I could argue the point, but the lack of other response suggests that everyone agrees with you.
So it goes....
It's a similar concept, but not really what we're talking about here.
the time-loop ('Groundhog Day') concept in film/TV/novels
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It's a similar concept, but not really what we're talking about here.
I think the X-Files had an episode like this too.
Yes, it was called Monday.
Here's a thought. How plausible would it be for the Matrix to develop a programming glitch that resulted in a Groundhog Day? Whenever the cycle restarted, what would people remember?
That did happen.
It had been 1999 for a century or more.
I wonder how their calendar played out?
How about the Mummy hand from Buffy?
Holy shit.
They're talking about Sisyphus on being Erica.
Loop in side a loop!
It had been 1999 for a century or more.
I wonder how their calendar played out?
How about the Mummy hand from Buffy?
Holy shit.
They're talking about Sisyphus on being Erica.
Loop in side a loop!
I used to envision that the Matrix was supposed to actually be our "real world" and that it explained some weird things like why we have deja vu, why everything tastes like chicken, and so on. In which case it obviously can't always be 1999.
These days it seems like the perception is different-- that it's a recreation of the world we know, but it's implicitly not quite the same. If you or I were projected there, we'd notice some differences. Little things, like the calendars always being 1999 (or the year blanked out), a green tint to the world, and people occasionally morphing into Hugo Weaving.
And yeah, in that not-quite-real environment, they'd probably go through Groundhog Day all the time. So to speak.
I could argue the point, but the lack of other response suggests that everyone agrees with you.
So it goes....
Aw, but I was all ready for one of those pointlessly pedantic online arguments that ends with nobody happy.
Remember the whole Ben and Glory thing from Buffy or the Perception filter from Doctor who... I saw this hypnotist once convince a guy that the number 6 did not exist. he asked the Rube "what's 5+ 5?", and the Rube answered "10!" so the hypnotist said "are you sure? Add it up on your fingers" ...And the Rube is standing their going insane because he can't understand why he has 11 fingers.
Imagine there were a billion days in June 1999 but everyone was programmed to think that that wasn't anything unusual.
I could argue the point, but the lack of other response suggests that everyone agrees with you.
So it goes....
Aw, but I was all ready for one of those pointlessly pedantic online arguments that ends with nobody happy.
Occasionally I step out of that and try real reasoning. It's refreshing.
Besides, I wasn't too sure I was right.
I used to envision that the Matrix was supposed to actually be our "real world" and that it explained some weird things like why we have deja vu, why everything tastes like chicken, and so on. In which case it obviously can't always be 1999.
These days it seems like the perception is different-- that it's a recreation of the world we know, but it's implicitly not quite the same. If you or I were projected there, we'd notice some differences. Little things, like the calendars always being 1999 (or the year blanked out), a green tint to the world, and people occasionally morphing into Hugo Weaving.
The Matrix is apparently all one big city, so I don't think it's our world.
There's the great book Replay by Ken Grimwood that I believe came out in 1988 that has a guy who dies at age 57 or something and 'wakes up' in college...reliving his life like "Groundhog Day" in that he knows what will happen...then he dies again in 1988 and is 'reborn' again.
Great book. I read it twice. I think.
It also won the World Fantasy Award.
Sadly, Ken Grimwood passed away a few years later. As far as I know, he only wrote a few other books.
Yeah but with any luck he woke up in college.
Surprised no one's mentioned TNG's Cause and Effect.
#76 "Twas the Night Before Mxymas" Dir. Mike Vejar Written by Tim Minear December 15, 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lois_&_Clark:_The_New_Adventures_of_Superman_episodes
#131 EP.14 "Monday" Dir.Kim Manners Written by Vince Gilligan & John Shiban February 28, 1999 (1999-02-28) Prod. CODE 6ABX15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_%28season_6%29#ep14
also "Monday" episode
http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Monday
The time loop thing was done in Stargate. I remember the two guys playing golf through the stargate and the boss kissing the woman (forgive me I only saw about 6 episodes over the whole series). Also it was done in Voyager and I think in TNG. Again I can't give you specifics because they're shows I saw once a long time ago.
Not knowing O'Neil is understandable. Not calling O'Neil "McGyver" for lack of a better description, is baffling.
I saw a pretty good episode of medium with a time loop, Allison kept fluffing up the day saving and all these people in a restaurant kept getting massacred because after 5 years trying to convince people that she's magic they still think she's full of shit.
HEY!
What about Daybreak?
I LOATH that bald dick. Too smooth. Ally was having fantasies about him while iron Man was in her bed trying to double dip, stealing form her pal Rene.
TOO SMOOTH!
I just want to punch him.
But after 12 episode of day break where he kept waking up on the same day to solve a crime that was trying to pants him, they writers really layered the bastards up after "smoothing" procedural copshow viewers into the concept of a constantly repeating timeloop.
No one seems to have mentioned Tru Calling either?
Awful beginning, but they really put together an interesting story by t he all too premature end once Jason Priestly brought the sexy back.
I saw a pretty good episode of medium with a time loop, Allison kept fluffing up the day saving and all these people in a restaurant kept getting massacred because after 5 years trying to convince people that she's magic they still think she's full of shit.
HEY!
What about Daybreak?
I LOATH that bald dick. Too smooth. Ally was having fantasies about him while iron Man was in her bed trying to double dip, stealing form her pal Rene.
TOO SMOOTH!
I just want to punch him.
But after 12 episode of day break where he kept waking up on the same day to solve a crime that was trying to pants him, they writers really layered the bastards up after "smoothing" procedural copshow viewers into the concept of a constantly repeating timeloop.
No one seems to have mentioned Tru Calling either?
Awful beginning, but they really put together an interesting story by t he all too premature end once Jason Priestly brought the sexy back.
Surprised you didn't notice that, er, people did mention it.
There's the great book Replay by Ken Grimwood that I believe came out in 1988 that has a guy who dies at age 57 or something and 'wakes up' in college...reliving his life like "Groundhog Day" in that he knows what will happen...then he dies again in 1988 and is 'reborn' again.
Great book. I read it twice. I think.
It also won the World Fantasy Award.
Sadly, Ken Grimwood passed away a few years later. As far as I know, he only wrote a few other books.
Grimwood apparently died of a heart attack...which is rather fitting given the plotline of Replay... You almost expect him to be reborn in his teens...
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^Maybe he was and is re-living his life again in an altered timeline...
