I'd agree with all of that. She was already older than Bobby in the original series. He was still a high schooler, so it was easier for him to change course. Shelly was already the adult she was going to continue to be.

That's a quite reasonable approach. I go with the view that if GoT leaves me underwhelmed, I still have Twin Peaks ahead of me.

As a D&D nerd, I wish it was more like the kind thing people made fun of me for liking 30 years ago. It has some genuine drama in the first few seasons, but now it has more in common with the soap operas I made fun of mom for liking 30 years ago. It's Dynasty with a special effects budget, fight choreography and a…

I don't know if it can be called backsliding in Shelly's case. She seems like she simply never moved forward. She is still waiting tables. She is still dating a drug-dealing bad boy. She has a daughter, but the show just demonstrated that she never lets her daughter get in the way of her latest boyfriend. She is a…

The owl symbol has the same wings but with a diamond body. It's clearly related.

I'm making a point of watching GoT first on Sundays. It would have a tough time standing up stylistically after Twin Peaks.

Shelly breaking Bobby's heart there was rough, but I don't know what history they have had, so I can't judge there. Shelly bailing on her daughter at that moment was just crushing though. Then she comes back a minute later just expecting to pick up where they left off, as if she hadn't just killed the moment dead.

I was kind of surprised when DIane actually pushed to smoke in the office. I thought her initial comment about smoking was an excuse to sneak out a text the coordinates.

Then again, she is still involved with a guy who is scary, bad news.

If that fantastic scene lost her, she was never meant to be a Twin Peaks fan.

I said this in another episode's comments, but I don't think realism is always what Lynch is aspiring to anyway. Lynch is entirely capable of impressive effects when he wants them. Effects like the guy in the prison cells head floating away in episode 2 have a deliberate artificial quality to them.

I'd say she is one. She triggers Carl's vision of the fateful intersection (accompanied by the noise of the arm).

Going back and watching the original last year, Dana Ashbrook's greatness became apparent to me. Don S. Davis rightly gets a lot of praise for the scene with him and Bobby and the diner, but that scene works so well because Ashbrook is giving a performance that is just as strong in that scene.

I'm really glad that I sat that out. It might have pushed my fatigue with the show to the point of not watching "The Pilot", which was exactly what I needed to interest me again.

I bailed on True Blood during the second season, so I am still able to remember it fondly as a fun show.

Maxalt is the shit. I only get migraines every few years or so, but my mother gets them on a much more frequent basis. It's completely changed her life. When I was a kid, having her spending a few days a month hiding in a dark room, vomiting and unable to do anything was just normal. Now she just takes a maxalt, has a…

I get then every few years, and they are horrible. I also have IBS which is actually more painful, but the migraines are still worse. There is a bottomed out emotional state that comes with migraines. My mind is chemically incapable of feeling anything but utter despair. It gives me a glimpse of what a fucking horror…

Sure. I learned a lot about sex at boy scout camp.

Yeah, I will concede that too.

Because they are character created for the show. The showrunners wanted to give us a taste of their compelling original characters to whet our appetite for that alternate Civil War series they have coming.