I want to feel bad, but then I remember all the interviews with VFX artists smugly talking about model-makers and matte-painters being part of a dying art.

If it is on SyFy there will be no bare boobies. Heavy Metal without bare breasts is like drinking an O'Doul's.

In real life, a group of thugs would have just shot and killed him in the first week he was Batman.

Put your middle finger next to your eye. They'll get it then. ::grin::

Aliens 1986

1992 - It's certainly the one I quote the most, at least - 'Thank you generous hosts!' seem to pop up regularly. If we're counting TV shows, I'd probably go with Frisky Dingo.

After re-watching episodes 1 and 2 last night I began looking at how the episodes ended and also how the last episode ended. Each ended on either Rust discovering a devil's nest or the King In Yellow iconography. What if these are markers Rust left himself as he goes around living his same reality over and over again.…

Good observation, I caught this too. But for me, it doesn't mean this has to be the only trajectory for the show. Rust's rant works on many levels, and the idea of time as a single object capable of being viewed from above is one that permeates a number of philosophies. Nietzsche was explicit about his belief in…

Was he building an origami audience out of his beer cans?

We'll see if you're right, but I think that's only true for the metafictional component. Rust's words can be seen as having multiple meanings. In most metafiction, the protagonist does have his own motivations for doing or saying what he or she says within the fiction.

Right, but that's like saying any comic book story that references 4-Dimensionalism is comparing 4-Dimensionalism to the experience of reading a comic book (we see the entire page, while, if you were a character, you'd live from panel to panel) and, therefore, any character who mentioned 4-Dimensionalism is aware that…

I know it's been said so many times but it must be repeated:

No, they just moved the camera to the investigators' side of the table. Not a breaking the 4th wall moment.

Guys, look at his RIGHT hand.

Cthulhu appears at the very beginning of the series.

interesting also that the whirlpool theme bleeds over from Dark City as well

so Rust is...

Well, to be pedantic, this idea is some 2500+ years. (Not the DVD part, of course.) A Nihilistic philosophy was one of the philosophies that the Buddha repudiated in his teachings. Or rather, one of the Noble Truths that he taught was that one need not be caught in such a "samsara" cyclic, but that one has to take…

I think it's possible that Rust "knows" he's a fictional character without this actually being about breaking the fourth wall. Because in his philosophy, everything is meaningless, so we might as well just be fictional characters who are pushed around by a story we don't control.

I'm not sold on the audience being the fourth wall. TV, representing three dimensions in two is, like photographs, inherently cubist. The audience makes the third dimension. The fourth dimension will always be time, which is definitely not linear in TD.