The Magicians) watched the Tom Cruise movie
Edge of Tomorrow, he fell in love with one scene. Cruise and Emily Blunt arrive at a farmhouse where they find a helicopter in the backyard. Cruise’s character knows that the two of them are going to die there, and he pretends that he doesn’t know — until he can’t. He has to tell Blunt's character that he knows, even though telling her will change nothing. Grossman found the “farmhouse of death” scene very moving — beautiful and tragic at the same time, even as it encapsulated some of the typical logic problems of time-loop movies. (Why keep going back when you know you’ll die?)