That's how I read it as well, and it seemed like Dougie looked at the arm after sawing that and then chopped the assassin instead. I saw it as Dougie nearly being persuaded by the Arm to maximize the suffering of the assassin, but pulling back at the last minute as another example of Cooper coming through.

Yeah, I wonder if the mechanics of this are different because we don't know if Leland ever encountered the Black Lodge, do we? Maybe he just met BOB somehow and was possessed, whereas with Coop, BOB was able to posses his doppelganger.

God, the Lodge denizens being aliens all along would annoy me so much.

It's the odd sort of conflict in me, in that I think it fits with BOB's character and like how it upends fan expectations/desires w/r/t to the Audrey/Cooper relationship, but I also just don't like the idea of that being done to Cooper or Audrey. I'm already having trouble dealing with the Diane implications even…

I knew what was happening almost the second the dark form of it appeared behind her, but still found it super effective. Having it start so far away was great because at first you wonder if it's just a background extra filling out the scene and if you should be noticing, but the camera holds on it. And every time it…

Yeah, my thought is that perhaps the watch will end up somewhere it shouldn't be.

Why would he feel compelled to accommodate a suspected child-murderer in such a manner?

Did he mention that in an interview somewhere? I know the actor has had health problems and stuff, but if that's true, Lynch really is a fantastic soul.

I'm a little doubtful, if only because Harry is the one character we never hear on the other end of the line of a phone call. I feel like if he was going to come back, they at least would have got him for that, too.

Who has appeared so far that wasn't on the list? I never looked at it as I wanted to avoid as much as I could about the new eps.

Yeah I'm pretty sure the voice is supposed to be how it comes through the speaker of the interrogation room, but I doubt that'll ever be made explicit.

He's writing the script, though. This is my biggest worry.

Ep 9 is written both by him and his screenwriting partner on Jurassic World.

lmao this actually rules.

You could tell from the trailer that the kid died, but I figured he would at least be killed by Sickleman, thus giving his mom a reason to go through with everything.

I know Brad Bird is how he got Star Wars, so he must just have friends with clout.

In all honesty, watching a video of this sounds like something from the novel itself.

SMDH can you believe that there's an entire chapter called The Year That Bernie The Boy Did It He Won?

[remembers literally ever Lynch film ever, including the opening, oh, 30 seconds of Wild at Heart]

The child getting hit by the truck made me laugh out loud, which was then subverted by how long it held on the mother's grief. I liked that it didn't just "happen," but that Lynch held on it. I think that keeps it from being purely "shock."