Porn isn't a good indicator, Kyle. It was a lot more stigmatizing to be in porn in the '70s than it is now. Howard Stern wasn't mainstreaming porn performers, Soderbergh wasn't putting them in films….Far fewer women were willing to risk the stigma of a dead-end career that was tightly linked with organized crime,…

Eerily close to mine, Warren. Just substitute Chinatown for A Clockwork Orange, and pull the timeline back 5-10 years…Then add the night in '85 that I was introduced to Coltrane and The Stooges back-to-back….

Great post, TLAotA. You nailed it weeks back.

BTW, that's a theory, not a spoiler. Hell, I'm at work when the show airs, but I read these blogposts as soon as they drop.

@Noel-

Yeah, but it's still got nothing on State of Grace. That one makes you feel like checking into the Betty Ford Clinic as soon as the end credits start rolling.

Were this to be considered a Dogen/Lennon-centric episode…
…it would have been titled "Bad Things Come To Those Who Wade".

Quit reading my mind while I'm showering, Curtis E. Bear.

@Green Mountain Boy

I just don't think so.

TLAotA-

@Tarkovskys former AD

@Pops

Alba's physical beauty is all makeup and lighting, Yabels. Off the set she's pretty normal looking. She's not alone in that respect: Ginger Rogers was very pretty on the screen, but on the street….let's just say not so much.

I was unfamiliar with McHale in anything but name, and had no plans to watch this at all…Then I found out that it was Dan Harmon's show, so i took the plunge. Glad I did. This show started good and keeps getting better.

LOAA, thanks for pointing out that it wasn't an explosion, but I'm going to go you one further snd say that it wasn't an implosion either. Rather, I think, is that there was a physical negation (if that doesn't work, how about neutralization?) in the Jughead-Anamoly dynamic (dueling electro-magnetic pulses?), but that…

Erik, I don't think you've got anyone to blame but yourself for being unable to suspend your disbelief. Maybe instead of letting Brando ruin the film for you, you can think of the great save made in the editing room.

@Chap: "Maybe it's like chess: you don't have to kill the king, you just have to get rid of all of the options. What if eliminating any and all possible candidates is enough to spell game over for the Island?"

@cawti-

The Last Temptation of Christ
I feel the need to point out that the film isn't an adaptation of The Bible, but of a re-imagining of The Gospels, written in 1960.