Waterlog

[truepenny]

TIME: 43 min.
DISTANCE: 5.7 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 269.8
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "Here There Be Monsters"
SHIRE RECKONING: Still somewhere between Weathertop and the River Hoarwell.

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This episode made me homesick for The X-Files, most especially "Die Hand die verletzt." I was also, of course, yelling at the TV: "They never burned witches in New England!" But that's just me.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. But our hero, having been arrested in a tiny town in Massachusetts under a local ordinance against witchcraft, was nearly burned at the stake by an angry mob. The implied assumptions were pretty clear.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Apparently hanging isn't dramatic enough and pressing-under-a-millstone is too obscure. :)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Technically, Giles Corey wasn't pressed to death for being a witch. He was pressed to death for refusing to plead either guilty or not guilty to the charge of being a witch.

::is an unreconstructed pedant::

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I know, but it could be nicely menacing option for script-writers (and presumably our hero was also not confessioning to being a witch).