I just don't know what you expect people to say to it though, other than state their feelings. Nod sagely? Nobody's out here going "fuck your wife".

2/10

I think it may have been a Mark Frost thing, he is big on that weird sort of spirituality - the thing about the finger which he is clearly using to do his Frost thing and break down into a detailed future explanation of the reversed word ("yrev"/"very") the doppelganger said to Cole and Albert in episode 4. He is…

I thought that scene alone may get them both Emmys. The way Lynch uses pure blackness and sound is still so intense. He's lost nothing and I don't know how people can say that just because they may not like Dougie.

I don't have a problem with any of that. What I have a problem with is reducing the work to those issues, or saying any reason they may have for being there in the work or being baked in is overshadowed by the sociocultural implication, or by who it makes uncomfortable. I know a lot of people who find Blue Velvet or…

And: In point of fact, both Frank and Harry were Bookhouse Boys since high school, per Mark Frost's book.

I don't find them dull, myself.

I loved that gentle and rambling exposition tbh. It was very Lynch, just the two guys talking. It was both unnatural and folksy to me in some way.

I would never not acknowledge that. I just don't think Lynch is going to stop being Lynch at this point.

We just differ on what hurts the work. And that's okay.

It's just been floating around fan forums for a while

Criticized, sure. Erased or nullified (or reduced to tropes), I'd rather not.

No, as a gay writer that is the last thing I'm saying. But just because I write what I write doesn't mean David Lynch's work isn't equally valid or coming from an equally deeply personal place. It also doesn't mean I feel the need to censure him as part of some sort of quota or scale none of us can quantify. To me…

There are a couple stories on that. When she was asked by the trades Piper Laurie publicly claimed they couldn't find something for her but she understands and wishes them well.

There was also a suggestion in that same episode that Ben saw her, right before Pete actually. IIRC Audrey leaves his office, Ben turns away and his eyes get wide as they play the Black Lodge spirit music. They immediately then cut to Pete saying "Josie, I see your face".

I won't hear this slander of Harry Goaz

But we're always going to be struggling with that inequality no matter how many strides we make in future. That doesn't mean we stop making our own art, however personal, messy, idiosyncratic or incorrect.

I think Cole is both Lynch's idealized self and a bit of his id.

I don't think he cares. He made the films he made. And frankly I think they're amazing films so I don't care either. They're important to a lot of women, abuse survivors, etc. - that is valid. David Lynch has never cared about his art being filtered through the moment.

Neither can I.