Correction to what I said earlier:
The actor who plays Audrey's husband, Clark Middleton, is 5 foot 4. So not a midget. Bigger than Robert Reich, who technically is not a midget either. I think Lynch shot the scene to make him look more diminutive, however.
Not trying to be funny, at this point, as Clark Middleton looks to be a nice and interesting person, and a good actor. He has some congenital deformities, e.g., his hands, and David Lynch has a history of being attracted to that sort of thing. Done by others, it would be called exploitative. But Lynch is an Artist, so yada, yada.
The actor who plays Audrey's husband, Clark Middleton, is 5 foot 4. So not a midget. Bigger than Robert Reich, who technically is not a midget either. I think Lynch shot the scene to make him look more diminutive, however.
Not trying to be funny, at this point, as Clark Middleton looks to be a nice and interesting person, and a good actor. He has some congenital deformities, e.g., his hands, and David Lynch has a history of being attracted to that sort of thing. Done by others, it would be called exploitative. But Lynch is an Artist, so yada, yada.
Midgets do not exist as people, only inanimate objects Brian.
Something significant happened with Sarah Palmer in the store. The moment the creepy music started, Sarah was experiencing something other than what we were seeing. She asks, "Were you here when they first came?"...this is almost certainly not in reference to the packages of jerky. She then says, "Your room seems different. And men are coming. I am trying to tell you! You have to watch out! Things can happen. Something happened to me. Something happened to me! I don't feel good. I don't feel good! Sarah. Sarah. Stop doing this. Stop doing this. Leave this place. Find the car keys." I thinks it's fair to say that she had a vision, but this time Lynch did let us see it.
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I agree with those who say Richard is the son of Audrey and Bad Coop. Bad Coop visited Audrey when she was in intensive care following the explosion at the bank, and Richard appears about 25 years old.
Also, going out on a limb here, but I think Sarah Palmer is one in the same with the young girl whose mouth the giant bug entered in 1956.
Also, going out on a limb here, but I think Sarah Palmer is one in the same with the young girl whose mouth the giant bug entered in 1956.
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A lot of people keep saying he could only be Audrey' son. But remember that she had the damaged brother Johnny who we see when Richard breaks in and robs his grandmother. He could be his son. Johnny seemed pretty damaged when we saw him, much worse than when he was a child but he may not have always been that bad. And unfortunately fathered a child who has turned into Richard.
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Yes, he could certainly be Johnny's son. Johnny's mind is shot, but a working mind is often more an impediment to siring children than the opposite. Ben's statement about Richard never having a father wouldn't be true in a strictly literal sense, though it would still be accurate. It does leave us unable to account for a mother, but the notion that Richad was raised by Sylvia fits well with the interactions among Richard, her and Ben (and the lack of interaction between Richard and Audrey).
BUT ... Richard being the child of Audrey and Evil Cooper just makes too much dramatic and narrative sense for it not to be the most likely case. And: Linda could be Richard's twin sister (as in "Remember 430. Richard and Linda. Two birds with one stone.") We even have a (so far unseen) Linda in a wheelchair at the Fat Trout Trailer Park. Maybe it makes a little too *much* sense ... plus, it's more than a little Darth Vadery.
BUT ... Richard being the child of Audrey and Evil Cooper just makes too much dramatic and narrative sense for it not to be the most likely case. And: Linda could be Richard's twin sister (as in "Remember 430. Richard and Linda. Two birds with one stone.") We even have a (so far unseen) Linda in a wheelchair at the Fat Trout Trailer Park. Maybe it makes a little too *much* sense ... plus, it's more than a little Darth Vadery.
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Seems like we're not going to get the good old Dale Cooper brain reconstituted and repeating the famous line until the last 5 minutes of the last episode, if that.
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Wow - the whole psych ward theory about Audrey's scene makes quite a few things make sense! I hadn't thought of it like that. It puts in perspective Charlie's lame excuses for not taking her to the Roadhouse (or even getting his jacket - lol!).
My theory on the names being bandied about is, as previously stated, Billy is the person Bing was looking for. The person who stole Billy's truck, if I followed correctly, was Chuck. My theory is that Chuck is actually Richard and what Charlie found out on the phone was that Chuck/Richard killed a little boy and attempted to kill a witness. I based my original assumption on the fact that if the boy's name was Richard, middle name Charles (after his stepdad?) then Audrey and her husband might call him Chuck while everyone else called him Richard.
IF, however, Charlie was, in fact, Audrey's psychiatrist and not her husband, he would definitely pause and try to figure out the best way to tell her that her son killed one person, attempted to kill someone else and is on the run.
Or not.
*sigh* Best to just sit back and let it all play out as the beloved Mr. Lynch intended..
"Forget about it, Jake. It's Twin Peaks."
My theory on the names being bandied about is, as previously stated, Billy is the person Bing was looking for. The person who stole Billy's truck, if I followed correctly, was Chuck. My theory is that Chuck is actually Richard and what Charlie found out on the phone was that Chuck/Richard killed a little boy and attempted to kill a witness. I based my original assumption on the fact that if the boy's name was Richard, middle name Charles (after his stepdad?) then Audrey and her husband might call him Chuck while everyone else called him Richard.
IF, however, Charlie was, in fact, Audrey's psychiatrist and not her husband, he would definitely pause and try to figure out the best way to tell her that her son killed one person, attempted to kill someone else and is on the run.
Or not.
*sigh* Best to just sit back and let it all play out as the beloved Mr. Lynch intended..
"Forget about it, Jake. It's Twin Peaks."
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When Sarah asked the store clerks "Were you here when they arrived?", I'm pretty sure she wasn't referring to the jerky.
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Remember the convenience store in the atom bomb flashback? Maybe Sarah shops at the same store "they" were running in and out of so alarmingly way back when.
And speaking of Grace Zabriskie I honestly believe she could scare the paint off walls. She is a virtuoso!
And speaking of Grace Zabriskie I honestly believe she could scare the paint off walls. She is a virtuoso!
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Audrey's mounting frustration with her husband for not telling her what was said to him on the phone seemed to me like Lynch playing with impatience of those viewers who complain about the slow pace of the show and lack of plot advancement. It was brilliant.
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Could the coordinance that Diane searches relate not only to Twin Peaks, but more specifically the booth in the Bang Bang Bar? And that's why we keep coming back to that specific booth, and all the saddening stories that we hear from the people who inhabit it?
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Albert and the Blue Rose story - that has to be the biggest backstory in the 27 year history of this series. And in about three minutes, we get more behind what's going on than we have in the entire.
Of it could just be retconning.
Of it could just be retconning.
Did it bother anyone that when Diane enters the coordinates into her phone mapping program, it shows Twin Peaks to be located in North East Washington.
That location looked to be perhaps 2 or 3 miles West of the little town of Northport, WA - which is some 200 miles from the Pacific North West.
That location looked to be perhaps 2 or 3 miles West of the little town of Northport, WA - which is some 200 miles from the Pacific North West.
Since Season 1, Episode 1, Twin Peaks has been located in the Northeast corner of Washington: about 12 miles west of Idaho and 5 miles south of British Columbia, to be reasonable precise. While I don't claim any significant knowledge on the non-screen (TV or movie) sources of Twin Peaks lore, I believe various maps place it pretty consistently in the same area.
Of course, the filming locations are mostly in the Snoqualmie Valley (between Fall City and North Bend), with a few scattered about here and there in the area (e.g Everett and the Kiana Lodge) and, this being the film industry, some in Southern California. But if Washington State can stand in for Alaska (Northern Exposure), and Vancouver can stand in for Seattle (a bunch of movies), I think we're in good-enough territory.
I don't believe there's a precise definition of the "Pacific Northwest," but I think it's often taken to include the entire state of Washington (as well as Oregon, and sometimes Idaho).
Now the Fat Trout Trailer Park, on the other hand ... it used to be in Deer Meadow, which - when Laura Palmer was still alive - was in the Southwest corner of the state. A *long* way from where it is now.
Of course, the filming locations are mostly in the Snoqualmie Valley (between Fall City and North Bend), with a few scattered about here and there in the area (e.g Everett and the Kiana Lodge) and, this being the film industry, some in Southern California. But if Washington State can stand in for Alaska (Northern Exposure), and Vancouver can stand in for Seattle (a bunch of movies), I think we're in good-enough territory.
I don't believe there's a precise definition of the "Pacific Northwest," but I think it's often taken to include the entire state of Washington (as well as Oregon, and sometimes Idaho).
Now the Fat Trout Trailer Park, on the other hand ... it used to be in Deer Meadow, which - when Laura Palmer was still alive - was in the Southwest corner of the state. A *long* way from where it is now.
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Yes, all of Washington can be considered to be in the Pacific Northwest, whether north, south, east or west.
Although the general supposed location of Twin Peaks remains the same, the exact location suggested last night was slightly different; in the pilot episode, the location corresponds to an uninhabited spot in Colville National Forest, east of Metaline Falls. The Access Guide to Twin Peaks, a tie-in book, also placed it there. However, the spot Diane locates is about 8.5 miles south of the BC and 39 miles west of Idaho, which, as noted above, is a little southwest of Northport.
Another note: on the map Diane examines, two of the (real) BC towns shown are Castlegar and Grand Forks. In the second season, Jean Renault tells Benjamin Horne to deliver a ransom payment “Across the border, five miles east of Grand Forks on the road to Castlegar ..."
Although the general supposed location of Twin Peaks remains the same, the exact location suggested last night was slightly different; in the pilot episode, the location corresponds to an uninhabited spot in Colville National Forest, east of Metaline Falls. The Access Guide to Twin Peaks, a tie-in book, also placed it there. However, the spot Diane locates is about 8.5 miles south of the BC and 39 miles west of Idaho, which, as noted above, is a little southwest of Northport.
Another note: on the map Diane examines, two of the (real) BC towns shown are Castlegar and Grand Forks. In the second season, Jean Renault tells Benjamin Horne to deliver a ransom payment “Across the border, five miles east of Grand Forks on the road to Castlegar ..."
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"Now the Fat Trout Trailer Park, on the other hand ... it used to be in Deer Meadow, which - when Laura Palmer was still alive - was in the Southwest corner of the state. A *long* way from where it is now."
Duh, that's the great thing about a trailer park.
Duh, that's the great thing about a trailer park.
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"What kind is it?" "11:05!" Lord, I want to see the outtakes.
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That was my favorite. Also it's the direct lead-in to the very poignant "Sometimes I really worry about you," but many recappers don't connect the two. Gordon erroneously thinks Albert doesn't care about the good wine . . .
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yes, the whole "Gordon can't hear good" thing is just as funny and fresh as it ever was.....
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The more I think about that slapstick 10 second appearance of Dougie and Sonny Jim the more I believe that bonk to the head from the baseball is a key to a major awakening of Agent Dale Cooper.
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not just that Dern's Diane said "Let's Rock"! -- but that she held out 2 fingers like Laura Palmer in the Waiting Room.
She's a doppleganger :)
She's a doppleganger :)
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Additionally, I saw Agent Tammy's invitation to Blue Rose as a decoy for Diane; Diane seemed to know what had just happened in the red-curtained room.
It's what you do with double agents: draw them in, feed them some low-importance but true intel that you can trace and verify the double agency, then feed them some high-level false intel that blows them up.
It's what you do with double agents: draw them in, feed them some low-importance but true intel that you can trace and verify the double agency, then feed them some high-level false intel that blows them up.
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That, I believe, is the whole meaning of the French woman scene, which hearkens back to Lil in Fire Walk With Me. "She is my wife's sister's girl" is echoed by "She's visiting a friend of her mother, whose daughter has gone missing." Her protracted leave-taking begins and ends with Cole telling her, "I'll call you in the bar," which just happens to be where Diane is receiving calls (from Evil Coop?). Every item the woman emphasizes--shoes, skirt, lipstick, wine--is red. This indicates that Diane has been to the red room, or been affected by the red room, or even that it is not Diane but her doppelganger, as you say, and that the real Diane is missing, like the woman's mother's friend's daughter.
In which case, when will she "turn up" (she doesn't know either)? Cole's joke is yet another reference to a farm--maybe Dead Dog Farm, or Big Ed's Gas Farm (where shots were fired last week), or "that place I believe you call The Farm" (part 8, before things got really weird).
In which case, when will she "turn up" (she doesn't know either)? Cole's joke is yet another reference to a farm--maybe Dead Dog Farm, or Big Ed's Gas Farm (where shots were fired last week), or "that place I believe you call The Farm" (part 8, before things got really weird).
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Another device from the past was Audrey's husband's rotary dial phone.
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Audrey wouldn't have known about digital phones if she stopped experiencing 'the real world' in 1989: all signs point to Audrey's scenes being set in her mind, as though she's still in a coma. She's got the mindset of an 18 year old creating her world and it's drama.
The writer Noel Murray and I really did come away from episode 12 with the same takeaways.
The pacing of this show is not mainstream commercial pacing. There is a lot going on when nothing seems to be happening. I loved this episode, it flew by. Gordon Cole is awesome, the chemistry between Rosenfield and Cole was brilliant, first Rosenfield's blank stare at the turnip joke, then when Rosenfield asked Cole about the type of Bordeaux wine, " What kind is it"? And Cole replied 11:05...... responding with an even longer blank stare, hilarious and a sincerely touching moment, funny, but second to what was Coops only appearance the whole episode, playing catch with Sonny for 10 seconds..... That scene just gets funnier the more I think about it.
All of this lightness in the midst of madness, the Zen of Twin Peaks.
Like a well worn sweater, Twin Peaks episode 12 made me feel for these characters, in the small moments others seemingly felt weren't fast enough. This episode flew by for me. Lynch is going places others neglect and I'm in, brilliant television.
The pacing of this show is not mainstream commercial pacing. There is a lot going on when nothing seems to be happening. I loved this episode, it flew by. Gordon Cole is awesome, the chemistry between Rosenfield and Cole was brilliant, first Rosenfield's blank stare at the turnip joke, then when Rosenfield asked Cole about the type of Bordeaux wine, " What kind is it"? And Cole replied 11:05...... responding with an even longer blank stare, hilarious and a sincerely touching moment, funny, but second to what was Coops only appearance the whole episode, playing catch with Sonny for 10 seconds..... That scene just gets funnier the more I think about it.
All of this lightness in the midst of madness, the Zen of Twin Peaks.
Like a well worn sweater, Twin Peaks episode 12 made me feel for these characters, in the small moments others seemingly felt weren't fast enough. This episode flew by for me. Lynch is going places others neglect and I'm in, brilliant television.
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And how lost and sad I fear many of us we'll be when it's over.
I was initially disappointed with Audrey's return as she comes across as a miserable shrew, but as with all things Lynch, there is more here than initially meets the eye.
It's highly unlikely that Richard Horne is Johnny's son, so if the assumption that Audrey is the mother of Richard is correct, why no mention of her when Sheriff Truman visits Ben Horne? And why go to Ben at all, and not Richard's mother? (Ben, who by the way, was seated in front of the totem painting that includes the planet Saturn)
Secondly, the exchange between Audrey and her "husband" was incredibly odd, multilayered, and full of psychological abuse on the part of Charlie. Could it be the contract mentioned involves Bad Coop? Could Audrey be in some kind of psychiatric facility and is delusional?
The extended scene with the French woman and Gordon and Albert harkens back to the beginning of Fire Walk With Me when Agents Desmond and Stanley watch then interpret the odd signs given to them by the woman at the airport. That both FWWM and last night's episode use similar talk about a "mother's daughter" says to me it was all Blue Rose case code.
Sarah Palmer seems to be possessed, or channeling a spirit, and there is something really awful happening in her kitchen.
It's highly unlikely that Richard Horne is Johnny's son, so if the assumption that Audrey is the mother of Richard is correct, why no mention of her when Sheriff Truman visits Ben Horne? And why go to Ben at all, and not Richard's mother? (Ben, who by the way, was seated in front of the totem painting that includes the planet Saturn)
Secondly, the exchange between Audrey and her "husband" was incredibly odd, multilayered, and full of psychological abuse on the part of Charlie. Could it be the contract mentioned involves Bad Coop? Could Audrey be in some kind of psychiatric facility and is delusional?
The extended scene with the French woman and Gordon and Albert harkens back to the beginning of Fire Walk With Me when Agents Desmond and Stanley watch then interpret the odd signs given to them by the woman at the airport. That both FWWM and last night's episode use similar talk about a "mother's daughter" says to me it was all Blue Rose case code.
Sarah Palmer seems to be possessed, or channeling a spirit, and there is something really awful happening in her kitchen.
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I think the Audrey scene may reference the strange agreement in Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? and the way it played out. And/or the first captain of the Enterprise, living in virtual reality, and/or Mulholland Drive which I believe was originally conceived as a Twin Peaks spinoff, with main character Audrey Horne.
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whacked out theory (not mine) is that Audrey was talking to her psychiatrist --- she probably keeps asking to go to the roadhouse every day and he tries to find inventive ways to keep her from sitting still.
maybe it's a mental asylum. Something is definitely askew there.
maybe it's a mental asylum. Something is definitely askew there.
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What a rush and a relief to see Sherilyn Fenn looking real, as though she actually lived the last 27 years instead of having her flesh rearranged by cosmetic surgeons. There is genuine drama in a middle-aged human face! And yet she is still our wild, fascinating, demanding Audrey.
I was also struck by the extreme contrast between the last fellow to romance Audrey in the original series (played by the unnaturally pretty Billy Zane) and her current husband. I want to hear the story behind that marriage.
I was also struck by the extreme contrast between the last fellow to romance Audrey in the original series (played by the unnaturally pretty Billy Zane) and her current husband. I want to hear the story behind that marriage.
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Two scenes, ten minutes, and ten new characters (I counted) either referred to or shown on screen that have never been referred to or seen before in Peaks history. Audrey was the only familiar face or name. 2/3 through the season, 85% through the series.
the 26-year troll job is nearly complete
the 26-year troll job is nearly complete
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The scenes between Albert and Gordon Cole we're heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. I wanted to smack that French woman on the face tho. She was ridiculous.
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Audrey Horne in "a scene that otherwise adds little to the plot;" pretty much sums up every appearance she's ever had in Twin Peaks!
"Billy" is the man who owned the truck Richard Horne was driving when the little boy was struck and killed, who blew off his meeting with Deputy Andy, and for whom "Bing" (Riley Lynch) was looking at the RR Diner.
Technically, the Chromatics were not "singing a song" as they played an instrumental.
"Billy" is the man who owned the truck Richard Horne was driving when the little boy was struck and killed, who blew off his meeting with Deputy Andy, and for whom "Bing" (Riley Lynch) was looking at the RR Diner.
Technically, the Chromatics were not "singing a song" as they played an instrumental.
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Did I mention Charlie, that the guy Audrey married, is a midget?
I get that the NY Times reviewer and many other reviewers don't want to mention this obvious fact, for fear of appearing something-or-other-ist. But it's not an incidental fact. David Lynch made Audrey's husband a midget for a reason.
No one know what that reason is (including Mr. Lynch).