I didn't mind any of the new acts, and loved some of them. I have to say I'm slightly surprised at how frequently Lissie is being voted worst -- it's actually one of my favourites, as is the NIN song. In my eyes (ears) it had to be either James or Cruise, both of which felt shoehorned in as unrecons...

Could it perhaps make Cooper's detour through the life of Dougie seem more perilous or frustrating? I don't know. No, she's a character in her own right, not simply there to prop up the male protagonists narrative arc. Imagining she must be subservient to the male plot cuts right to the heart of th...

Cooper's horrified reaction is very specific and different from his reaction in the first season. It feels like a foreshadowing of the ending for me. Yes, I think it's important to compare this scene with its counterpart from 25 years ago. In the first version, Cooper explains, Laura whispered the ...

While I think there is some small degree of support in the text for KIP's theory of the character, I think he/she is ignoring the vast majority of textual evidence, or distorting it to fit the interpretation. The context for understanding the motivations of the character are all there. I'm not sayi...

There are a lot of great snippet finds like that in there too! There were multiple more about questioning whether or not good could defeat evil, and all of the supernatural and ring related things mentioned earlier in the thread. I feel like the excerpt you posted really ties in to and works with t...

- The arm says: “Bob, Bob, Bob”. Three times Bob. Three different worlds? Cooper / Cooper / Cooper "Albert. Albert. Albert." On this, I had these thoughts: We know there's some numerology buried somewhere in the creators' interests, given Cole's counting of Tammy's fingers and the message...

While I don't believe it is remotely possible to apply the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder to an onscreen representation of a fictional character (still less diagnose said character on the basis of the actress' weight or appearance), maybe it is worthwhile taking this claim...

I want to go back to something I asked above. At which point does one conclude projecting/confirmation bias or any similar psychological mechanism outweighs what is conceivably actually there more or less intentionally? I think it's in a way an unanswerable question but it seems extremely relevant ...

She doesn't look or act frazzled or overburdened, Junkie Mom next door looks frazzled and overburdened. Nor does Janey-E express concern for anyone except herself, least of all Dougle or Sonny-jim. She's shipping Dougie to work, because thats where she needs him to be, to earn money for her. HE obv...

I agree that there isn't anything wrong with writing (or creative process in general) being easy. But in this case the specific easy approach seems to have been picked out of convenience and rationalized into having some superior artistic value by default. It was merely a convenient choice and I be...

I've neither seen the film or read the novel but from reviews of the latter I've been reading, apparently a lonely young boy, an amateur magician, befriends the eponymous child killer, becomes her confidante and co-conspirator, and moves in with her.

Meh, what a typo. Or perhaps a freudian slip? thanks for a very good post, your previous one, not the one i quoted above. i recognize parts of that interview you are talking about and i too have been looking for it again.. on a search i came up with this, but it doesn't mention the source or any mo...

The two horns of the crescent point downwards. This is unusual, as crescent moon symbols usuals point to the left or right, in astronomy and alchemy, etc. Does this mean that Carrie or Diane are "under the moon", in the words of the Log Lady? A downturned lunar crescent is sometimes regar...

The repeated use of the name Dougie never struck me as odd. Far more interesting to me was the surname Jones. Jones, like Smith, is one of those extremely widespread and thus generic names that are often used (only half-seriously) as a stand-in for someone's real surname. Hence in the UK we have a p...

http://www.dugpa.com/forum/download/file.php?id=5245 Aye that door knocker is a special detail. I had it pegged as a coyote face, which I guess is somewhere between wolf and fox. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=coyote+face&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ I suppose I'm drawn to that conclus...