HBO's Lovecraft Country
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First trailer for HBO’s Lovecraft Country blends Eldritch horrors and racism
Jonathan Majors plays Atticus Black, who takes a road trip to find his missing father.
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In Lovecraft Country's First Trailer, American Racism Is the Ultimate Eldritch Abomination
Oftentimes when we dive into horrific stories full of otherworldly monsters, we do so in order to escape the all-too-real demons that haunt us here in the real world. But in the first trailer for HBO’s new adaptation of Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country, the racist evils that shaped American culture...
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It's here. In the UK, you can watch it on Sky Atlantic. The episodes air at States on Sunday evening. In total there is going to be ten of them. The problem is, it's going to air at 2 am. It feels like a ban, essentially the same thing as what happened to the Breaking Bad.
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They say that this is story of an American Boy, but it's not just that, it's a story of Black American Man, returning from Korean War to US of A in the time, when Black Lives didn't matter anything.
I was perplexed by opening world of the wars scene, with mini Cthulhu flying above the battlefield as if everything is normal. But you look at Lovecraft work, and essentially it's dreamscapes in hellish places. You look sources and you might find Dreamland in there. For the Author it was escapism, but for the characters, it's a mystery.
A puzzle that drives you mad. Essentially everything is going to drive people mad in the Lovecraft Country, except if you're already mad. Then you just ventured deeper into the craziness, eventually either become food for the nightmares, or offing yourself from the Books of Living, because your head cannot take it.
Essentially all the stories starts from the normal place, before something comes out and disturbs the reality. The series captures well the slow decent into the madness. Unless you know, it is this drift that captures the audience. At least that's how I personally get sucked into the Lovecraft stories.
They are not just horror stories, but a distorted realities. A possible realities if you look into the multiverse theory. Except, in their world, there are dimensions. In the series, those dimensions are hidden in the fabric of what you see. And frankly, it surprises me to see the black lives getting threatened by Redneck whites.
When do we get over it? When do we accept that there's only people?
Personally I made that choice a long time ago, even though I was born among tall, white blonds, with blue eyes and it took years before I saw a first coloured person. In the series, it surprised me that the Simmonsville turned out to be full of white supremacists.
Bigger surprise, which frankly shouldn't be one, was the silver Bentley and it's driver doing magic tricks to the white boys. You could quickly assume that it was a spell of some sort, except spells and magic in the Lovecraft stories are ways into the madness.
You don't do them unless you're a monster or a cultist, because of that toll.
Seeing those white boys flying should have been the second warning, if the grim reaper on the map page was the first one. Third one was the location of unknown, unexplored land. It's was as if the producers wanted to show the audience that's where the dragons lie.
For the characters, no choice of turning back, but fearlessly venturing into the unknown, just because of the mystery. What Dad was doing?
This is a depiction of Soggoth, the one in the episode, had multiple eyes, but also four legs. It was more close to hundred eye bear than a Yog-Soggoth. I'm also glad that the Chulthu monsters chose to save the protagonist and slaughter a-hole sheriffs.
Except they might wish that they would have gone at the same time. Go further into the Lovecraft country and the only relief you will have is death.
I was perplexed by opening world of the wars scene, with mini Cthulhu flying above the battlefield as if everything is normal. But you look at Lovecraft work, and essentially it's dreamscapes in hellish places. You look sources and you might find Dreamland in there. For the Author it was escapism, but for the characters, it's a mystery.
A puzzle that drives you mad. Essentially everything is going to drive people mad in the Lovecraft Country, except if you're already mad. Then you just ventured deeper into the craziness, eventually either become food for the nightmares, or offing yourself from the Books of Living, because your head cannot take it.
Essentially all the stories starts from the normal place, before something comes out and disturbs the reality. The series captures well the slow decent into the madness. Unless you know, it is this drift that captures the audience. At least that's how I personally get sucked into the Lovecraft stories.
They are not just horror stories, but a distorted realities. A possible realities if you look into the multiverse theory. Except, in their world, there are dimensions. In the series, those dimensions are hidden in the fabric of what you see. And frankly, it surprises me to see the black lives getting threatened by Redneck whites.
When do we get over it? When do we accept that there's only people?
Personally I made that choice a long time ago, even though I was born among tall, white blonds, with blue eyes and it took years before I saw a first coloured person. In the series, it surprised me that the Simmonsville turned out to be full of white supremacists.
Bigger surprise, which frankly shouldn't be one, was the silver Bentley and it's driver doing magic tricks to the white boys. You could quickly assume that it was a spell of some sort, except spells and magic in the Lovecraft stories are ways into the madness.
You don't do them unless you're a monster or a cultist, because of that toll.
Seeing those white boys flying should have been the second warning, if the grim reaper on the map page was the first one. Third one was the location of unknown, unexplored land. It's was as if the producers wanted to show the audience that's where the dragons lie.
For the characters, no choice of turning back, but fearlessly venturing into the unknown, just because of the mystery. What Dad was doing?
This is a depiction of Soggoth, the one in the episode, had multiple eyes, but also four legs. It was more close to hundred eye bear than a Yog-Soggoth. I'm also glad that the Chulthu monsters chose to save the protagonist and slaughter a-hole sheriffs.
Except they might wish that they would have gone at the same time. Go further into the Lovecraft country and the only relief you will have is death.
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Sure, they'll have an excellent footie program. I just wouldn't want to be part of it, even if the darkness and mystery does excite me. I would be wearing an Elder Sign all the time. Probably tattooed it on my chest and back.
Long, slow start, crazy racism, then BAM! Monsters and mystery! Finally, 2020 provides something exceptional that won't kill us.
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I wonder was it ever really that bad? They made the police look really bad and on top of that, they made the Northern State to look as if the Southerners had won the whole debate, and the declarations were just illusion.
Just you wait, we will get something really bad now.
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Lovecraft Country Premiere Nearly Scores Watchmen Premiere Numbers for HBO
HBO's new series Lovecraft Country debuted Sunday night and the Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors, [...]
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Lovecraft Country’s Shoggoth Design Includes Iconic Movie Monster Easter Eggs
HBO's Lovecraft Country certainly lived up to its name by marrying the macabre and horrific [...]
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I have to say, I would feel super uncomfortable to arrive at a mansion full of white people, after the last episodes racist incidents. It would be super weird to have a white person treating you as if you're part of the family. As if you'd always has been part of the family and all the things from now on in would be "normal..."
I don't think there's any normal in the situation like that, even if they're in Massachusetts. But that's thing that has always been present in the Lovecraft stories. The illusion of normality and fussy feelings is when you should be running, because those normal day horrors are far better, or a lesser evil than the Lovecraft monsters.
First thing I'd ask, "What happened to those Soggoths?" without being able to refer to thousand eye spaghetti monster that I'd usually use as a reference. Seeing the protagonists in clean clothes, on top of the world is screaming literally you're going to die, while the only one who's going to survive the cultist treatment is the young Mister Freeman.
Maybe the thing for me is the inside knowledge, decades of horror stuff that I've read, seen and experienced. Normality is boring. Weirdness is unsettling. Especially seeing a painting of the founding member wearing cultist robes.
"Yeah, there's nothing weird about it. It's perfectly normal to have a man wearing strange costume over the mantle piece. Why would you even think about it?"
No. Man, you go in any home, except Royal ones and you see boring old canvases hanging on the wall and there would be nothing weird about it. That painting is out of place and it captures the feeling you-should-get-out-of-the-Dodge-now really, really well. Just say thank you for the clothes and hospitality, but make the exit as soon as possible.
Except our hero's or should I say victims, don't do that. The younger Freeman was the only one, who even remembered the attack, and was clearly at top of the game. Yet, somehow he didn't think was what he saw in the Dreamland or in the reality.
Maybe the thing about the others and their memory losses is because they're meant to stay anchored in the reality, while young Mister Freeman is the only one who can freely move around the Lovecraft country.
The spells doesn't seem to affect him too much, as after the NK attack, he was back on his own. No wounds. No sweat. No visible damage on anything. Yet, they all recognised what happened, just as younger Freeman wished.
Maybe if he would have opted to have amnesia as well, everything would have turned out to be fine... until the dinner.
And thousands of petrol heads sighed on the sight of Silver Shadow getting crushed at front of the very own eyes. It was too late, and damn costly sacrifice to try to run out from the grasp of secret cult. But that's the thing, there's no escaping from the Great Old Ones, once you've been trapped in their scheme.
Letty's death was a blessing. She would have been better dead than living in the nightmare mansion with all her memories. Knowing what happened, remembering it all would just drive you crazy.
PTSDs are not a cakewalk. You wish you wouldn't have them. Yet, there is nothing to take away the anguish, the horror, the unsettling feeling of that there's nothing you can do. Nothing to stop them from happening. You have to live with them, sometimes happening again, and again.
I never thought I'd see a Soulgate after I wrote about it. In my own books, it literally consumes ones soul to open a portal to another realm, another time, to any location in the space-time continuum.
Luckily, you Mister Freeman has a plot armour and the Great Old Ones has something else saved for him and to rest of the crew. Now, including Pops in the place of elder Freeman. I guess someone had to pay the toll with their soul and Uncle George was useful.
May Lord bless his soul.
I don't think there's any normal in the situation like that, even if they're in Massachusetts. But that's thing that has always been present in the Lovecraft stories. The illusion of normality and fussy feelings is when you should be running, because those normal day horrors are far better, or a lesser evil than the Lovecraft monsters.
First thing I'd ask, "What happened to those Soggoths?" without being able to refer to thousand eye spaghetti monster that I'd usually use as a reference. Seeing the protagonists in clean clothes, on top of the world is screaming literally you're going to die, while the only one who's going to survive the cultist treatment is the young Mister Freeman.
Maybe the thing for me is the inside knowledge, decades of horror stuff that I've read, seen and experienced. Normality is boring. Weirdness is unsettling. Especially seeing a painting of the founding member wearing cultist robes.
"Yeah, there's nothing weird about it. It's perfectly normal to have a man wearing strange costume over the mantle piece. Why would you even think about it?"
No. Man, you go in any home, except Royal ones and you see boring old canvases hanging on the wall and there would be nothing weird about it. That painting is out of place and it captures the feeling you-should-get-out-of-the-Dodge-now really, really well. Just say thank you for the clothes and hospitality, but make the exit as soon as possible.
Except our hero's or should I say victims, don't do that. The younger Freeman was the only one, who even remembered the attack, and was clearly at top of the game. Yet, somehow he didn't think was what he saw in the Dreamland or in the reality.
Maybe the thing about the others and their memory losses is because they're meant to stay anchored in the reality, while young Mister Freeman is the only one who can freely move around the Lovecraft country.
The spells doesn't seem to affect him too much, as after the NK attack, he was back on his own. No wounds. No sweat. No visible damage on anything. Yet, they all recognised what happened, just as younger Freeman wished.
Maybe if he would have opted to have amnesia as well, everything would have turned out to be fine... until the dinner.
And thousands of petrol heads sighed on the sight of Silver Shadow getting crushed at front of the very own eyes. It was too late, and damn costly sacrifice to try to run out from the grasp of secret cult. But that's the thing, there's no escaping from the Great Old Ones, once you've been trapped in their scheme.
Letty's death was a blessing. She would have been better dead than living in the nightmare mansion with all her memories. Knowing what happened, remembering it all would just drive you crazy.
PTSDs are not a cakewalk. You wish you wouldn't have them. Yet, there is nothing to take away the anguish, the horror, the unsettling feeling of that there's nothing you can do. Nothing to stop them from happening. You have to live with them, sometimes happening again, and again.
I never thought I'd see a Soulgate after I wrote about it. In my own books, it literally consumes ones soul to open a portal to another realm, another time, to any location in the space-time continuum.
Luckily, you Mister Freeman has a plot armour and the Great Old Ones has something else saved for him and to rest of the crew. Now, including Pops in the place of elder Freeman. I guess someone had to pay the toll with their soul and Uncle George was useful.
May Lord bless his soul.
Fantastic second episode. I feel the central cast is on their way to the Mountain of Madness to meet with the Great Old Ones. In their shoes I would stay away from the sea ... if possible.
I laughed out loud at the opening, with George and Leti "moving on up" to The Jeffersons theme song in the luxury of their new lodge digs --no evidence of lingering psychological trauma after their horrific trip to the lodge. I had a feeling that Tic's reaction was going to be radically contrasting.
This episode seemed to complete what I expected to be a much longer story -- Dad/Uncle Montrose's rescue, Leti's death/resurrection, portal opening failure, Samuel's demise, Tic's escape, lodge destruction and Uncle/Dad George's death. I guessing Christina also survived the carnage, as she seemed to be bonding with Tic to foreshadow future developments.
All of this left me wondering what's coming next. Is Lovecraft Country going to be a series of chapters loosely linked by Tic's magic blood?
This episode seemed to complete what I expected to be a much longer story -- Dad/Uncle Montrose's rescue, Leti's death/resurrection, portal opening failure, Samuel's demise, Tic's escape, lodge destruction and Uncle/Dad George's death. I guessing Christina also survived the carnage, as she seemed to be bonding with Tic to foreshadow future developments.
All of this left me wondering what's coming next. Is Lovecraft Country going to be a series of chapters loosely linked by Tic's magic blood?
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The illusion with Lovecraft stories and the death of secret cults is that you think you can escape, when there is no escape. There never is. It is always either a trip to the lunie bin or you end up dead ... or worse. If you watched the credits in the last one, then you might have seen the trailer for the season, and in it was the evidence that there's no escape. They can try, but it ain't over. The question is: What is the femme fatale going to do now Dad's gone?Can Tic's magic blood save him from woman's wrath?
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Well written piece of how Black people see the story, settings and the characters.
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How Lovecraft Country Uses Horror to Tell Black Stories
Lovecraft Country authentically captures the verity of being Black in a country that is built on anti-Blackness.
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I really like how the show shows creeping mental illness, especially with Leti's sister. She's haunted by something and there's no way for her get help for the problem. She's not even opening up about what really bothers her.
In the other hand I find it strange that our heros doesn't show anything. It is as if they'd once again forgotten what happened in the Lovecraft country. Funny thing is that Tic's Daddy is definitely on the PTSD road. But not Tic. I'm certain he experienced plenty in the Korean War, but unlike others he really didn't bring the package home. Instead it's as if he got the hero bug.
Thing is I feel that Tic's Dad should open up about his experiences and spill out all the horrors instead of closing up like a typical man. The bottle and its spirit cannot be far away. The chances are that he's already drinking in secret, while he tries to forget the horrific ordeal.
Somehow I feel that Leti's sister is suffering from the racism and not about losing her husband.
Speaking of which it kind of surprises me that they show it being extreme instead of what we are used to seeing in the small screen or in the big for that matter. Look for example Mississippi Burning and even though it's horrific it pales in the comparison of what the Lovecraft Country shows to the audience.
I would be personally offended for the white party arriving at the doorstep to blow their horns, while the police skulks at the background. Almost as if it's their job to the States white.
I laughed out loud when five days later, the horns were still blaring even though you can be certain the sixties battery technology wouldn't have allowed such thing. What is even funnier is that the noise pollution is affecting the white neighbours as well.
Nope. LOL. Quija board is the last thing you want to access, when you have been tagged by the Great Old Ones. But these kids, they knew nothing about what they could summon. Still it's good to see classical horror material creeping into the show.
Then again, maybe thing is that The Horror Manual haven't been written and nobody has access to it to know what they shouldn't be doing, if they want to survive upcoming terror. In fact, like I said before, once you've been tagged by the Old Gods it's really hard to get back to the normal life, because Lovecraft monsters are after you.
As an example you could look Ash in the Evil Dead series. Once he was in, he was fully in and unable to escape the destiny. The spirit will be the first thing that manifest and they will try to drive you away. Failing to do so, more extreme measure manifests. They want you to escape, move out and keep running just like the spirit of the house demanded.
"Get out of my house," it screamed to Leti. The boarders heard it and moved out. Not Leti. Not her sister. Instead of following them out and taking the easy road, she went and started investigating the history.
The Horror Manual would tell you to avoid it. It would tell you to take Tic's advice and leave the house to be trouble for someone else. They didn't and we got the best horror in the while.
I loved every minute of it.
PS. What are we going to do with the invulnerable femme fatale?
In the other hand I find it strange that our heros doesn't show anything. It is as if they'd once again forgotten what happened in the Lovecraft country. Funny thing is that Tic's Daddy is definitely on the PTSD road. But not Tic. I'm certain he experienced plenty in the Korean War, but unlike others he really didn't bring the package home. Instead it's as if he got the hero bug.
Thing is I feel that Tic's Dad should open up about his experiences and spill out all the horrors instead of closing up like a typical man. The bottle and its spirit cannot be far away. The chances are that he's already drinking in secret, while he tries to forget the horrific ordeal.
Somehow I feel that Leti's sister is suffering from the racism and not about losing her husband.
Speaking of which it kind of surprises me that they show it being extreme instead of what we are used to seeing in the small screen or in the big for that matter. Look for example Mississippi Burning and even though it's horrific it pales in the comparison of what the Lovecraft Country shows to the audience.
I would be personally offended for the white party arriving at the doorstep to blow their horns, while the police skulks at the background. Almost as if it's their job to the States white.
I laughed out loud when five days later, the horns were still blaring even though you can be certain the sixties battery technology wouldn't have allowed such thing. What is even funnier is that the noise pollution is affecting the white neighbours as well.
Nope. LOL. Quija board is the last thing you want to access, when you have been tagged by the Great Old Ones. But these kids, they knew nothing about what they could summon. Still it's good to see classical horror material creeping into the show.
Then again, maybe thing is that The Horror Manual haven't been written and nobody has access to it to know what they shouldn't be doing, if they want to survive upcoming terror. In fact, like I said before, once you've been tagged by the Old Gods it's really hard to get back to the normal life, because Lovecraft monsters are after you.
As an example you could look Ash in the Evil Dead series. Once he was in, he was fully in and unable to escape the destiny. The spirit will be the first thing that manifest and they will try to drive you away. Failing to do so, more extreme measure manifests. They want you to escape, move out and keep running just like the spirit of the house demanded.
"Get out of my house," it screamed to Leti. The boarders heard it and moved out. Not Leti. Not her sister. Instead of following them out and taking the easy road, she went and started investigating the history.
The Horror Manual would tell you to avoid it. It would tell you to take Tic's advice and leave the house to be trouble for someone else. They didn't and we got the best horror in the while.
I loved every minute of it.
PS. What are we going to do with the invulnerable femme fatale?
Lovecraftian horror layered on mid-fifties American racism dovetails perfectly with ongoing BLM protests and demands for equal justice.
This series continues to impress.
This series continues to impress.
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I have to be honest and tell you that I felt bored by this episode. IMDB however rates this episode second highest after the pilot. Rating standing at the moment of writing at 8.4
I have no clue, where this series is going and I'm getting a bit tired with the amount of shouting. But, at least Tic Senior is showing that he's climbing towards the summit of the mountain of madness.
Maybe the creepiest thing in this episode was not the tattooed man-woman, but the femme-fatale showing up with her demands. Leti called her white sorceress-bitch, showing equal amount of racism. It's like there is no stop on the bickering and at the end, they are no better than the white people.
You could probably claim that it's a result of their suffering, but do they really need to show the hostility towards each other in every minute. It's as if there is no stop button. Instead nastiness and bickering over things that could have been solved without hostilities.
Is it a sign of quality?
So Titus took voyages to Africa and Southern America. But not Egypt. Not the pyramids. Not to Syria or Iraq. And it seems that he was only interested in the Mayans, not Olmecs or any other lost civilisations. Nor does that map show he was actually interesting the mythical places in Northern America, like the Serpent Mounds.
If he had a special interest in the mythical stuff, he certainly didn't visit the Eye of Africa, but instead made his trips to the rainforests. What is interesting is that for a hand drawn map at the beginning of 1800's, the whole map is actually super accurate.
Thing is, in the first shot, the indians in the ship are Aztecs. Yet, he only made the trips to Columbia, Mezo-America and Caribbean Islands. All in time when there were still pirates around and the West was definitely wild.
If that look doesn't say, "I'm going to shag you as soon as..." then I must becoming senile, because to me the whole thing between Leti's sister and 'the white boy' was obvious and total surprise. She looked so pretty in every shot and how the whole thing ended just talked about the chemistry between those two. But, as they were tearing clothes off from each other, wouldn't you have stopped and asked, "Why you have goat horns scarred on your chest?"
I get the heat might dull your senses, but still, when you lust someone you look at them through rose tinted glasses, and sometime you see flaws. Those scars would have pulled me out from coitus, for knowing how significantly the devil is associated to the image.
Honestly I could have even asked, "What's your agenda?" as this is just happening after the Haunted House event.
They built one of the oldest cities in the States over a fifty meter wide chasm that nobody knew nothing about. City that has one of the famous technical universities in the world. University that teaches also geology. A place that has been mapped very thoroughly and extensively, including seismically.
I'm sorry but my sense of disbelief is off the charts and while it started with the chasm, it was shattered by that impossible blank. Now, I know there are world tallest trees in the other side of the continent, but how do you make a fifty meter blank that is one solid piece? How do you transport it through tunnels that curve and have 90 degree angles? And why is that they have ever burning torches down there?
Seeing the blank, I'd have turned around and said, "No. I ain't crossing that. No way."
You can probably imagine me hiding my face behind my palms, when they made the 'special knot' to tie themselves together. If one goes, so will all the others. They had no anchor, no gloves and the boys were standing by the edge. So, what would have happened, if Leti had fallen?
If you have sharp eyes, you will also notice that they somehow manage to lose the robe and special knots on their way to the other side, without ever taking off the robe.
But then they came across Leti's lift... in Boston. I would have taken it back to top and went straight to a bar. Not them. Deeper into the trap they went. Boldly. Fearlessly.
Do you see that? It's the same Elder sign that you can see at the belly of that man-woman creature. Tic Sn should have noticed and understood what it means. Maybe that's why he slashed her throat. What do you think?
Maybe the creepiest thing in this episode was not the tattooed man-woman, but the femme-fatale showing up with her demands. Leti called her white sorceress-bitch, showing equal amount of racism. It's like there is no stop on the bickering and at the end, they are no better than the white people.
You could probably claim that it's a result of their suffering, but do they really need to show the hostility towards each other in every minute. It's as if there is no stop button. Instead nastiness and bickering over things that could have been solved without hostilities.
Is it a sign of quality?
So Titus took voyages to Africa and Southern America. But not Egypt. Not the pyramids. Not to Syria or Iraq. And it seems that he was only interested in the Mayans, not Olmecs or any other lost civilisations. Nor does that map show he was actually interesting the mythical places in Northern America, like the Serpent Mounds.
If he had a special interest in the mythical stuff, he certainly didn't visit the Eye of Africa, but instead made his trips to the rainforests. What is interesting is that for a hand drawn map at the beginning of 1800's, the whole map is actually super accurate.
Thing is, in the first shot, the indians in the ship are Aztecs. Yet, he only made the trips to Columbia, Mezo-America and Caribbean Islands. All in time when there were still pirates around and the West was definitely wild.
If that look doesn't say, "I'm going to shag you as soon as..." then I must becoming senile, because to me the whole thing between Leti's sister and 'the white boy' was obvious and total surprise. She looked so pretty in every shot and how the whole thing ended just talked about the chemistry between those two. But, as they were tearing clothes off from each other, wouldn't you have stopped and asked, "Why you have goat horns scarred on your chest?"
I get the heat might dull your senses, but still, when you lust someone you look at them through rose tinted glasses, and sometime you see flaws. Those scars would have pulled me out from coitus, for knowing how significantly the devil is associated to the image.
Honestly I could have even asked, "What's your agenda?" as this is just happening after the Haunted House event.
They built one of the oldest cities in the States over a fifty meter wide chasm that nobody knew nothing about. City that has one of the famous technical universities in the world. University that teaches also geology. A place that has been mapped very thoroughly and extensively, including seismically.
I'm sorry but my sense of disbelief is off the charts and while it started with the chasm, it was shattered by that impossible blank. Now, I know there are world tallest trees in the other side of the continent, but how do you make a fifty meter blank that is one solid piece? How do you transport it through tunnels that curve and have 90 degree angles? And why is that they have ever burning torches down there?
Seeing the blank, I'd have turned around and said, "No. I ain't crossing that. No way."
You can probably imagine me hiding my face behind my palms, when they made the 'special knot' to tie themselves together. If one goes, so will all the others. They had no anchor, no gloves and the boys were standing by the edge. So, what would have happened, if Leti had fallen?
If you have sharp eyes, you will also notice that they somehow manage to lose the robe and special knots on their way to the other side, without ever taking off the robe.
But then they came across Leti's lift... in Boston. I would have taken it back to top and went straight to a bar. Not them. Deeper into the trap they went. Boldly. Fearlessly.
Do you see that? It's the same Elder sign that you can see at the belly of that man-woman creature. Tic Sn should have noticed and understood what it means. Maybe that's why he slashed her throat. What do you think?
A definite Indiana Jones vibe to this one: Light beams reflecting to the secret door trigger, a rope into a mysterious underground chamber (What? No snakes?), a leap-of-faith-style walk on a dissolving narrow plank while dodging a deadly, unseen pendulum, a narrow winding trip to another secret chamber unlocked by Tic's special blood, all hell breaking loose when they grabbed their prize.
The back-from-the-dead she-male was weird, but not as weird as their freight elevator escape route. I half expected it to magically take them back to their haunted house.
I don't know why Montrose is so intent on blocking their adventure. His cutting the she-male's throat was a shock at the end.
The back-from-the-dead she-male was weird, but not as weird as their freight elevator escape route. I half expected it to magically take them back to their haunted house.
I don't know why Montrose is so intent on blocking their adventure. His cutting the she-male's throat was a shock at the end.
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It did. They got back in the house, not in Boston. The dead bodies were the missing neighbours.
Because he knows the whole story and there's more there then he has let out. He does not want to go back to lodge.
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