or his daughter getting blown up in a bank vault?

yeah it was like most people's expectation was that she would be more like her character in blue velvet (since McLaughlin seems to be, and the longtime push for her as Diane was inspired by that film), and they intentionally frustrated that expectation.

a couple times this episode it seemed they were intentionally emphasizing her resemblance to Diane Ladd

but it was also sad that he seemed hesitant about comforting Diane, I'm guessing because of his conversation with Denise about female agents.

there's a pretty strong theory that the first part of fire walk with me is a dream Cooper had (it was Cooper who actually investigated the Banks case, and in the dream he creates a new agent to try to solve it, and Jeffries communicates with Cooper through that dream).

if sexual abuse is merely a punchline to you, the reason you don't have a dog in this fight is likely that you are a dog in this fight.

i'm curious as to her reference to dougie's previous 'episodes', plus the fact that people around dougie aren't too thrown by his behavior (which, yeah, might be emphasizing a different point about our self-involvement). dougie was manufactured, perhaps with the help of bob's allies in the lodge. maybe that could…

everyone at the table was assuming James was looking at someone else, but we don't know that's the case. when you add in Shelly's praise of him, i thought it was just as likely that he was looking at Shelly and that maybe there's some possibility there (and would be interesting if James moved in on yet another of…

the misogyny claims skip the fact that the show made a point of commenting on gordon's attraction to female agents combined with the emphasis on tammy preston's appearance and how gorden and albert look at her as she's walking away. considering she's the author of 'secret history of twin peaks', i get the feeling her…

not too worried about the show not spending enough time in twin peaks. consider how much town/character exploration we got just in the first season, and that amounted to only about six hours (accounting for commercials); we still have 12 hours to go.

and it's like did people forget how long that room service dude stood over a bleeding cooper, or how long it took that bank dude to cross from one side of the room to the other. that pacing was always there, and the space it provided was part of why many of us fell in love with it.

yeah, i tried to come into it without expectations, but just in the first six episodes it has affected me and blown me away more than i could have predicted over the course of the entire season. i feel like part of it is that, having been taking to incredible places by lynch before, i trust him to take me back…

there was also affection and fellowship to anchor things'

look who she was with before—leo, bobby. for a woman Shelley's age who was into the bad boys when she was younger (and as she deals with seeing it in her own daughter now), i'm sure she has a different view of guys like James.

i'm betting that later episodes are going to bring cooper and his doppelganger and the fbi all together in twin peaks for some kind of battle over the black lodge, and that's where we're going to see the town almost exclusively as the site of events; until then, we get brief check-ins that are relevant to the story…

personally, i don't find a qualitative difference between connecting with something and being tricked into thinking i'm connecting with something, when i'm getting the same thing out of it. but then, if somebody finds the meaning of life in a lady gaga lyric, i don't see the point in intellectualizing a pretext for…

so you were saying you're a network executive?

gurl, even the fat trout has a doppelganger…

the indications seem to be that everything is converging on twin peaks…the black lodge is the center of everything, and the showdown between cooper and his doppelganger looks like it could include a fight for the soul of the town.

there are too many layers of narrative in that hit-and-run scene for it to be dismissed as cheap.