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.)

I second Polter-Cow's motion that the "just kidding, I'm really gonna kill myself, not you" moment be retired as an overused TV cliche.

That said, as I watched that moment the thing going through my head was "If he *hadn't* decided to kill himself, our good guys woulda been too late," which I found a little intriguing. The characters didn't seem to notice that fact, however.

Rebecca is a little annoying. If I were Paul I think I'd tell her to quit analyzing me already.

He he he. I got a little of that too. Everything has some superspecial meaning to her. I still feel like she's the voice of the writer sometimes.

I second Polter-Cow's motion that the "just kidding, I'm really gonna kill myself, not you" moment be retired as an overused TV cliche.

Not just TV, movies too. I caught it at the end of Tomb Raider 2: Let's Make Another Crappy Tomb Raider Movie the other day (my mom was flipping channels).

I second Polter-Cow's motion that the "just kidding, I'm really gonna kill myself, not you" moment be retired as an overused TV cliche.

See, it didn't really ping me that way. I guess at the "I know," I got a tiny inkling that he might shoot himself, so it wasn't a bait-and-switch for me so much as a moment of suspense before we found out which one he had shot.

once he said "I know", I knew he was going to shoot himself. If he had said "not anymore", that would have been a bit more mysterious.

I guess at the "I know," I got a tiny inkling that he might shoot himself, so it wasn't a bait-and-switch for me so much as a moment of suspense before we found out which one he had shot.

It wasn't so much an inkling for me as completely obvious, especially when they cut away. So I wanted them to give me that moment, but they went for cheap suspense.

Huh. Two weeks in a row, the killer ends up dead. Will they ever actually get anyone in fucking jail ?

once he said "I know", I knew he was going to shoot himself. If he had said "not anymore", that would have been a bit more mysterious.

Ooooh. Yeah, that could be read both ways. I guess the "I know" was supposed to be read as "I know, I am weak and driven by my obsession to kill you, so I must do that now" rather than "I know, and now I will punish myself for that fact."