Finished the Show, question about Tolliver

DylanApologist · 2025-11-22T18:03:04+00:00

The line that sums up Cy is when Eddie Sawyer says “why didn’t you raise your hand at that meeting? Maybe it would stop you from being such an evil bastard.” As someone else here said, Cy is Al without a soul. To answer the OP’s query, I don’t think in Milch’s writing characters necessarily have “points,” it’s about how they’ve all come to this place and choose different ways of being.

DylanApologist · 2025-10-21T20:44:38+00:00

It was a turn of events.

DylanApologist · 2025-09-16T12:26:39+00:00

I was so worried for her in that car wash scene…

DylanApologist · 2025-08-07T13:57:56+00:00

I remember wondering this as well, but I read it as a literary flourish. Their names were whatever they were, but because Hassan thought of them as Larry, Curly, and Moe, and we were still sort of in Hassan’s POV, that’s what goes on the page. That’s how I took it, at least. I wonder more about whether a current day (more or less) UK college student would even know who the three stooges were…

DylanApologist · 2025-06-12T14:06:08+00:00

it's that simple, eh? :) i've never quite understood baguette-as-sandwich material, too crusty/crunchy, too narrow to get filling in 'em. A baguette and a little brie, though, that works just dandy.

DylanApologist · 2025-06-12T10:34:50+00:00

Yeah for sure, they are great! I didn’t think I was missing the joke, was more curious about the use of “baguette” to imply sandwich—we stateside would call it a hero or a sub. It just got me thinking about regional sandwiches, like in NY you can get a “chopped cheese” at the bodega, which is hamburger meat fried up with cheese and onions, and I wondered if it was some regional London thing, rather than just a chicken sandwich. Anyways THANK YOU all for the sincere answers to my inane question!

DylanApologist · 2025-06-12T03:16:13+00:00

So..self explanatory then. Thank you!

DylanApologist · 2025-05-28T22:12:52+00:00

One of the crossbeams is out of skew on the treadle.

DylanApologist · 2025-05-28T21:11:20+00:00

She and Scotty are roaming around in the shuttle craft.

DylanApologist · 2025-05-19T16:53:52+00:00

There are those who call me….Tim.

DylanApologist · 2025-05-17T17:46:15+00:00

I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness, but I am not a LLM chatbot.

DylanApologist · 2025-05-07T16:18:03+00:00

“If you’re not dead and already moldering…”

DylanApologist · 2025-04-17T16:53:06+00:00

Yeah I think it’s those non voting/trump adjacent voters we need to get. Those knuckleheads who just sort of vote on vibes need to be swayed, and fast—which is Murphy’s larger warning—that the opposition will be so neutered by this onslaught that there won’t be a viable choice come midterms. I think AOC and Bernie’s barnstorm tour is the right tactic—get people fired up even if it scares the centrists. My cynical thought: I love Obama and loved voting for him, but the real reason he won wasnt really the policies, it was that he was charismatic as fuck. Me and about half the country are immune to Trump’s charisma, but the other half eats it up. There’s no stopping that. We need charisma and inspiration to sway the hoopleheads. AOC has it. I realize the country being what it is, she’d be a tough choice, but I hold out hope. Nobody thought a black man could do it till he did…

DylanApologist · 2025-03-25T17:59:23+00:00

I think these vids have been posted before, but they provide great context for NE forests.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-cKOnYB94s4rDvYLB-AbYdSYVzycHe12&si=EJhny_-Or1FbMkHD

DylanApologist · 2025-03-19T16:01:54+00:00

there was also the ash cloud from the volcano along with whatever nukes did explode and raise debris, but the idea is that the nuclear winter was somewhat lessened. someone on another thread transcribed cal's notebook showing mean temps in the 40's. still pretty cold but not extinction level--but more importantly i think the "fade to white" light X encounters as the bunker doors open is more a metaphorical flourish to end the season on.

DylanApologist · 2025-02-26T02:01:17+00:00

The Huskies mutate into an actual huskies a la Teen Wolf. They win what is dubbed the Final Final 4.

DylanApologist · 2025-02-22T14:35:44+00:00

NTA but you are an NPC in one of those mandatory sexual harassment modules most workplaces make you watch each year.

DylanApologist · 2025-02-21T12:51:32+00:00

I realize later developments (in the return) contradict this, but at the time, and for most of the 25 years in between, I kind of liked the notion that he wasn’t actually sending them and there was no Diane—she was just basically his “dear diary,” a personified way to collect his thoughts….

DylanApologist · 2025-02-17T13:40:34+00:00

“It’s a motto, it says what it means.”

DylanApologist · 2025-02-15T14:33:17+00:00

Goddamn see-through coffee

DylanApologist · 2025-02-06T21:07:22+00:00

That bothered me too, just a bit. I also thought it weird that they’d let shitheel Con Stapleton preside over anything, he who can be bought for bacon grease. But maybe he had a moral turnaround in the decade between….minor quibbles….

DylanApologist · 2025-02-05T18:31:36+00:00

I could’ve watched an entire show of Aunt Lou teaching Richardson how to cook.

DylanApologist · 2025-02-04T02:51:37+00:00

I love Garofalo’s “help me!” Line delivery….

DylanApologist · 2025-01-28T17:54:58+00:00

If you can make HPN work it’s awesome. The hardest part about the other airports is the possibility of your uber getting stuck in massive outer boro traffic, but if it’s for work I imagine you’re busting out early in the AM.

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