stop what, exactly? voicing an opinion you disagree with and are freely choosing to read? grow up.

Nah, fat-shaming is still just fine to just about everything, regardless of spiritual or political affiliation. It’s an American tradition. 

That’s fair, but again, kids are smarter than people take them for and villains have to be allowed to be clearly villainous. I don’t think one lonely film needs to conduct itself as part of the wider context of an entire lifespan of cultural and social input. It’s painfully clear Ursula isn’t to be trusted. I don’t…

Mild criticism should be permitted to help any legitimate social movement grow. That criticism does not automatically default one to the far-right. Progressives are supposed to work together by drawing strength from varying ideological differences, not enforcing group orthodoxy by fear of being made a pariah and thus…

I think again that kids are smarter than people take them for, even without obvious context. I also don’t think it’d be too difficult for a parent to underline the point that Ursula’s not someone to be trusted. Villains have to be allowed to act villainous or there’s no point to their existence. And without conflict,…

Children are smarter than anyone seems to believe they are. They can grasp when someone’s clearly the villain and not to be trusted.

You’re 110% correct on everything you’ve said here. Thank you for writing this. 

seen The Leftovers?

i’m pretty sure one of the news reports or something one of the cops said indicated that he’d committed identity fraud or something of the kind? wish i could remember the episode.

Lottie strikes you as a...normal person? 

Related to Walter’s injury that enriched him, maybe?

Lindelloff more than made up for Lost with The Leftovers.

Not to mention that Lottie seems fairly cool with hanging out with someone who nearly beat her to death. 

Van says she wants to forget about the past, but surrounds herself in blatant nostalgia cosplay to inhabit her lost childhood on a daily basis.

and how is no one noticing that a state Senator is AWOL? 

It’s interesting to think about Shauna’s personality in light of the other characters’ traits. Misty is the one that gets tagged as a cold, socially-allergic sociopath and manipulator, sure. Lottie’s schizophrenia or potential parapsychological gifts carry their own heavy implications. Natalie’s a recovering, suicidal…

Isn’t that how first seasons tend to go? It’s new and the writers don’t know it’ll catch on and get renewed, so they throw a lot of potential threads to follow up on at the wall and see what people respond to. The show’s settled in better re: its core themes this season. Its traded the plottiness and soapyness S1 had…

Twin Peaks ran out of juice when it wrapped up Laura’s murder. It was BRILLIANT that they intended never to solve it. But that was never gonna happen on network television in the early 90s.

Personally, I really hope they don’t try to pull a Scooby-Doo down the road with this series’ grand mystery. It’d utterly betray so much of what’s made this show so compelling to just shrug and say ‘eh, we were just nuts, it was all in our heads!’ I’d feel pretty let down by that. Swindled, even. 

Did anyone else catch the repeated framing of the fireplace antlers around young Van’s head during the card scene? Pretty cool little detail.