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

I immediately knew I recognized that British kid from somewhere and I finally remembered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM

Whatever else, it's clear that the squeegee-wielder didn't know the first thing about the mechanics of window washing.

Would make sense given the sounds & where the scene goes but I think he's yet to come xxp

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

I also saw somewhere that there are only 19 actors yet to come on the cast list - any big ones? Apart from vedder obv

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!

Meg Foster appeared already!

Okay, just looked that up and I am completely unsurprised that I failed to recognize her.

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

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

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

Kinda miss the box tbh

I miss Sam & Tracy

I did not fully appreciate what a magnificent old man face Harry Goaz had developed until the shots of him in the White Lodge.

Yeah the box was great. That room was one of Lynch's most perfect pieces of production design.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHK3AfAUMAEmFar.jpg

<3

I would probably pay a couple hundred dollars for a large-scale coffee table book of Twin Peaks stills.

The b/w really helped bring out a different shade of him xp

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

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

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.

^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

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.

*"I also just love all the offbeat framing," I mean

it's uncanny how well Louie's scenes with Lynch (especially his forst scene) presaged The Return

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

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.

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.

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)

why do you guys have to keep threatening me with the pearl jam man

Eddie vedder > charlyne yi

vedder is going to slay the bang bang bar stage

at least they didn't use him in the nine inch nails spot in episode 8. that definitely would have taken me out of things

Maybe he'll perform a version of Bugs from Vitalogy, with lyrics altered to fit the locustfrog.

What are we to make of the 'nut house' repeatedly referenced in the two young women's conversation at the end of this week's episode?

I noticed on rewatch that Chad says it in the jail scene too: "fuckin nuthouse!"

Don't forget that the faux-British dude and "Jimmy" were cracking nuts!

I watched 14 with a group of friends last night. First time I'd watched any episode of TP with people. I was really bummed out when my friend said it was obvious that Lynch "really hated" Andy and Lucy, and had serious contempt for them. Andy and Lucy are the tonic of the show to me - unceasingly sweet, kind, humble, nice people in love. She thought the way Lynch portrayed them - as clowns, like someone said upthread - was contemptuous. I couldn't disagree more, but I'm interested in what you all think of that dynamic. If anything, Lynch/Frost have contempt for James - having him show up early on with no lines and that "he's very cool" thing, and then in 14 to have Mr. Green Glove go on an eight minute monologue about himself on James' fucking birthday. w/e I don't really care about James. but Andy and Lucy are really dear to me, and I never saw anything but sincerity in their depiction on the show, but again, I've watched the whole thing alone, so who knows...

watching James sit through that monologue made me feel sorry for him for what must be the first and only time

i agree that andy and lucy's uhhh 'simplicity' never seems mean-spirited. even before this episode i'd thought that in andy's case it seemed to have become combined with a kind of serenity which doesn't exactly mesh but nevertheless coexists with the clownishness, and his lodge visit really brought out that aspect i think

I'd never judge whether lynch has contempt or affection for a character. I feel like he's just exploring what kind of character they are from moment to moment, scene to scene. For all the analysis of the subtext of what transpires on this show, and in lynch's work overall, I find it necessary to take him at face value, and just accept what's happening as it happens.

Andy and Lucy are the pure heart of the show and a loving goof on the idea of small towns having these bumpkin types. If there was contempt for Andy, then why the hell is he the messenger who's been tasked by the lodge?

Your friend is nuts. All the characters/actors Lynch has affection for are in this. Note there's no Annie Blackburn, for instance.

Where's Annie??

Your friend is nuts.

I know!!! happy to read the love for them here. I was just venting to my other friend about this... I feel very strongly about Andy and Lucy!

lol it's "HOW'S ANNIE??"

no she hasn't been on the show in the return, I'm asking where she is, duh

I was so excited to dive into this, back when I thought it was some 4 episode mini thing. But now I realize it's this full-on 18 episode proper season and it just seems so overwhelming to start, especially after a few years of enjoying solid TV shows with 10 or even 13 episode narrative seasons. Hmm.