The Clock of the Long Now will always remind me of my fave Neal Stephenson book, Anathem.

Yeah, exactly! When they started that torture scene, I said, out loud, “Bitch, you don’t know who you’re dealing with. That is RavenMOTHERFUCKINGReyes! You think she’s gonna break? You’ll be lucky if she doesn’t break you!”
And then I had to rewind the scene and watch it again because I was shouting over the dialogue…

I mean, yes, but given that it is Raven, that probably barely even counted as torture. Would have been funny if she laughed in that jerk’s face like Pam on Archer.

It certainly looks somewhat similar to this

Syd flying down in that parachute in the middle of the desert just to kick David in the balls was as fucking perfect a moment as this show could give me.

That arm belongs to the cat now.

Can we talk about how brilliant that future Sid scene was though? It seemed like they took the very simple concept of a rotating spotlight to create this great effect of the incomprehensibility of time. Given the angle of the light, Sid looked 23 - 60.

Did anyone else put together the awkwardness when Syd got in the elevator with Ptonomy and he asked her about if she trusted David along with Syd’s comments to David that after a year she thought he was dead and come to the conclusion that Syd and Ptonomy slept together? Cause the way Ptonomy was looking at her spoke…

With their dance posses and the aggressive poses/moves, it very much felt like a Maori war dance-off.

Well, it looked like it had horns / a bull’s head, which makes me think of the minotaur and, since the show already mentioned mazes at the top of the episode, I got the sense that the minotaur is recovering strength, getting ready to come for someone (all of them?) in the maze.

Lots to talk about with this episode, but I’ll stick with the dancing. Dancing works surprisingly well as a visualization of mental sparring, if that is indeed what they were doing. It’s been used significantly before in the series. Not only does it offer us something significantly more fun than vague lights or…

No mention about how future Syd only has one arm? Makes me very concerned about how we get that little story about the guy who chopped off his own leg after a delusional thought, and then we see the delusion crawl under Syd’s bed...

Grant Morrison was such a perfectly insane fit for the x-men comics. So of course Marvel immediately flushed everything he did down the toilet as soon as Morrison finished his last issue.

There’s a real Grant Morrison vibe to last night’s episode- a cool, high weird aesthetic.

I want that song from the dance battle. I NEED that song from the dance battle.

And it had Professor X’s wheelchair.

THIS SHOW. THIS FUCKING SHOW!!

Goddamn. I was going to have to rewatch it all at the end of the season anyway, but in this episode I got so distracted by the visuals in parts that I missed what was going on. The whole thing..... sets, production, costumes, art... were all stunning. Dana Gonzales deserves another Emmy for cinematography, and this…

a) GodDAMN did I miss Russo’s score. He’s been on such an absurd hot streak since Fargo, and I can’t wait to snag the inevitable two or three albums to come out of this season.

The correct plural is “Jesii.”