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

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.

imo everybody in the twin peaks universe understands the hand thing except kiefer sutherland

Less "how does he have access to the gesture" than "everyone has access to this gesture EXCEPT Keifer Sutherland, who is an idiot"

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.

Was it the intro to "Viva Las Vegas"?

gimme a bit

Slowed down, it sounds like a typical "Freshly Squeezed" style jazzy Badalamenti composition. Reversed it sounds like garbage.

reddit says it is a badalamenti track at double speed: https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6s3my9/s3e13_crazy_casino_music_x05/

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)

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?

He's really good at arm wrestling

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

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

I think I saw that it's just a regular rose (and those are the actress's real tattoos)

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.

his wife R-U-N-N-O-F-T

girl in the roadhouse was on gossip girl, I believe, right? it looked like Jessica Szohr

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

OK, largely from dugpa so I take no credit, but...

The poster on Battlin' Bud Mullins' wall is for a fight on Tuesday 18th June. There are three potential candidate dates - 1957, 1963 and 1968. Tuesday 18th June was the day Cassius Clay fought Henry Cooper at Wembley. And Clay's fight before Cooper? Doug Jones. And in the Doug Jones fight he catches Clay at the end of Round One with a right to the side of the head. The commentary on loop at Sarah Palmer's house?
"Oh, the right hand catches the big guy on the ear!
And he finally goes down, hangs on to the ropes.
Oh, the gentleman asks him if he's okay.
Looks like, uh, round number one and two under way.
Now it's a boxing match again."

Isn't coincidence a wonderful thing?

or is it The Farm?

it is not. the Farm is where Roth/JJL were iirc

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 24, 2017 10:13 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought The Farm was where Booper was supposed to be going before he got shot, and he met Roth somewhere else? Maybe I'm misremembering when it got mentioned.

― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, July 24, 2017 10:18 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hm you could be right about that

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 24, 2017 10:21 PM (two weeks ago)

The guy who says "do you need any money?" to Booper is listed as Farm Accountant in the titles, so it looks like my interpretation was right. The arm-wrestling takes place at The Farm.

couldn't help myself and found a bunch of spoilers for episode 14, sounds like the one to watch and sounds fucking NUTSO

Please don't share

Yeah I can wait a week, not going looking for anything

Very much enjoyed seeing Big Ed

https://deanhurley.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-resource-vol-1

Although Twin Peaks: The Return has hosted an array of Roadhouse performers and spotlighted music throughout its new season, a large part of the show’s sonic identity has been defined by the space between sound effects and music. Sound and music Supervisor Dean Hurley’s first installment of the library-style Anthology Resource series showcases his original sound design and music compositions featured in the show’s very distinctive-sounding third season. From ethereal tones to sputtering electricity to densely brooding musical cues, this release operates as an unofficial ambient score to Twin Peaks, offering a more abstract counterpoint to the show’s official soundtrack and score. (You might also remember Hurley as the drummer from the fictitious band Trouble, alongside Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches, and David Lynch’s son Riley, who performed at the Roadhouse in 'Part 5' of The Return.)

fictitious band

Dammit!!

don't worry, james hurley is as real as real can be

Happy to see Ed, too. Through circumstance or design we haven't seen much of the good/wholesome characters of Twin Peaks this season—Harry Truman, Big Ed, Doc Hayward, Pete Marshall. They were important correctives to the general evil/awfulness of the world, the ones who made Twin Peaks seem like such an inviting place

yeah, i think sheriff truman 2.0 and carl have filled that gap a bit, but nevertheless there was a real gentle warmth to the ed / bobby / norma interactions that stood out from almost all of what we've seen

fictitious band

All bands are fictitous.

I bought the Trouble release on bandcamp last friday, now I have an entire album to consider?!

i guess now it's somewhat clear why norma was doing all that paperwork

Ed and Bobby still pining away for same ladies 25 years later :(

i'm rewatching episode 8 on my lunch break

imo bad coop wakes up bc the nine inch nails are causing such a racket at the roadhouse (bad coop has super sensitive hearing and thus can hear the nine inch nails from an incredible distance)

Imagine they're saving Julee Cruise for near the end..hoping

I've watched Gotta Light? three times now.

Amazing episode xp

Bobby has kinda filled the wholesome gap a bit. or maybe it just feels that way because of how different his character is

and the arm wrestling scene was kinda corny in a mainstream-action-movie way, but it was still a whole lot of fun, mostly because mr c is such a creepy character. and of all things lynch could come up with, an arm wrestling competition! dude never ceases to be unconventional

When they set up the wrestling competition, I was hoping for candles to be added. Having been introduced to much US folklore through certain European comics, I felt an otherwise fantastic scene that I was ready to call one of the series' best was utterly ruined by this key ingredient's omission

https://www.laserdisken.dk/billeder/forsidealm/1196420786751872.jpg

*arm wrestling, though a full-on Twin Peaks wrestling tournament would be quite something

Nadine vs the Giant

The arm wrestling scene gave me flashbacks to The Fly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlJ6kMWgfI

I'd be perfectly happy to never ever see the Fly arm wrestling scene ever again, and I saw it in the theater in 1986. I was already an avowed Cronenberg fan but we walked out not long after. took me many years to see that movie in full.

re: the cheesy action movie feel of the arm wrestling, can't remember where but read a recap/essay about how the whole scene is a spoof/commentary on the conventional action film, including the use of the huge TV screen as if everyone is watching a movie. Did somebody say that here? I don't remember, sorry if so. I'm tired.

yeah sorry dan didn't mean to offend with the video

Julee cruise confirmed on fb that she shows up at some point

almost would've preferred to be surprised

the use of the huge TV screen as if everyone is watching a movie.

rewatching episode 8: the white lodge has one of these too! and apparently it's a membrane through which they can transmit laura palmer to earth. ~ cinema is magic ~

She's on the cast list xp

oh lol i forgot

Just wanted to say how much I loved the bizarre conga line music at the start, I initially I thought it might be a stock/generic jingle thing like the 'old school rap beat' but god knows what you'd have to google to end up with that as the first result.

'Casio demo track after spilling Pepsi into keyboard'