On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:17:16 -0000, Jim <jimking@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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
>
I agree. I don't know what was up with De Mornay. Her character was
unbearable. And we know she molested Shaun (or was it Butchie?) and
was feeling tremendous guilt over that, but that never went anywhere.
Just imagine if this show had a real plot. It could have been great
(but still would have been canceled).
Todd
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