I’m good with those 3 women recreating the ending of Death Proof. 

I believe the new series and the last two specials are in the Mavity universe where the rules are a little different, like bigeneration and the Doctor Emeritus. In the past if there were ghosts they wouldn’t be ghosts but aliens that looked and acted like ghosts, it was the same with any fantasy character. But these…

The mavity thing actively annoyed me. If it’s not somehow resolved by the end of the season I’ll be beyond annoyed to upset.

Indira’s character is an Indian woman. Granted, she’s clearly American, but perhaps some of the long-held gender roles remain. 87% of adults in India polled agree with the statement “a wife must always obey her husband”.

Have we seen any hints that Scotty is trans? She just like shit her idiot grandma don’t approve of because they don’t fit said idiot grandma’s very, very narrow definition of femininity.

This is a totally solid take, and I actually hope you’re right about this. We’ll have to see, but so far, evidence suggests she holds her biases pretty strongly. Even her job offer to Indira, while beneficial to both of them, could be read as an extension of her views on how cops should serve her, and her need of…

Initially I saw Lorraine as basically the corporate version of Roy, but I’m thinking Hawley might be headed in a different direction with her (which I would like to see, especially if it means she teams up with Dorothy by the end). It may be due to JJL’s performance, but Lorraine strikes me as more thoughtful than…

I had a similar thought about Lars in this episode. He’s such a cartoonishly bad person and partner while Indira is consistently tough and no-nonsense. There is something missing in the show to explain why she puts up with him and puts herself into terrible debt to support dreams she clearly knows will never pan out.…

Early on, Lorraine suggests that she disapproves of Scotty’s hints of being trans. Coming on the heels of the photo, it seemed like typical “it ain’t natural” conservatism. But as we’ve learned more about Lorraine (mainly last week), I think maybe it’s instead that she’s extremely pro-woman, to the point that she’d…

Aye. How stupid does Noah Hawley think we are?

That moment was the best in the episode for sure. Love it. 

Yeah that was my favorite moment.  She utterly clocked him.

Lorraine in no way is a good person, but damn if I didn’t enjoy her calling Roy out on his bullshit. Baby, indeed.

I love how every Biden scandal are literally just stories of him being a good dad

Coherence and continuity has never been a priority with these movies. Each one is like a different take on a legend, time swirling like dust through the apocalyptic wasteland of an untethered future.

Whoops sorry lost myself for a minute. 

It helps if you think of the Mad Max movies as folklore or myth. Continuity in such stories tends to be kinda fuzzy and often changing. What’s important are the character archetypes and narratives specific to each tale. All these movies kind of have a mythic vibe anyway.

The timeline never makes sense in Mad Max movies. The progression of the apocalypse in just the first 3 movies doesn’t make sense for as little as Max ages. The world in Fury Road looks like the apocalypse happened a century or two ago. This movie taking place only 45 years after civilisation falls doesn’t make sense…

I’ll field this one:

I personally like the theory that “Mad Max” is character that people tell stories about around the post apocalyptic camp fire. He’s a legend and the movies are just myths about him. That why even the first three don’t really blend well together when you really watch them. 

The timeline doesn’t work. It makes more sense to look at Fury Road as a reboot or that the Max in FR is a different person than Mel Gibson’s Max, who either doesn’t exist in this version or Hardy’s Max is inspired by or impersonating. Miller admits that it’s not clear, and I’d say it’s not particularly important.…