(1) Right—WE saw it, but HE did not. Those flashes of understanding were meant to be the Swede figuring out that he’d been duped by The Handler. How could his memories include stuff he never experienced?

(2) There’s no reason why it can’t be all of those things. Red Scare might explain how the FBI handles Vanya, but…

Specifically, it’s the first line of “The Odyssey” (Homer wrote both “The Iliad” & “The Odyssey”):

*ahem*
The word is “pedantry”, not “pedantism”.

Maybe they’re like Tolkien’s elves? They can live forever but can also be killed? (I think the Norse gods were also conceived this way...?)

As for the melting a few episodes ago, I vaguely remember some dialog expositing that they self-destructed. If so, it could lend support to the theory here that they don’t “die”…

Your comment prompted me to finally get around to watching Haywire, which I thoroughly enjoyed, so thanks fore the nudge!

Carano was great in season 1 of The Mandalorian, too, though of course it’s not as big a part.

Peggy Carter also appeared on the movie side first--in “Captain America: The First Avenger”--before getting her series.

Also, to piggy-back on brilliantmistake’s excellent points: Underage kids by definition cannot consent, which is what the allegations against D’Elia are about. Like Whitney Cummings says above, the adults need to be the adults.

What about Phil Coulson? Not only is he a major character on one of the Marvel series, his series is still going.  And when he’s appeared in MCU movies, it’s been more than a cameo.

I’m liking the Cracker reference, not the slam on “A Ghost Story”, which I’ve never seen & have no opinion about.

Carry on.

Having recently (within the last year or so) revisited “A Wrinkle in Time”, I have to conclude that it’s just garbage unless you’re a kid, & even then it’s not great. My childhood memory of the book, which was read to us by our awesome 6th-grade teacher, was very positive, so I was pretty stoked to share it with my…

I got a copy for Christmas last year but haven’t cracked it yet. Instead, I’ve been on an almost year-long Elmore Leonard kick—mostly re-reads, but a few new to me (especially the westerns, which are great), & some I’d audiobooked but hadn’t read. Anyways, there’s no amount of negativity that will keep me from reading…

God I loved that album cover as a kid. I did a grade school art project of a winter scene in acrylics—there’s a deer in there, some bare birches, some snow, & a deep blue sky, but most of it was me trying to paint this snowy owl.  It turned out pretty good, actually--I wish I knew whatever happened to it.  Might still…

This started out as just a response to a post on the “Drums, Drummers and Drumming” FB page, asking for reflections/reactions to Neil Peart’s death (“Post up a memory of Neil or a short story about how he influenced you!”). Since hearing about The Professor’s death, I’ve been listening to Rush & thinking about…

I hope it’s OK if I share this—I believe it’s something people should hear. But if you say don’t, I won’t--let me know.

This loss hits me closer to the heart.

Well, underrated  by the public at large, anyway, but not drummers.  Stewart Copeland & Neil Peart are the reason why I have a TAMA kit.

Holy shit. Thanks for sharing that. Elsewhere here I posted that Permanent Waves & Moving Pictures changed my life, but nothing like this. Ghost Rider is indeed a great book, & should be assigned reading for anybody trying to cope with loss. I recorded one passage in particular, that I think Peart really nailed:

Some…

Not a single one.

I think it only sounds easy if you don’t know anything about playing a drum kit.