did albert mention chet when talking to tammy? I can't remember.
― akm, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Yeah
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
Also worth noting that the Missing Pieces (to the extent that they are 'canon') pretty decisively deep six the Deer Meadow dream theory (largely because said theory was supported largely by what Lynch had omitted from/altered in FWWM) and feature, for instance, Cooper discussing Desmond's disappearance with Sam Stanley.
― Gravy Zebra (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
well Desmond was kind of a prick, who would want him back
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
I don't know if Jeffries wound up in the Black Lodge because he came into possession of the ring, but it does seem as if his phone has a little ring.
― Always Be Cropdusting (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
xp I mean Albert's a prick too but I feel like they'd bother looking for him if he were gone (dgmw I know chet's no Albert)
I could be fuzzy on the ins & outs of the dream theory but my understanding is that those missing pieces scenes would also be part of the dream?
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
One of my favorite things about this is how many scenes we've had that are odd and unsettling and sometimes funny whose relationship to the whole is a bit mysterious and elliptical. That's such a rarity in tv, and these brief bits that are more than "set pieces", that have their own internal weird logic that lasts for the length of the scene, are Lynch at his best imo.
So there's lots of stuff still unresolved that I'm actively hoping does not get resolved.
And (unrelated) since Mr. C seems committed to murdering his former helpers I can't wait for Tim Roth to die a pathetic and humiliating death, easily my least favorite performance of the 200 or so so far.
― sciatica, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
a more chill,chrome caterpillar from alice in wonderland.
the more I think about it the more this seems otm, right down to the steam/smoke-blown numbers, which is very: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia3.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FvJ6LGDsUHG5RS%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
xxpost It's worth reading the entire essay if you can find it (I read it in the recently-released Wrapped In Plastic-affiliated book) as it goes into great detail in pointing out how the deliberate deletion of scenes and alterations to the shooting script not only compensated for MacLachlan's limited involvement (as the original script featured him going through the Deer Meadow investigation) but threw out pointed suggestions that what we were seeing was not objective reality (the suggestion being, I believe, that the film up through Jeffries appearing and disappearing was Cooper's mind sorting through the details of the Blue Rose cases). I believe the theory hinged on the idea that we never actually saw Cooper in the real world in FWWM (or Jeffries, for that matter), which doesn't really hold water if you take the Missing Pieces into account.
― Always Be Cropdusting (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm not into Roth at all. I could live without the hutches in general tbh, much as I love jjl. Someone upthread said their scene this ep was like an ott Tarantino riff, to me that describes all their scenes
xps
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
" I can't wait for Tim Roth to die a pathetic and humiliating death"
at some point tim roth became an unbearable actor to me, I don't know when.
― akm, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
Q
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
he's fine for me, there's just not that much material for him to work with
― mh, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Oh I've read the essay (we see Cooper in the real world in fwwm, saying "the killer will strike again" into his dictaphone and talking to Albert about the next victim); I don't know where that missing piece was supposed to go but I think it can be part of the dream. You just have to bend the text to force it in, which has always been the case with that theory.
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
I didn't mean to post the letter Q just now btw
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
I thought it was a Bible textual criticism gag...
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
i really dislike the cooper dream theory btw
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah Thorne has been quite upfront about the fact that the theory essentially stems from his just not liking the deer meadow section on first watch*, which is a bad starting point imo
* and I suspect a lot of ppl picked it up and ran with it because it explained continuity not matching, which wtf you are banned from watching twin peaks
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Speaking of theories has anyone considered the possibility that Dougie electrocuting himself killed him and that there's now only one Coop?
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
No
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
covered upthread
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
I'm sticking with my "receiving a download from the beyond" theory until proven differently
― mh, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
it was the first thing that came to mind upon viewing, especially after Jeffries said "so you are Cooper"... anyway I'm sure it's extremely unlikely but whatever
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
i must have missed it in my fever to catch up with the thread xposts
I will feel really heartbroken if the first thing he says is "Janey, I'm sorry, I don't know how to explain this... but I'm not Dougie"
of course then we find out Janey-E has been a double agent the entire time and, while she's enjoyed her marriage, she knew Dougie was fake
― mh, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
also maybe Sonny Jim turns into a gold bean
― mh, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
Janey-E dies heroically, Sonny Jim adopted by Jade
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
There only being one coop is like... the end
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
yes precisely. idk, it would be interesting.
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Speaking of Dale's new family, I read the Bocko review of this part and he's really unbothered about the possibility of anything bad going down in Vegas, assuming the hutch threat will be neutralised in typical Dougie fashion. I hope that's true but I feel like we've had about 3 episodes of Janey "I'm so happy, everything's going great, no bad thing could possibly happen now" b/w Chantal "I can't wait to torture someone, good thing we have all these killings to do in Las Vegas ps I like junk food can't remember if i mentioned before"
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
the other possibility that occurred to me is that right after he shoved that fork into the outlet, his body disappeared as he was transported to the lodge
― mh, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
yeah seems like next step is JJL+Roth vs Dougie...? BOB's run out of other options
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah and obviously Dale will survive that as well I'm just worried for Janey and sonny jim
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
janey seems pretty tough
― na (NA), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
I agree but a sniper rifle is a sniper rifle
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
(I think we'll see Janey & Diane at some point so she'll prob be ok. Sonny Jim tho)
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
That would fucking suck
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
xp obv
My quibble with the structure of this show, especially in this final stretch, is that it's not always clear what's important. That Sarah Palmer scene in particular... in the original series, the reveal that Leland was possessed was a massive game changer. Now a character we've known for 25 years can rip her face off and kill somebody and it may or may not be a big deal at all.
The supernatural stuff was always the most interesting part of the original series to me, but now there's so much of it, and it happens so indiscriminately it doesn't have the same impact at all
― Evan R, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
My quibble with the structure of this show, especially in this final stretch, is that it's not always clear what's important.
This is a feature, not a bug
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
otm
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
xp oh yeah, it's intrinsic to the series, and those digressions often pay off beautifully. But it definitely costs the show some narrative drive. Like, there's no such thing as a cliffhanger in this series now, because there's no guarantee any given thread will even be mentioned again
― Evan R, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
I will go way out on a limb and suggest that the Sarah Palmer scene will turn out to be a big deal
― streeps of range (wins), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
feels like that's the overarching theme of this season: the original Twin Peaks, and some of the material after that, had these characters that were trying to find out more about these otherworldly things, either because they'd seemingly stumbled into them like Cooper investigating Laura's murder, or Major Briggs doing research and finding out details very slowly
the things that happened twenty-five years ago seem to have been a tipping point, with the atomic explosion being the initial incursion point, and things have just been leaking through and affecting the real world for a couple decades
― mh, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
On Coup putting the fork in the socket: what we saw was Janey-E going "eeeeeek!" looking at 'us' (in the camera). She was standing in the kitchen iirc. Did she see whatever happened to him when he put the fork in, or not? I though there was a wall between the kitchen and the room he was in.
Just asking to determine if we think she saw something happening or just heard something terrible, don't know how we were supposed to understand this.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
i dont think we are supposed to care
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
dude..
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/34/1a/81/341a819c6917b8bb28908586e544c9e3.jpg
― Brad C., Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
xp yeah she wasn't in a position to be able to see him, she just heard it + saw the flash of light
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
i almost teared up at the big ed and norma moment. for me, the moments in this show that i've really enjoyed have mainly been those that focus on interactions between characters from the original series. if I'm totally honest i really have gotten little to nothing out of buckhorn, vegas, tim roth and jjl, audrey and husband, roadhouse booth conversations, and tbh the albert, gordon, and tammy stuff hasn't been particularly to my liking either. it's not really the tenor of this thread but i basically find this season disappointing, but with great moments and the odd really strong episode. not really all that different from my feelings about season 2 tbh, in fact maybe i enjoyed that more.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link