It's becoming off putting to me. I understand that all these scenes may be justificed by the end of the story, and I also believe that if you want to denounce something as evil and reprehensible, you don't hide it, you show it to give it visibility and make an impact on your audience. Also, I'm not a PC police kind of…

Damn, that was a funny reply. Would upvote more if I could

Very well acted, he showed that he was deeply moved but restraining it because he's a cop now, and all without going over the top. One of the most moving payoffs of the 25-year gap so far (Log Lady wins out, of course).

In that squeaky weird voice…laughed outloud at the return of the best off kilter Lynch humor.

Me too, I understand reviewers gonna review, but I got no shortage of thrills from the feeling of momentum gathering. I noticed that the AVC ratings go up to A when we have some weird surrealist moments (the purple room, episode 8) but when we actually have stuff happenning to these characters IRL, the praise starts…

That's an interesting possibility, which would redeem some of the disappointment I have towards this appearance of Laura's. However, it certainly looks more plausible that the Giant saw Bob coming in, and set out to use his crazy rays to create the golden Laura orb and then put it in motion towards Earth as a…

One of the few victories I have had as a resident of Argentina, and a recovered teen progger, was to be in the place where the 3rd birth of KC (the Vroom/Thrak sextet) was tested out. Amazingly, all 6 members camped out in Argentina - where Fripp has long connection due to Guitar Craft - and rehearsed the new…

As you may choose to see from my posts, I totally agree with you. As fascinating and creative an episode as this was, I did not feel that it was used for a positive purpose. The mythology of Bob and the Black Lodge was for me at a perfectly balanced point between knowledge and mystery. I didn't like to be told that…

I would have loved to have heard more from Jamie Muir, in KC or wherever. I have never again seen someone adding such a fascinating, chaotic, random but still musical ingredient to a band. On record, and as a live presence as well. Him walking around the other musicians' static setups honking a car horn is as punk and…

But now we have to rethink Laura Palmer's story not as that of an unfortunate and tragic teenager who showed great courage and resilliance when getting caught up in the actions of the spirits of eternal evil, but as some predestined emissary from the Gods to be used as a tool against that evil. I find that awfully bad…

Didn't Laura's appearance as an intentional emissary from the good supernatural beings totally ruin her story, though? I found it sadly reminiscent of Lucas' prequel retconning of the Skywalkers into the "chosen one" who would bring balance to the Force, etc. I was fine with Laura being a tragic but strong teenager…

I thought that little scene stank of Lucas-like prequel retconning. Suddenly, Laura is not a tragically unfortunate but still heroically strong teenager from a backwoods small town unwittingly caught up in the doings of eternal evil, but an emissary from the good Gods to counter that evil. I found it terribly similar…

I actually cringed more than I enjoyed it. I liked the sound of the band and its integration with the Lynchean universe, but I thought Reznor's performance was overcooked in its dark, brooding intensity. He's a grown man, if she's gone it shouldn't be such a tragic deal, the lyrics sounded like teenage goth random…

Actually, I'm not glad of the backstory we got. I was fine with "the evil that men do" spirits in the forests, known by the Native Americans, and a few modern-day institutions trying to fight it. I didn't need to know that atomic bomb tests brought Bob in, or that Laura is not an unfortunate but ultimately stoic…

Well, if it wasn't the origin of the Black Lodge, it still appears to have been the origin of Bob, and also, most unfortunately, of Laura. I really disagree with their creative choice here, making Laura something so much more otherwordly and destined than just a tragic but resilient teenager. And with Bob, it also…

I don't get that Laura had outsized significance either, we don't know what their MO is with their other victims/garmonbozia sources, so we can't tell whether they took special care to corrupt Laura. I always understood that we simply follow Laura's story more closely, because that's the one we're watching.
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I felt this too. This episode had some unfortunate shades of "midichlorianism" for me, i.e. the retconning of what was until now a mostly mysterious and mythological explanation of the fictional cosmos, which I could accept as such and simply part of the backstory in the universe I was entering. The retconning makes…

As a George supporter, I used to find it hard to enjoy WYWY as much as I thought I should, being George's only contribution. But nowadays I find its absolute lack of any rock instrumentation extremely refreshing, its melody pleasantly hypnotic, and its contribution to the album essential in taking in ¡the world!…

Yes, I watched that scene - it was utter bogus. It looked like a tacky Trump resort in Florida with a Mexican theme, all Hawaiian shirts, palm trees and moustached men. I would like to think it was camp. This time I got a flash of recognition from the actual urban landscape of the city, before I even realized that it…

OK, that would fall under the "something I can't fathom" category. As long as it doesn't leave us angry at all the time we've spent discussing all these loose ends in places like these, I'll take it. I don't need to see good triumph over evil, etc. Just a bit of viewer satisfaction