You're so right. The last scene was epic. The pace of the piano, the timing of the actors and even the credits was perfect. Kyle MacLachlan has done an amazing job with Cooper and I am blown away, again.
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One note on MacLachlan's performance: both Evil Cooper and Dougie-Dale - by nature - often wear a blank expression. But the blank expressions for each of them are entirely different: Evil Cooper looks emotionlessly malevolent, and Dale-Dougie is harmless and lost.
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Thanks to all for great comments and corrections.
I keep feeling that we are seeing groundbreaking work by a true imaginative genius. Ready to start rewatching episodes from the beginning!
I keep feeling that we are seeing groundbreaking work by a true imaginative genius. Ready to start rewatching episodes from the beginning!
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The image that lingers in my mind is that of David Lynch as Cole, arms outstretched toward the vortex. Instead of stepping back, he moves toward the swirling unknown, arms open, smile on his face.
That seems like a particularly apt gesture to express the essential character of Lynch himself.
That seems like a particularly apt gesture to express the essential character of Lynch himself.
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After being furious at the cliffhanger we fans were left with in '90 and no 'Cooper/Black Lodge resolution in Fire Walk with Me, I have to admit that it really HAS been worth waiting 26 years for Season 3. Never been quite as excited each week to watch any other show. Love hearing everyone's various conspiracy theories. I have to say though: WHEN ARE WE GONNA SEE AUDREY?
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YES!! I say the same thing every week! Where is our beloved Audrey??
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If you go back and watch the last episode of season 2 (I believe), Audrey ties herself up to the door of the bank vault and dies in the explosion that ensued. I'd love to see her back but unless it's in something like the black lodge it's probably unlikely :(
Great, great episode. Lots happening and I read 3 different recaps and have not gotten any clarification on the horn-honking woman (God, does David Lynch love a good shrieking shrew, or what?) and the bizarro zombie/sick girl and WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE??? For my, first viewing, it looked like she appeared from the floorboards, soaking wet, out of nowhere and scared the loud lady to death. But it seems like this... vignette?... has no bearing whatsoever on the plot?? Yikes.
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That cosmic spittle looked a lot like what Mr C barfed up on his road trip and what Cooper did in his initial inhabitation of Dougie Jones. So I'm guessing this kid is another person/entity disgorged from a lodge? Also in Gordon's vision, are those human bodies (or souls) being sucked up into the vortex?
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tough one.
it may tie into the txt "around the dinner table the conversation is lively"
as she referenced getting home for dinner and still hours to go.
Why someone with "hours to travel" is going through Center City Twin Peaks is ridiculous, stay on the expressway!!
anyway, attempting to tie it all together. It seems TP, the city, is having a huge Black Lodge "dinner party", or the Portal is Opening again and the "conversation is lively" because lots of insane, possessed types got the invite.
Like one big satanic orgy is about to commence -- on 10/1 or 10/2 as they have indicated.
Also reminds me of the FWWM line with Chet Desmond (C Isaak) -- when delving into LIL's message he mentioned "what's missing? -- the Uncle" -- so it could be a code, or red herring.
Either way the vomiting was absolutely over the top .....
it may tie into the txt "around the dinner table the conversation is lively"
as she referenced getting home for dinner and still hours to go.
Why someone with "hours to travel" is going through Center City Twin Peaks is ridiculous, stay on the expressway!!
anyway, attempting to tie it all together. It seems TP, the city, is having a huge Black Lodge "dinner party", or the Portal is Opening again and the "conversation is lively" because lots of insane, possessed types got the invite.
Like one big satanic orgy is about to commence -- on 10/1 or 10/2 as they have indicated.
Also reminds me of the FWWM line with Chet Desmond (C Isaak) -- when delving into LIL's message he mentioned "what's missing? -- the Uncle" -- so it could be a code, or red herring.
Either way the vomiting was absolutely over the top .....
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I'm also wondering who the uncle is. That may be unrelated to anything ... or the uncle may be an existing character.
Evil Cooper? Fits with the text message (kind of), but the notion that he's someone's uncle, at least in the full biological sense, doesn't really fly. "Uncle" is sometimes used to refer to a family friend. Not sure I'd be eager to be a member of a family which counts him as friend, but one never knows. Ray? Kind of a long shot, though he may have been headed toward Twin Peaks.
Evil Cooper? Fits with the text message (kind of), but the notion that he's someone's uncle, at least in the full biological sense, doesn't really fly. "Uncle" is sometimes used to refer to a family friend. Not sure I'd be eager to be a member of a family which counts him as friend, but one never knows. Ray? Kind of a long shot, though he may have been headed toward Twin Peaks.
Honestly I don't know what is going on in this series. And I don't really care. I'm loving it. I do hope Agent Cooper's consumption of the cherry pie brings him back from his haze.
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I think it's worth mentioning that in Fire Walk With Me, Bobby shoots and kills a drug dealer while he and Laura are out in the woods. They hide the body and no mention is made of it again. Keeping that in mind, the scenes of Becky with her gun and Bobby dealing with the little boy who shot out the diner window have an even more nuanced meaning.
I reserve judgment on whether or not Bobby has really changed, despite the evidence on the show. I think he could revert back to his old ways before the series is over.
I reserve judgment on whether or not Bobby has really changed, despite the evidence on the show. I think he could revert back to his old ways before the series is over.
Notwithstanding the Bach-like patience and precision of Lynch's thematic connections, I am slightly impatient with Gordon's and Albert's nonchalance as regards Diane's known treason (too harsh?) (not sufficiently harsh?). G & A know that there is clandestine contact between her and Evil C. Certainly, they may be feigning unawareness to "keep her close" (Gordon Cole, Episode 10), but might that tact have cost Hastings his head? Worth it?
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Keeping Diane close was less a matter of tact and more a strategy to monitor her movements and communications and (maybe) bring them closer to Mr. C.
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But it seemed to me the song was an incredibly repetitive, boring, melodically challenged three-note piece of music.
My bad--my comment about the music was meant in reply to a different post.
Regarding GIFs, if your name is Stephen, like mine is, Becky's shooting scene is priceless. My wife and I re-wound it five or six times. I expect to see that for many future birthdays.
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I had to look away when the boys were playing catch. The camera movements did seem to indicate something terrible was coming.
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"When the sinister apparition of a Woodsman slips into the back of an unmarked police car and rips the top of William Hastings’s head off..."
...and it's NOT the most startling moment of the episode, you know you're watching one of the greatest hours of television ever. I was most shaken by the sequence outside the Double R and that eerie little boy, but warmed by the revelation that Shelly is still a bad, bad girl.
Meanwhile, a couple of juvenile delinquents in last week's comments insist that Rebekah del Rio's vocal performance of "No Stars" was synthetically "autotuned." I say the singer hails from the pre-autotune era and has shown time and again that her voice is pure and powerful, her unerring tone and pitch products of flawless (human) technique. Can anybody help me out and settle this imaginary argument? I swear, some people are too young to remember when singers were required to produce exquisite sounds without digital enhancement.
...and it's NOT the most startling moment of the episode, you know you're watching one of the greatest hours of television ever. I was most shaken by the sequence outside the Double R and that eerie little boy, but warmed by the revelation that Shelly is still a bad, bad girl.
Meanwhile, a couple of juvenile delinquents in last week's comments insist that Rebekah del Rio's vocal performance of "No Stars" was synthetically "autotuned." I say the singer hails from the pre-autotune era and has shown time and again that her voice is pure and powerful, her unerring tone and pitch products of flawless (human) technique. Can anybody help me out and settle this imaginary argument? I swear, some people are too young to remember when singers were required to produce exquisite sounds without digital enhancement.
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Sorry to say, but while I may agree with you that Rebekah del Rio is undoubtedly a beautiful and capable singer last week's performance was very obviously and heavily Auto Tuned. I'm an audio engineer who meticulously spends my days working to avoid the artifacts of Auto Tune but frankly anyone remotely familiar with the software could spot it a mile away. After watching that performance the question to me was not whether it was or wasn't Auto Tuned, but rather why was it Auto Tuned...
I found the weirdly synthesized quality of her voice just added to the strangeness and starkness of this new 2017 world of Twin Peaks. Especially when coming from the singer who gave us such a moving un-(or at the least tastefully)-Auto Tuned version of "Llorando" in 2001.
I found the weirdly synthesized quality of her voice just added to the strangeness and starkness of this new 2017 world of Twin Peaks. Especially when coming from the singer who gave us such a moving un-(or at the least tastefully)-Auto Tuned version of "Llorando" in 2001.
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Yep, it was auto-tuned. You can listen to an un-autotuned version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IvbyzVeiZ4
But I agree, the auto tuned version lent itself perfectly to the episode. There isn't a single sound heard in this series that is unintentional.
Sound & Vision and their marriage are paramount to the brilliance of Mr. Lynch's work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IvbyzVeiZ4
But I agree, the auto tuned version lent itself perfectly to the episode. There isn't a single sound heard in this series that is unintentional.
Sound & Vision and their marriage are paramount to the brilliance of Mr. Lynch's work.
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Thanks for the info, but naturally I'm disappointed — I always thought del Rio was the real thing. I'll go back and listen again, maybe I'll learn something!
Anyone know the identity of the (unbilled) piano player in the final scene? An interesting face. It's definitely not Badalamenti. For a minute I thought it was 1960s easy-listening heartthrob Peter Nero, but a recent photo of him shot that theory down.
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Smokey Miles. He has a listing in iMDb (though his appearance in Twin Peaks isn't listed yet).
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Thanks!
A correction of a minor-ish error: the *first* time we saw Red was near the end of Episode 2, when he exchanged looks (and a shooting gesture) across the room at the Roadhouse with ... Shelly. So that relationship didn't quite come out of nowhere. But the description of Shelly merrily making the same mistake she's fated to repeat was spot on. Meanwhile, Norma - like a mostly-silent Greek chorus - watches and understands exactly what's happening (again).
It's a sort of David Lynch trope that good (or should-be good) girls go for bad boys (and vice versa). Shelly, of course, went for Leo, then the adolscent-swine version of Bobby. While the exact sequence of events over the last 25 years is unknown, Bobby's conversion to solid citizen apparently coincided with Shelly losing interest in him. Becky sees something in Steven that no one else does. Laura, in her squeaky-clean prom queen persona, went for Bobby, until evil overtook her and all-soulful-looks-all-the-time James appealed to her.
And now Gersten Hayward seems to be running around with Steven. Which brings up another Lynchian turn: the hiding of narrative information in the credits.
An aside: it's certainly been confirmed that Bobby and Shelly were married, and Bobby more or less treats Becky like a daughter. But we *are* in the Lynch-land of indeterminate paternity. Becky certainly looks to be no younger than the age where her father could be either Leo or Bobby.
It's a sort of David Lynch trope that good (or should-be good) girls go for bad boys (and vice versa). Shelly, of course, went for Leo, then the adolscent-swine version of Bobby. While the exact sequence of events over the last 25 years is unknown, Bobby's conversion to solid citizen apparently coincided with Shelly losing interest in him. Becky sees something in Steven that no one else does. Laura, in her squeaky-clean prom queen persona, went for Bobby, until evil overtook her and all-soulful-looks-all-the-time James appealed to her.
And now Gersten Hayward seems to be running around with Steven. Which brings up another Lynchian turn: the hiding of narrative information in the credits.
An aside: it's certainly been confirmed that Bobby and Shelly were married, and Bobby more or less treats Becky like a daughter. But we *are* in the Lynch-land of indeterminate paternity. Becky certainly looks to be no younger than the age where her father could be either Leo or Bobby.
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Lucky Starch! Most of my comments aren't published, while yours appears in full, in duplicate!
I agree that the Mitchum Bros are great. Sort of "Good Fellas" with hearts. And one of them obviously in love with permanently zoned-out Candi. Endearing!
But why no mention of the beat-up woman crawling out of the underbrush in the first scene? Yes, the boys-playing-ball shots were nice, but we really want to know is where are we, who is she, what happened to her.
But why no mention of the beat-up woman crawling out of the underbrush in the first scene? Yes, the boys-playing-ball shots were nice, but we really want to know is where are we, who is she, what happened to her.
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That was Miriam, the schoolteacher who saw Richard Horne hit and kill the child a couple of episodes ago. He thought he'd been very clever and killed her in her trailer, but it doesn't do a lot of good to turn on the oven/gas when you've broken the front window to the trailer. DOOFUS RICHARD.
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As noted, the "who" was Miriam. That's easier to figure out if you know the "where" is Twin Peaks. Lynch/Dunham typically introduce location changes with a standard establishing shot. For Buckhead, it's usually that shot from a hill with RVs driving by, or else the stolid, orderly façade of the police station. Other places get nifty aerial shots. Twin Peaks is usually either a forested hillside, an aerial shot of trees, Whitetail Falls with the Great Northern on the side (aka Snoqualmie Falls, with the Salish Lodge) or - as in this case - Whitetail Mountain (anyway, I think it's Whitetail Mountain ... in real life it's Mount Si). Sometimes it's the Double R (aka Twede's), with the mountain looming in the background.
I'm not sure what Richard thought he was up to with the gas and the candle. Trailers typically use a propane tank. Propane is heavier than air, so it pools on the ground or floor ... unless it runs out a big hole in the door before getting high enough to reach the candle. If he'd put the candle lower down, it might have worked.
I'm not sure what Richard thought he was up to with the gas and the candle. Trailers typically use a propane tank. Propane is heavier than air, so it pools on the ground or floor ... unless it runs out a big hole in the door before getting high enough to reach the candle. If he'd put the candle lower down, it might have worked.
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A correction of a minor-ish error: the *first* time we saw Red was near the end of Episode 2, when the eschanged looks (and a shooting gesture) across the room at the Roadhouse with ... Shelly. So that relationship didn't quite come out of nowhere. But the description of Shelly merrily making the same mistake she's fated to make repeatedly was spot on. Meanwhile, Norma - like a mostly-silent Greek chorus - watches and understands exactly what's happening (again).
It's a sort of David Lynch trope that good (or should-be good) girls go for bad boys (and vice versa). Shelly, of course, went for Leo, then the adolscent-swine version of Bobby. While the exact sequence of events over the last 25 years is unknown, Bobby's conversion to solid citizen apparently coincided with Shelly losing interest in him. Becky sees something in Bobby that no one else does. Laura, in her squeaky-clean prom queen persona, went for Bobby, until evil overtook her and all-soulful-looks-all-the-time James appealed to her.
And now Gersten Hayward seems to be running around with Steven. Which brings up another Lynchian turn: the hiding of narrative information in the credits.
An aside: it's certainly been confirmed that Bobby and Shelly were married, and Bobby more or less treats Becky like a daughter. But we *are* in the Lynch-land of indeterminate paternity. Becky certainly looks to be no younger than the age where her father could be either Leo or Bobby.
It's a sort of David Lynch trope that good (or should-be good) girls go for bad boys (and vice versa). Shelly, of course, went for Leo, then the adolscent-swine version of Bobby. While the exact sequence of events over the last 25 years is unknown, Bobby's conversion to solid citizen apparently coincided with Shelly losing interest in him. Becky sees something in Bobby that no one else does. Laura, in her squeaky-clean prom queen persona, went for Bobby, until evil overtook her and all-soulful-looks-all-the-time James appealed to her.
And now Gersten Hayward seems to be running around with Steven. Which brings up another Lynchian turn: the hiding of narrative information in the credits.
An aside: it's certainly been confirmed that Bobby and Shelly were married, and Bobby more or less treats Becky like a daughter. But we *are* in the Lynch-land of indeterminate paternity. Becky certainly looks to be no younger than the age where her father could be either Leo or Bobby.
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Mesmerizing is exactly right. Lynch is blowing our minds one minute and then breaking our hearts the next. The best episode so far.
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Why did Ike the Spike's bum-rush with a gun wake up "Cobra Dougie," but the threat of the Mitchum brothers with a gun did not?
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There was no threat from the brothers, because Dougie had the pie.
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Ah yes, the Proustian cherry pie moment. Loved that. But is the taste of cherry & crust enough to awaken Cooper? One only hopes .... The extended "Being There" joke is wearing thin and the cipher-like Dougie character is getting monotonous at this point. Otherwise, yes indeed, a terrific episode.
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The big scene was brilliant. Awareness from 3 perspectives. Zen like in feeling. But even Gordon (the seemingly most aware) is overpowered, helpless in his perception of the vision and has to be pulled back to earthly reality by his partner. And hanging in the back was Diane, indifferent to her surroundings and others,absorbed in herself. Just brilliant.
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Wasn't she magnificent perched on that high stool in the office, towering over Lynch and Ferrer? And as the headline seems to certify, her hushed "There is no backup for this" was the best line of the week.
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I found this episode to be incredibly disturbing and bizarre but heartwarming and funny at almost the same time. I love the cherry pie in the box ending. That was just sublime. After the earlier horror I needed that. I am actually beginning to like the Mitchum brothers! They are hilarious.
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Shouldn't Dan Hedaya be playing Rodney Mitchum? He belongs on this series in one way or another.
The Log Lady scenes are heartbreaking.
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They started filming the same month she passed away. I don't know if they filmed her scenes earlier but it appears she contributed to the show in her last weeks.
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They are, as are Hawk's reactions to hearing her voice.
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And then there's the scene with Albert and Gordon getting ready to mention that place in Washington but are interrupted by the appearance of coffee and doughnuts. I'm surprised that they haven't made any connection to Twin Peaks yet, considering that that is where Cooper and Briggs disappeared, and where they (or at least Albert) came in contact with a lot of supernatural phenomenon (including BoB) 25 years ago.
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I think that's all coming in the next episode or the following one if Lynch takes us on a detour in the next one. He will get the Feds, Bad Mr. C. and Dougie Jones and Janey-E up to Twin Peaks before this is over
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Yes. I suspect - given there are seven episodes left - we've got at least one episode of detour. Definite attendees (in addition to locals) will be the Feds (with Diane), Evil Cooper and Dougie Jones. I hope Janey-E makes it too. Also Lt. Knox, though she seemed to have wandered off somewhere along the way. And - of course - Audrey!
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