Agreed, but when you play these kinds of games do you not have to realize the whole thing is insane?
When engaging with a work of fiction, there is a level of suspension of disbelief that is implicitly established in the early stages of the narrative.
As long as the “level of absurdity” stays within the boundaries of the paradigm implicitly set at the beginning, the suspension of disbelief becomes almost unconscious: it operates in the background, like breathing.
If the “level of absurdity” changes once the story is well underway, immersion is automatically broken, and the suspension of disbelief must be
actively re-engaged.
Personally, I believe that the choice of not letting the
escape from prison thing being transported in the real world once time is fixed back to normal is very wise. As long as they're living in the time loops consequences can always be fixed in the next loop. There's no space for that once time is back to normal.
Since time loops have been part of the story from the very beginning, I personally have no problem pretending to believe in them. And once I accept that the time loops are real, I have no trouble thinking that the MC could pull a dumb stunt like that. But since everything suggests that sooner or later time will be fixed back to normal… I’d have a really hard time believing that he could get away with such a stunt without the time loops having his back.
