Vith a fiddle?

You’re right, of course- it’s a thru-line that runs from the Canterbury Tales through Gringott’s and beyond.  I do think that Belloc was particularly nasty though.

Any friend of Chesterton’s has to have had some saving graces, but Belloc was, by all accounts, a particularly venomous anti-Semite.

So many contenders- King Lear (Most Cosmic), Ubu Roi (Most Punk), Moby Dick (Whaliest). But if pop culture suggests an element of pure pleasure, it’s gotta to be The Pirates of Penzance. All the absurdity of Lewis Carroll, plus infectious tunes and the greatest set of English lyrics pre-Sondheim. It’s a perfect piece…

Ditto on La Jetee

Absolutely intentional.

Does Farouk enter David in the tv scene? I thought that Future-David blocks that attack, so Farouk enters later, when Charles is holding Gabrielle in the nursery.

This is dead-on. An over-processed recording of a flat performance.

Followed by the Lundgrenlightenment.

This is like being at the entertaining end of the Seder table.

I’m pretty sure “the great work begins,” last spoken by an angel and now by a demon, is a sassy shoutout to Angels, not lazy writing.

I couldn’t love this book more, and with that Gorey/Restoration Hardware gothic vibe, it looks like Roth is doing right by it. When I was a kid, an afterschool special adapted the first half of the novel- it sent me right to the library devour every Bellairs I could, and paved the way for Shirley Jackson, Peter…

I haven’t read the graphic novel (yet) but I’d totally dig a Tybalt story in the Expanded Veronaverse. Here’s what Mercutio has to say about him:

I was fine until “you will come of age in our young nation.” Didn’t make the connection until there it was.

The post-credits scene reminded me of how Dollhouse suddenly went post-apocalyptic for its season finales. Of course, those were distinct episodes, but that’s Westworld for ya.

One would have expected a more sensitive choice of name from Mr. and Mrs. Scissorpunch.

There’s a real Grant Morrison vibe to last night’s episode- a cool, high weird aesthetic.

This show has never lacked for confidence, but good Lord, Hawley just started at 80 mph and fully expects us to keep up. So much amazing stuff: the Admiral’s attendants with their Legion-verse echo of the Dunwich Cuckoos, those terrible eggs, the freaking DREAM BALLET (if it was a dream.) I forgot how much I need this…

This is probably a dumb question, but who’s in the base, other than the principals? I swear I saw some extras in a couple of scenes.

Most Dangerous is absolutely fantastic.

Most Dangerous is absolutely fantastic.