It was fucking distracting. McG, you got fucking something to say to this prick?

ThisUserNameIsNotTaken, yes you are crazy. Piper at the gates of dawn is a fucking fantastic album.

Punch buggy. Or its variant, pinch mini.

I don't remember what the real explanation was.

Naming conventions.
So clearly they're going for the NATO phonetic alphabet for naming the dolls which works well for Echo, Victor, November and Sierra. Those are cool names, you could happily introduce yourself with those. The ones I feel sorry for are Lima, X-ray, Uniform, and Hotel. And I think that Papa may come…

I assumed that the five years thing is all a lie. If their families don't know what they are doing, and they have no memories of the contract, why the hell would the dollhouse honour the contract? They can keep them their for as long a they are useful, and when their brains are mush they get sent to the attic.…

They do show successful missions sometimes, but at the very start of the show when Echo comes off of them.

Three red dots.
Remember those three red dots that Sarah was trying to chase down? The ones in blood on the wall in the house they just left. When John Henry went to the main computer array, just before he was switched off he was reaching for a component lit by three red dots.

I only became aware of the book as an adult but this trailer still made me have to supress some uncontrollable sobbing.

I'm totally with you on Umberto Eco. I think that his translator is getting progressively worse, though. The last few were utterly unreadable.

I missed that having not seen ET since it came out. And you're right, that was fucking cheesy.

Another stray observation
I especially liked the Close Encounters of the Third Kind Reference when Baby Matt Parkman started all the toys working.

Tom Waits, and Unrepentant, good work all round.

This didn't happen to me, but to a friend of mine. He had gone to see Schindler's List soon after it had been released so the cinema was completely packed. It had got to the part when there had been a massacre in the ghetto, and a guy who had been hiding in the sewers came out and saw all the bodies and was horrified,…

From the soundtrack, of course. Do you know nothing of the art of film making?

Die in a freak yachting accident.

You do know that the tinfoil acts as an amplifier for the signals, and not a block. The tinfoil hat industry is just a stooge for the CIA.

Totz totes FTW.

Tru dat.

It can often be difficult to tell things apart. Some posts, for instance.