You jinxed it, it's definitely going to happen now.

I'm really into this now. I mean, Jeffrey Wright talks to Gina Torres on a vid screen — how hard could that be to mock up? For the sake of his backstory, I mean. There isn't necessarily another human behind that character. And especially when he talks about how the pain is all he has from losing his son . . . I mean,…

It's definitely ambiguous but I'm given to assume it was the gun she took in the beginning of the episode, in some way at least, since that seems like it would give that initial scene more of a point.

That was particularly terrible. I mean, "Galileo" is supposed to be the zinger. Why would you interrupt your own zinger?

"What I told you was true . . . from a certain point of view."

This show is shot so beautifully, it's beginning to give me Hannibal feelings. I especially loved the eyeball being knitted together.

On the point of US law . . . what do we know about the future the show is set in right now? I mean, there was the movie, but where that fits in canonically is kind of up in the air right now. Is there EU material or something out there? I mean, maybe the park isn't in the US. Or the US is a totalitarian wasteland…

While I agree with your logic that she's a guest, I'm not sure of how much weight we should put on the fact that she's a woman in a sheriff's posse. While there are women in the park that are kept around effectively as sex objects, like Dolores of course, there seems to be a little bit of cultural sanitization going…

The ax murderer flashback still gives me chills.

I very much would have rather been required to read "On Writing" in high school than The Elements of Style.

Bag of Bones isn't terrible. It's not particularly scary and it's based on all the "classic" King tropes, but the setting is interesting, the characters are pretty well defined.

"I loved 'Back to the Future', but I can't stand Marty McFly or that stupid time travel plot."

I started with The Dead Zone, which I still have fond memories of. A crazy politician who is secretly evil with a terrifyingly close chance of bringing the world to ruin? That's the craziest part of the book, obviously.

I agree. A brisk novella-length story about the writer and the fellow with the plate in his head (been awhile since I read it) would have been perfectly acceptable. But then there's sooooo much backstory. I remember some of it fondly — the kid making his brother disappear in the magic show, the cops being unable to…

I don't know a damn thing about her, but what an incredible name.

Just like many other things life, King's themes would be easily identified as common to any gender, race or whatever kind of characteristic you want to identify if it wasn't unfortunately and unnecessarily tagged as gender (or whatever) specific. Through elements of his own writing and other people's descriptions of…

Goddamn, I feel that. It still disturbs me thinking about it. That part where Louis has the extended fantasy sequence where everything seems like it's going to turn out alright, and it's very obvious he's lying to himself, but it's written in a way that completely helps you to understand his thought process. It's…

I could see it as a fall book, myself. Everything's dying.

Or the giant rat / rat colony from Night Shift. In the sense that it's unfilmable. Less that it would fry the camera and more that it would look really dumb.

". . . which forced him to deal with his own past abuse."