"Caravaggio"
That right there is brilliant. Gutierrez works inside of the structural embodiment of the Baroque. As a character he's very much my favorite because he has the drama and duality of a Caravaggio or Gentileschi.

My exact thought - a visual mix of his physical and astral forms. Some people are saying Mojo, which could be cool, but the psychic villain just makes sense.

A Manifest Destin-aye.

Watched MSW and Always Sunny tonight and I find the grades to be spot on. Always Sunny was great - more laughs out of a single episode in some time.

Get thee to reddit! The sub has some quality chatter.

""The OA" felt more like a story than a tv show"

Exactly, she was likely hoping to resolve her guilt for turning her brother in by giving the kid a second chance. Abusive school would have been an easier path to what befell her brother than coming back to a supportive group.

IMO that shot is French projecting that truth at himself in the mirror. The whole of the flashback's are French's interpretation of the story he's being told. The camera zooms into him when the story starts and he shows anger and Homer's betrayal, having projected himself into the character.

Could also be government funded, this the CIA "therapist" just showing up in the OA's house when the new box of books from Amazon is shown.

Dance and vocalization are key elements to shamanistic and ecstatic traditions. If you want to go the angel route, the humans are trying to recreate the "words" of the divine in a post-Eden, post-Tower of Babel world with the tools available. Silly as it appeared at first glance, it was a great display of belief,…

Damn dude, you missed the best part. The final 20 minutes of the first episode resulted in me yelling "WOAH!" It was very good.

Not the OP, but I agree with his comment. Some spurious thoughts:
1. The show isn't about an unreliable narrator, but an unreliable audience. We're seeing French's interpretation of what he's told. THe story thoughts by zooming towards him, he reacts to Homer's betrayal, and later sees himself as Homer.
2. The ending…

It's probably a very complicated emotional reaction. Imagine a random cow at a cattle yard looked at you and was like "hey dude, I seem to have achieved sentience, can you explain my situation?" You'd likely be befuddled and go with it for a bit, and probably develop some empathy to this creature. It's not a threat…

The idea of the MiB being the hero that stopped rampaging robots is very interesting. It would actually help educate his motivation - what's left after you've survived the greatest stakes that can be thrown at you? Maybe he keeps coming back to try and top that experience, but there's nothing except the maze that can…

HA! Funny enough I learned of Kult way after it's heyday. Instead I was a White Wolf nerd really into religious studies , so M:tA and the Gnostic Gospels were my introduction to the concepts.

MiB seems to have been an early financial backer that helped keep the park open after the Arnold snafu. It also probably gives him the freedom to whatver the fuck he wants in the park.

I took it more of a diss than some statement about the setting. Basically that the psych evaluations should have screen this dude followed by some hyperbole.

IMO close - Ford is the Demiurge, the false god of the material that keeps mankind (or in this case the Hosts) content and in the dark. Arnold is the true God, distant and only found by breaking the illusion of the material.

But they're absolutely right - that's a very critical miss to what amounted to the final 1/3 of the episode.

This was addressed in an interview, sorry I can't recall the site, but basically they're like blanks that cause a squib effect on the Hosts. It's sorta like laser tag except the humans aren't wearing any sensors.