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austingirl

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  1. I've always figured that the "twin" wasn't so much a twin as a devil on Keir's shoulder. That the point of the story was that Keir vanquished his more unsavory half and then became who he was, and that the story was more of a fable than a real occurrence. But your theory about creating a severed person without implanting a chip is an interesting one.
  2. I think this was by design - Clueless is a retelling of Emma, and in Emma, you're supposed to hate Mr. Elton. Jeremy Sisto does a great job with that.
  3. "The corn was really special." I love John Noble. He is great at playing slightly daffy characters with a lot of depth. He was the best character on Fringe. Burt is totally a Lumon higher-up. I definitely think they are hinting at Helly/Helena being pregnant, especially with Fields mentioning his concern about Burt bringing home STDs from his unprotected work dalliances. Someone like Helena seems like she'd be on birth control, but with Mark being so important to Lumon for unknown reasons, maybe she wants to get knocked up by him. Or just as a fuck you to her dad.
  4. The only other thing I've seen Britt Lower in was this show called Ghosted with Adam Scott and Craig Robinson. It was kind of a take on The X-Files. It only lasted one season but I liked it. Probably because of how much I like The X-Files.
  5. It may have been; I just remember the black guy who was there saying that he hadn't been to a food-based dinner party in forever. Or something to that effect.
  6. Anyone else watch Somebody, Somewhere on HBO? The performance review guy was Iceland. Rickon and Devon's relationship is weird, but there is something generally weird about all the non-severed (outies?) in Keir. The guy who hosted the no-food dinner party. Rebeck, who warned Mark about the wounds on the back of her head from her birds. Etc.
  7. Like having an audience with a king of old. This is exactly how I heard it.
  8. And this crowd thinks trans people are the problem. Jesus Christ.
  9. If I know one thing, it's that if we ever get out of this hellscape (or, when future historians discuss the demise of America), there will need to be a serious discussion about/reckoning with the huge role that our current media landscape has played in our downfall. Its highly fragmented, heavily curated nature combined with changes in the ways people consume content have created echo chambers like no other. Look at the current home page of Fox News: Compared to NBC News:
  10. The guy casually getting the tray of dental tools while humming "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and then walking to the scary elevator was one of the more ominous moments so far.
  11. Ms. Hwang's comment about "it makes them feel human" made me think of the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru. (spoiler for NLMG below)
  12. I don't think it matters at this point, because none of the media outlets that the right pays attention to would broadcast this.
  13. Saw an early screening of this tonight and loved it. Oz Perkins directing, based on a Stephen King short story. There are some pretty fun cameos throughout, including the first scene. It's definitely the most comedic of his movies. If you like horror comedy (think Ready or Not), definitely check this one out.
  14. Um, I said "y'all still haven't desegregated schools here?" Not sure why @HornOnTheBayou is trying to besmirch my good name.
  15. Did Milkshake know it was Helena and not Helly? I'm thinking no, and he only realized it when she called him Seth.
  16. Woe's Hollow has to be a simulation, right? They can't just wake up Irv's outtie in the middle of the forest? Also, "spilled his lineage" 😂 Finally, if I wasn't so attached to "austingirl" I would totally be Chaos' Whore on Surly.
  17. LOL, I saw Beau is Afraid in the theater with my then 15-yo son. Couldn't look him in the eye for a while afterwards. 😂 That movie is bananas. Like a 3-hour-long fever dream.
  18. I assumed that if Cobel went with them, she would definitely not be talking to the board and would definitely either be killed or end up owned by them and experimented on like Gemma, never to see the light of day again. She knows too much and is too much of a loose cannon at this point, and Lumon doesn't seem like the type to just calmly acquiesce to her demands. The board just happened to be immediately available to speak to her? Ok. (Also, I think the board is either some AI entity or the digitized consciousness of Eagans who are now dead and gone. Just a side note.) In all the mail they've shown throughout the series, the address is Keir, PE. I think they are in the US, based on the question they ask about it when innies first wake up, but definitely in their own...state? Municipality? Or is the entire thing a simulation? I do think reincarnation or at least the saving/resurrection of consciousness is the end goal. Helena's dad talked about seeing her at his "revolving". Obviously Gemma is still around in some form. Last season, Cobel's shrine involved her dead mother's hospital bracelet - maybe she wants to bring her back and that's one reason for her devotion to Lumon.
  19. People informing on their neighbors and colleagues? Gee, when have we seen that before?
  20. Thank you!
  21. I swear I saw an article saying that a big chunk of farm laborers didn't show up to work last week because of this, but I can't find it now.
  22. We both loved it. I remember walking out and wondering how anyone could boo Like a Rolling Stone. One interesting thing I came across later (and maybe this is only interesting to music nerds) - Like a Rolling Stone was originally written in 3/4 time. Wikipedia has a clip of Dylan singing it like that and it's so strange. It definitely feels more folk in that time signature. It's amazing how changing that one aspect turned it into a rock song.
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