I know a lot of people hated this intro, but that’s just such a bang-on performance from Virginia Madsen. And the hair and makeup are great. I am glad they didn’t give her any unusual body mods or even have her speaking another language in this scene because as it is, when she begins the monologue she just seems unutterably strange. It’s like she only learned to speak English 30 minutes ago and is having thoughts of cosmic horror the entire time. She just seems not really like us at all, and the effect is only enhanced because she looks normal. If they’d had her speaking another tongue or made her look too odd, the just unspeakable foreignness of her affect would have been much reduced.

The way she says “fold space.” What. The. Fuck. That accent…Madsen is an American, and she somehow came up with an accent that sounds like nothing any human has ever spoken before or since. Just such a great weirdo fucking showing from her.

I love that intro so much.