Story idea for the Three Toed Sloth's paw: Its on display at a local museum and a field trip from some school and the large group of people who can not pick a boy/girl or a harem causes the paw to go off a cluster of times at once... cue the Megatherium apocalypse from nowhere. Mostly as it gets confused and decides they are all so alike in uselessness at decision making. Okay, that is omake territory, but having someone going around poking indecisive people with it for fun amuses me.
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Why isn't anything I suggested necessary for things to work in a story? The movie had no thought (on screen) given to finding the cause.. it doesn't even mean their weren't literally thousands of people looping globally. It doesn't mean the mad scientist causing the loops didn't randomly turn on the TV that loop and seeing Bill Murray's character all cheery and being a good person didn't make him do a spit take and fry the machine. Possibly the machine was gene linked and seeing his {expletive deleted] Cousin that way freaked him out. His whole family was looping and he just never bothered to use the phone.
The thing is in Groundhog's day it doesn't matter the cause as the focus was on Billy Murray's character and his development. Its about him getting over himself. They gave no indication he ever killed anyone, but himself. Its also a movie and didn't have the time to delve into that feature. For all we know the looping didn't end because he reached the positive karma goal... it basically be the equivalent of the biblical story of Job. Only the bet wasn't on how long it'd take before Job called noxious, bovine, biological goo on the overgod, instead its about mankind being inherently evil and how long it would take that grumpy reporter to go axe crazy. Basically, the intern forced to bet on a good end (thus paying all the rest of them off and being broke and enslaved forever) made a fortune when they finally gave up... which basically happened to an IIken piece of furniture once.
The thing is Groundhog day is a movie. Its already completed. Your taking about fanfiction. Fanfiction gets feedback mid process.. reviewers are going to ask why 3 day loops? Answering 'no reason' isn't happy fan time. Its also really lazy and lame (IMNSHO).
Three day loops for one person (which can kill them off for real), are much more personal that a grand cosmic thing like forever and a week long loops. That kind of thing is targeted. A cosmic horror is doing it. An artifact of power is doing it. A spell is doing it. Someone passing a test by folding all the sheets of paper into a giant origami giraffe breaking the flow of time as the fabric of existence stutters in raw confusion is doing it. There must be a cause for something that specific... If you as the writer won't do it the fan base will. If its good enough to generate a fan base.
The very fact your suggesting this happens often enough to have known rules and cycle through characters as they die off for real means something must be causing it. Even if they never find out in the story there must be a reason. If you as a writer refuse to do it, a forum talking about your story will do it for you... possibly causing mass flame wars.
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Why isn't anything I suggested necessary for things to work in a story? The movie had no thought (on screen) given to finding the cause.. it doesn't even mean their weren't literally thousands of people looping globally. It doesn't mean the mad scientist causing the loops didn't randomly turn on the TV that loop and seeing Bill Murray's character all cheery and being a good person didn't make him do a spit take and fry the machine. Possibly the machine was gene linked and seeing his {expletive deleted] Cousin that way freaked him out. His whole family was looping and he just never bothered to use the phone.
The thing is in Groundhog's day it doesn't matter the cause as the focus was on Billy Murray's character and his development. Its about him getting over himself. They gave no indication he ever killed anyone, but himself. Its also a movie and didn't have the time to delve into that feature. For all we know the looping didn't end because he reached the positive karma goal... it basically be the equivalent of the biblical story of Job. Only the bet wasn't on how long it'd take before Job called noxious, bovine, biological goo on the overgod, instead its about mankind being inherently evil and how long it would take that grumpy reporter to go axe crazy. Basically, the intern forced to bet on a good end (thus paying all the rest of them off and being broke and enslaved forever) made a fortune when they finally gave up... which basically happened to an IIken piece of furniture once.
The thing is Groundhog day is a movie. Its already completed. Your taking about fanfiction. Fanfiction gets feedback mid process.. reviewers are going to ask why 3 day loops? Answering 'no reason' isn't happy fan time. Its also really lazy and lame (IMNSHO).
Three day loops for one person (which can kill them off for real), are much more personal that a grand cosmic thing like forever and a week long loops. That kind of thing is targeted. A cosmic horror is doing it. An artifact of power is doing it. A spell is doing it. Someone passing a test by folding all the sheets of paper into a giant origami giraffe breaking the flow of time as the fabric of existence stutters in raw confusion is doing it. There must be a cause for something that specific... If you as the writer won't do it the fan base will. If its good enough to generate a fan base.
The very fact your suggesting this happens often enough to have known rules and cycle through characters as they die off for real means something must be causing it. Even if they never find out in the story there must be a reason. If you as a writer refuse to do it, a forum talking about your story will do it for you... possibly causing mass flame wars.