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

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"

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