the "condo" plot sounds so suspenseful! 

i'm four episodes in...

if you grew up in the 80s (as i did.) this is a MUST. the costuming and atmosphere is so spot on it freaked me out. 1983 is not a moment that's referenced much in film.

although it's an original story there's an uncanny sense of deja-vu to it. films from the late 70s/early 80s like 'ET', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'Poltergeist', 'War Games', and 'the Goonies' are heavily referenced in tone. it's sort of an homage.

it's really worth a look.

did it? when? i was just there for the day Saturday.

whatever planned or hoped for "synergies" between the OS and the film have long since fizzled out.

JP knows it's a toxic subject better left unaddressed.

first season Vanessa was insanely self sufficient. she kicked ass and took names...


i understand the need to create the powerful love story for the character but with season two she needed too much "saving". too much "rescuing" from Ethan and the other men on the show. it gave her a note of the "damsel in distress" which was decidedly NOT the original premise of the character.

thanks. i completely forgot about that...


i haven't seen the third season yet but it sounds like Vanessa was in full victimization mode again. i was not happy or comfortable with the direction they took the character in season two. she was too weak and disempowered.

if the point was to showcase Green's ability to chew the scenery to shreds job well done. but i missed the glamorous, mysterious, powerful figure she was one season one.

in terms of Lara/Angelique there simply might have been no role for her during this period...


something about the nature of the character prevented her from becoming an ordinary day-to-day character. the "dramatic impact" came from her "disappearing" for extended periods of time and then popping up later in some different guise much to everyone's "shock".

in one of the PomPress book they do a countdown of each character's appearances and, for all of her significance, Angelique/Lara appears in surprisingly few episodes for this reason. 

the venue was nicer than it's been in some past years but one big gripe i had was with the positioning of the MPI tables...

rather than being set up separately or in the main dealers' room as in the past they were inexplicably positioned in the middle of the autograph lines...

so if one wanted to make a simple purchase they had to get in a line of hundreds while they waited for autographs and often spent several minutes chatting with the actor and checking out their offerings. i actually "ducked in" during a break in the line and made a quick purchase and left before the person behind me moved forward.

it was beyond weird. even the MPI team were frustrated by the inefficiency.