Time loop stories aren't all 'Groundhog Day' rip-offs. Time loop stories aren't all...
Here we go again: Time loop stories were around long before the 1993 movie Groundhog Day. So a friendly reminder that one person's discovery of something isn't the same as its invention.
What if I told you that on Groundhog Day, I am thinking about the way we wind up in a repeating conversation about movies like Groundhog Day that reminds me of the way that, in Groundhog Day, Bill Murray keeps waking up on Groundhog Day? Would you feel like you were reading the same phrase over and over again?
Time loop stories are popular. They go like this: A character lives through some portion of their life — most often a day — and then suddenly finds themself back in time, experiencing the same events again and again. Usually, but not
