March 16, 2017. The clock has struck midnight.
Time has run out. Tom Crean is gone.
March 27, 2017. The clock resets.
Archie Miller is in. A new era has begun. It’s seven minutes to midnight.
A ticking clock represents a sense of urgency. If not acted upon, a ticking clock will naturally wind down to zero. Or in this case, midnight.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 to represent the increasingly prominent threat of nuclear war. Throughout the years, the clock has waxed and waned to signify the magnitude of the threat.