Paper Girls Time Travel & Every Time Period Explained
This article contains spoilers for Paper Girls season 1.
Paper Girls' time travel presents its stars with an opportunity to explore multiple different time periods. Inspired by the award-winning comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson, Paper Girls uses time travel and temporal mechanics as an opportunity to explore themes of intergenerational conflict. The Amazon Prime Video TV series takes a very different approach to the comics, reducing the spectacle to focus on character arcs.
Paper Girls sees four kids caught up in a time war between the Old Watch and the STF Underground. The Old Watch believe time travel comes with terrible risks, with Grand Father comparing it to a mix-tape at risk of being recorded over too many times — with potentially catastrophic results because too many changes to the timeline can destroy the entire universe. The STF Underground — the next generation — object to this, insisting it must be possible to rewrite history to prevent their dystopian reality. The STF Underground point to the convenient fact the Old Watch's views of time travel help to secure their own power.
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Every science-fiction franchise naturally takes a different approach to time travel. Paper Girls presents the temporal mechanics through the eyes of four twelve-year-old girls, who are swiftly forced to acclimatize. Here's how the time travel works — and how the different time periods play out for the Paper Girls.
The cast of Paper Girls swiftly learn that time travel is an apparently natural phenomenon. There are certain naturally occurring "foldings," where different points in the space-time continuum come into contact with one another,
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