So you think they're reacting to the content, in terms of what they're talking about? I think you might be right, but it's imprecise to call that gore.

This exactly. I remember when Pulp Fiction and Braveheart were both out at the same time. People were disgusted by all the gore in PF, but the gore in Braveheart didn't ping them. For me, Braveheart had significantly more gore on screen than did PF, but PF was more intense content-wise leading to a sense of more gore.

The Inside is disturbing on a psychological level with the implied, but not graphically shown, things that happen. Seeing Brandt's face right after the rape scene tore me up. He had lost control, been violated, and he had this dead look of giving up in his eye that chilled me. Gore? No. Disturbing? Hells yeah.

The butt genie, Jebuslug, "Home"... these are a few of my more nightmare-making things, thank you very much!

Incestuous mothers who use boards to slide
Genies that travel the world up backsides
Slugs that are Jesus and live in your spine
These some things of the squick-making kiiiiiind!

I need to go throw up.

Hey Evander Holyfield got kicked off Dancing with the Stars. What reason is there to watch now? Really.

So either it's out goring CSI or it's got less ghastly details. Can it be both, emprically?

Perception of gore is a completely subjective thing. I don't think there's any "empirically" about it.

[To be honest, nothing so far has looked real enough to squick me. I don't viscerally react to gore if I can tell it's latex.]

Yeah, I saw some of the same "gore for gore's sake blah blah" over at TWoP. I expect them to hate the show, they hated Angel, Firefly and Wonderfalls, too, but I don't usually expect them to go so herd group-think with stuff that's, frankly, not there.

Frankenbuddha, my tag (you were asking about it, weren't you?) was from an article on men's and women's car-buying (and car-preferring) practices, I believe. But I no longer have the link.

I thought the photos Rebecca flipped through in this episode were disturbing but didn't linger long enough to really catch any detail.

Beg to differ. I recognized at least one horizontal brain cross-section. (Which was not bloody.)

I'm personally of the opinion that actual bloody gore works on some people, but in most cases it's just a turnoff (or basically invisible) without being sufficiently disturbing. Disturbingness is value-added in a gore scene. Gift with purchase, you know.

I will say, both gore and the attempt to disturb are often over-used, so that they begin to lose value. That was the mistake of Millennium, I always thought.

You know, I really liked Paul last week, but suddenly I don't anymore. Due to the extreme judginess.

I thought that his "judginess" was completely normal and understandable. People have enough issues with processing the idea that some people like S&M without adding the issues of knowing someone who participated, much less someone that they were attracted to and rejected them. It was the most extreme representation of "girls don't like nice guys" Not only did she not like the nice guy, she chose to be with someone who would hurt and degrade her. I'm really glad that he didn't go with "well, she was into S&M, so she must be damaged, that's why she didn't want me"

Overall I liked the episode. I don't know how much of the Bible belt you get to turn in to a SM/Gay raper plot. I'm surprised to see how much humor there's been. The renactment was sweet. Rebecca is a little annoying. If I were Paul I think I'd tell her to quit analyzing me already.

Paul gets a cup of coffee. R: "You like it black and that's your second cup. There are circle under your eyes. You're not sleeping well." P: "No just lactose intolerant. Can you quit analyzing me now?"

Favorit part: who sent the message to Paul's beeper? I think it was Rebecca!

Fluids. I can't do fluid gore.

Autopsy scenes on CSI don't bug unless there is oozing. Or oozy or crackly sound effects. I'm ok with "inside the body, cells/bullets/parasites flowing" shots. Just not...fluids. There was one with a deadguy in a bathtub that had me gagging all night and I finally lost my dinner. Trying not to think too closely as it is now.

That said, while the ooze provokes a physical reaction, the things thattend to creep me out and linger are more tied to an idea than a visual.

There was a movie (I don't remember) where the moster was never seen. I hated that movie because it sketched me out for weeks. (I actually liked it, but was really resentful until I stopped jumping at shadows.)