On Aug 9, 10:39 pm, Todd <twrexxnos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:55:14 -0000, Jim <jimk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >The first page of search results on Google for Monad is a real
> >interesting and eclectic mix of possible answers to the mystery of who
> >John is, including the HBO site...
>
> >http://www.johmonad.com
>
> >I subscribe to the Microsoft shell theory myself and rebuke the neo-
> >Platonists.
>
> >~ Jim
>
> I'm leaning more toward the religious/spiritual view myself. The
> references to "my father" John is always making are unmistakably
> Catholic. And John is changing this group of folks in spiritual,
> emotional, and moral ways. A show about a computer wouldn't be nearly
> as interesting.
>
> Something makes me keep watching this show, even though my head tells
> me it's utter crap in terms of plot. That scene with John spouting
> nonsense while everyone is in the parking lot was irritating. I love
> Milch's dialogue, though, and I applaud HBO for doing something like
> this, even after they canceled Carnivale. I don't see this show
> coming back for another season, quite honestly.
>
> Todd
I was joking about the Microsoft connection.
Milch explained on Tavis Smiley that the name comes from the German
mathematician Leibniz that a "monad is the indissoluble pieces of
matter which God used to create the universe."
http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/leib-met.htm
Cincinnati came from the line from Butchie about John looking like a
guy who would come from Cincinnati, and John, ever agreeable,
announces, 'I am from Cincinnati."
I'll admit that I was totally confused by most of what I saw, and I
imagined what David Lynch would do to these same characters. I did
develop a fondness for the characters, though, and I will miss them,
but not the story or that screeching
Cissy Yost character no matter how good looking Rebecca De Mornay is.
~ Jim
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