worse.