When stuck in a Groundhog Day 7-day cycle after an explosion on the ISS, a career-obsessed astronaut must figure out the cause of the blast and why he keeps coming back.

Mikepedley85:

Okay.? However, there are clear stakes -- global stakes -- from the git-go in? "Interstellar": the survival of humanity.? What are the stakes, personal and global, in this scenario?? What does he stand to suffer, to lose if he can't break out of the infinite loop? (I mean, it occurs to me that one option is that he could be having an anti-Groundhog Day experience in that the week he keeps looping through is the best week of his life.)

Mikepedley85:

Okay.? However, there are clear stakes -- global stakes -- from the git-go in? "Interstellar": the survival of humanity.? What are the stakes, personal and global, in this scenario?? What does he stand to suffer, to lose if he can't break out of the infinite loop? (I mean, it occurs to me that one option is that he could be having an anti-Groundhog Day experience in that the week he keeps looping through is the best week of his life.)

Does the premise of the story lie more in science or? more in fantasy?? IOW: like the astronaut in? "The Martian", is he trapped in an astrophysical predicament and he must "science the shit out of it" to escape the? infinite loop (science).? Or like the weatherman in "Groundhog Day", does he become inexplicably trapped in the infinite loop because of a character flaw and there's no way out until he unintentionally stumbles upon the "lesson learned" (fantasy)?