He skips forward but with a clear sight of goal, he pokes a feeble shot past Randolph with the outside of his left foot but without enough pace on it, the covering Motherwell defender is able to blast the ball clear.
I told him that we in the crowd had all groaned as he clipped his third shot low, only for the groans to become cheers as the ball skipped forward between the bunkers, almost as if tugged by a piece of string, coming to rest inside four feet and leaving a holeable putt that was duly, boldly, holed.
Here I skipped forward to 1997, Curtis Hanson's LA Confidential.
After a preamble that resolved the series one cliffhanger in an improbable fashion (Grace and Campbell both survived their train platform shoot-out. So much for those IRA guns) we skipped forward two years.
When DC Comics continuity skipped forward one year after the events of the limited series Infinite Crisis, Cassandra Cain is revived as leader of the League of Assassins, having abandoned her previous characterization as an altruist.
The next ten minutes or so is just POV footage of this guy walking through corn saying things like, "Hello?!" and, "What's going on here?!" I got bored so I skipped forward ten minutes.
Political allegiance is a surprisingly common reason for time zone changes; after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula's time zone skipped forward an hour, ditching daylight savings time to better match its new owner.
Videos can be paused, rewound, fast forwarded, skipped forwards and backwards in thirty second intervals, and slow-mo'd.
"You almost bank on the big firms hiring you because they're really the only ones who can help you pay your debt," he said, his mind already skipping forward to a situation he didn't choose to articulate.
Critics were unconvinced when it aired in 2013, and Brooker told me he agreed that the ending, which skips forward to a Waldo-dominated global police state, is too abrupt.
