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The penultimate episode of Season 2 (spoilers)


Groundhog Day is my all-time favorite movie, and I've liked some of the homages to it in different genres-Edge of Tomorrow, Happy Death Day, etc.

But this episode does something differently with the idea....first of all, you don't realize any character is in a time loop at first (and you don't see the first iteration of the time loop) and second of all, the character in a time loop is not the main character as in Groundhog Day and the other movies I mentioned, but the antagonist.

So yeah, I liked this episode.

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I agree - it was a good episode.
Though.... I suspect a normal person would kind of go insane after a while, if stuck in such a time loop - here, we seem glimpses of insanity, but next day he seems back to his normal self (at least based on the appearance).

Essentially, you become immortal and with no consequences of your life/actions. It's a pretty crazy notion for anyone to face after you truly begin to realize the long term consequences of such existence. If life ever had a point, an existence like this seems to have none. But... I'm now going to refute everything i've said up until now, because I'm basically just brainstorming.

I suspect it is possible to try experience all (some) facets of life for the first few decades. You can read books - all books ever written up to that day. Learn martial arts/meditation/etc. Focusing on seducing one woman though - that shit is unhealthy as hell, especially given that next day you'll be back to zero. Books, however.... you can just continue reading from where you've stopped - martial arts, same. Basically, you can consume things which do not need to remember you -
You can't build stuff, you can't make long term relations, the only thing you can successfully accomplish is to gain information and perhaps experiment with stuff (to a limited degree - you can't try new occupations which require certificates/degrees, for example ).

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The idea of the main character being the one that is not in the time loop has been already done recently. It seems they copied the idea.

There was a recent indie movie, I don't remember the title, about a guy in a car picking a girl in the middle of nowhere, and it happens that they were in a time loop but it was the girl the one that remembered.

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good ol' Topher..

not bad- Season 2 in general is more appealing.

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