#in the fine tradition of Thomas Sharpe and every man in Pan's Labyrinth and Giles ShapeOfWater and Stan NightmareAlley

[marzipanandminutiae]

driving from Richmond to Clifton Forge takes like two hours according to Google

so what the hell has Lucas Mama2013 been doing when the denouement takes place? he left that hospital when it was still daylight! it was nighttime when the kidnapping happened! AND there had to be time for first Edith-Possessing-Jean and then Annabel to drive there! has he just been wandering around trying to find that stupid bridge this whole time? when Annabel managed to insta-locate the correct cliff in no time, despite presumably having no clue where the Helvetia cabin, bridge, OR cliff were?

god we love a useless Del Toro man. clever and fascinating but ultimately nothing without the More Interesting Woman(TM) driving the plot