Twin Peaks: The Bob Awakens

I could have sworn that was The Yellow Man from Blue Velvet, but I'm not seeing his name in the credits….

I love the flyover reveal to that vertiginous shot looking down the falls. And while I miss the sparks/mechanical angle, I appreciate the brevity of the sequence (no need for a Netflix-like "skip intro" button….)

When I was a kid, I loved The Andromeda Strain, both the book and the Robert Wise film. So Crichton will forever be tagged in my brain as a writer of hard-leaning science fiction.

As I recall, that doc kept significant facts hidden until pretty late in the show…less a twist, I guess, than what might be called "burying the lead." By the time those facts are dragged into the light, it had already worked overtime demonizing the creepypasta genre…almost like a callback to those panic-inducing…

Maybe she accidentally hit the 'Yelp All' button.

The episode was "The Pig Who Came to Dinner", which also featured an appearance by Billie Jean King herself.

Twin Peaks was full of unsettling moments. But the scene in which Leland Palmer kills Maddy Ferguson was disturbing on a physical level, and extremely difficult to watch; I actually found myself looking away from the screen. (And this is from someone who loves horror….)

Shows like Better Call Saul and Outcast taught me to be patient…to give a series a few episodes to get the gears engaged. Fine.

I strongly disliked Cameron's take (of course, never admitted as much), and felt Alien 3 was a welcome return to form. While there are a few problems…the sense of space is never clearly established; the too-convenient blast furnace telegraphs the ending, etc….I never understood the level of hate that film's received.

Pork? I'm pretty sure it was herring.

I though the opening auction was pretty clever, and set an unexpectedly humorous tone for what followed. Then again, I walked in with low expectations, having read so much faux-outrage about "torture-porn", so any evidence of intelligence scored high. (Maybe I'm grading on a scale.) Also, I haven't seen any of his…

Hostel II was a funny, sick bit of satire…not at all what I was expecting. (And Roger Bart makes a surprisingly effective sadist.)

Nature's candy!
Or was that spiders?

The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life….

There's always N-scale.

He's already got a barn full of model trains. He can't have two hobbies, dammit!

Comics stay relevant by taking on meaningful, weighty themes. Comics also have cosplay as part of their culture. So, Cosplay will, at some point, take on meaningful, weighty themes.

I did not know that….

What's a true definition of feminism? (I'm not trying to be argumentative; I'm just sometimes baffled by these things.)