the groundhog day project

in this bonus final episode, i list a few new things i noticed on my latest rewatch of #groundhogday before going through notes on the first revision of the script and realizing i still don't know what i'm doing now that this #timeloop is over.

final thoughts about #groundhogday (minute 101) turn into a rant about politics and being a better person.

as the credits roll in #groundhogday minute 100, i talk about song lyrics then i get into a long ramble about what i might do after this show is over (but don't worry; i warn you when it happens if you want to skip ahead)

phil lifts rita over the threshold into the world in #groundhogday minute 99.

first i complain about #groundhogday minute 98 ruining the magic of last minute then i get into a political rant because this episode is coming out on my birthday and i was not going to cut all that.

phil confirms that it is no longer february 2nd, and i talk about what this means for his future in #groundhogday minute 97.

phil realizes that the loop has ended and i suggest that the longer the loop has been going the worse this ending is in #groundhogday minute 96.

nevermind the cynical takes, #groundhogday minute 95 is magical.

phil's night with rita rides the line between creepy and magical in #groundhogday minute 94.

larry is bought by pirates, ned might be a cat, and rita gets cold in #groundhogday minute 93.

an auction in three parts: i'm sold in a fundraiser my senior year of high school, phil goes for more than anyone expects in a vicious bidding war, and larry is not getting the reaction he wants in #groundhogday minute 92.

as the bachelore auction gets started, i get distracted one last time by extras--the punxsutawney king and miss punxsutawney, and daniel riggs--and there's a brief rant about capitalism in #groundhogday minute 91.

phil gifts wrestlemania tickets, debbie has second thoughts... again, and felix can help around the house again in #groundhogday minute 90.

phil and rita dance in #groundhogday minute 89, only to be interrupted by Sara and Gertie, Buster and his wife, and Fred and Debbie.

phil jazzes up rachmaninoff and rita and mary dance like dorks in #groundhogday minute 88; i detail my piano teacher head canon and get into a rant about climate change and weather forecasters.

nancy casually removes larry's hand, rita slowly walks through the crowd, and phil changes up the music in #groundhogday minute 87.

larry has entered his proto-phil, sleazy stage; nancy escapes and meets rita in #groundhogday minute 86.

phil finishes changing the tire and then shows up at a restaurant where buster green is choking on his lunch, the producer's wife needs a light, and the director's lawyer is watching in #groundhogday minute 85.

phil saves a boy falling out of a tree, a girl getting hit by a truck (deleted scene), and three old ladies from a flat tire in #groundhogday minute 84. plus, phil disappears all day and rita does what?

i've never read any chekhov, but that doesn't stop me from criticizing rubin's reference in #groundhogday minute 83. nor does it stop me from letting rubin defend his reference in his book, nor from quoting chekhov himself, nor from getting sidetracked describing the plot of the one piece of russian literature i've read as an adult--dead souls.

phil gets the old man some food but still cannot save his life in #groundhogday minute 82.

i don't like that phil calls him 'father', i don't like the nurse's tone, but i do like phil turning his attention to the old man in #groundhogday minute 81.

phil has a nice piano lesson, a not-so-nice? interaction with ned, and doesn't quite get into his fight against homelessness yet in #groundhogday minute 80.

coleridge's 'work without hope', ice sculpting, and conflating two different piano teacher scenes so i get weirdly confused in #groundhogday minute 79.

diegetic sound; freejack and millennium; phil's reset, muscle memory, and what does phil actually learn to do in #groundhogday minute 78? plus, the names of characters that you probably don't know.

the timing is all wrong with phils arrival at gobbler's knob in #groundhogday minute 77, but phil knows about a version of the prognostication that is not in the movie... and he's also taking an interest in larry as a person.

the time loop is watching, the clock offers infinity, baby steps, and phil's morning timing, with reference to happy death day and the map of tiny perfect things as well as a big old continuity problem in #groundhogday minute 76.

phil continues talking... to rita, to the time loop, in #groundhogday minute 75.

while rita sleeps, phil is genuine in #groundhogday minute 74.

rita falls asleep as phil has been reading poetry (but we only hear one line of a poem that isn't even in this book) in #groundhogday minute 73.

ego-death, infodumping, what you get, why the time loop is not 10,000 years long, and what i'd do with a time loop... #groundhogday minute 72.

in phil's room in #groundhogday minute 71, rita tries her hand at throwing cards in a hat and phil proclaims himself a jerk.

phil convinces rita with a note and i coin an alternative to a 'plot hole' - the 'background character hole' - in #groundhogday minute 70.

plus, does rita know who larry is?

phil knows about nancy, knows a tray will fall, and knows that rita likes the thighs of perfectly roasted chicken* in #groundhogday minute 69.

* that's a reference from the stage musical, not the movie.

phil knows stuff about strangers, i (apparently) can't even remember some friends' names, fred is freaking out, and rita still isn't buying the god thing in #groundhogday minute 68.

the god phil recounts the ways he has died, doris doesn't get to say her best line, and phil is still not on the path to self-improvement in #groundhogday minute 67.

i explain electrocution badly and discuss the unselfishness banner in the dining room as phil tries death by toaster, by truck, and by swan dive before rita identifies his corpse in #groundhogday minute 66.

phil and phil fly to their fiery deaths, there's no engine, there's clearly fake lighting, and rita's hair moves... and phil wakes up in need of some toast in #groundhogday minute 65.

phil reaches a dead end at the quarry, local cop is prepared to shoot him, and larry is already shooting (with his camera) in #groundhogday minute 64.

phil lets phil drive, scooter bites bill, and i still don't know where they filmed some of this chase sequence in #groundhogday minute 63.