Groundhog Day is a weirdly effective narrative pattern for TV/movies. I don’t think it works in text media. Watching a character repeatedly live through a loop that others forget, including dying/suffering, until they puzzle their way out, packs a big punch.
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Don’t remember this one though I must have watched it https://twitter.com/crunchy999/status/1304912006533844992 …
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Zhan found the tvtropes black holehttps://twitter.com/thezhanly/status/1304911743811047431 …
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More refs in replies. There’s an element of time-loop to pandemic time. Though of course it’s much more messy and real life. 2020 feels like new insanity every week, but also a loop insanity we can’t break. Most explicitly in the reopen/fail/shut-down-again pattern. N=2 so far.
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