It made you listen to "Green Onions" all the way through; there is a lot of history with that cut, just like there are 57 years of the Renault's owning the roadhouse.

Not too mention the army of ghostwriters all these people employ who do all the real work.

But she's likely been paid off since. Hence her story changing.

Well that's a great story. I will go to my grave however believing Spinal Tap was inspired by Slade.

Well my point is that it is ridiculous to look to fictional (especially surrealist) expressions for representational parity; one can argue that up is down and black is white in this world, which has no relation to ours.

Yes, he seems to miss a lot of what I consider important because he is focusing on what irritates him, rather than just taking it all in.

FAUST as a bedrock narrative.

I thought it was beautiful. It did not ape, Lebowski, it used it as a pointed contrast: the alley was empty, not brimming with life, Ray Wise was definitely not a cowboy, and he served as an intersection between two strands of the the narrative in a way that called back to the opening.

I concur. I do not understand the kvetching; and the reviewer never even mentioned Gounod's Faust, which adds even more mythic resonance (no no, don't tell me, it's over-reaching or trite or …). What can be more chilling than imagining a character we've come to have great affection for in a coma for three months? It's…

Dr. Amp, is that you?

UCI is #1 in that regard (we are slowly but surely raising our profile among the UCs).

Is Vulcan dead? Well he is a Fuller-created character, so no one knows. Gaiman intimates that Gods may resurrect after a time at rest.

I do find it less coherent than the book, but more exciting in parts; I think that sense of coherence in the book is less a matter of narrative drive than consistency in writing style, whereas the series shifts tone on a dime.

Isn't Mr World = Capitalism?

Great question! I saw a live production I loved, and have the old Karajan recording, but I'm sure there's something better out there now. Will ask my Wagner nut friend.

Season 2 definitely established Hawley's own style, It was much more melancholy and less ironic than a Coen feature.

"But that scene in similarly rich material."???

I agree, it's just a bit too stylized, which keeps everything at a distance.

But then why the matter-of-fact chronicler (Ibis)? We don't know him from Adam, so how are we to infer irony?

I am not buying the hyperstylized presentation of AG. My main problem with Gaiman is his simple, utterly banal presentation, lacking subtext or ambiguity, and Fuller's approach doubles down on that.