Yes, I think so.

Thank you; for awhile I was thinking I was the only one who remembered Meg's curious version of after-play.

That's a fair point, but to me the barroom scene put a gratuitous sexual cast on the ugliness of what happened to Tommy. I wanted to shake him and say, "Dude, she threatened to put 3rd degree burns all over your body. And you're slow-dancing with her?"

I love Matt. Just love him to pieces. I really hope he survives the finale.

I know the creative team had this planned and scripted long before it aired, but the uncanny tie-in with actual news events is pretty unsettling.

Do you think Erika is in on the girls' disappearance? The other moms of the "disappeared" girls weren't happy with Erika, like their mom-sense picked up on something "off."

Never mind: I mis-read your comment. Many apologies.

Very true! Meg is completely nihilistic, like MiB.

Unfortunately male-rape denial is still common.

Do you think almost getting burned to death was part of Tommy's fantasy, too? (All Meg had to do was get startled and drop the lighter, then poof.)

This is my concern with this episode. I understand that Tommy as a character might not perceive what happened to him as rape, but this sub-arc sends a confusing message that if the woman's "hot," that makes it all OK. (Even the threat of burning him alive afterwards.)

Erections can be produced by all sorts of stimuli. Men in vegetative states with virtually no brain function can get erections and have orgasms.

It's like this was Meg's "initiation ritual" for Tommy: if he protests, they kill him. If he just lets the guy go to his death, he's in.

Exactly. Matt says as much to Meg when she runs into him in "Babylon."

Even her own good penitent brother was peddling water like it was holy, just like the man John beat up a few episodes earlier…

I don't understand this remark. Manson was unbelievably seductive to the "lost girls" of Southern California, whom he groomed into killing for him in cold blood. The book Helter Skelter goes into it in disgusting detail. Meg is a perfect female corollary to Charles Manson, including incorporating her rape victim…

I gave the episode a lower-than-normal ranking for this reason.

Link—> To The Lighthouse. Hope you like it.

Which is interesting, since not a single firearm is used against the zombies.

The Langoliers movie had some eye-rolling flaws, but the whole idea of a lost airplane landing in a deserted airport did have it shivery moments.