Time Travel Is Real... And Incredibly Faulty... In "Taking Time"

[upbeat music] Voyage.

[gentle music] Hi, I'm Marshall.

I'm an aggressively ordinary guy who had a pretty extraordinary adventure.

I got to travel in time and try to save the life of the woman I loved.

It was kind of a mess.

Some people might say it was sort of like Idiocracy.

Personally, I find that offensive.

I would say it was more like Back to the Future, except maybe I'm not as cool as Marty McFly.

I would also say it's a little bit like The Notebook, with me as the Ryan Gosling part, minus the abs.

Anyway, it kind of happened like this.

Our first preference for test subjects was dogs, but dog lovers among the science and engineering staffs objected.

N- n- n- naked?

We can only project living beings, beings who are completely nude.

I took a spacecraft to Mars.

Now you have me pushing little buttons to-

Just shut it and push it, Felix.

[machine whirring] [explosion booming]

Uh, so the thing is, we don't actually have an emergency return protocol.

What? Who's Samantha Kennedy?

She was a high school friend.

She was killed in a car wreck at the end of senior year.

Please, Sammy, you can't go to Donnie's Wednesday night.

If you do, something terrible will happen.

Oh, you're psychic now? You know the future?

They'll kill you, Sammy.