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

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GUY GUYS GUYS that was LOVE BOAT's JULIE MCCOY (Lauren Tewes) as Gersten's neighbor tonight on #twinpeaks #lovewonthurtanymore #comeaboard pic.twitter.com/YZhXgJm6Sr

— Scott Prendergast (@ScottyTheP) July 24, 2017

dougie as obscure force of beatific goodness

That is the perfect way to describe it!

WTF happened to Julie that she is now living in this terrible apartment

Dougie definitely has a Being There thing going on

Cooper wandering through Dougie's life and magically cleaning up all these situations with the influence of the lodge spirits seems like a great karmic rebalancing for all the ills the bad Cooper has been doing over the last couple decades. It's wild because to us, he just seems like he's the ball in this universal game of Pong, getting bounced between work and home, but he's taken an assassin off the board, fixed lives, made friends.

Belushi's character was the most obvious intervention by the lodge spirits we've be explicitly told about, right? The fact they gave him a dream that exactly outlined what he'd see, and then guided Cooper into the shop to get the pie, seems like they're not fucking around.

someone please get me a gif of Gordon, from the perspective of the detective, just standing there and waving his arms in the air btw

I figure Coop will finally snap out of his fugue state when the Mitchum brothers, in a show of gratitude, present him with a rack full of furs.

http://i.imgur.com/OQbmY2t.gif

haven't seem a frame of this, but if DL has salvaged Jim Belushi's career that's some upset.

I'm just old enough to remember Belushi attempting to anchor the next Twin Peaks in the early 90s with Wild Palms.

Belushi's actually pretty good in this, for better or worse

Eh, Belushi's been fine but I doubt anyone is going to be seeking him out on the basis of his TP work. I'm trying to think of actors who's likely to see an upswing in their careers as a result of their participation in this. MacLachlan might start getting meatier film roles again. Hell, Lynch may be the biggest acting revelation.

Belushi's been a good combination of menacing and silly. I don't think this will change anyone's opinions on him, but he hasn't been embarrassing.

I mean, like, Naomi Watts is great but everyone knows she's great so I don't really expect her participation to alter her trajectory one way or another.

I'd love to see ashbrook get more work off this tbh

ha was just going to say the same thing

Bobby traversing the nightmare just outside of the diner is so far from anything I might have expected to see in this

That honestly might've been the most nightmarish sequence yet.

hell yeah, he's been a joy

he had so much material to work with in this most recent episode

also I'm still stuck on Bobby being Becky's dad! Bobby attempting to give his daughter support and trying to help her make good decisions only for her mom to get giddy and rush out the door as soon as she saw her current bad boy criminal boyfriend was frustrating. goddamn it Shelly, we're trying to be role models, here

if anything, that nightmare of a gun/car/puking kid scene was almost a respite from the domestic horror

Already rewatched and there's something to what Evan R says... there's a distinct change in Dougie's intonation when he says "good pie" and "friend" at the end, both are deeper, more resonant, his face is sadder and seems more comprehending... I'm not totally convinced but I don't want to dismiss the possibility either.

― sciatica, Monday, 24 July 2017 03:59 (eleven hours ago) Permalink

^ despite all this teasing i hold out no hope whatsoever for dale being dale again. if it happens it'll be a nice surprise.

― blink truther (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 24 July 2017 04:00 (eleven hours ago) Permalink

I was surprised so few people interpreted the scene this way; maybe we've just been conditioned by 7 episodes to believe Cooper will never be back. But my reading of the scene was unambiguous: It gave him the comfortable, glamorous re-entry into the world he was denied the first time around. And if you watch him eat the cherry pie, faster and more purposefully than Dougie ever would, you can see that it mirrors the way Dale ate pie for the first time in the original series. There's an awakening there.

I'm sure he won't be 100% back to his old stuff, ready to pick up where he was and solve mysteries or whatever, but I think he'll have his personality in the next ep. And yeah (nano spoiler) that next episode title really says a lot.

i haven't had time to read much of this thread since the latest ep but the place where gordon and albert find ruth's body is definitely the convenience store from the episode 8 flashback right?

Agree w ppl about how big-hearted the vegas story in particular is (although it's had its share of senseless brutality, inc the pre-cuddly mitchums). The box/dream thing must be one of the strangest pieces of fan service ever.

This episode's been on my mind all day. This show is just outrageously great.

Xp to mh bobby's response to both that and the possibility that Becky was the victim of domestic abuse was heartbreaking

xp not sure, but it's definitely located at the coordinates on William Hastings' website

RE: the scene with Bobby investigating gunshots outside RR.

There's a strong sense that the town of Twin Peaks is breaking down. It could be driven by evil mystical forces or the superdrugs. I also take it as Lynch's commentary on the decay of civil life in the US.

Wasn't the convenience store located in New Mexico?

xxxxp

cherry piiiiiieee!

I really got the sense that the gunshots/honking tableau outside the diner had oblique but meaningful applications to the Becky/Bobby/Shelly domestic situation: anxiety about the influence of parents on their children's bad behavior (the unapologetic gunshooting kid matching his father's stance and mien), the terror and confusion of having a "sick" kid and not being able to help them.

Okay, I spoiled myself as much as I'm willing to and looked up the next episode's title. I naturally recognize the significance but I'm not sure that it indicates anything definitive about anything.

Those episode descriptions are as much "spoilers" as seeing that a poster has "it is happening again" written on it, and certainly much less so than the trailers I assume we all watched

You're supposed to look at them

I'm not able to pull up the site at work, is the next episode's teaser "Let's rock" as I just saw elsewhere?

Y

I have to assume that means that Vedder's finally showing up next week.

I predict it won't be the arm saying it but that it also won't be a clever switcheroo where like som me rando says it, it'll be someone connected to the lodge

I also have a feeling one of the final six pullquotes will be "fire walk with me"

Probably means Ed Sheeran is doing another prestige drama cameo.

ugh what if eddie vedder makes everyone listen to a full version of "last kiss"

There's a song by him that was apparently written for this and it's not good, maybe it'll work in context tho

Gordon's right arm shaking and his "Cat on a hot tin roof! It's never done that before!" has gotta mean something - and not coffee withdrawal

Left arms go numb a lot, but right arms shook in that one ep directed by Stephen Gylenhaal

among so many great moments let's not forget carl summoning the vw camper van with his whistle

There's a strong sense that the town of Twin Peaks is breaking down. It could be driven by evil mystical forces or the superdrugs. I also take it as Lynch's commentary on the decay of civil life in the US.

^^^this. The town seems to have become a *really* grim place.

was anyone else thrown by Lynch engaging in overt product placement for the first time in his career, that was really odd

great episode in general

Wait when?

*munches on raisin bran*

hmm what?

albert's samsung phone when he's photographing the body

I just hope that if/when Coop wakes up it is all triggered by some event in the netherworld or something. I just want to see more of that.

there have been some car moments that seemed slightly hokey with branding, but it could just be that they used cars.. which have branding

Norma's ringtone threw me. Felt like about the only thing that definitively grounded this in the present day.

There have been like a dozen different brands of phone/computer with their logos shown in close up tho - isn't product placement meant to guarantee exclusivity? Same with the cars, why pay all that money when rival brands are shown just as prominently. PS lynch hates product placement, it's one of those things like watching movies on your phone that he got really mad at once

the Viva Las Vegas sequence definitely looked/felt like a commercial

I'm really enjoying the way the show is gaining momentum as more and more pieces slide into place