wow, going from that delightful moment of James singing that song (which you know Marshall and lynch/frost have caught shit for at festivals and such for years) to the heartbreak of Ed in his gas station; it's like all those scenes that required us to be patient were preparing us for something like sitting with Ed for…

and like last week, Audrey's scene is in a room that has no sign of modern technology… In fact, everything was even more retro than last time…

also, one of the things least explored, amidst all the theories about the scene, is the fact that Audrey was in an explosion and spent some unspecified time in a coma, and we are perhaps seeing her living with some kind of mental impairment. she might well have been an unstable parent.

i was thinking of 'adult world' I and II…though i haven't read them in a long while…

a few things on rewatch:

it was killing me because you just knew albert was going to say something eventually, and he never did

it will be interesting to rewatch the scene and see if there are any elements of modern technology that audrey would not have been aware of. there's the rotary phone, but that is retro even for the early 90s.

that would definitely make it interesting in terms of why her 'dream' life would be something so unfulfilling…

until i realized he was saying 'audrey' i thought the scene was going to 'break out' and show us that it was audrey acting in a soap opera. it was almost like they were simultaneously undermining our fantasies of what audrey had become over the years and intentionally not romanticizing whatever she had to endure to…

and not only his own life's work…the reverence he gives to actors like catherine coulson and harry dean stanton, how he makes those characters so special and meaningful, would be worthless if it were for merely for the sake of making fools of us. any understanding of lynch makes the idea ridiculous.

yeah, i think it's also really insulting to his cast and crew, who are doing some really lovely work, to reduce their efforts to something lynch could just sit at home and do on twitter.

when i try to examine how critics go after lynch on this, i usually find that it is the critic—not lynch—who underestimates the female characters and reduces them to easy stereotypes.

the riskiest thing watching twin peaks is making assumptions, and while it could be misdirection, they've definitely given signals to imply that richard is audrey's son and that his behavior is in part due to his father's evil nature. but who knows. if he is audrey's son, i think sylvia horne's instant reaction to…

there's also the element that the fan (the hum, specifically) indicates the presence of electricity. yeah, leland maybe used the fan in part as sound cover (though he also routinely drugged his wife, so it might not have been entirely necessary), but we know the lodge spirits manipulate and traverse electrical…

tammy is consciously projecting an image of awkward self-consciousness

considering the rest of the family will have nothing to do with him, i'd guess that part of why audrey is in such rough shape is that she's been screwed over by him as well. her marriage itself might have been a compromise for some horrible thing he did…

sarah had a full-size shopping cart, which is not a feature of convenience stores

you're not supposed to know…i thought it was actually pretty funny they kept dropping these conversations about people we have no clue about, and kept adding more and more. it's like when you have a friend who keeps referring to people you have no idea about…

last week i asked a little girl how old she was, and she said, 'you know audrey is that mysterious billionaire funding the glass box, and by the way i am three.' so yeah, everybody…

still have to rewatch, but is Audrey's Billy the same guy Andy talked to about his truck getting stolen by Richard (and so Billy was killed by Richard)? if so, maybe the news Charllie got from Tina on the phone was that it was actually Richard who stole Billy's truck and ran over a kid and also tried to kill the…