u/MUSCLEVIOLENCE

There are many, many unsettling details that you read about in Control and the weird shit that the Oldest House investigates. What are the little ones that you find the creepiest?

I'll list a couple that are a bit more obvious but that I loved remembering just after my recent playthrough:

• Director Northmoor >!At some point he becomes an unstable energy conduit and the FBC has to capture and imprison him, eventually making him the power source of the entire building. I think the only way that you figure this out is by going near the top of the power plant and see infrared images of a person seemingly chained up inside!<
• Dog Neil >!Dylan and Jesse's bullied childhood friend keeps going into the projector slides and turns into some sort of dog-child hybrid somehow (why??). It's not really described how he looks like a dog, so you start imagining the different ways that could look and no matter what it's all disturbing!<

The comment in the podcast about prestige(ish) television shows taking an entire first season to finally get to an exciting event (they mentioned The First with Sean Penn) made me remember reading something about something similar with the Mosquito Coast show. It turns out that through two seasons and seventeen episodes they never actually got into the main events of the book or movie

It was all invented backstory for the characters that seems like it got pretty outlandish. I found a Reddit comment from a few years ago: "The TV show loses itself in Hollywood fantasy — Mexican cartels, environmentalist hackers, FBI agents on the family's trail, and so on, it all ends up feeling pretty far from the realistic family drama of the book."

Is this a hot take? Everytime I saw him in a movie as a kid I just didn't really like him, he seemed to be some variation of aloof smarmy asshole man who eventually learns a lesson about humanity. It felt like he was only barely participating in either being an actor or a human being (the height of this represented in The Vanishing, which cast him perfectly)

Then The Dude came along and bam, very likeable! He loses the beard again for a while to no good effect (as "Dr. K-PAX" in "K-PAX") but then the beard renaissance comes back for good and he rips off Crazy Heart, Bio-Digital Jazz Man, Rooster Cogburn, The Old Man, etc. etc. What a turnaround!