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A thing about being older that is you pivot, at a point, from looking forward and into looking into a future that wasn’t but could have been. It’s not quite a tense in grammar, although it should be. The French futur antériuer is close. The future past.

So let’s talk about Elrond and Aragorn and what their relationship might have been like from the point of view of Elrond. The Elven family relationship (we’ll get to Elrond’s relation to Aragorn in a bit) is that Elrond wed Celebrían, the daughter of Galadriel. From that came … Continue Reading

I was first introduced to the idea of anti-intellectualism in college by one of my many outstanding professors. I forget now which book we were dissecting, but he said to me: “You’ll notice, constantly, that the antagonists are smart and the heroes are morons.”

I thought about that for a long, long while.

The answer is that authors do this is because people who are “too smart” are dangerous. You don’t know what they’re capable of. Go back far enough and we get into things like spelling, where knowing how to read … Continue Reading

I’m about to talk some on Episode 3 of the Star Wars Kenobi series, so move along, there’s nothing to see here.

The shadow-story we are apparently given is that our boy Anakin goes from hate level 9000 to oh crap I really botched the last twenty years of my life what do I do. That’s a pretty good story on its own. Vader in Rogue One is absolutely terrifying, wrecking everybody’s day on that ship. And he’s still at it on Mapuzo. He radiates an aura of Witch-King fear. Just being in the vicinity … Continue Reading

Quietly yearning for what you don’t have, while dreading losing what you do…. Desire and fear, baby. Just give the people what they want, right?

You have to release everything, and pass between the pillars of fear and desire, above the blackened sky of the world, out of the world and into the timelessness of being, so that nothing — nothing — can make you do what you do. There becomes only will: the will to go back down below the clouds into the … Continue Reading

I keep editing the previous three, and I will, until they coalesce into what they need to become. They’re leaning into it. At a point, I’ll move them all into one thing. For now, I want to put this content placeholder here:

The Analyst

A lot of what he says sounds legitimate but is in fact ways to make outsiders feel like their concerns aren’t valid or heard.

And we’ll also get back to this:

Mercury, the Bridge

I worked through … Continue Reading

BUGS – Something’s happening here. Something important.

There’s Tom, working as he should in his cubicle.

The end, right? This is the end. There’s really nothing more to say. We get a shot of Tom at his desk, his past accomplishments, his accolades, and some sense that everything we knew about the previous films was bogus. It was all a Matrix in itself. Warner Brothers has had us. The end.

There’s Tom’s hands on the table. Obedient.

But no. No! Wind … Continue Reading

Where there is a divider, a definer, there is a uniter. This is Vishnu energy. I made a lot out of Neo as Vishnu before, and his move from a sixth to the seventh incarnation. Vishnu is communion and wholeness, what makes clear that separateness — and choice — is an illusion. This is reiterated in Resurrections:

BUGS – The choice is an illusion. You already know what you have to do.

Wait, let’s take a second to talk about what’s meant by binary. Immediately … Continue Reading

This has turned out to be a lot to write all at once. I have a lot to say. So I’ll do it in pieces. It’ll all make sense at the end of this road, I promise.

I’ve always been fascinated by the choice of “Smith” as a name for the co-created antagonist of Neo. The name “Smith” is a craft-name. It’s a smith, a forge-worker. A forge in a volcano, if you will. A lot like the figure of the carpenter, the smith gets themselves dirty. It’s … Continue Reading