There are a lot of weird things about it. Bob possessed Leland - he "pulled the ripcord" before Leland killed himself - but physically Leland was still Leland. But Bob could also appear separately from Leland like in the vision after that song James and Company are singing. Then Dale Cooper goes into the Black…

Yeah, for real, that scene was pretty straightforward.

See, "everything with Audrey" is basically Doc Hayward's line "I think he was visiting Audrey in the ICU." The only reason it's possible to read into that line is that it offers so little.

While I could certainly be wrong, I think it's a little weird that people are jumping directly to "Bob Cooper raped everybody!" based on a single line about him visiting Audrey in the ICU and what I will steadfastly argue is a misreading of Diane's previous interactions with Dale Cooper.

Robert Forster is such a great actor that even though a) it was one side of a phone conversation and b) I know Michael Ontkean isn't in the series, his gruff sorrow over his brother's health was really moving.

I would argue the opposite - since Dougie disappears into the Black Lodge in exchange for Cooper, and since he was made (apparently) with the "jade owl" ring that's associated with the Lodge somehow, I think he was probably a "dummy" that Bob Cooper made to take his place in the Lodge when the time came.

The guy Andy was interviewing was the owner of the truck Little Horne was driving when he hit that kid. The truck is conspicuously in the background of the scene during their conversation about the truck. Sorry, I'm just surprised that this one is making the rounds as a mystery.

There's an interview on the Twin Peaks DVDs someplace where Mark Frost makes a pretty horrid comment about Laura's death being a foregone conclusion because she was a victim of parental sexual abuse. It's kind of tossed off, and he probably wasn't thinking about the implications of that statement (which again, holy…

In the original series (acknowledging that strict continuity is not a priority here) it's explicit that Bob takes control of Leland, and Leland's death scene involves him suddenly (and, it's implied, for the first time) realizing all the awful shit he's done. That concept is blurrier elsewhere, and it's also worth…

Whoa, whoa, let's at least stick to the show's insane cosmology here - Evil Cooper isn't the evil inside Cooper, it's Cooper possessed by a demon named Bob.

Yeah, I don't agree with the (surprisingly foregone) conclusion that Diane's last encounter with Cooper was with Evil Cooper. Diane seems angry at Cooper (what with the constant "fuck you"s) right up until she sees Evil Cooper in the prison. Then they have a strange conversation where she pushes him for details of…

He's in the first or second episode - after the scene where Matthew Lillard argues with his wife in jail, the camera slowly pans to another jail cell, where the straggly shadow-person is sitting on a bench and then fades away (except his face). I assume he's one of the demons from the Lodge, since a) he keeps…

I sort of like how this show appears to be introducing a segment of the public to the idea that sometimes visually narratives are paced very slowly.

There's something interesting about the fact that instead of Cooper's usual prompts (little balls of light or glimpses of the Other Place), the Arm actually appeared and spoke to him.

Yeah, given the rapid change in her temperament from "fuck you" to trembling and pounding liquor, I'd say that whatever issues she had with Cooper were human issues with human Cooper, not demon issues with Demon Cooper.

I tend to agree with you - when she's talking with Cole and Albert she seems annoyed by Cooper, but after seeing Evil Cooper she seems terrified by him. Also, Evil Cooper seems like he has some trouble recounting the details of their last meeting. I suspect some heartbreak that a demon can't fathom.

It was a perfect, odd sight-gag - he pushes a lever disguised as a little Pacific Northwest tchotchke, and a computer monitor rises out of the wood paneling on his desk. It's the kind of "futuristic" technology they used to highlight in the 60s, but he's just using Skype.

Re; the free market, my only tentative hope is that FCC deregulation opens a door for smaller ISPs to market their services on a "we don't sell your info" platform. Of course current high-speed internet is based on fiberoptic infrastructure that smaller ISPs couldn't offer…

The Enlightenment asked these questions about reality while simultaneously developing philosophical tools like empiricism and inductive reasoning to help systematically evaluate our experience of reality. Conspiracy-mongoring takes a pseudo-Enlightenment version of skepticism, fuses it to a more Medieval distaste for…

I also take issue with the article's assertion that Justin Bieber is more "relevant" than Hanson.