Kind of makes you think about every time you've driven past a decaying, decreipt old abandoned gas station, huh.

That's what I mean about him being a sleaze. Sure, he was sleazy and gambling and whoring all over the place, but he was murdering people with total lack of remorse, he wasn't aggressive or hostile.

I really didn't like the mannerisms right up until I watched the scene where Cole and Diane share a cigarette and Tammy's "sexy" mannerisms gradually devolve into nervous fidgeting.

A lot of the people around him wound up dead, badly injured, or seriously screwed up in other ways. I imagine he's enjoyed the relative monotony of life after leaving high school.

He's SUCH a sack of shit that he reacts even to supernatural hostility and weirdness by going, "Eh, how can I be a dick about this?"

I think he's a construct, but an imperfect one. Dougie was essentially a perfectly crafted construct that did an expert job as passing at human… so expert that Dougie himself didn't even know what he was.

They do mention early on in the scene that "rumors are beginning to spread" or something like that I imagine it had gotten out that Laura Palmer hadn't come to school that morning + police had located a dead body and things extrapolated from there.

Point taken, I always forget that it's just BEFORE the principal's announcement rather than just after it.

I think it's an interesting detail that while DoppelBilly (my theory - he's a Black Lodge doppelganger of actual Billy) speaks back to Naido in the same chirps and strange noises she uses, this doesn't seem t particularly scare or even startle her in any way. Naido seems to take it in stride. I'm curious about that.

I honestly didn't even mean that as a criticism of the way Chrysta Bell is playing her - I think it's definitely clearly an affectation Tamara Preston puts on - as someone else here noted, Tammy is in constant motion no matter what she's doing or how still the scene is otherwise. It's obviously a purposeful choice.

I think it was a visual representation of how they were essentially in stasis, stuck in short fractions of a second of time, until Andy returned.

Right?!

Also, and i swear this is my final random comment, I feel like I could write a whole dissertation on the way Lynch uses and re-uses that shot of a student running across the courtyard crying after Laura's death is initially announced. It has shown up in every major TP-related work, and even some minor stuff.

Love seeing that old Bobby smile. Dana Ashbrook is doing a good job and I'm so happy he came back.

Man, I bet Agent Tammy's back hurts like hell at the end of the day from all the contorting she does to always sit seductively, jut one hip out, sway unnaturally while she walks, etc.

And Harry Truman's apparently brave and unfortunately seemingly hopeless fight against his cancer is only mentioned as asides or in one-sided phone conversations. A glimpse of the decay and tragedy, but no details.

I think the reason the episode as a whole was so disappointing was that Grace did SUCH a good job with the extended Sarah Palmer scene and everything after it was a bit of a let-down by comparison. She put such an immense pathos into every single line and wrinkle etched into Sarah's face, the implication of her…

Her tweets last year seemed to be more about how Lynch was giving some kind of preferential treatment to MacLachlan and most of the male cast over the female cast (with the exception of Laura/Sheryl Lee, if I recall correctly). I don't think it was about her character in particular, but rather the process of getting…

I mean, if I were a young, seemingly quite cultured Frenchwoman stuck in the middle of BFN, South Dakota, I'd probably be happy to spend time with an older man who had access to great wine and told me FBI stories, too.

Apparently. Oddly, that's the most jarring thing about Audrey's return to me - the idea that she's sleeping with the shaggy-haired guy who owned the truck Richard borrowed just jars as surreal to me.