I make fun of Trent Reznor a lot, and I'm one of the philistines who rarely notices scores as opposed to soundtrack songs But I've had his piece "The Brick" from the episode of Watchmen with Laurie's joke stuck in my head since I watched it and he deserves a Grammy for it
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"Laurie's become her dad! A callback to Pagliacci! An elliptical monologue that kind of explains the backstory but leaves more questions than answers!"
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Taking old clichéd corny jokes and turning them into deeply disturbing dramatic monologues is one of Alan Moore's tricks (the Joker's last words in The Killing Joke, Rorschach and Pagliacci) and they totally one-upped him with that one, credit to Lindelof
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The goof of the "Brick Joke" turned into something deadly serious and viciously resentful The forgotten nobody whose story was never finished, the unremarkable and abandoned side character, comes back to end the world Big Spinel energy
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If the show had more exposure that line deserves to be a meme "I'm the girl who threw the brick" (cc
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