Start me with the basics. What do you think of the new season compared to the 90s series?
Well, I enjoyed both but the 90's series was my introduction to Lynch. This time around, I'm much more familiar with his style. So certain things just aren't that strange anymore but I think the 2017 is more about connecting plot lines and giving some conclusiveness to the 90's series.
I didn't watch fire walk with me until a few episodes into the new season because by the time I finished the series I was too disappointed in the unresolved cliffhanger to care about any prequel. The one thing I took away from it was one of the most brief yet disturbing lines I've ever heard in a movie. After Laura figures out that it had been her father sneaking into her room at night both he and bob offer a response in sequence: "I thought you knew it was me; I didn't know you knew it was me." Dark freaky shit.
Fire Walk With Me is my least re-collective of his work. I need to watch it again but I do know a lot of the source material in it shows itself in 2017 series. "Blue Rose" for one.
I was also very surprised to see Chris isaak acting but he really seems to fit lynches music bill.
He's great. His defunct Showtime show was pretty good too.
I also wasn't really sure how the whole inhabiting spirit thing worked. I don't think it's necessarily like a complete possession, but more like an influence over someone's motives and behavior. What do you think?
Okay. "Fire Walk With Me" is an invitation to be influenced by evil or to connect to it. BOB is representative of evil. Same with the Black Lodge. Fear opens the Black Lodge. Don't know if you remember but Lara's dad described meeting BOB in the woods behind his house as a young boy and he invited him to play with him. "Fire Walk With Me". This is bad juju. If someone is talking about Fire, in TP world, it's indicative of something ominous. Owls also signify this negative energy and are the "eyes" of evil. Also, "Laura is the one", Laura is the only one besides her mother than can actually see BOB. Everyone else, sees who he is possessing. Laura has a power to discern evil.
It can be full blown possession but only by invitation or corruption. Also, there are dopplegangers. Cooper has one. Laura has one. These reside in the Red Room of the Black Lodge. The room with red curtains, checkered floor where backward speak happens. Time is slowed here. Also, we know time in here is different than out in the world and we find out information slowly through the series but as a viewer we don't really know when these things are happening in the Red Room until Lynch lets us know where they belong in the outside narrative. Puzzle pieces filling in gaps.
Cooper's doppleganger escaped, inhabited by BOB - leaving Cooper in the Black Lodge for 25 years.
Now, this is not good. Little Man in the vision while in the Red Room was warning Dougie (Real Cooper) that one of them has to die because this happened. "Don't Die". While Big C was out he formulated plans to never have to return to the Black Lodge, setting up the body of Dougie as a decoy. Notice the ring on Dougie's hand? It's important. I'm just not sure how but Laura had the same ring. Also, you are aware of what creamed corn represents in Lynch land. It's called Garmonbozia (pain and sorrow). It's what the demonic entities of the Black Lodge feasts upon and is visually represented by ....creamed corn. LOL. Big C threw this up after entering through the car lighter and thus people who knew Cooper could now see, this person wasn't Cooper. He lost some power.
Dougie (now real Cooper) threw this up after coming out of the socket. Purging what was absorbed from the Black Lodge? Hmm..
Pretty sure that the Pendrecki Threnody episode is BOB's origin story. We then see Lara's spirit in the form of that golden globe thing enter the Earth not long after. Released by the Giant in the blaring alarm room.
That was new, which is why I loved that episode because it really did explain a lot about BOB and/or what he represents and Laura's relation to it in broader dynamics.
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Still not sure what the monster in the glass case is. Was that a trap set for Cooper once he escaped from the Black Void? Not sure....
So much of the show feels very 90s gen X to me. I know lynch loves his 50s era Americanna, but I almost get the impression that he now holds a similar fondness for the 90s era too. Laura Dern, smoking, kids marrying young doing drugs and living in a trailer. Living for experiences, seldom erring on the side of caution. That evil Horne kid menacingly grabbing that young girl in the bar while her friends look on. Maybe it's just me.
Yes. He does. Lynch comes from a small town himself. You can tell he still holds familiar good/bad archetypes as sentimental icons. You notice he always shows police and military is helper roles. They are heros. Only one I think he's not treated well, is the sloppy cop who turned traitor and intercepted mail and ate his lunch where he wasn't supposed to.
Also, I'm feeling really tense and wound up watching this series at this point- like I've been fucking for 50 minutes and really need to blow, but lynch keeps grabbing my balls and shaking his head. His long drawn out shots, the long drawn out wait before reintroducing Audrey (my fav female from the original), the long drawn out wait before bringing cooper back (though he's had his coffee and pie by this point at least- I miss his razor sharp intellect. I can't take the dougie stare anymore!). I feel like the lady in the car honking her car horn at the show right now- which I suppose may be deliberately saying something about my lack of patience. Creepiest scene I've seen in a long time.
I'm not sure if Dougie will "wake up". He's had his coffee and now...PIE....what else did he enjoy? I'm thinking he needs to be back in Twin Peaks, near the Lodges to wake up. Again, not sure.
Last note- the recent reunion scene with bobby and his mother, calling back to the conversation major Briggs had with bobby about his happy future in the original series really choked me up. Loved major Briggs. I feel like if I had a spirit animal in the show it would be him.
I loved Major Briggs to. The dinner scene with Bobby in the original was great. Good laughs. As far as I know, Major Briggs is the only character known to have been in the White Lodge. Love opens the white lodge.
Gotta run...I'll post some more thoughts later...