I saw the original Twin Peaks (not all the way to the end of season 2) plus Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and (for what it's worth) Dune. I'm having to catch up on all the Twin Peaks stuff I missed to make any sense out of this season.

I call it NIИ.

Yes. I liked it just as much if not more than the original Fantasia (others may disagree).

Don't forget Fantasia 2. Even better than the first.

Well, as someone said about my favorite author after angry fans were dissatisfied with his latest book: "George R.R. Martin is not your b**ch". I guess David Lynch isn't either!

Thanks for explaining. You're entitled to love it. I was looking for something a little more conventional, but I'm going to keep watching.

I'm not trying to be difficult. I'm just trying to figure out WHY people are crazy about this episode, saying it's the best TV ever. Did it unravel crucial portions of some mystery? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Thought provoking? Because in my college video class we created weird stuff very similar to this and…

I came for the great reviews, and stayed because it saves me a bundle on LSD. Seriously, I fail to understand why reviewers are so in love with it. Aside from the brief bit with actual actors acting this week, the show was one overly long nonsensical dream. Yes, Nine Inch Nails is great, but that's not why I tune…

Interesting interview with Birgitte Sorensen at http://artsbeat.blogs.nytim… . Her take on the controversial stuff over the past couple weeks: "Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do — freedom of expression is something I celebrate. If nothing else, it makes people discuss these…

The books don't contain padding. If you've ever tried to use the books as a pillow, you'd know there's nothing resembling padding in there. Wasted words, maybe, but not padding.

I second the desire to see more zombie battles and fewer rapes, because the former unite the Wildlings and crows, whereas the latter divide Game of Thrones fans into two warring camps.

It's important to make people aware of the great suffering rape can cause, even forms that weren't always taken seriously like marital rape and date rape. It's essential that we fight the notion that some rapes might not be all that bad. So we need to be wary of comparisons that lead to conclusions like that.

Whether Westeros is akin to medieval Europe or not, it's a society where marital rape is not seen as such, so a character's reaction to it would likely be different than our own. There is such a thing as cultural relativism, which explains why Dany didn't view Drogo's raping her as a horrible sex crime, even though…

Yeah, I winced when I saw the wildling girl scene. It was too much rape for one episode for me. And it was so soon after the very powerful Sansa scenes that I felt it detracted from the gravity of the Sansa scenes. Also, wanting consensual sex afterwards didn't seem realistic. So I might criticize it as weak…

It's important to have some TV shows that depict the psychological
aftermath of rape in an in-depth way. But I don't think you can put the onus on any particular show to do that. I think viewers (and writers) don't want every rape in a show to have to be followed by a somber depiction of a traumatic aftermath and…

I agree that everyone has the right to hate a plot, characters or entire TV show. Unfortunately too many people go beyond that and accuse show runners of committing a sin if rape isn't handled the "right" way, especially with Game of Thrones.

Wow, not afraid to bash Game of Thrones again, even in a review of another show, are we? I guess rape on TV is ok as long as the show portrays rape as something that destroys a person. Death itself is easier to recover from in that trope. Never mind that GoT isn't even two episodes past the assault. Or that a very…