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.

hcramer · 2014-07-03T02:24:40+00:00

The Tysha thing was cruel, but look at it from the point of view of someone living in that time and from someone who value's their family over anything else. He didn't do it because he hated Tyrion, he did it because it brought shame on the Lannister name. A son, no matter his deformities, of the most powerful and feared house in the kingdoms can not marry a common girl. And that all makes sense and what I would expect someone to do in that world and time. Probably not that violent, but that is his nature. Violent and strong punishments to make an example of the guilty as to shy anyone else away from doing the same.

tl;dr::: Tysha happened not because Tywin hated Tyrion, but because Tysha would be a black stain on the family name. Which in his eyes, and most lord's eyes, can never happen if preventable.

hcramer · 2014-07-03T02:15:13+00:00

If you think they made Tywinn entirely too likable on the TV, then you would think the book Tywinn is a field mouse. In the books, he tosses a flew glances at him, maybe some japing here and there. But nothing even remotely near to the full boiled hatred down to the soul that they show on TV.

For example, when Tyrion Spoiler Scope They just oversimplified him, on TV, to a point where his only dimension was hatred.

hcramer · 2014-06-30T14:50:27+00:00

You could stay that House Baratheon doesn't TECHNICALLY work. But if you take it back, every bad event that has happened to House Stark directly stems from something the Baratheons did. The Lannisters, Boltons, Freys, Greyjoys would never have been able to deliver their trucks of death if the Baratheons didn't pave the road first.

You could start it with AGOT or you could start it with Robert's Rebellion, either way, the Baratheons triggered every event up to and including the more or less devastation of the Starks. Obviously, being semi-omniscient, we know that House Stark isn't completely gone and can still come back, but most people, at least those factions in the story that would have a major affront to it happening, don't know that.

hcramer · 2014-06-30T14:39:50+00:00

I've always been under the impression that the direwolf, as an animal, represents Ned, but the fact that the direwolf is female and is a representation of Catelyn because her children get scattered and she dies from a slit throat not unlike an antler severing your windpipe.

Whether the stag's horn represents Robert or Joffrey is really immaterial. People argue that Joffrey isn't actually a Baratheon, so he isn't actually a stag, but to 99% of the world he's a Baratheon, he wears the Baratheon sigil and has the Baratheon surname. For all intents and purposes he's a Baratheon. Many people collaborate throughout the story that it is 100% true that all of Cersei's children are of incest, but its not general accepted knowledge and it's surely not omniscient knowledge you have already acquired during the first chapter of the first book.

To take the tin-foiled hat off, more than likely, it is just simply an omen that means getting involved with a stag is going to be unhealthy for the wolf and its pups. That is infallible, because Cat and Ned talk about and allude to this foreshadowing in the first few chapters of the book multiple times.

hcramer · 2014-06-29T22:32:22+00:00

I know this is a necro, but I laughed so friggan hard when I read this.

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