The UFO stuff is way overdone, as is taking a very minor character (
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laughingpinecone wrote:Whoa! You know, I'm starting to look forward to the audiobook's background music and noises, among other things.
& If he managed to find a good excuse for people in-universe to be calling that metaphysical place "Lodge(s)", my hat's off to him & his awesome retconning powers. ('cause Parsons was connected to Crowley who was connected to the concept of Lodges Frost drew from in the first place, yes?)
I really like that whole aspect of season 3 and the books. I don't see what makes it lazy. Also there were always references to real world events and conspiracies on "Twin Peaks". "Project Blue Book" being a comparable example.Thatfabulousalien wrote:
It vaguely influenced some ideas in the show but I still find it a horrendously lazy idea for Frost to say "fuck it, Crowley and Parsons are now part of the chronology", when none of the actual Twin Peaks mythology actually connects with that of Thelema (which is it's own religion, or spiritual/philosophy - depending on who you talk to).
(Thelema and Crowley's writings are really, really beautiful btw)
It still irks me to this day, even with the incredible visuals of episode 8 of The Return, just knowing that Frost was trying to tie them directly into it (disregarding Parson's own beliefs about the rocket and sexuality) comes off as lazy world building, also considering that prior, there haven't been much real-world references
I haven't seen it myself yet (I'm not able to stream it legally) but from what I've heard about it from the Thelema community, it sounds like it's just sensationalist and disrespectful to the real life Jack Parsons.Mr. Reindeer wrote:For those fascinated by Jack Parsons, CBS has a new streaming-only series produced by Ridley Scott about
Parsons’s life, called Strange Angel. I haven’t seen it yet, but it sounds potentially interesting.