Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

Oh, my, do I see why this got under folks’ skin. Luca won’t just give the audience exactness, the total truth because most of us will never see what happens behind that door where these two characters were, unless real evidence can truly specify real details, what is left is behaviors and pokes at us with a stick to see how our own beliefs and way of seeing things will decide with certainty if Maggie acted out of desperation to get Hank fired so her plagiarism (or did she?) would remain secret or if Hank used plagiarism as a weapon to escape sexual assault allegations. Is Maggie even using Alma’s past as a weapon against Hank so she can remain protected from some perceived discovery of “being a mediocre student given clearance to be in a major professor’s orbit due to rich parents”. Or is Hank exactly as Maggie said: he continued on her after she said no, assaulting her in the process, very much deserved of his fate, despite how hard he worked to get to where he was (no trust fund or e...

Night of the Meek intro  As always I will be dropping one or two posts about the New Year's Eve and Day marathon from SYFY on the blog, but I hope to watch a few episodes on Christmas Day before heading off to a family get-together. The blog has always been quite popular with the TZ marathon posts. I'm excited to see if there is any juice left to squeeze that I haven't already from years of doing this for my favorite ever show. This is sort of a bookmark, so I might add more to this post in the future. These episodes below are the ones I hope to watch from Christmas Day morning during SYFY's first marathon. I will try to watch some Friday after Christmas (I'm off work that day) as well, but I don't want to wear myself too much because of New Year's coming up. I will be using the DVR (I have Youtube TV) so I hope to follow in order. "Night of the Meek" will be shown at 7 but I won't be home so I plan to watch it and "Changing of the Guard...

Probably will remain my favorite Rohmer film. Maud challenges Jean-Louis during Christmas holidays in what he believes relationship wise, the two debating about the past and what they might or possibly expect from the future. Francoise happens to be Jean-Louis' interest while Maud, not ideal to his perceived romantic plans, stirs up attraction and warm feelings he eventually pushes away thanks to convenient circumstances like her moving away and getting the chance to develop a relationship with Francoise  -- A Christmas backdrop and Rohmer focusing on a divorcee nurse, a Marxist professor, and a Catholic engineer for Michelon hoping to have a relationship with a blonde on a bike he saw at Eve Mass in Clermont, France.

I wrote the below for my Letterboxd but felt it was probably better meant for this blog. Seen by less people and might mean something for you if this is known to you, too: Watching this just brought up a whole lot of memories I wasn’t anticipating. I was Veronica in my household, and I get how she felt. I LOVED my sister and brother but they were exactly like Tiffany…you understood what they were going through and didn’t, tried to be as supportive and loving as you could and often were the brunt of a lot of bickering and frustration; if not you, your parents or other siblings. There would be a time of peace, and they could be so much fun, so cool. Then other times explosive noise directed right at you (or at your mom). I would talk to them and then to mom, conversations that would often leave me exhausted, but it wasn’t that I couldn’t feel for them or just want them to be okay, to  have relief from the mess going on in their brain. And if you have a family chock full of mental ill...

 I wanted to mark this so I will be posting it on my blog since Letterboxd does not have PPVs as an option. Just random thoughts from this old WWF wrestling even for Thanksgiving. I will rate the event a ***/***** -- Honky Tonk Man was Intercontinental Champion at the time, in a feud with several big stars including Macho Man, Jake the Snake Roberts, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, and Brutis the Barber Beefcake. His team of Hercules, Dangerous Danny Davis (once a referee), Ron Bass, and Harley Race (whose heavyweight champion days were behind him) did not help him much at all. It was nice to see Jake hit the DDT on somebody since he often did not get the chance as a face. HTM leaving the ring, taking the countout was a weaselly decision that lets him remove himself from being pinned...not to mention, he was taking a pummeling from Randy Savage, Roberts, and Steamboat. **1/2 / ***** With a tag team survivor series match with such teams as Hart Foundation, Demolition, British Bulldogs, ...

 Leftover comments not used for my Letterboxd account: It's a film that is brutal to watch all the way through and yet I love it so much. It makes such perfect sense, and how relatable is it to many who watch it? Probably quite a bit. It's like how does one let go of something that feels so right but probably is for the best? Can two people feel so many wonderful things and still struggle together as well? Heard simply cannot break from Laura until something forces him to truly realize it is over. And Laura cannot quite figure out where to go, and who is right for her. But the affair itself, while there are plenty of memories made and those exhilarating experiences will probably pop up in their minds and dreams from time to time, a marriage always remains right there to remind them they are never quite "together".  The setting in Utah during snowy, icy, bitter cold conditions with freezing rain, teeth-chattering temperature is ideal for this hot and cold relationship....

 Since rediscovering it on Tubi, despite being Halloween season, when going to bed, I have become addicted to Silk Stalkings, a 90s show on USA Network I used to leave on at night during my high school days. I would go to work, come home, and do homework while it was on. Back then you got your sexy shows however you could get them, and Silk Stalkings had enough titillation and trashy storylines following homicides often with a salacious, sleazy backdrop, set in "Palm Beach, FL" (mostly Cali or AZ actually), mostly around the rich and privileged (consisting a lot of VERY attractive people with very ugly personalities and attitudes). The dialogue and characters are often quite a piece of work, the women would often wear coats with tight-fitting skirts, and guys had their muscled physiques. This felt like a not-too-distant relative to Miami Vice. The wardrobe had bright colors, Mitzi Kapture (as Rita Lee Lance) and Rob Estes (as Chris Lorenzo) had plenty of come-ons while workin...

McDowell and Comi prepare to leave for Mars.  Aliens visiting the UN, dropping off their cook book, providing goodies for humans on Earth, easing them into trusting them, spiriting them away to be food for them on their home planet. To Serve Man is nearly 60 years ago. I've been watching Twilight Zone since I was a teenager in the mid 90s thanks to Sci Fi Channel. Many of my family have passed since (for instance, my mother's siblings are all about gone except one last sister), and it wouldn't be right to avoid a marathon during the 4th if just for nostalgic reasons. Syfy didn't see the value of TZ on Independence Day, except last year, so even though I cannot watch episodes like I do during New Year's Eve and Day, it is nice to try and sneak in a block of episodes whenever possible. I started with Death Ship from the fourth season, continuing with Stopover in a Quiet Town and The Gift . To Serve Man would feel like a later afternoon watch but SYFY showed it at 3:...

Serling introducing Stopover in a Quiet Town  Kicked off with Death Ship in a previous post and will drop marathon notes on this blog post until I hit the bed: Imagine waking up in the bed of an alien girl’s doll town called Centerville, a fictional replica of Earth; Bob and Millie Frazier can run nowhere, get away, or return home. They are the playthings of a much larger alien girl until she’s tired of them (or they need food). Daddy brought them from Earth to exist as his baby girl’s human toys. I imagine they wish this was nothing but a hallucination or some alcoholic fever dream. Stopover in a Quiet Town just has that eerie quality I never tire of. A couple bewildered by a ghost town, not realizing they are far, far from home. An alien in The Gift does come in peace and has a miracle offering but the village sees him as a threat, destroying the very gift that could have provided them all with so much more than they had. This is the kind of episode that comes and goes during SyF...

 I was gone all day at my mom's house for the 4th, but I did look at the schedule when I got home later in the evening. Death Ship was at 1:30 PM in the afternoon, which is where I decided to start my own marathon. For some reason, SYFY decided to plop Resident Alien within the marathon inexplicably, and why the network did that is anybody's guest. The Twilight Zone audience wouldn't bother with this show, and if they did, most of us would have done other things waiting for the return after it was over. I know I would have if I had been home. At any rate, Death Ship continues to be a sad experience because it's clear Ted Mason and Mike Carter are ready to go to the afterlife (especially Mason, whose wife and child were killed before his lift off, while Carter encountered a friend and relative before reaching home who had previously died, where no wife was there because she was still alive) while their captain (Jack Klugman's most infuriating, unlikeable character on...

 Word of warning. This review contains adult subject matter. Carly and Nick seem to have a great sex life but want to jazz it up...or are at least considering it. Lara has an inviting "swinging club" allowing them to see a "sample" of what they can have if they are interested: Burton and Kimberly fucking in a room with a window for them to watch. Kimberly will be available to Carly and Nick if they so choose. And they decide to take Lara up on the offer, engaging in a threesome with Kimberly. It doesn't stop there, however. While fucking Kimberly is nice, very nice, Nick is very interested in Lara, actually, and she reciprocates more than gladly. Carly is upset at her man for quietly slipping outside to fuck Lara, talking to Burton about how mad she is...and Burton tells her to do something about it. That "doing something about it" is fucking him! By the end Carly and Nick realize they want to remain together and enjoy the final fuck of the film. There...