Hmm. I see what you're saying; Leland had a sense that he was being controlled by something "other" but he didn't know what he'd done. Yeah, there's stuff in FWWM where "Leland" seems to be aware of what he's done, like when he tells Laura that he thought she always knew it was him… But if he did know, it strips…

Best episode since Episode 8. The implications that Diane is tied to the Black Lodge somehow are pretty disturbing, although I'm having a hard time tracking her motives. She sure seemed legitimately upset at DoppelCoop when she saw him in prison, but she's also working with him. Is she some kind of Black Lodge sleeper…

Fet stumbling on a former employee of the missile silo didn't bother me so much. He was already sniffing around the area, questioning dangerous hillbillies and the like, so he must have know he was close. Plus, with so few people in the area, it doesn't seem too farfetched that those women would have picked up Missile…

Ugh, that whole scene is so annoying. Especially since it ends with the ultimate Lynchian facepalm of having Cooper remember every since detail of his dream, including some stuff that wasn't even in it, particularly the ins and outs of MIKE and the Arm's history as partners in killing (which I'm pretty sure was only…

Sure, "Bobby killed a guy," but the guy he killed was pulling his gun to potentially kill both him and Laura. Bobby's not blameless, but I never felt like Bobby was a killer. Just a kid that was in too deep.

I liked this fine, but I had major problems with it. The characterizations seem really inconsistent: the conceit that Baby needs his soundtrack all the time to cover his tinnitus is clever, except for all the times in the movie he doesn't have his earbuds in and seems totally fine (also, sometimes he's a monosyllabic…

Cool. The last few episodes haven't focused as much on the surreal horror aspects of the show as the first few did, and I kind of miss that.

Was the figure coming down the hall behind Lt. Knox the same as the spirit/thing/whatever that was in the holding cells with William Hastings?

Agreed. I doubt whatever happened at their last encounter was that overt. I think it was probably more along the lines of Doc Hayward's recollection of his last interaction with DoppelCoop—people who know Cooper well seem to understand that there's something inherently wrong with his replacement, and Diane, being…

Of all the strange, discordant things that happen on Twin Peaks, it always delightfully sticks out to me that pretty much the whole town hangs out at what's essentially a biker bar to listen to gauzy, shoegaze-lite, music that's just shy of Cocteau Twins.

I'm enjoying the show so far, but it suffers in the inescapable comparison to 30 Rock. I mean, by episode 8, 30 Rock had clearly found its voice ("Tracy Does Conan") and established most of the important character relationships that would anchor the series. Contrast that with the fact that I actually couldn't remember…

I am unexpectedly furious that Aja went home. I thought she and Nina were equally unimpressive in the acting challenge, but I thought Aja looked really great on the runway, while Nina did another of her "weird makeup and bodysuit" looks. Same silhouette as usual. And I have had it with Nina's attitude. She recoils…

I mean, I don't think it was a C, but it wasn't great. Alexis's Liza was good, if boilerplate. A good part of the reason I think we haven't seen Liza before is because there's such a low degree of difficulty in the impression - everybody has a Liza tucked away - that being able to do it passably isn't that impressive.…

I have all of Peter Hook's other Joy Division/New Order-related books around the house but I've never made the time to read them. I'm sure I'd enjoy the stories about making the music and the firsthand account of Manchester in the 80s but there's only so much I can take of Hooky's already well-documented resentment of…

Rationally, all this vague pandering to the gay market bugs me. When Nick Jonas gives some interview about how he's "had gay sex" because he acted in a gay sex scene, or some other straight celebrity talks about his "man crush" it's blatantly mercenary.

Plus I mean even though we can all agree that there's a hot one, the other one is still decent looking. Basically they both look like easily plied "straight guys" from Fratmen.

The Gay Brain: Where Hatred and Arousal Sometimes Aren't Mutually Exclusive.

Those effects bothered me. They were cool looking for the era, but my understanding has always been that Daredevil is straight up blind and that his other heightened senses compensate for his lack of sight i.e. he can feel the wind from a sword being swung , or he can hear the bowstring as an arrow is loosed, he can…

I'd like to see them prove it.

I hate their music, and I hate them and their smug faces. But I am sadly helpless against the teasingly homoerotic suggestions of "tip to tip." And that just makes me furious. Because there's no way it happened like that. I'm sure they just made up a number and thought it would funny to put it on their website. But…