Tabbyclaw

Heh, we were talking about that as a defense strategy on another of my hangouts: "Your honor, my client is perpetually rumpled and covered in a fine layer of dog hair. What makes you think he could manage a fancy murder without leaving piles of evidence?"

I was a TWoP long-timer, but I'm new to this show. I got my hands on the first season yesterday. And have kind of already watched it all. I'd say don't judge me, but I know you guys get it.

I'm just gonna leave this here:

I am in love with the theory I've seen elsewhere that he's been keeping that particular presentation method in his back pocket ever since he started working with the FBI, just in case a member of Team Sassy Science got too close.

Good instinct. The ice blue one with red splotches is the Murder Tie.

I made many noises when I found out the crossover was happening, and I cannot wait to hear it. I just got a chance to listen to Condos, which was delightful.

The way we've been doing it is sticking to keeping the episodes in order so we're all coming from the same place at the same time, but on no particular schedule. (Honestly, it was mostly "Someone watched the next episode or two when they have a moment; others add their comments." We were a small thread, and not terribly organized.) If we end up wanting more or a different structure here, we can certainly switch that up.

A continuation of the full-series rewatch we've been doing on the TWoP thread, picking up where we left off with "The Hand You're Dealt." This episode, obviously is a major pivot in Duke's story. It's our first indicator that he's got a direct connection to the central mystery, one we still don't know all the details of. Why did Lucy give him that necklace? It's also the launch of his fear of/hunt for the tattooed man, which ended up being the catalyst for so much else. And let's talk about Vanessa's death visions for a second, yes? There's something very important about them that the characters are glossing over: They don't necessarily tell you what kills you, just the last thing you see. Other than the fact that it's obviously not going to happen, there's nothing saying that this can't be Duke dying in his bed at age 94 and seeing his husband Nathan reaching out to stroke his cheek before he falls asleep for the last time. A tattooed man may be involved in Duke's final moments somehow -- assuming that there isn't something even more complicated going on with the connection between his death vision and James' (which you know there is, because Haven) -- but right now I'd lay good money that that's not what or who will actually kill him. On a smaller note, there's one thing I love about this episode: Vanessa's calm certainty that her visions are a "terrible gift" from God. It's not something they hammer on, but it's still good to see it acknowledged that the Rev doesn't speak for all the religious people in town.

One I was just thinking about recently is the end of the Haven episode "Audrey Parker's Day Off." It's a Groundhog Day episode, and one of the few non-comedic examples of the trope I can think of off the top of my head. Audrey is physically and mentally exhausted and wounded after fighting her way out of the time loop, and as an aside to it she's realized that she has to encourage her boyfriend to take a temporary job out of the country, and that maybe she can't have a relationship with him (or with anyone) at all. The music playing under this scene? A lonely, haunting cover of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow."

I recently started a full-series rewatch of the show on Netflix. And just like I did for four* years during the show's original run, I've been dancing a little in my chair every time the theme song plays. *I didn't discover the show until its second season

I do some of my fanciest cooking when it's just me, but a lot of that is because I a) have very different tastes from the rest of my family, and b) am not the primary chef, so I'm not utterly sick of cooking when I do it. Cooking for everyone means I'll whip up a quick pasta carbonara or pork chops with apples, or maybe a slightly fancier chicken pot pie or beef stew. But when it's just me, that's when I get to indulge in real fancy cookery. That's when the palak paneer with homemade cheese comes out, and the herb-crusted lamb chops, and the rabbit pie that takes two days. I'm looking forward to the next time the rest of the family is out of town for a few days; I've had a duck in the freezer for a while now.

Like a lot of people in this thread, I'm a fan of The Thrilling Adventure Hour and Welcome to Night Vale. I'd love to hear any recommendations people have for podcasts in a similar "audio drama" format (as opposed to someone reading/telling a written story into a microphone). My other two regular podcasts are both by artist/author/Internet darling Ursula Vernon. The Hidden Almanac is a short (five minutes, posted three times a week) "this day in history" update (plus gardening tips) for a fictional and bizarre community, inspired by all the inaccurate comparisons made between WTNV and Garrison Keillor. Kevin And Ursula Eat Cheap is the only nonfiction podcast I listen to, and it is, as the name suggests, a show in which Ursula and her husband Kevin eat, discuss, and rate packaged food, sometimes for a nebulous value of 'food.' Funny as all hell, and frequently educational on topics you would not have expected to come up.

Someone else's dog does that! My viszla/labrador mix took to clattering like that at dinner time for about a month, but we haven't heard her do it again in ages.