Originally Posted by Ross Hendrie
But then the flashes from the watch to when he jumped clear of the artillery shell would have been completely meaningless.
Also, Id doubt it was No Man's Land they were wandering through, it was probably some rear area and Tim was helping whatshisticket back to an aid post.
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The flashes of the watch at first seemed to reflect not only the futility of the whole thing as Tim and Hutchinson were only to die in battle after the events was over (Tim says as much in that they survive to Hutchinson) and also to reflect the horror of the First World War as Tim was so young yet still in the firing line. And of course the most straightforward explaination that the scene was there to simply show that Tim could use the watch to see the future...the whole first flashback scene would have made perfect sense without revisiting it at the end.
If he was going back to a rear area then Tim and Hutchinson would most certainly have used one of the service trenches connecting the front and rear lines rather than walk over the top in the field of fire...hell they nearly got hit by a shell nevermind being shot at. Isn't picking at my use of historical terminology rather than addressing my comments about the episode being the teeniest bit pedantic anyway?