Drink full: The TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread, part 2

melting kid in the passenger seat prob gonna be in my nightmares it's cool

for some reason the honking was even more disturbing to me, or at least just as much. it was all disturbing. i don't know why i had it turned up on the headphones. O_O

I love this show so so so much

"There was so much traffic on the strip--it was incredible! There were cars... everywhere!

Any ideas about the fast panning shot down the corridors and stairs after Becky fires the shots though the door?

I like Maggie in the sherrifs control room.

The limo drive through Vegas was such a gorgeous sequence, random "viva Las Vegas" cover and all. Just gonna note again how cheekily lazy the music choices seem on paper, from Penderecki to the many overused instrumental hits to the first YouTube hit for "old school hip hop beat"

xp it was a great shot, I know that much

Zombie girl an echo of Becky, lurching around as if possessed, spewing bile on her mother.

Idgi

love the empathy and compassion in this show

Credit to Amy shiels, she brings the right amount of Lynch weird to that role. In lesser hands it would just be annoying

Any ideas about the fast panning shot down the corridors and stairs after Becky fires the shots though the door?

― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Monday, 24 July 2017 15:53 (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assumed it was showing us they were downstairs but in a disorientating this-place-is-creepy sort of way, in line with the anxiety building through the whole first half hour.

…fwiw i'm less inclined to look for ~clues~ that i was in earlier weeks, more than happy for gordon to announce their meaning loudly in a later episode. in six weeks we'll have all the answers! (frost's next book notwithstanding)

*than i was in earlier weeks

next week's title is promising. i won't post it here but it can't not be significant, even if it's said by an extra.

That reminds me that we still have the unexploded bomb of that crappy Eddie vedder song that hasn't featured yet

Gersten Hayward appears to be sleazing with that sleazebag

also, Gordon's handwaving, jumping recalled the Jumping Man in the room above the convinence store, to me...

Another returning character we haven't seen yet!

For those keeping track of such things, that brief promo clip of Cole juddering about that people had asserted was a sign of his impending evil-dom was taken from this episode.

Am I alone in having strange dreams after watching this, pretty much every week? It's amazingly consistent. I woke up this morning positive that I'd figured out the grand design of the show's cosmology. Something involving a baby deer and three Lodge spirits who had taken the forms of Supergirl, Andy Warhol, and Charles Starkweather.

Cooper's a kind of magician now (using the term very loosely), channeling the synchronicity and dream logic of the lodge(s) to his advantage. Like a white-hat version of Red, maybe.

Kid staring Bobby down was of course dressed identically to his dad, and holding an exact mirror image of his dad's pose. And zombie kid felt like an Eraserhead nod - "oh, you ARE sick," baby instantly swarms in pustules.

maybe we'll get classic cooper, maybe not, but for me the ongoing transition from dougie as annoyance to everyone around to him to dougie as obscure force of beatific goodness has already been a fun narrative to follow.

the entire scene of bobby investigating the gunshot was a helluva ride.

I think pound for pound this might have been my favorite ep of the season yet tbh

this episode definitely felt the most like the original run and was helped by fewer excruciatingly long scenes where nothing happens. It felt brisk and fast paced.

it even had a proper ending that relaxed into itself

legitimately, it's the first time in the whole run that something felt nicely resolved

the scene where the boss lays out the entire insurance scheme while dougie just sits there and gets all the credit was like the epitome of dougieness

Meanwhile

GUY GUYS GUYS that was LOVE BOAT's JULIE MCCOY (Lauren Tewes) as Gersten's neighbor tonight on #twinpeaks #lovewonthurtanymore #comeaboard pic.twitter.com/YZhXgJm6Sr

— Scott Prendergast (@ScottyTheP) July 24, 2017

dougie as obscure force of beatific goodness

That is the perfect way to describe it!

WTF happened to Julie that she is now living in this terrible apartment

Dougie definitely has a Being There thing going on

Cooper wandering through Dougie's life and magically cleaning up all these situations with the influence of the lodge spirits seems like a great karmic rebalancing for all the ills the bad Cooper has been doing over the last couple decades. It's wild because to us, he just seems like he's the ball in this universal game of Pong, getting bounced between work and home, but he's taken an assassin off the board, fixed lives, made friends.

Belushi's character was the most obvious intervention by the lodge spirits we've be explicitly told about, right? The fact they gave him a dream that exactly outlined what he'd see, and then guided Cooper into the shop to get the pie, seems like they're not fucking around.

someone please get me a gif of Gordon, from the perspective of the detective, just standing there and waving his arms in the air btw

I figure Coop will finally snap out of his fugue state when the Mitchum brothers, in a show of gratitude, present him with a rack full of furs.

http://i.imgur.com/OQbmY2t.gif

haven't seem a frame of this, but if DL has salvaged Jim Belushi's career that's some upset.

I'm just old enough to remember Belushi attempting to anchor the next Twin Peaks in the early 90s with Wild Palms.

Belushi's actually pretty good in this, for better or worse

Eh, Belushi's been fine but I doubt anyone is going to be seeking him out on the basis of his TP work. I'm trying to think of actors who's likely to see an upswing in their careers as a result of their participation in this. MacLachlan might start getting meatier film roles again. Hell, Lynch may be the biggest acting revelation.

Belushi's been a good combination of menacing and silly. I don't think this will change anyone's opinions on him, but he hasn't been embarrassing.

I mean, like, Naomi Watts is great but everyone knows she's great so I don't really expect her participation to alter her trajectory one way or another.

I'd love to see ashbrook get more work off this tbh

ha was just going to say the same thing

Bobby traversing the nightmare just outside of the diner is so far from anything I might have expected to see in this

That honestly might've been the most nightmarish sequence yet.

hell yeah, he's been a joy

he had so much material to work with in this most recent episode

also I'm still stuck on Bobby being Becky's dad! Bobby attempting to give his daughter support and trying to help her make good decisions only for her mom to get giddy and rush out the door as soon as she saw her current bad boy criminal boyfriend was frustrating. goddamn it Shelly, we're trying to be role models, here

if anything, that nightmare of a gun/car/puking kid scene was almost a respite from the domestic horror

Already rewatched and there's something to what Evan R says... there's a distinct change in Dougie's intonation when he says "good pie" and "friend" at the end, both are deeper, more resonant, his face is sadder and seems more comprehending... I'm not totally convinced but I don't want to dismiss the possibility either.

― sciatica, Monday, 24 July 2017 03:59 (eleven hours ago) Permalink

^ despite all this teasing i hold out no hope whatsoever for dale being dale again. if it happens it'll be a nice surprise.

― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 04:00 (eleven hours ago) Permalink

I was surprised so few people interpreted the scene this way; maybe we've just been conditioned by 7 episodes to believe Cooper will never be back. But my reading of the scene was unambiguous: It gave him the comfortable, glamorous re-entry into the world he was denied the first time around. And if you watch him eat the cherry pie, faster and more purposefully than Dougie ever would, you can see that it mirrors the way Dale ate pie for the first time in the original series. There's an awakening there.

I'm sure he won't be 100% back to his old stuff, ready to pick up where he was and solve mysteries or whatever, but I think he'll have his personality in the next ep. And yeah (nano spoiler) that next episode title really says a lot.

i haven't had time to read much of this thread since the latest ep but the place where gordon and albert find ruth's body is definitely the convenience store from the episode 8 flashback right?