Glad you mentioned tokenism. I had been thinking about saying something along those lines. I'm afraid that's what it would look like if there wasn't a concrete reason for "diversifying" the scene. And I'm sure he's aware of that as well… It works with Hawk because he's already "baked in" to the storyline.

I'll go with Ray's assessment that they were "helping" him….

And what will they do to him when they realize those jobs aren't coming back? He'd better have a lighter handy.

Thank you Dougie. I can't thank you enough. I may need to get back to you regarding this, but you've done enough for now. Go home, take a break, get some rest. You've done great work.

"Visually the episode is almost a piece of video art"

What is so "weird" about frogmoths? My GP prescribed me a special mouthguard to wear at night to keep them from coming in while i sleep. I had such a problem these past few years. Got a light?

Unfortunately, i believe you are correct. I always say to people who have some kind of hope that his white supremacist base will somehow wake up, "No, they will not. If the trumpf shot a 4-year-old in the head, live on national television, and then bragged about it, his support would never dip below 30%" I also dig…

Last year, NPR reported from an trumpf-supporting redneck diner in the city where i, unfortunately, and with much daily suffering, live. It was more than a bit disconcerting as it gave these hateful, racist thugs a platform to spout their neanderthal vomit. (And yes, i do realize how hateful I sound myself. Oh…

"it'll be a cold day in hell before i recognize missour-a"

"This fuck'n movie! This fuck'n movie! I didn't want to watch this fuck'n movie!" His reaction was like something out of a Lynch movie!

with all due respect…. i think the fact that the original series aired 1990-1991, it's like comparing apples to oranges. So much has changed. On television. On planet earth. I just don't know that it WOULD be possible to adhere to tone and pacing. Maybe? i don't know. If there was a Quincy, ME reboot, i'm sure it…

umm, not me, but Ben Horne certainly looks like he belongs in a David Letterman biopic.

My gut feeling: it's probably going to end up being nothing. There are so many things going on visually (yes, there are, people who think it's like watching an 18-inning baseball game) that i don't think it would be possible—even if EVERYTHING meant SOMETHING—to return to each event somehow and explain it all. In…

Not to mention, killing BadCoop as well…. Yet, i'm sure he will be under-appreciated, as will the entire series. AND, here's betting he will be killing it as Dale at some point. The Tatiana Maslany of Twin Peaks.

Yes, nice points. AND i have had a few confrontational "encounters" with outright Lynch-haters in my time. (Not suggesting your wife is a Lynch-hater, but your comment did trigger a memory): a debate over/during a Lost Highway viewing, with my sister, which ended with her throwing a bowl of popcorn at me and then…

and we can rewatch it until we're all as old as doc hayward. . . well, um, yeah.

i briefly considered a DougCoop/Jerry connection because of "my car was stolen" (happened to both, if you stretch a bit to include that's what Janey told the cops) and "i don't know where i am" (as in, DougCoop pretty much wandering around not knowing where he is), but these connections seemed more to me like my…

i guess i meant i wasn't waiting for an "afterlife" wrap-up in Lost. it wasn't the issue i wanted "resolved." yet it remains, probably, top of the charts for me. or maybe tied.

yeah, right now i'd take any parallel universe. . . after twin peaks is over. All Things Must Pass edges out Plastic Ono Band for my #1 Solo LP. If only because POB is too gut wrenching to listen to over and over…

Lennon actually said something to the effect: it's a good thing the beatles broke up when we did or we would have become ELO. So, he probably was well aware of the album side thing and hated it. Then again, as the composer of I Am The Walrus, he may well have eventually cycled past the phase of denigrating his own…