Just looked over the episode list, and it looks like Ice is episode 8, so we'll probably get to it in about three weeks. It's funny - Season 1 has so many great episodes (some of which I had forgotten were in this season, like Eve), but it also has some real clunkers (Space especially sticks out). Later, you…

Seriously, though, these two episodes were great. Squeeze still scares the bejesus out of me, after all these years. Though I have a special place in my heart for Ice, which should be coming up soon, if I remember… Next week, maybe?

Ah, the X-Files
The first season really was great.

Murray. I almost expected the cat last night to also be named Murray, though it did have extensive health problems, which seemed an obvious reference to DLM.

Um, yeah, Dark Knight Strikes Again sucked big time. I was thinking of buying the Absolute Dark Knight Returns, but then was turned off when I saw it was published with DKSA instead of Batman: Year One. Seriously, what were they thinking? Mostly, though, I'm waiting for the inevitable release of an Absolute V for…

They would, though, need to de-age Iam Holm if he were to take on the role of Bilbo. But it will probably go to someone like Diddy instead. Or Mike Myers.

Not actually a patent attorney, but I do have some friends who are. This is more a "crazy editor/grammarian" thing to point out.

"The Sixties"
should have a trademark symbol (TM) instead of a copyright symbol (C). It is a brand, whose name evokes imagery of a bygone era of acid-takers and draft-dodging, not something you want to protect from plagiarism.

Hmm… May have to look into that. Though, that will mean books about Satanism will probably show up in my Amazon recommendations for all time (esp. after I bought a few Lucifer graphic novels from them…).

That we don't talk about the satanic cult? Or was that the second rule of the satanic cult?

Parallels
I recently finished the book (while at jury duty…) and also enjoyed it, but wished that there was a little more meat on the bone in places. Mostly, though, I kept thinking of parallels to other things - like how much the reaction to the horror comics mimicked the reaction to D&D in the 1980s or how…

Like, rosebud was his…

Oh yeah. I remembered the scene with Annie (which also seemed to answer the whole "what happened to Annie" question), but forgot what she said.

No worries - the series is extremely complex and there are a lot of reasons to think Lynch didn't really even know what he was doing with it (to the extent that it was Lynch's, since Frost, the writers, etc., all had a role in creating the series).

Oh, yeah, and to complicate things, the LMFAP also states that he is the arm, suggesting that he was once part of Mike. The only thing I can say with any degree of confidence is that at the very least there is Bob and everyone else, but I cannot really say how everyone else is connected.

There is a lot of debate on whom the Giant was referring to. At the very least, he is the same as the waiter, but may be the same as the LMFAP.

I think that's the pretty standard interpretation - that it is Coop's doppelganger, not Coop possessed by Bob, who gets out. This is supported by the whole "25 years later" scene with Laura and the Man From Another Place in the Red Room - Coop is stuck there for at least 25 years (though, admittedly, time does not…

In bed together
As I said last week, the assassin getting into bed with Harry plot did seem out of left field. But now that I've had time to think about it, I am remembering something my mother said about the show when it first started airing, about how everyone was jumping into bed with everyone else in town. In…

Ah, the good old McGuffin & Co. puzzle box…