This is the second straight episode that I fell asleep in... this time during Norma's boyfriend scene. Granted I'm terribly jetlagged but still.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 7 August 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
Maybe David Lynch is going for an original series arc, wherein huge parts of the second half are not good, but everything ramps up for the very end. Only to end in more questions!
― Dominique, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
By absurd I meant just dumb. It's all subjective ...and I know one does not criticize Lynch for being absurd, etc. But it really didn't feel right. Same with the pie eating celebration at the restaurant a few eps ago.
― daavid, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Basically, I can't stand people around Dougie act as if there's nothing wrong w him.
― daavid, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure they act like nothing's wrong with him -- it's more that they're kind of in awe of him. He's acting weird, but he keeps doing these amazing things.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
I love during the dandruff sequence when Sizemore gets intimidated by the looming presence of the guy he just watched walk straight into a door
Everything about the dougie plot is great imo
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
tbh i didn't really get that scene - why was dougie fascinated by the dandruff? why did sizemore think that dougie "saw right through" him? (guessing the latter is just the usual thing of characters projecting their emotions onto the blank dougie but wasn't sure if i missed something)
― na (NA), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
the dandruff reminded me of the stars he was falling through
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
It was his guilt, & also standing behind someone doing the shoulder touch thing is like something a betrayed conspirator would do in a cliched crime story
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
exactly, he's asking nice, Dougie wanders off and he poisons the coffee, and then Dougie's looming over them doing this shoulder massage/poking thing
I cracked up when the coffee got dumped in the urinal and Anthony seems so distraught and the other guy in the restroom is like, "wow, it's really that bad, huh?"
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, August 7, 2017 10:33 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a good catch!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
I think it was this line from the Drones' "Laika" that helped me make the leap
And all the dim companions ofThe old white dwarfWatch him throwing sugarOn an old blackboard
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, dumping the coffee in the urinal and throwing the cup in the trash can was great because it was absurdly plausible -- it's the easiest thing to do in the circumstance.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
I'm still cracking up at Dougie seeming really badass, especially when he echoed "thank Dougie"
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 18:03 (seven years ago) link
I think Dougie is "blessed" in some way in that just mere contact w/ him can cause men to confess their crimes and old ladies to win huge slots jackpots. And give his wife knockout orgasms by just laying there like a lump.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
There are 5 episodes to go. I personally don't think all the threads will be tied up neatly and many of us will be ripping our hair out in frustration. But it's been a strange and often beautiful ride thus far.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
And give his wife knockout orgasms by just laying there like a lump.
don't forget the arm flapping. feel like that's key
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Lol yeah that too
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
I feel like that was sexual assault of an intellectually vacant man, but at the same time, arm flappy
― mh, Monday, 7 August 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
listen i think dougie is less intellectually vacant than an embodiment of clear light, wherein all things are like the void and cloudless sky, and the naked, spotless intellect is like a transparent vacuum, without circumference or center
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
hah yes
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 August 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
who was the Boss's right-hand man, the guy that explained the arm-wrestling rules? he looked familiar to me
― Οὖτις, Monday, August 7, 2017 11:30 AM (three hours ago)
From your deep Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman fandom. (The actor is Frank Collison, who played Horace the telegraph operator. My wife swore she remembered him from The Waltons, so I looked him up this morning.)
― I can see by the look on your face, you've got ring worm. (WilliamC), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:09 (seven years ago) link
lol dude gets around! most recent thing I probably saw him in was Silicon Valley
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 August 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
Looking at his credits, I'm guessing I recognize him from Wild at Heart or O Brother, Where Art Thou? although I don't remember him in either.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
so apparently Sky Germany accidentally put up episode 14 instead of 13? Guessing spoilers are out there...
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
And Frank Collison's father was a career Abraham Lincoln impersonator!? It's all coming together now
― Dan I., Monday, 7 August 2017 20:39 (seven years ago) link
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, August 7, 2017 1:16 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there are if you look hard enough for them. ppl are being v discreet which is nice
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
ugh i got excited about potentially finding a link to episode 14 (as far as i can tell no one ripped it so the only ppl with the capacity to spoil are sky germany users) and accidentally read a spoiler :\
anyway DON'T LOOK
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
Which in itself is a spoiler inasmuch as it implies that there's something to be spoiled. I knew that Jacoby's reminiscence about the potato would have catastrophic consequences, which you've now all but confirmed damn it.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 August 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
brad do I have yr permission to quote yr description of dougie on my podcast, I feel like our guest will dig it especially
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 7 August 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
lmao it was just a joke but sure
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
(coop's speech guiding leland toward death came to mind bc of dougie's proximity to death; he's sort of contextually wrapped in it since he is both the former shell of an artificially constructed doppelganger and a person evacuated of much of his original personality)
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
Have we talked about how Rancho Rosa appears to be a thing that exists inside the Twin Peaks universe as well as the production company? Also I can't believe it took me so many episodes to notice the RR thing. I know that love is dead after this episode but James Hurley's skeletal face is terrifying.
― Matt DC, Monday, 7 August 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
So if we can safely assume at this point that Mullins was in fact parroting Lil's hand gesture re: his correct assessment that there will be difficulties with local authorities, what is the significance? Like, how did he have access to the meaning of that gesture? Besides the fact that he's just an imaginary character in the Dougieverse, I mean, of course. Of course.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 August 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
imo everybody in the twin peaks universe understands the hand thing except kiefer sutherland
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 7 August 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
Less "how does he have access to the gesture" than "everyone has access to this gesture EXCEPT Keifer Sutherland, who is an idiot"
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 August 2017 23:37 (seven years ago) link
Whoa... Amazing episode.
Did some geek reverse and slow down the music during the Mad Men-esque opening scene of Dougie dancing with his colleagues yet? Because that sure as hell was intentional, the sped up/reversed music, but I couldn't make out what it was.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
Was it the intro to "Viva Las Vegas"?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link
gimme a bit
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Slowed down, it sounds like a typical "Freshly Squeezed" style jazzy Badalamenti composition. Reversed it sounds like garbage.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
reddit says it is a badalamenti track at double speed: https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6s3my9/s3e13_crazy_casino_music_x05/
― wmlynch, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
spectation of giant tv screen in gang warehouse feels like reference to glass box in new york (and of course something that kills appears in both)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 05:50 (seven years ago) link
i actually don't get logistically how they shot the arm-wrestling scene. i don't see how actor playing renzo can fake that level of muscular strain, but then so how DOES mclachlan effortlessly push him back?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 05:53 (seven years ago) link
He's really good at arm wrestling
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 05:59 (seven years ago) link
the arm wrestling scene was incredible. during the setup i thought it was absolutely ridiculous. as someone said upthread, the result - that evil c comes to own the entire operation - isn't surprising, but the way he came to possess the power was so good, so supernatural but in a weirdly believable way.
james doesn't talk that much these days. now he just sings
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 06:05 (seven years ago) link
Two things I noticed (maybe incorrectly):
- the commentator of the boxing match has the same voice as the woodsman in episode 8
- the teary-eyed girl in the Bang Bang Bar has a blue rose tattooed on the inside of her wrist
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 06:07 (seven years ago) link
I think I saw that it's just a regular rose (and those are the actress's real tattoos)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 06:12 (seven years ago) link
his wife R-U-N-N-O-F-T
― Doubtless they are toss. (sic), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 07:17 (seven years ago) link
girl in the roadhouse was on gossip girl, I believe, right? it looked like Jessica Szohr
― akm, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 07:54 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah it was, and she was on earlier in the first scene with James when Shelly was in the roadhouse with her. feels like the first time one of these semi-annonymous girls has reappeared
― akm, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 07:55 (seven years ago) link