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

same here, but I think he just reminds me of two or three different actors?

Big Ed's reflection gets all glitched out at the end

i hear this ep was turrible

you heard right

I've realized that I can only take Dougie in small doses, and the whole new friendship with the Mitchum brothers really irritates me for some reason. That conga line was absurd! Nothing in this episode felt right. From the conversation with Norma at the diner to the to the Dr. Jacoby/Nadine flirting. Only thing I appreciated (although it was almost unbearable to watch) was Sarah Palmer in her living room.

Ray really fucked up by not getting that ring on Mr. C before the dirty bearded men showed up

That conga line was absurd!

wow hot take

How dare u, David Lynch

Yes, absurdity is out of place in what Lynch makes.

the conga line was amazing and i will not hear different

Can't believe Lynch isn't taking this seriously, this is Twin Peaks we're talking about here.

He should have had Dougie and the brothers throw rocks at a bottle to figure out why their claim was originally denied.

That would be so much more straightforward and normal, obviously.

The fuscos getting the ID back is the best "it CAN wait till morning" since Cole et al decided to just ignore the wedding ring in a time-hopping corpse's stomach

Staying up til 4am watching TP i knew I'd made the right decision as soon as the conga kicked in.

I was cracking the fuck up from the off

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.

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!

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.

Basically, I can't stand people around Dougie act as if there's nothing wrong w him.

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.

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

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)

the dandruff reminded me of the stars he was falling through

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

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?"

the dandruff reminded me of the stars he was falling through

― 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!

I think it was this line from the Drones' "Laika" that helped me make the leap

And all the dim companions of
The old white dwarf
Watch him throwing sugar
On an old blackboard

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.

I'm still cracking up at Dougie seeming really badass, especially when he echoed "thank Dougie"

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.

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.

And give his wife knockout orgasms by just laying there like a lump.

don't forget the arm flapping. feel like that's key

Lol yeah that too

I feel like that was sexual assault of an intellectually vacant man, but at the same time, arm flappy

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

hah yes

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.)

lol dude gets around! most recent thing I probably saw him in was Silicon Valley

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.

so apparently Sky Germany accidentally put up episode 14 instead of 13? Guessing spoilers are out there...

And Frank Collison's father was a career Abraham Lincoln impersonator!? It's all coming together now

so apparently Sky Germany accidentally put up episode 14 instead of 13? Guessing spoilers are out there...

― 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

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

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.

brad do I have yr permission to quote yr description of dougie on my podcast, I feel like our guest will dig it especially

lmao it was just a joke but sure

(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)

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.

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"