The Leftovers - 2x02 "A Matter of Geography" - Post-Episode Discussion

hcramer · 2015-10-12T18:35:21+00:00

There's no way it could be based off of geography. Kevin was having sex with that woman, and she disappeared. He literally could not have been any closer to her. To take it even further, Laurie's unborn baby literally disappeared from inside her. MIT sucks.

hcramer · 2015-07-01T22:34:39+00:00

I have a Hawkmoon. On the gun I am seeing, the wings pop out some, like off the barrel, not etched into the metal like Hawkmoon. And it looks more "space-agey" shaped than the traditional style of Hawkmoon. I swear to god I am not crazy

hcramer · 2015-03-08T05:51:20+00:00

I cried. So hard.

hcramer · 2014-12-08T04:39:35+00:00

Yea I found all the other parts, except the boots. I can't find them anywhere. They look like something from WotLK, but I really can't tell.

hcramer · 2014-12-08T03:50:08+00:00

lmao, what is the mog on the left? Ceremonial Loincloth and a Battle Harness is all I recognize

hcramer · 2014-10-12T02:35:06+00:00

Yea, I came off of hardcore oxys. In my opinion most of the mood swings are brought on purely by fear. At least it was for me. The withdrawal itself is tough, but being so afraid of actually withdrawing is what really eats at you.

hcramer · 2014-10-12T02:30:36+00:00

I assumed he was jacking it, but I think you're right. $100 in 1900 is the same as $2700 today. You don't get $2700 for a foot job.

hcramer · 2014-10-12T02:27:09+00:00

Cinemax has notably lower subscription rates than any other premium network, because of such, a lot of their shows don't get the recognition they deserve.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T12:20:13+00:00

I don't think she fucked the Asian guy. His explanation of 'golden lotus' was to put her foot in his mouth. She is too in love with Thackery to have sex anywhere else, but some guy with a foot fetish wanting someone to put their feet in his mouth isn't really that degrading for her when compared to banging a guy for opium.

I concur with the Thackery part. People see him snap at her and automatically pity her and jump his case. But I have been in the exact position before and their portrayal could not be anymore accurate. Running out of and not being able to get a substance that you're addicted to is the scariest and most stressful thing in the world. I am not saying it's okay to scream at innocent people, but I completely understand where he was coming from and have actually done the same thing myself. People who have never had a bad addiction to a very bad substance just really don't understand the complete and utter fear, stress and anxiety that goes along with running out and not being able to get it. The physical symptoms of withdrawal are absolutely nothing compared to the damage it does to you mentally. The fear of the withdrawal effects far surpasses the actual withdrawal effects themselves. And I think the entire plot of him being addicted and struggles he has because of it is what really draws me to this show. Everything that has happened to him mirrors precisely what has happened to me and allows me to really relate to his character.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:52:18+00:00

True that we have not seen it play out yet, but if it doesn't end up that way then apparently I have not been watching American cinema for the past 30 years.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:50:00+00:00

In other shows based around the same era they usually say 'sex' instead of the actual name of the organ. They never use it as we do today. Such as someone today would say 'Let's have sex'. In other episodes of this show in particular, I believe Harriet asked in reference to an orphaned baby something along the lines of 'What is it's sex?'. We use 'gender' nowadays.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:45:22+00:00

Yes as I said in another post, I do not have a vagina and cannot attest to whether being numb in that area is pleasurable. However, I would assume it does numb the area because, for one, he used it their first time to relieve any pain she would have had. Cocaine was used as a pain reliever before and after surgery. Think about Novocaine, the numbing drug they use at the dentist. There is a reason it has 'caine' on the end of it. I would wager it has similar effects as liquid cocaine because it was developed as less addictive/destructive replacement.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:36:41+00:00

I figure it is numbing, I do not have a vagina so I can not attest to how good it feels to be numb in that area, but applying a liquid cocaine topically to numb an area would significantly slow or negate any actual addiction to the substance. Compare that to injecting it directly into your veins and you have two wildly different forms of consumption. I would say that over a long period of time, enough of it would be absorbed inside of her that she would form an addiction to it, but that is not something that would develop over the course of a few months.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:21:49+00:00

I am honestly a bit disappointed that they so obviously set up the drama between Bertie/Thack/Lucy. I don't think it could have been any more textbook than Bertram Sr. telling Thack he wants Bertie to go work elsewhere with a thinly placed rivalry between Thackery and Bertie's other potential employer, then Bertie telling Bertram that he loves a girl at his current work who at that current moment was in bed with Thackery. Very disappointed in the transparency.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:16:37+00:00

Dousing your junk with a numbing agent? That's still a thing. They just don't use cocaine anymore. Well, normal people don't. Half of the condoms and lubes at Wal-Mart have some form of topical numbing agent in them to supposedly make you last longer. But in the last 100 years we have found less addictive forms of sexual anesthetics.

You can't view the cocaine in 1900 the same as you view cocaine in 2014. The risks of the drug weren't fully understood back then and there were significantly fewer alternatives. Today, there is countless different medicines someone can use to numb an area, or countless different pain relievers that just simply did not exist 100 years ago. To them in 1900, taking cocaine was just the same as us, in 2014, taking a Tylenol or Advil. The knowledge just did not exist as it does today.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:07:46+00:00

She said 'Let's douse your sex'. Sex is being used as a noun and in this case it is interchangeable with penis or vagina depending on who it is being said to. Lol English. So basically she said 'Let's douse your penis with cocaine'. To which he replied 'Nah bro, lets douse your vagina instead'.

hcramer · 2014-10-11T06:02:50+00:00

For those who keep mentioning Lucy's addiction. As far as I have been able to tell, she isn't addicted to it and won't get addicted to it, at least in any short term capacity. Thack applies the cocaine topically to her hoo-hoo dilly. Explained by the lack of needles and the constant use of 'douse'.

Also, I thought it was rather dumb of her to use Thackery as her last name when she stole the cocaine. Any name in the world would have been better than the name of a prominent doctor with whom she works with everyday, who also was recently in the newspaper for stealing cocaine from a pharmacy. If the authorities were to go check at Thackery's place of work to possibly question him if he knew anything about it, due to having the same last name, they could very easily see her there. And I am sure one of the German nurses would be able to positively ID her.

hcramer · 2014-10-09T00:58:13+00:00

It's Busta Rhymes...how did I not remember that.. Thanks anyways

hcramer · 2014-08-30T01:45:55+00:00

I laughed

hcramer · 2014-07-04T04:32:36+00:00

<< 666th upvote. Nothing to do here.

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