Things like that drive me a little crazy for reasons that aren't entirely rational. Like, it was a significant enough detail that (iirc) they didn't credit her as such until she and Bobby had a scene together, but then it's never directly addressed in the text so...what's the point? Maybe it'll be brought up before the end.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
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.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
Carl called her Shelly Briggs btw
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
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.
― sciatica, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Shelly has no backstory as such because she was born in a shower of gold fully formed as a waitress at the RR
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
definitely some patriarchal thing, she's never had parents, only husbands
― mh, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Ehh, Norma's been her "mom" for decades now.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
true!
― mh, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
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!"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
Window washer was definitely a woodsman. Worried for Gordon
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Sounded like there were voices in the screeching sounds (though I'll admit this show makes you hear and see stuff in anything)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
I totally assumed window-washer was the Jumping Man
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I immediately knew I recognized that British kid from somewhere and I finally remembered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM
― daavid, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Whatever else, it's clear that the squeegee-wielder didn't know the first thing about the mechanics of window washing.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Would make sense given the sounds & where the scene goes but I think he's yet to come xxp
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
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
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
I also saw somewhere that there are only 19 actors yet to come on the cast list - any big ones? Apart from vedder obv
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
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!
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Meg Foster appeared already!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
Okay, just looked that up and I am completely unsurprised that I failed to recognize her.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
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
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
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
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
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
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
Kinda miss the box tbh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
I miss Sam & Tracy
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
I did not fully appreciate what a magnificent old man face Harry Goaz had developed until the shots of him in the White Lodge.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
Yeah the box was great. That room was one of Lynch's most perfect pieces of production design.
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHK3AfAUMAEmFar.jpg
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
<3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
I would probably pay a couple hundred dollars for a large-scale coffee table book of Twin Peaks stills.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
The b/w really helped bring out a different shade of him xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
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
― Evan R, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
^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
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― one way street, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
*"I also just love all the offbeat framing," I mean
― one way street, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
it's uncanny how well Louie's scenes with Lynch (especially his forst scene) presaged The Return
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
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
― woman in the dunes, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
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)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
why do you guys have to keep threatening me with the pearl jam man
― mh, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Eddie vedder > charlyne yi
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
vedder is going to slay the bang bang bar stage
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link