Every truly great movie( or piece of "art" ) is overrated to someone. Doesn't make it any less great to the rest of us.

My first thought when Desmond hit Locke was that if Sideways Locke died he would somehow battle Not-Locke for possession of his form in the Island reality. A second later I realized that it was a little far fetched but I liked the idea. Besides, it's Lost. Far more convoluted things have happened.

Yeah, those narrated by Patrick Tull are absolutely astounding. I listened to all them for the second time last year while working and driving. There is a strange, musical quality to it's rhythms and cadence that allows multi-tasking without losing it's narrative. There are a few books in the series narrated by…

Oops. He being Edward Woodward of course.

It's weird that you would say that cause when I saw Hot Fuzz I was surprised that he was in it since I had one of those random very clear memories of reading his obituary in the early nineties.

Well, In the first season Betty commented that Don is more truly himself when dealing with strangers.

Ortenzia-
I simply meant that as Don is watching the teacher dancing in a way that's almost the complete opposite of the way Ann Margaret was dancing earlier, that is to say a woman dancing for herself rather than a man, he seems effected by the honesty of it and(maybe only subconsciously) realizes that Peggy's…

I really liked the ending with Don and Peggy as well, and hadn't picked up on the open doors. I saw it as Don beginning to see Peggy's point of view on women after his reverie at the maypole dance. Another instance of change in the episode but perhaps more subtle than the other examples. The open doors are a good…

I'd see this,but…
…I hate documentaries.

Belgians?

The funniest thing (among many unintentional funny things) about Da Vinci Code is that it's a novel with a car chase in it. I'm sure there have been car chases in many good books but I can't think of any right now. After that point I decided it was written with a film in mind, finished it anyway and re-read Foucault's…

Some years ago a blind neighbor visited my apartment for the first time. Upon entering he stopped and without prompting proceeded to identify my 1970's era receiver and system and launched into a long monologue on their superiority to anything modern.Of course I owned it out of poverty, but I was glad to pretend I had…

Anxious self reflection?

I had that very same paperback edition of The Invisible Man when I was very young but had completely forgotten it. It kind of creeped me out to see it just now. I notice it's the "easy eye" edition, which is almost, but not quite, ironic.

Sim is one of my biggest disappointments. The first half of Cerebus was a joy to read. Truly one of the best comics of the eighties. But, I doubt I'll ever finish the second half, or if I do it'll be by skimming over large sections. Sim doesn't enable you to separate art from the artist and when you're Dave Sim that…

I feel I was lucky in that at the moment when I was losing interest in the superhero comics I grew up on, Alan Moore started writing Swamp Thing and that was the bridge to the idea that comics were a medium that could do more. Sure, adult comics existed before Moore and Miller but their acceptance and success really…

Kind of reminds me of James Bond's Union Jack parachute in one of the Roger Moore ( I think ) movies. Not very covert.

Kind of reminds me of James Bond's Union Jack parachute in one of the Roger Moore ( I think ) movies. Not very covert.

Mister Potato, if that is your real name, that has to be one of the silliest arguments I have ever read. In your view Christians didn't show up until the early 16th century. Reminds me of the guy I knew that insisted he didn't believe in any religion because what he believed was true, religion was what others…

Yeah, Walkabout is what got me hooked on this damn show.