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Tryp

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  1. One consequence of the Dan boot is that Dean's fake legacy idol should not be eligible for use -- only 5 remain. A potential dramatic twist was lost.
  2. What exactly happened in Bonnie's office to make her think/let her know that her computer was being mirrored somewhere? (I watch broadcast TV without the ability to record or rewind, and I seem to frequently miss little events like this). Thanks
  3. A frustrating episode, especially after the last one was so engaging. Here is my main problem: although there are other characters that the narrative follows closely, the nearest thing to our main point-of-view character, Kevin, is not very sympathetic and his dreams/visions/hallucinations serve to make him a very unreliable "narrator". There are many indications that Kevin is (was) basically a decent husband and father, and he seems more tolerant of the GR than many. But we repeatedly have been shown that he is an alcoholic pill-popper who flies way off the handle whenever he gets frustrated by something. I don't really get a lot of enjoyment from watching him yell fuck, fuck, fuck whenever anything goes the slightest bit wrong. The Leftovers world is an abnormal one, so too many scenes that are hallucinations rather than true depictions of the world as it exists in the story serve to disengage me from what is going on (I never had much tolerance for hallucination scenes anyway, even in stories set in our real world.) That whole thing with the dog trapped in the mailbox was preposterous. How would any animal larger than a beagle ever get in there, even if it were picked up and inserted? Now that he has thrown out the pills and seems open to the idea that some of what is going on is "messages", maybe these things will start to make some sense for us. Wayne's cult does not bother me so much -- it seems pretty believable as far as having a charismatic leader who has selected his flock in part for sexual reasons. I am OK with his healing being purely placebo or being based on "powers" or remaining ambiguous -- I accept that this series will have overt supernatural events as time goes by (the disappearance of the 2% already established that). Tom's story I'm not sure about yet. I have said before that I would prefer his travels to serve as a view to the larger world outside Mapleton, and I am not hoping for a long narrative of the young couple protecting "the one". Aimee -- she is one of my least favorite characters, I find her toxic with her too-adult fixation on sex. It may be just the features of the actor or maybe it is superb acting, but her eyes seem to be smirking all the time. I do feel the conversations between her and Kevin to have sexual overtones, but at the same time I find it very hard to believe that his character (as we have been shown it) would allow anything to happen between him and an underage girl. It did seem that the bite on his hand was human; I can't come up with a plausible scenario where she would bite him that badly and be casual about it the next day. One alternative suspect for the bite would be the grandfather. I'll keep watching, somewhat grudgingly and somewhat hopefully.
  4. I mostly like it. I try to keep a mind-set I developed with Lost : this fictional world was made up by some pretty bright and creative people, who are by no means able to make every last detail fit a perfect pattern. So I won't sweat lapses if the overall story seems interesting, buy I will roll my eyes a bit if it becomes obvious that they are straining to show how clever they are. I try to imagine what a realistic response would be to such a catastrophic and supernatural event -- essentially everyone has had their view/ expectation of the way the world works shattered, and the average person has probably lost at least 20 people they know by name. Piling on top of this, everyone else you know would be grieving their own losses. I would expect that the first year following would be particulary harrowing -- many people expecting another mass disappearance, desperate seeking of explanations, boatloads of nihilism, suicides. I would think the civil order would come close to breaking down in the first couple of weeks and the first anniversary would be extremely dangerous, too. I'd be saying "fuck" a lot for the rest of my life, so I find the mayor's language pretty understandable, even if not up to our world's standards of decorum. A calculation: if you look at all families of 4, and the disappearances are in fact random, then 92% of families would lose no members, 7.5% would lose one. 0.23% of these families would lose 2 members, 0.003% would lose 3 members and one in every 6 million familes would disappear completely. Any city of about 100,000 would have a reasonable chance of having a person like Nora, most states would have several small towns with the same. I expect there are many new cults in the Oct 14 world; Wayne's is a small but worrisome one, I expect the GR may be much larger but somehow less threatening to TPTB. I am somewhat interested in learning their "theology" if it can be done in a way that makes a good story. OTOH, I find plots that are driven by passive women being unable/ unwilling to communicate to be very frustrating, so I have ambivalent expectations. I am hoping that Tom and Cynthia's journey will be providing us with numerous glimpses of the country at large -- I am totally uninterested in a potential young love story.
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