Sometimes straying into kind of a "Nice Guy (TM)" in Misfits, but he's modeled on Ian Curtis, so… yeah.

Absinthe?

I particularly relished "put your muzzle to the ground."

It took me an embarrassingly long time as a kid to figure out that those "strange symbols" were just mirrored numerals, instead of "top hat, snail, olive loaf, glasses" etc.

I don't think you understand the point of criticism as a form.

What I mostly remember of this movie is that I've never seen a more obvious example of a production running out of money. The last 20-30 minutes is just shots of Dafoe in a capsule/shipping container, puzzling through his memories (i.e., footage we've already seen, recut, and occasionally with new ADR).

One of my top picks of all time. Saw the full version in NYC in 2001, with Wenders present for a Q&A.

My instinctive interpretation of "BVS" is still Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So it took me a moment to figure out what you were saying…

Medusa has been replaced by a Sexy Gangster Octopus.

Also, this hand/fist business seemed to me the most obvious indication that Order of the Crane Mother and the Hand have a much closer and more complicated relationship than "eternal enemies."

The show was so weird with Bakuto. It sets up all sorts of obvious parallels with Danny, most especially casting him as Danny's chi-teacher, preaching forgiveness , but then ends up making him a simple-mustache twirler.

It's also incredibly obvious that she's the only one of the regular uniformed guards at heroin central who's actually pulling her weight. The rest of them run around uselessly with their scabbards, but you can just tell whenever anything serious happens, they're immediately calling for her.

Danny's battle with Zhou Cheng was a definite high point for the series' fight scenes, but I also want to give some love to Colleen's duel with the guard. The show didn't exactly underline the parallel, but I thought the "kendo vs. Chinese fencing" staging was a nice mirror for the clash of different styles in…

And killing her would be another move straight from the MCU playbook. Claire is absolutely the Coulson of the Netflix-corner of the MCU. And when the heroes he knew individually came together…

Also: As soon as he sees Gao, Danny totally forgets that stopping the heroin is their ostensible goal. I forget the exact line, but he essentially says that he's only there to confront Gao about his parents. I was completely expecting Claire to respond "WTF? I thought we were here about the super-heorin?"

I was tending in the other direction: that the "Order of the Crane Mother" is just another finger of the Hand. Everything we've seen, from Lei Kun to the child-beating monks, has emphasized the brutality of the order. Either they're a corrupted version of K'un L'un, or this K'un 'Lun was bad to begin with.

It is odd that Gao and Bakuto seem to know so much more about the Iron Fist than Danny, in a way that tends to suggest that the Hand has a much closer relationship with K'un L'un than has been acknowledged. .

Is the dialogue a reference to something? Ringing some bells but can't quite place it.

The series maintains a pretty consistent subtext that K'un L'un is a bad place run by bad people. Waiting to see if that actually develops into anything.

I just see that as another part of the weird shoe that was teased all season but never really dropped: that that the Hand and the (Iron) Fist are two sides of the same coin. Kun Lun was almost always depicted as a terrifying and abusive place. Bakuto knew more about the IF powers than Danny did—he even told Danny…