Makes perfect sense to me, now while the colour purple eats my brain to summon Yog-sothot and choose your Gardevoir waifu to counter the attack of the carnivorous peanuts, lets weeabo til dawn.

It might seem that way, but when you see the behind-the-scenes documentary, the producer mentions that in one of the scenes, the squirrel is shown with a flash of green in its eyes. That's supposed to be a very subtle hint that the organisms dripping from Mr. Viney have begun to spread to the point that they're infecting nearby creatures.
Then, the caretaker eats the squirrel and becomes infected with a dormant piece of the otherworldly entity.
It seems like of odd that the caretaker would somehow mistake the squirrel for something he shot while hunting on the outskirts of the grounds, little bit forced if you ask me, but the part where you have to dig the alien chunk out of his body before it becomes too imbedded? Brilliant.

The round delicious plot? No worries I found it for you.

The only part that puzzled me was when the little girl was eating ice-cream - was she simply hungry or was it a Jungian metaphor to warn against meddling with the black arts? For me the entire plot pivoted uncomfortably on this single point and I was so unsettled that I had to go to the lavatory.

Can the rest of us get some of what you're on? ;-)

I find all of this mesmerizing.

Ah....I didn't see that the first time, either. Remember earlier, when she tells her mother that she lost her bracelet, and her mother scolds her to what seems like a bit of an unnecessary degree? Well, it turns out that the bracelet was one of those medical alert types, and if you get the road flares from the carjacker by using the gun you get from the shop owner after you help him with his rat problem by setting the wall on fire with the gasoline you get by paying the homeless guy five dollars to distract the clerk at the station?
You can use the flares to distract the sewer alligator and find the bracelet. (Turns out the clasp broke, it fell down a sewer grate and the kid didn't even notice.)
But anyway. Long story short, the bracelet says that the girl's actually diabetic. I'm not diabetic myself, but I THINK that her eating the ice cream, even though she knew it wasn't good for her, was a commentary on the consequences of attaining power and the overall importance of strength and determination, even in the face of massive temptation and seeming harmlessness.

I like where this thread is going

Sometimes I think: "Should I try to join them? Nah! It's better to just enjoy it as it is."
I think they should collect these posts, publish them in a collection and sell.

Okay, that makes it clearer. And I suppose it also accounts for the way the woman in the supermarket was giving the Rabbi sidelong glances without wanting to draw attention to the fat man wearing the Disneyland Paris t-shirt who was lurking at the meat counter with a kind of Jack the Ripper look in his eye? Which in itself was a kind of dystopian beginning to act three (the old man dressed in a Spiderman costume clinging to the side of a moving bus with a deeply moving look of regret in his right eye, while his left, which was glass, was staring upward at a disconcerting angle, presumably to engage the viewer's innate sense of the sheer unknowable scale of the cosmos). If that's what you mean, I'm with you.

They have reached ultimate apathy, kinda like Ryu in Street Fighter, but it doesn't suck as much

Right, right. The woman and the rabbi are working together to dismantle the cult that the girl started after the whole 10 year flash-forward thing, and the guy in the Disneyland shirt is the contact they have to convince in order to find out where it's meeting so the woman can get her son back. Course, you and I both know how the whole storyline with that goes vis-a-vis the son, the cult leader, and what the mother has to do when she realizes what must be done.
The mother's speech before she sets in with the power drill?
Well, I'm not ashamed to admit it still brings a tear to my eye.
Also, it might have been a bit on the immediately dark side, but I greatly enjoyed the fact that the old man only had one eye, even if some of the critics didn't get that part and complained in their reviews about it.
Norse mythology so rarely gets a decent representation in media, so seeing that nod to the avatar of Odin, albeit in the body of an elderly man with a penchant for dressing up like superheroes due to his advanced age, was quite interestingly presented.

So I'm back from tonight's gig, just checking in and it would appear that I've missed absolutely nothing since 7pm! Good to see Sinistar finally got his game, but I'm not quite sure what CarrionCrow and Stilton got! :-P

Can somebody please explain why Witcher 2 is even in the Flash Sale rotation when it was given away for free? I mean, has anybody NOT managed to collect 7 stamps by now?

If they hadn't there were about a hundred free copies floating around. Probably more.