IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann

John Carvill johncarvill at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 12:10:38 CDT 2009


> I think, John, I see Bigfoot more unambiguously than you do, though. Others?

Ok, well, lets have more on this. I read IV once, in a few sessions,
over a few days. My second read was much more disjointed. So overall,
I still don't have much of a satisfactory handle on Bigfoot. I just
thought he was highly ambiguous. He's meant to be Doc's nemesis, but
he doesn't seem to do much, er, nemesising. Unless, as suggested, he
is covertly steering Doc around. Even so, he also doesn't seem to live
up to our expectations of him as a fascist brute. And, maybe mist
strikingly, he shaw talks perty, n'est pas? Aren't most dumb
hippy-hating cops meant to be somewhat less articulate than ol'
Bigfoot?



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