I'm sure it's no coincidence that the address of the house was on Sycamore, while the entrance to the Black Lodge was between two sycamores.

The "off-ness" of the special effects heighten the dream-like quality of it, for me. I know when I have crazy dreams, things don't look photo-real, but kind of, well, like the effects in Twin Peaks.

I liked it the first time I saw it, then immediately forgot everything about it. Saw it again and I could hardly stay awake. Still hard to remember what it's even about, after two viewings. The villain is just… nothing.

I'm kind of shocked how similar that feels to the original series! This could actually be good!

Hey, I met the guy (Bobby Keys) who played that! He played in a band with my dad! Got to hear him play it in person in a very small club. End of story.

Not sure there's anything "almost" about the abstractness there.

I don't think so. In the last episode of the original series, when we first meet the Cooper doppleganger, he's pretty clearly already evil. And that's before BOB ever entered him.

I thought that after episode 3. Yet here we are.

Fire Walk With Me fairly explicitly pins it on Leland; when he's about to kill Laura and is holding her diary pages, he says "I always thought you knew it was me!" I think maybe those sick desires were already in him, and Bob just pushed him slightly over the edge. But that line in particular makes it clear that…

I interpreted it as the explosion sort of opened a door to whatever world BOB is from. So he was already there, just didn't really have a way in.

Well, I'm guessing that egg that we saw in the desert was what was in the orb, and that the little girl was Sara Palmer. So the little creature (Laura?) crawled into her mother, to be born twenty or so years later.

I'm thinking that, since we know the Black Lodge existed before 1945 (based on Hawk's stories and the, ugh, petroglyphs), maybe the explosion was just opening some sort of rupture between our world and the other one, allowing the evil (Bob) into ours. When we entered the explosion, a lot of what we were seeing made me…

This episode really seemed to have many visual references to Lynch's films, specifically Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Inland Empire and Mulholland Dr. It's always a little hard to tell if he's intentionally referencing them, or if he just wanted to use the same imagery again. Either way, it absolutely worked.

You are correct, Cooper is not inhabiting Dougie's body; Dougie was physically transported to the black lodge and turned into that little marble. Cooper manifested in his own clothes, much thinner, and with a different haircut, i.e. in his own body.

Late to the game here, but I think my favorite bit was that the best pun Jack could up with on short notice (after losing his precious box puns) was "Are you excited? I know VR!"

This is the reason she gives it to Harold, because she's now aware that Leland knows about it.

I attended a Dolby Atmos mix listening session of Sgt. Pepper here in SF a couple weeks ago, and one of the coolest effects in it was that the fadeouts really sounded like the band was just moving further and further away.

Upvoted for use of "hachi machi!"

Can't say I'd put it above Pepper's, but god damn, I do love Disraeli Gears.

It really is pretty mind blowing. 1964 The Beatles are on Ed Sullivan, five years later they're on the rooftop at Apple.