All I know is that Petersen shot a scene in a movie theater from the virus's perspective. Which is almost but not quite as cool as the part of Crank that's shot from inside the protagonist's microwave. What were we talking about?

I've had the experience watching porn where something strays into frame - like some laundry, or a grocery bag, or some other piece of household clutter - and i have this sudden, disconcerting realization that I'm just watching two people in their home. That moment when you recognize the unreality of what you're seeing…

I'm only familiar with the Weird Al version, Beyond Food and Evil.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole series will end up reading differently to people who have dealt with dementia, assuming that Cooper's narrative is basically dementia in reverse, with him gradually regaining his thoughts and memories.

As far as "nerd humor" goes, that episode runs deep, right down to the extended bit with Martin's "random number generator" to determine who gets the comic book on Sundays ("What about zero?" "Yeah, what about zero?"). Even Radioactive Man's hilariously brusque, one-page origin scene is a spot-on parody of Golden Age…

Whatever it was, I assume it would've involved booze.

I mean, it's 18 hours long. The lack of narrative momentum the last few episodes is patience-testing, but it'll be hard to tell how well the whole thing comes off until it's done. I doubt there will be much in the way of narrative satisfaction coming out of a long-form David Lynch story, but hopefully the show gets…

I had a similar thought in one of the earlier episodes, when Evil Cooper is at that cabin with physically disabled people kind of lingering in the background. What's inside Lynch's head is what's inside Lynch's head, I suppose.

The fact that the show includes two black people - one a prostitute who spends her first scene naked, the other a silent enforcer for a drug dealer - warrants comment, even though it's not hurting the show. It's not that Lynch needs to retool his work to include more people of color, or that his work shouldn't be…

If you look up the episode of At the Movies where they discuss Wild at Heart, Ebert actually accuses Lynch of racism - Siskel disagrees. Ebert had a tough relationship with Lynch in general - he thought Blue Velvet crossed the line from depicting misogyny to actually being misogynist.

The original series had a pretty vibrant cast, and the characters were fun to be around, which held things together through the rough stretches, and I'm sure people want that vibe again. However, Fire Walk With Me made it pretty clear where Lynch's priorities lie with regard to this particular story (a slow-motion…

Cooper will probably reunite with the rest of the original Twin Peaks cast, but it's conceivable that he won't, or that it'll happen around episode 12 or 15. That's part of the narrative construction, as is the decision to sideline the original cast in favor of new storylines. "Will Cooper regain his personality" is…

Re: the kid, no I don't think he did. He just expelled his soul (or whatever) into the sky, and there was a fair amount of blood.

It added, in ancient Egyptian mind you, that Marvel at least hid the original reference to the Avengers in a post-credits sequence.

I remember hearing about the Taos him when I lived in New Mexico, but I never actually heard it. I like how one explanation for a constant tone that only certain people can hear is that maybe those people have mild tinnitus. Or, you know, government experimentation.

Oh god, I'd forgotten about that! How about the multiple action sequences where Burt Ward bitches that he almost got killed doing his own stunts (IIRC because stunt performers looked too conspicuous in his barely-there costume)? Man, that thing is solid gold. The movie, too.

It's also just such a perfect example of what the young folk call "world-building." As the audience, we're just supposed to follow the idea that a) there was a cheesy black-and-white superhero show sponsored by a cigarette company, b) the star of the show had some demons, and c) that this is all such common knowledge…

Oh, I wasn't contradicting you - I just think it's funny. Although I wasn't aware that the "original" character was supposed to be Scottish. I assumed that was the Craig movies' meta-reference to Sean Connery.

One time my mom told me we were all going to die "someday," and I got very disturbed and said "why, what's going to happen on Sunday?"

You know, there hasn't even been a Batman in tights in a movie since 1966, has there? They've all worn black body armor. You know, because that's way less silly.