![]() ![]() (The concepts of wasting time and losing control are almost the primary antagonists in this story.) Several of our natural fears are preyed upon – flying, being alone, creatures with scary teeth – but there's a great second level of terror being worked into the story: the fear of losing (or wasting) time. It's a great idea, with the execution both grounded and terrifying. Somehow, the plane flew through a rift, and the characters who survived the flight are trapped in that fragment of the past, waiting for the inevitable to happen. Then, the Langoliers appear: terrifying creatures that eat lost time, swallow up the past. ![]() The survivors hear static, in the distance some crackling that they can't explain. There's something wrong with the air, and with all food and water: everything is stale and tasteless. There's nobody in the terminal, nobody else anywhere. They land the plane – one of the surviving passengers is a pilot – and step out into the airport to discover that they're totally alone. Everybody else on the flight has disappeared, leaving the plane without a crew. The main characters are all asleep on American Pride Flight 29, a red-eye flight across America. ![]()
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