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

It just occurred to me that Sarah might be watching horrifically-graphic nature documentaries in an attempt to understand and make sense of her own life.

if you're that deep into a nicotine and alcohol habit you're just staring through the television

"What's in her kitchen?"

actually I thought about this more and decided it was probably just the kid from the store who said he knew where she lived and offered to deliver her bottles. I think it's less likely she's hiding some kind of 'evil' in her house and more likely, she's hiding her drinking problem from Hawk.

although I dunno maybe there are charcoal woodsmen running all over her living room having a cocktail party, nothing would surprise me at this point

Also beymer's physicality was v prominent in the scenes with the hum (although no, no soft-shoe)

Yeah i didn't express myself clearly, but I was trying to point out what a lovely scene this was, and how I'd like more of along these lines.

Otis I'm making more of a stylistic distinction (or at least trying to) than a qualitative one, and the examples you give don't really contradict it...

Anyway, yes Zabriskie was amazing and def the best thing about the last ep.

"What's in her kitchen?"

actually I thought about this more and decided it was probably just the kid from the store who said he knew where she lived and offered to deliver her bottles. I think it's less likely she's hiding some kind of 'evil' in her house and more likely, she's hiding her drinking problem from Hawk.

Hadn't considered this. I'll buy it, sad as it is

Yeah I got chills when Grace was in the show, just as when she appeared in Inland Empire as the visitor from the brick house.

Wins OTM about TP cancellation

Actually I partially take that back, since Harry Dean definitely seems to be doing his own thing here. His scenes are really resonating with people and I think it's the fact that he's less held by the Lynch straight jacket as much as his kindness.

I rewatched the interview with him on the Repo Man DVD recently and he's such a nut, it's easy to see how he and Lynch have been friends (presumably) for so long; also easy to imagine them fighting like brothers.

What was nutty about him?

I was at a post-Inland Empire Q&A w/ Lynch where he said HDS is the funniest person he's ever met, and recounted how one time HDS was telling him and a couple of others stories at a bar that had them dying laughing.

the disappearing black sooty man by Ruth's body and that was noticed by Gordon and Diane is similar to the one that vanished into dust in the jail cell in ep 1 or 2

did you skip episode 8 or something

Harsh but correct response

What did I miss? Something obviously

About half the episode.

episode 8 literally features dozens of those guys and gives pretty clear indications of their origins and roles

I've seen one of these guys before but I just can't put my finger on it.... hmm

Oh when they revive Coop, yeah

and also the guy who crushed people's skulls

v similar to what happened to shaggy when he was in the police car...

Ah right! That was the Penderecki episode

Are the men who are coming dirty & bearded?

― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 03:15 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people are claiming the supermarket she was in is basically a convenience store (not sure if this has been mentioned here).

^ yeah, as an extension of that i've heard she was inhabited during the freak out scene

"were you here when they arrived?"

first arrived*

ah fuck it's "were you here when they first came"

my bad

it did have a flavour of possession. zabriskie's performance is incredible.

Slightly agog at the idea of anyone watching this having to be reminded of the existence of that totally forgettable episode 8.

remember the dirty bearded man at the morgue or hospital or w/e

http://i.imgur.com/VwklB1L.jpg

i figured she meant FBI men

also i thought she was looking at the "albatross" label on the jerky

"people are claiming the supermarket she was in is basically a convenience store (not sure if this has been mentioned here)."

that seems like a convenient explanation but I don't buy it.

I'd say it checks out

did it have a produce section? where you can buy turnips and the like? if so, I don't know that you'd call it a convenience store. Produce like that wouldn't turn up there.

I sought out the turkey jerky section at the local supermarket just to see if it's ominous and yeah RIP

In "Morning of the Magicians," source of Bowie's Nazi-occult mania, Die Glocke is a time machine built at "The Giant" & hidden in Argentina. pic.twitter.com/Pprj9XF4ir

— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) August 2, 2017

Ha! I think someone on ILX quoted the Wikipedia article about the Glocke at some point but I missed the Argentinian connection (and the Bowie connection, which seems a bit flimsy but is too good to ignore)...

I think this is more in the fantastical essay category than the “this is intentional” category but I look forward to the magic realism speculative fiction

you probably all know this but the man behind winkies was played by a woman, Bonnie Aarons, who got the facial expression Lynch wanted by giving him her "come hither" look:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/mulholland-drives-evil-hobo-breaks-her-silencio.html

xp

Yeah, Twin Peaks fortunately lends itself to this. Ah, I love it so much.
(I also still hold out hope, or at least like to daydream here and there, that Bowie will appear out of nowhere at the end. Of course it's extremely unlikely for several reasons obvious and/or much-discussed, but this would make a whole lot of people cry in the best possible way.)

Ha! I think someone on ILX quoted the Wikipedia article about the Glocke at some point but I missed the Argentinian connection (and the Bowie connection, which seems a bit flimsy but is too good to ignore)...

― Dancing on the Pylons, Tuesday, August 1, 2017 8:52 PM (thirty minutes ago)

The stars turn: the TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread

One of my fav anecdotes from Bowie's occult-nazi-milk-and-cocaine phase was of him drawing doors on walls in order to create portals to parallel dimensions, which is pretty gnarly

Like in Beetlejuice!

Does anyone else get the sense that the series is gonna take some absolutely batshit left turns in the last few episodes? Maybe it's because I keep drawing lines between this and Mulholland Drive (i.e. how many unresolved/unanswered plot points we'll be left with), but I'm getting the sense that we'll be in for a wild and confusing ride soon and we'll be connecting the dots for years to come

yeah, suspect the journey to the black lodge will be pretty fucked. xpost to 2011

I certainly hope so. as much as it feels like time is running out, look how shit crazy episode 8 was; look how crazy the last 45 minutes of season 2 was. that erased almost everyone's memory of the shitty stuff that preceeded it.

It makes sense given that everyone's on track to converge upon a supernatural place in twin peaks. Though even in the last episode we'll hopefully get some good mibbler-style digressions

The Diane intrigue is one of the more compelling threads - why are they expecting Cole & Albert to ask about vegas? Do they know that the fuscos are running cooper's prints?

Also I was thinking about the pattern they've established of roadhouse patrons being almost all one-shot cameos just there for colour, and how that maybe supports some people's speculation that we won't see James again (I'd still bet money that we will but it's a funny thought)

I'm also guessing that there's gonna be another Part 8-styled black and white episode set in the past before the 2-episode finale comes around. Part 8 had a far too fully realized aesthetic for Lynch to spend on just one episode.

I also can't tell or not if if I want lynch to reveal the identity of the girl who swallowed the bug. Like I'm dying to know who it is, but the mystery is what makes it (and so many other elements of this show) so special

The Roadhouse moments almost feel like they're setting up a potential Season 4 both in terms of introducing specific characters and in terms of hinting at the vast plane of relations from which new stories would emerge; except that 1. I don't think that's what Frost and Lynch are going for and 2. I definitely don't think there will be a Season 4 (not that I feel qualified to guess). Still, life goes on in Twin Peaks even when we're not looking, life finds a way etc. etc.

As for the projected sheer weirdness and intensity of the coming episodes: While it's always hard to tell what will happen in this show, I sure hope for it! I will also suffer as I did watching Mulholland Drive, which did terrible things to me and consequently became one of my favorite films