I didn't express any unhappiness with Roth but I will now. He was lame. The brief shot of the passed out (drugged? dead?) farmers and the cheeto hand off made the scene though.
― sciatica, Saturday, 15 July 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
My friend was raving about how good Naomi Watts was but I don't see it. I just think he fancies her (as he should) and thinks that = an amazing performance.
:|
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 July 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
Tim Roth was lame in what way?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 July 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
At least give him time to be lame.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
xps yeah i feel like giving even the frustrating stuff a free pass because the whole is so good.
the comedy is landing for me, but not the super-obvious stuff (e.g. lucy & andy), more the gordon moments, tammy vamping insecurely, the black comedy that is diane
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link
He looked like he didn't know what to do with his body and just slouched. He didn't make any impression beyond an actor acting, for me. Would've been better to grab an interesting looking nobody off the street, as Lynch has often done in the past.
― sciatica, Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
I honestly can't see the frustration that the Dougie storyline is unfunny. Of COURSE it's unfunny, it's a person with the outward appearance of someone we love, unable to engage with or process the interactions of everyday life, against which the flashes of personality or character evoke deep twinges of affection, and joy which is swiftly dashed when the curtain closes again. If it's funny, it's funny in the whistling-past-the-graveyard, pitch-black absurdist, Grand Guignol sense. As is all the stilted humour and human-comedy of this series. It's both deeply sad and powerfully connecting, I can't take my eyes off it.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:05 (six years ago) link
Good post M.
― I'm make-believe. (jed_), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
I don't see how the Grand Guignol extends to Andy & Lucy, unless they're setting us up for something...
I think the show would benefit from some variation in the pace & rhythm of the dialogue, let the actors breathe a bit
― sciatica, Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
I think a lot of the Dougie stuff is just straightforwardly funny.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
jed_, your post seems super foreign to me because this last episode is probably the most that TP (and maybe even the entirety of Lynch's output) has made me laugh.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:39 (six years ago) link
me too, it was consistently hilarious.
aimed at no one in particular: whether or not you find mr jackpots hilarious (i don't), does it matter? as matthewk said, he's not really a comedy vehicle, but people get what they get from it, opinions is opinions etc. if you laugh, you laugh. it's twin peaks.
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 July 2017 05:11 (six years ago) link
"It's twin peaks" otm; ppl have always struggled with this idea that a lot of what we're shown is "arbitrary" or "superfluous" - why are we seeing this thing that isn't an investigation or a criminal conspiracy or whatever when we have investigations and conspiracies to check in on? It's been a thing in this show since forever. I'd have trouble applying either of those adjectives to cooper's story tho because it feels like a lot of thought has gone into how and where he would come out and what he'd be like when he did (annie was catatonic after 1 night in the lodge, multiply that by 9125) and also because, you know, it's cooper's story. But yeah if I didn't find the vegas stuff funny or interesting (I do, a lot, obv) I'd be less keen on the show too!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 15 July 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link
What if he doesn't and it's a giant tease tho, that thought keeps coming to me (esp in the shower every morning, no idea why) and it'd really piss me off. Not that there hasn't been enough to enjoy (or love, James' smile, Bobby's tears, Ben apparently becoming a good man, so many other little moments), but REALLY. It's David Lynch, last thing I trust him with is fulfilling viewers' hopes.
― albvivertine, Saturday, 15 July 2017 10:57 (six years ago) link
I mean, what if this is it for Cooper. Kinda read yr post as "when will he come out of Dougie" not "when will he come out of the Lodge".
― albvivertine, Saturday, 15 July 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
I didn't know people were so anxious about things unfolding and becoming a disappointment, like you and Jed up here. That thought has not crossed my mind once since The Return. I'm way more in a 'sit back and enjoy the crazy ride' mode instead of fretting about how it could go haywire. I've not seen anything that indicates that this will end a disappointment tbh. And indeed, still 9 hours to go people!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 15 July 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
Oh no I meant the latter, I was talking about what we've seen so far. For the record though Cooper will recover his identity, Leland told him to find Laura and he will, there is a 0% chance it won't go that way. This story isn't confounding in that way, it's prob Lynch's most linear since the straight story
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 15 July 2017 11:09 (six years ago) link
Watts asked Lynch, later, when they became friends, “Why did you pick me? Why my headshot?” She got a kick out of the director’s answer, and she straightens on the sofa to give a full-bodied impression of what Lynch told her. She squints as if through cigarette smoke, and yaps: “I don’t know, Naomi! It was just the look in yer eye!”
Can not hear Lynch saying this in any other way than Gordon right now. Great long interview with Watts in the Guardian, not about Twin Peaks but worthwhile all the same.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 15 July 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
(I'd not heard of that series but it sounds intriguing, is it any good?)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 15 July 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
(Gypsy that is)
Haha watts is always good value
A gun id kinda love to go unfired is the room key; I think Audrey seeing it is still a strong possibility, but it'd be funny if its only purpose was to remind Ben of Laura Palmer - or better yet if Bellina Logan's character sees it several episodes from now, picks it up and stares curiously at it for several minutes before enthusiastically throwing it in the trash
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 15 July 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
There's a shot that's been in Showtime's promos from day one, of post-Dougie Cooper driving and glancing in his rear view mirror at something behind him -- a shot that hasn't happened yet in the series. If Coop doesn't snap out of it, that'll be a pretty amazing bait & switch.
― Cannibal Adderley (WilliamC), Saturday, 15 July 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
It's David Lynch, last thing I trust him with is fulfilling viewers' hopes.
it's also mark frost, who has most likely filled a disused stadium with well-described, thoroughly plotted secrets and mysteries.
btw gypsy is being slammed according to the metacritic aggregate.
― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 15 July 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
Did Johnny Horne knock a hole in the wall? If so, there could be a bunch of things hidden behind it. If not, I guess he's a means to draw Audrey into the story.
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 15 July 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
There could be candy in that wall!
― Dan I., Saturday, 15 July 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
The promos have shown Cooper driving and also looking around concerned, although who knows what his personality will be like. That bag of jackpot money is waiting for him to hit the road.
― Chris L, Saturday, 15 July 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
He's looking for Jade so that he can give her two rides.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 15 July 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
that hole in the wall is the first step toward building a magic box to summon lodge spirits.
― wmlynch, Saturday, 15 July 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
oh shit candy, yeah it's probably candy.
Could be full of frog/locust things. :(
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Saturday, 15 July 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I forgot about the money! The screenwriters' equivalent of a lucky 7 insurance payout for the widow jones?
I'm kinda steeling myself for graphic torture & murder of the warden in the next episode
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 15 July 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
followed by some snacking
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 15 July 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
Gar-mon-bo-zi-a
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f8/2f/62/f82f62a8910480cb33b7133d020c3caa--puffs-pretty-things.jpg
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 15 July 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
Update: I didn't get to it last week, but switched out my Sunday cortado for a green tea latte this morning and, having finally tried one, can now assume its appearance in this is a callback to the time there was a fish in the percolator 🤢
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Sunday, 16 July 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/3kz4x9/the-zelda-twin-peaks-connection-is-real
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
one of the many reasons why Link's Awakening is the best Zelda game
― Number None, Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
awesome link Karl
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
i haven't even played link's awakening! i have to grab a rom
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
i sold my snes recently :-/ life regrets
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
You all saw this, right?
http://thesearchforthezone.com/
― Alba, Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
yep, there was some discussion about it upthread. i was especially curious about the hidden lat/long. i think somehow i fucked up when i c+p'd into google maps, because it led to an intersection a mile or two away from my house, but everyone else got a location somewhere in south dakota iirc
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
What's weird to me is that one of the links is to the Rapid City Journal, which is a real newspaper, and the most read story there right now is about DUNE (plus the story they're leading on is about prison escapees)
― Alba, Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
hey now take it to the tv shows within tv shows: an ocd thread for jaymc and nabisco thread
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
actually watching live tonight beginning with the end of last episode and Bobby saying, "Well, that's my dad" nearly made me weepy
I kind of wonder if Lynch and Frost's image of the Tammy character was "precocious, trying to act sexy and mature but not quite nailing it"
― mh, Monday, 17 July 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
having now read about half of the "Secret History" book, the character's notations seem intelligent but the personal interjections are kind of lol
― mh, Monday, 17 July 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
omfg dougie's arms flopping
― mh, Monday, 17 July 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
Douggie horny
...he said some beautiful things
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 17 July 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
lol Jesus Christ this series
― Dancing on the Pylons, Monday, 17 July 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
Also we was cheated! 6 minutes left in the hour!
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 17 July 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
The scenes in/surrounding Gordon's hotel room were so intense
― Dancing on the Pylons, Monday, 17 July 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link