I don't think the 'real' Cooper can come back, not the way we remember him.

Oh god that sounds terrible.
That's not what I want at all.

It's very much a Franz Kafka bit - e.g. in Metamorphosis poor Gregor wakes up to discover that he has turned into a giant insect/bug/creature, but this turns out to be only part of his trial, as his family focuses on the embarrassment and inconvenience of the predicament just as much as they do on the whole…

or Detective Williams' odd, faintly amused demeanor when Jeffrey brings him a human ear… Lynch's work is full of people reacting in ways one doesn't quite expect ..

I avoided this issue by simply not perusing the cast list.

See I was never so much interested in getting the Scooby gang back together again than I was seeing how Lynch and Frost would make this work in a satisfying way - and I'm still very much interested.
My only fear was that 'the Return' would be an exercise in nostalgia, and thus far I think Lynch/Frost have woven the…

ooh nice one, I mentioned Kafka up thread as I had definitely drawn the same conclusion from the Dougie detour - Lynch is using Cooper's readjustment into society after an absence of 25 years to give a Kafkaesque take on the world he's rejoining.

He does pretty much the same thing at the start of Mulholland Drive ..

It's straight-up Kafkaesque, is what it is.

hm, plausible, I like it.

ooh nice nomination - I went on an epic Morphine binge last year (the band); the two live bootlegs I have of theirs are just about my faves.

First film to make my daughter cry her lil' eyes out.
Because I wouldn't take her to see it.

absolutely it will; especially if Jade's been busted and fingerprinted for anything previously

I'm sure you've heard it before, but if nothing else MD is worth watching for Naomi Watts performance, she is amazing. If you're digging this season of TP then you gotta get on to MD, similar flavour

you think that's bad; my partner of a million years literally throws her hands up, screws up her face and leaves the room when I invite her to watch TP … woman owed me big time after subjecting me to 13 Reasons Why, too …

I'm thinking maybe Bob possessed Briggs for a time, which would explain the fingerprints.
Would also explain DoppleCooper's line about Bob being with him - perhaps he had left his Black Lodge host for a time … if so, that would be a horrible end for Major Briggs ..

no I agree; I said elsewhere that Lynch and Frost need to make Coopers re-entry into the world after 25 years drifting around the Black Lodge plausible - you can't have Coop casually stepping out from behind the red curtains and just runnin' shit again.

oddly this will be my second reference to the Thomas Covenant books in relation to Twin Peaks in this thread - and btw THOMAS COVENANT SPOILERS - there was a similarly long drawn-out re-introduction of the main character in the (disappointing) final series - as with Twin Peaks, there was a 20+ year gap between the 2nd…

Why, because he 'loved' Sheriff Truman??
You know what though, I think I held that subconscious view also ..

I didn't love it, and I don't know why.
weird.
I know it did remind me somewhat of the scene in Breaking Bad when Pinkman tries heroin for the first time ..