With forest fires, often the firemen are trying to contain the blaze until they are able to put it out, sometimes with the assistance of nature/weather (rains).

Oh man, I totally don't remember learning he died in a fire in the first season… Guess that spoiler prevention was totally unnecessary.

Well, other than the angels flanking the image of Laura last night.

I read a ways down, but I do apologize if a discussion has already started on this… I'm particularly interested in why Lynch chose the name the Fireman.

I only noticed the 666 when I played it backwards!

Rad. Thanks for posting this, Smapti!

Oh yeah.

You've obviously never seen The Shining.

The film is wonderful. I only wish he'd done it as a six-part HBO miniseries. There was so much they had to cut from the book. Pynchon's novel totally took me by surprise with how amazingly weird and wonderful it was. I really enjoy Pynchon, but I learned with Inherent Vice that I really love when you can tell Pynchon…

I don't think enough has been said about the fact that Dougie wasn't murdered in the desert by two gangster casino owner brothers because Jim Belushi had a dream about cherry pie.

"You don't like it? Fine. You know, James, if you're not careful, you're going to lose me."

If she showed up to give James a gun rack for his motorcycle, I'd be okay with that.

And just googled the man… holy crap. The first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry on him is basically an elevator pitch for the most fascinating show/miniseries.

I need to know more about this Smedley Butler, because knowing nothing whatsoever all I can do is react to the name. Smedley.

You guys are rad! Thank you. Have a nice list of recommendations to throw a paycheck at.

You didn't also happen to listen to the 10+ hour, 5-episode Hardcore History WWI arc, did you? "Blueprint for Armageddon"?

That was my first reaction, too. (Well, other than to the super not great optics of two white dudes atop an article about a show entitled, Confederate.)

I've definitely had a "Logan's Run moment" or two in my life, so I completely understand that realization. And I'm a lifelong Bruce Springsteen fan, and while I adore Born to Run and many other of his records (and own the vast majority of them), there are plenty of simply not great Springsteen albums. (And I also have…

If that's the ending of this show (or even just Albert's exit from the show), I won't even be mad if we never get Dale Cooper back.

I was mostly just being silly and naming Marlon Brando films. That said, Kurtz probably wouldn't seem terribly out of place in this newest season. I imagine someone somewhere is working on a truly amazing master's dissertation linking Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness, and The Return.