the convenience store is a demonic spiritual meeting place that the spirits kind of 'dial into'. the red room is a waiting room (the 'arm' says this). the black lodge (or part of it) looks like the red room (and i think is intentionally so, for the sake of confusing those who enter). the transition from the waiting…

i didn't see the laura thing as 'retconning' at all. i think the lodges have a strange relationship with time (for instance, i suspect cooper's intuition throughout his career before he came to twin peaks is a result of his time in the black lodge later in his life, that there's a kind of time echo that reaches…

i think it's also a publicity thing. on a holiday weekend, there are fewer reporters and bloggers around to write 'ooh twin peaks is on tonight' articles, and fewer reviews of the show right after to keep the momentum going…part of the fun after the show is all the discussion about it, and that would be more spread…

'This episode was some next-level self-indulgent time-wasting straight up bullshit'

taking drugs while watching it seems a bit much, like watching porn while you're having sex with someone.

it doesn't necessarily have to be the same convenience store. the fact that in new mexico it is labeled 'convenience store' indicates it is probably one of the abandoned or mock buildings that is part of the nuclear test, but if that's where the spirits converge here for the first time, then perhaps they seek the…

we knew at the start that (1) lynch and frost have a story to tell, (2) that it will be told the way lynch tells stories, the way he has always told stories, and (3) that it will last 18 hours. what are you in a hurry to get to?

i hadn't gone too much into the meaning of the poem…it seemed to me (like the 'fire walk with me' poem) to be an incantation (i think i've seen the theory that the phrase 'fire walk with me', spoken by humans, provides a doorway for the spirits to cross over, which is why, for instance, it was written down on scraps…

i figured Bob and the woodsmen were learning how to operate in this world (the horse sounds at the end, to me, implied that they might inhabit animals; the woodsman at the station was able to take solid form but could not pass as human), and it was at that point they decided or figure out how to provide Bob with human…

if he's not the one in control…in the mirror he addressed Bob saying, 'you're still with me…that's good'…but Bob did not appear in the mirror as he had with prior possessions. to me, that indicates that maybe Bob is trapped and the doppelganger has full control.

the doppelganger was trying to avoid the lodge, but no idea about Bob himself. the lodge pre-dated Bob's appearance, so it seems at some point he became part of it, or uses its power in exchange for garmonbozia from when he possesses others.

i suspect Bob possessed the doppelganger in order to 'train' him to pass amongst humans (the doppelganger squeezing the toothpaste in the series finale always seemed to me as him 'playing' with his new existence, and then he slams into the mirror to bring up bob), but that at some point the doppelganger suppressed…

i thought the same thing as well…been meaning to look at it closer (and when it's dark)..but i missed seeing bob's face (when the woodsmen were hovered over the doppelganger) the first time i watched it, so i wasn't sure if i was trying too hard to see it.

it's really hard to catch, but in that scene where the woodsmen are over the doppelganger's body, whatever it is they are extracting shows the face of bob (looking toward the camera)…

an odd similarity that might not necessarily mean anything: when cooper is repeating imitated speech, he uses the same intonation each time (particularly the 'heloooOOOoooo' thing, but also his other phrases). when his doppelganger said stuff to gordon more than once, he seemed to use the same intonation teach time.…

if it's phillip jeffries (in some form) he's working with, it seems he's more familiar with the whole spirits/lodge thing than we had assumed.

been trying to figure out if anything we've seen explains the woodsmen. in 'fire walk with me', they made sense because of the presence of the woods (and that one of them could have been margaret lanterman's husband), but in new mexico 1956 (or originating from the dimensional breach in 1945), why are there woodsmen…

oh sweet…comparing scenes from the episode with photos from Mulholland Dr, the white lodge (guessing) where the giant ascends is indeed the site of Club Silencio…and it's funny how as Dido walks onto the stage, she is followed by a spotlight…

nor is it the self-fellatio club

ugh why do you torture yourself. go watch some full house reruns.