Whom he's spent less than a week with.

Or, one could say, "Moving the goalposts."

I wonder if his lack of upward ascent is similar to Briggs remaining a major despite his powerful position. Hard to do the X-Files thing if you're the Face of the Bureau.

And the question still stands — how much of showing the same exact behavior, over and over, is enough to make an audience member feel something?

…huh?

Your question was, "How do you portray a vile human beings without them being vile, though?" "You let a creator follow their prerogative" is in no way a logical answer to that question.

This is an FBI that deeply believes in Blue Rose cases, so I don't think there would be a problem, especially since the director is witnessing it directly.

Yeah, this felt like a big reach to me, as well. Plus the old real-life trope that bad children only come from bad mothers. Sometimes a kid's just a psychopath.

OK, but you asked a specific question and I gave an answer to that question…now you've moved on to something else entirely.

Yes, but…she's HIS WIFE.

Maybe, but then I also don't entirely understand why a character with rage issues who is too self-absorbed to notice her husband is basically brain damaged and effectively date rapes him is so endearing in the first place.

You don't…a better question might be,"How much vileness do we have to show before we assume the audience is intelligent enough to understand the character is vile?" Or, "Are there ways to show someone is vile without it always coming down to the same exact acts over and over again?"

Yes, because I don't watch The Leftovers and I don't stalk Internet commenters as you seem to be doing.

I don't understand why so many people feel like Dale basically assuming a life he never lived would somehow constitute a happy ending for him.

I generally have been dismissive of these comments because I feel anyone watching at this point is well aware of the themes of the show, but I also felt a little overwhelmed by just how repetitive it felt. Someone assaulting his grandmother and using that word in particular disturbed me more than anything, and I think…

Considering the main stars of old-Twin Peaks in the new show are the members of the sheriff's department I don't see how she could be considered "shoehorned" in.

Even in the world of Lynchian amateurish acting I think her breathing was WAY too obvious to not be intentional.

Honestly, until I started actively reading the TP recaps here I had no idea who Beema was and I still wouldn't remember if it weren't for your very bizarre and kind of scary obsession with him/her. I don't know what this is actually about but anyone who speaks for the "majority of this community" and declares that…

Downthread there is a guy browbeating someone for not liking Looper. And using as his main argument "the majority of people liked it, therefore you're wrong." So yeah, this is where we're at.

Lord, why do you care so much?