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

I think it was leaving it vague enough that they could show she had a daughter and leave it at that for a couple episodes while keeping some dramatic tension for the moment when it's revealed who her dad is

The way that scene played, it seemed pretty clear to me that Bobby and Shelly have been divorced for a long time. I like the ways the show makes us try to figure out what's happened to the original cast characters during the last 25 years without connecting every dot. Ed and Nadine are both wearing wedding bands, so I assume they're still married to each other, though maybe not living together. Ed and Norma are clearly no longer an item, though perhaps that piece of paper Ed burned during the closing credits was a note Norma slipped into his take-out order of chicken soup.

This is probably completely immaterial wrt anything major that's happened or will happen, but...do we know anything at all about Shelly's family? Like, that was one weird bit in the original series, when Cooper was telling the trio of girls who were being stalked by Windom Earle to stay with their parents or whatever and I realized that I don't think Shelly's parents were ever even mentioned prior to that.

I know in retrospect those scenes indicate divorce/amicable separation, but I totally fell for it in both cases. But that's beside the point - the way they rush up to greet their lovers was so jarring and sudden, the foundation of reality is shaky in the RR.

Carl called her Shelly Briggs btw

We've only known Shelly by her married names. First married at 17 after dropping out of the 11th grade... I think we're supposed to infer her previous family life from there.

Shelly has no backstory as such because she was born in a shower of gold fully formed as a waitress at the RR

definitely some patriarchal thing, she's never had parents, only husbands

Ehh, Norma's been her "mom" for decades now.

true!

Newest theory: in the magical chromatic scheme of twin peaks, the only match for RED is GREEN. This is how Shelly's new beau will meet his end:

"Have you ever studied your hand?"

"Too fackin' right I 'ave, ya dozy berk, that's aaar come I'm gonna smash yer fackin' boat race in wiv it!"

lol

Window washer was definitely a woodsman. Worried for Gordon

Sounded like there were voices in the screeching sounds (though I'll admit this show makes you hear and see stuff in anything)

I totally assumed window-washer was the Jumping Man

I immediately knew I recognized that British kid from somewhere and I finally remembered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM

Whatever else, it's clear that the squeegee-wielder didn't know the first thing about the mechanics of window washing.

Would make sense given the sounds & where the scene goes but I think he's yet to come xxp

He and Louie "Birdsong" Budway are the only two original cast members yet to appear I think, I joked on twitter that they would appear together along with all the other non-white characters, in a scene set in a phone box

I also saw somewhere that there are only 19 actors yet to come on the cast list - any big ones? Apart from vedder obv

Meg Foster and Charlene Yi are the only non-Vedder names I recognize on the cast list that we haven't seen yet. There are so many I'd forgotten had already made their 90-second cameo!

Meg Foster appeared already!

Okay, just looked that up and I am completely unsurprised that I failed to recognize her.

It was also in the most cameo-heavy stretch of the return, my favourite being richard chamberlain as one of at least 4 bills in this thing

btw this and one of the replies to it are the best thing I've seen on tp twitter today ito making a connection that might actually hold water, pardon the pun

So this is the water, and this is the well? pic.twitter.com/an1YLvtAYW

— Counter.Esperanto (@c_esperanto) August 15, 2017

It's in the replies there, too, but the round window Andy got a view through instantly reminded me of this:

https://i1.wp.com/ozgeburcaka.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/t45.png?resize=600%2C400

Kinda miss the box tbh

I miss Sam & Tracy

I did not fully appreciate what a magnificent old man face Harry Goaz had developed until the shots of him in the White Lodge.

Yeah the box was great. That room was one of Lynch's most perfect pieces of production design.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHK3AfAUMAEmFar.jpg

<3

I would probably pay a couple hundred dollars for a large-scale coffee table book of Twin Peaks stills.

The b/w really helped bring out a different shade of him xp

xp fuck yeah

i would also probably pay about $30 for a large scale coffee table book of twin peaks stills, if they wanted to make it a little less expensive

there's something so powerful about seeing a character entirely divorced from the supernatural components of the show suddenly seated right at the center of them

The long awkward silence and the expression on everyone's face when Gordon mentioned his Monica Bellucci dream was hilarious. As was the squeegee frankly.

^yes. Chrysta Bell was especially good there, it's a nice evolution of the "I had a dream"->"oh boy, here we go" lynch scene, seen previously in mulholland dr and original peaks

I also just love ask the offbeat framing involved in reintroducing the encounter with Jeffries: presenting the scene as a memory recollected in a dream, and then redoubled through Cole's narration, with the squeegee attack weirdly suggesting the fragility of any boundary between inside and outside.

*"I also just love all the offbeat framing," I mean

it's uncanny how well Louie's scenes with Lynch (especially his forst scene) presaged The Return

It appears that the smile behind Sarah's face was Laura's

Photo courtesy of Morgan McGinnis via the TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Facebook group pic.twitter.com/B1cjD36r0H

— Kyle Stumpe (@STUMPIFIED1) August 14, 2017

Gahdamn, the final episodes of this thing are going to just be a stew of unresolved vagaries and mind-melting infodump. You know that only like 50% (at most) of the lingering mysteries will be tied up into anything resembling a tidy resolution.

I really hope it's 2 hours of strobe lights and Laura screaming followed by Merzbow at the RR running Eddie Vedder through a wood chipper.

Haha, would pay to see that. (the Vedder thing is, only slightly, but still, annoying me, hanging over this glorious series... I was fearing he'd be the slot at the bar and fuck up the last brilliant episode)

why do you guys have to keep threatening me with the pearl jam man

Eddie vedder > charlyne yi

vedder is going to slay the bang bang bar stage

at least they didn't use him in the nine inch nails spot in episode 8. that definitely would have taken me out of things