Speaking of which, how has this article not produced a single "NOT THE BEES!" joke?

I could actually see some potential in him, um. "returning" from what happened to him at the end of The Wicker Man: "How'd I get burned? HOW'D I GET BURNED?! HOW'DIGETBURNEDHOW'DIGETBURNEDHOW'DIGETBURNED???!!!!?!!"

I love the final paragraph of Roger Ebert's review of this movie:

Two very different types of movie, each only mildly successful IMO.

Stormare might have been good, but I remember him being in a uniquely incomprehensible scene on a space station. Basically, something went wrong - and that was all I could tell from the barely-intelligible shouting and running around.

"Just when you thought it was safe on a weird island where none of the men ever speak and a pagan bee cult is in charge…actually, nobody would think that's safe anyway. Never mind."

"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."

That's…odd. I just finally saw it a year or two ago, and I find it hard to imagine having a particularly strong opinion about it either way.

“Put the bunny back in the box”

What was the point of Nacho sabotaging the air conditioning? Just to ensure that Hector would be a little more distracted? Or to have an excuse for dropping the money (i.e. sweaty hands)?

In that case, what the hell - in the last episode, Claire is abducted by aliens, Frank turns into a dinosaur and eats all the Republicans, and Doug auditions for a David Lynch film and gets turned down for being too creepy.

Ignore - I accidentally spoiled something.

Possible, though I hope Lynch's assistants aren't in the habit of spitting coffee on the table during meetings.

Could also be that the girls know he's sufficiently connected to local power brokers that he gets away with that sort of thing. If his father is Ben, and if he has connections to the cops (wasn't the guy he gave the money to the sarcastic "going to talk to my pine cone" deputy from the previous episode?), then maybe…

There's no proof of that, Mulder.

That's an interesting theory, but I think it's more that Dale Cooper's mind is only barely there, given how he keeps repeating things that people say to him. I'm not sure he even knows who he is or how he got there. I suspect it's a side effect of the "rule" that he and the Doppelganger can't both be in the linear,…

My best guess - and I'm not saying this to defend it *or* criticize it, really - is that Lynch works on a mostly intuitive level and doesn't think too much about social or political implications either way. And there's a plenty of misogyny bubbling up through the culture at large, and some of it is probably sort of…

I think it's more like his mind is suppressed by the fact that DoppelCooper is still loose and apparently the "rules" of the Lodges don't allow both of them to be at large at the same time. When we see Cooper in the Red Room, and in the sequence in Episode 3 with the purple ocean, the eyeless woman, and the room…

Desmond: Okay, Gordon.
Gordon: O-RE-GON!

I hope that's what this will prove to be. As *episodes*, none of these three installments have been equal to the best episodes of the original series, but the original series had more of a clear narrative direction even though it was serialized. So far, this is more like "here is a series of strange events that…