Pendell

Oh, yeah, sorry about the vagueness. I watched it, enjoyed it other than a few details, and have to imagine that anybody complaining assumed that they were watching something where the characters don't matter. But while "it didn't really happen" is kind of a hack move, it explicitly reinforces that they wrote a character study, not a treatise on Welsh folklore.

That's what I tried to get at with the Straczynski story. Whatever the specific question was, it's going to come off like the equivalent of writing an extensive open letter to Tolkien demanding to know the ultimate fate of some guy who showed up for two pages.

And not to be "that guy," but c'mon, this is literally the structure of almost the entire franchise, dressing up horror tropes to look vaguely like science fiction, so that we can get to know the human characters without the need to answer pesky question, like Star Trek is (at its best) about making fun of conservatives and Star Wars is about constantly re-litigating the Vietnam War. Detailed explanations went out the window with the idea that they worked on an educational children's show. The only difference here is that the lead got some extra sleep instead of spewing out piles of meaningless technobabble to placate the audience...