Line #7 Recap/TheMagicians2016S05E06OopsIDidItAgain


1	'''Season 5, Episode 6'''
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3	!Oops!...I Did It Again
4	Debris from the cracked Moon will destroy Earth in 12 hours, but Margo and Eliot have help in the form of a time loop.
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6	!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
7	* AdaptationTitleChange: Lampshaded. Josh wonders out loud why ''Literature/AllYouNeedIsKill'' had its title changed [[Film/EdgeOfTomorrow for the movie]].
8	* AllForNothing: Westbrook's plan to party out the moon apocalypse wouldn't have worked because he didn't know about the Kraken, and thus would have gotten eaten with the rest of Earth.
9	* ApocalypseAnarchy: With the world about to end, people riot, have sex in the streets, and the local newscaster decides to air out past grievances on live television.
10	* TheBusCameBack: Charlton returns, having managed to hang on in Eliot's mind while the Monster and everything else he ate was sucked out.
11	* CallBack:
12	** Margo and Eliot using Permanence on themselves to change history on Fillory allows them to remember the time loops on Earth.
13	** Margo and Eliot visit Stoppard in an attempt to go back further so they can stop the Moon breaking apart, but the time magic the whales already have running trumps his.
14	** Eliot and Margo suspect that Penny's still [=DJing=] on weekends.
15	** Charlton was able to escape being banished with the Monster by latching onto Eliot's "happy place", which is where he found Eliot when they first met.
16	* CassandraTruth: Eliot tells Margo that the Monster is still in him and wants to be let out, but she assumes it's just memories of the Monster that he doesn't want to deal with. While the latter may also be true, something really is inside him and wants out, it just happens to be Charlton and he just has a horrible sense of being polite.
17	* TheChosenZero: The pig man from the season premiere went to ''Todd'' for help, apparently because he felt any man would be better than a woman. Julia is understandably pissed, and Todd himself realizes he's out of his depth.
18	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After learning that whales mate in the fall, Charlton says it's sad that they'll never get to mate again.
19	* CordonBleughChef: In one of the loops Josh takes Eliot out to this fusion place he wants to try. Pierogi tacos turn out not to be as great as he'd hoped.
20	* CovertDistressCode: Eliot and Margo work out several passwords between them for a number of necessary actions, including running to Canada.
21	* ExpositionCut: Whenever Eliot and Margo wake up in a new time loop and have to inform the others, the scene just cuts to them finishing explaining the situation while the others take it in.
22	* FailureMontage: Eliot and Margo run through several failed attempts to stop the destruction of Earth, each time punctuated with the Moon rocks impacting the Earth as seen from orbit.
23	* FaintInShock: Alice passes out when Penny tries to travel to the moon and ends up {{TeleFrag}}ing himself.
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Despite the moon breaking in half, the tides are unaffected...thanks to the whale Magicians.
25	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Eliot tells Margo she jacked off Todd in one of the loops, to her great embarrassment. Later, Todd swings by the penthouse. While he's talking to Julia, Margo can be seen in the background walking to the living room, noticing him, flailing, and running back inside.
26	* GenreSavvy: Josh is a big fan of the GroundhogDayLoop and cites several works that utilize it. He's the one who tells Eliot that these movies usually involve the characters having to face their inner demons in order to break said loop.
27	* GoryDiscretionShot: All we see of Penny's botched attempt to teleport is a pool of blood and his shoe with a foot still in it.
28	* GroundhogDayLoop: Thanks to wards meant to keep the kraken sealed, Earth is stuck in a 12-hour time loop until the thing that broke the wards is fixed. Unfortunately, the problem being the ''Moon breaking'' is something of a quandary, as the whales lack the ability to solve that problem.
29	* HiveMind: The whales are implicitly one of these, as Eliot is able to speak to all of them at once through a TV at Fisher Beach.
30	* IfIWantedYouDead: Margo offers to tell Stoppard where Penny is so he can get revenge in exchange for his help, reasoning that it's a matter of priorities, but Stoppard tells them that he would have taken his revenge already if he wanted to. He's not so petty as to refuse to help in an apocalypse scenario.
31	* ItsAllMyFault: Eliot blames himself for Margo somehow losing her memory of the loops, but Charlton points out that it may not have anything to do with him and that she had a lead before she forgot.
32	* KrakenAndLeviathan: DoubleSubverted. The whales keep the kraken sealed by tracing sigils onto the ocean floor. Eliot convinces them to release the kraken, something ominously bubbles beneath the surface...and a human scuba driver pops out. Eliot asks him if ''he'''s the kraken after all. That's when the giant tentacled behemoth shows up and ends the world.
33	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Eliot notes that Margo is one of these for him, and feels that may be unfair to her.
34	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Margo finds out about the whales, but pisses them off and they wash away her Permanence, thus taking away her RippleEffectProofMemory. Eliot is forced to save the day alone from there.
35	* MagicAIsMagicA: Since releasing the Kraken winds time back exactly 12 hours, releasing it early lets them go back earlier than the usual start of the loop.
36	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Charlton was behind the whispering, messages in blood (red paint), and knocking. He concedes that his attempts to be polite may have come off more sinister than he intended.
37	* MistakenIdentity:
38	** During three of the looped ragers in a row Margo jacked off Todd thinking he was someone else. She blissfully gets to forget this once the whales get rid of her Permanence, but Eliot makes sure to remind her.
39	** Eliot thinks The monster is still inside him and sending him messages. It's Charlton.
40	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Margo discovers that the whales are powerful enough to potentially save the world, but being Margo she pisses them off. They take away her RippleEffectProofMemory which means Eliot, already on the point of a mental breakdown, has to figure out how to save the world on his own.
41	* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Once he's let out into Eliot's conscious mind, Charlton takes on this role.
42	* OhCrap: Eliott realizing Margo no longer remember the loops.
43	* PlanetEater: The moon rocks hitting the Earth destroys the whales' sigils, setting the Kraken free, who will eat the Earth.
44	* TheReveal: The pig man that wanted to offer Quentin a quest back in the season premiere was talking about the destruction of Fillory, not Earth.
45	* RippleEffectProofMemory: Thanks to Jane Chatwin's Permanence, Eliot and Margo realize they're in a time loop. Eventually Margo gets hers washed off.
46	* SapientCetaceans: Whales are actually intelligent magicians who made a pact with the old gods to prevent the rise of the kraken.
47	* SenseFreak: Since Charlton's been without the ability to feel sensory input (besides sight and hearing) for ages, he's very pleased to switch from being in Eliot's subconscious to his conscious so he can enjoy the other senses vicariously through El's memories.
48	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Thanks to the time loops, Eliot is able to avert the tug-of-war that shattered the moon.
49	* SpecialEditionTitle: The world's destroyed before the theme song can finish.
50	* StartXToStopX: In order to prevent the destruction of the Moon and the release of the kraken, Eliot convinces the whales to deliberately release it ahead of schedule so he'll be sent back far enough to stop the destruction of the Moon, which will in turn keep the wards intact.
51	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: Josh suggests that Eliot just open the door in his mind and let out whatever's trying to get out. I mean, it's not like [[GroundhogDayLoop it'll kill him]].
52	* TeleFrag: In one of the loops, Margo convinces Penny to teleport to the Moon to open a portal of sufficient size to stop the falling Moon rocks. Lacking his psychic GPS, Penny instead minces himself about ten feet away.
53	* ThrowingOutTheScript: During one of the loops we hear a newscaster tossing out his script in order to tell people to be brave and good to each other while they can.
54	* TitledAfterTheSong: The episode is named for Music/BritneySpears's "Oops! ...I Did it Again", referring to the GroundhogDayLoop.
55	* TimeLoopFatigue: Eliot eventually sinks into depression after repeated failures and Margo getting kicked out of the loop. A pep talk from the time loop story-savvy Josh helps snap him out of it.
56	* TimeTravel: Subverted. Stoppard tries to jump Margo and Eliot back two days, but is foiled by the time magic lockdown.
57	* TrustPassword: Eliot tells Margo "credenza" so she'll go along with his new plan after he's sent back to before the Moon breaking apart.
58	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Breaking the moon apart causes chunks of it to fall on Earth, causing widespread death and destruction. But ''also'', it will break the Kraken out of its imprisonment, who will proceed to eat whatever's left of the Earth. Our heroes knew about the former, but not the latter.
59	* WhileRomeBurns:
60	** As moon rocks are poised to hit the Earth a lot of people are partying or having orgies in the streets.
61	** After numerous failed loops, Margo and Eliot get the idea to drop by the Physical Cottage and get wasted, as they managed to find inspiration that way in the past.
62	* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: The whales' initial reaction to Eliot's proposition to release the Kraken early.

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