Didn't Garland Briggs mention something to do with the 1950's/this era being the event that sort of kickstarted Blue Rose? That they'd been researching for decades?

BOB was let loose into the world in that explosion, I think. Was able to create himself and prey on mankind in a totally new and different way.

I'm referring to many of the specific Black/White Lodge details they talk about in the original series as being Native in origin, not the dualism in general.

The Black Lodge/White Lodge dichotomy is an ancient Native mythology. I think the implication may be the sheer and utter disharmony with nature and upending of natural laws involved with the nuclear bomb gave inhuman/meta-human concepts that previously existed elsewhere the ability to come through to our reality to…

I hope so. If only to give Sheryl Lee something seriously amazing to work with.

Showtime wasn't interested in specific "ratings" for individual viewings but in subscription upticks, which they got in spades. So I think they'll be generally pleased.

That was the most bizarre fortyish minutes of television I have ever experiences, sandwiched in the midst of largely what I was expecting to see. David Lynch sure knows how to throw a curveball so hard that you have to spend some time recovering from it before you can even move or think or do anything else.

I think it cycles. I remember a lot of similar writing (granted, focusing on different celebrities/musicians at the time) being really popular for four or five years during the 90's and then sort of fading out.

I mean. If your brother or best friend came home acting weird, you wouldn't immediately assume they've been replaced by empty malevolence in a skin suit. You'd think - bad day, headache, maybe they need to lie down or see a doctor.

Yeah, he had a dog leg. But the thing is that in all of the dialogue, we've been assuming Mr. Strawberry was the/a dog and therefore the secret involves the dog. But nothing about that dialogue ever stated that a dog was actually involved in his secret at all. All DoppelCoop said was that each dog leg other than the…

I've wondered if maybe in the aftermath of… whatever happened that night b/t Diane and DoppelCooper… she tried to bring it to the attention to the FBI that something was wrong, that this wasn't Coop, that something had gone terribly wrong - and was blown off. Hence he continued, lingering rage at the FBI: they let her…

That really is such a sweet scene, and it's kind of fun to imagine Kyle just talking to an empty room while filming.

Someone mentioned that every time we do the slow pan to Evil Cooper, we're so inclined to want to see the warmth and enthusiasm and buoyancy of Dale that it makes the reveal of this cold, hard, hammer-jawed lizard face looking at us utterly devoid of humanity an even greater slap in the face.

Really? You don't see in so many of their early interactions that Cooper is genuinely enjoying her company and actively seeking to spend time with her? Not even in the scene where he painstakingly admits to being incredibly attracted to her, but then states that his code of honor means that he can't take advantage of…

I think it is entirely possible that someone is going to try very hard to make Andy LOOK like a dirty cop using that Rolex.

She was sort of trying to hold things together while Ben got through his total breakdown, since Jerry is useless at best and her mom, uh… disappeared for a while? Seriously, does her mom even show up during that whole plotline?

I think there are a LOT of shows that wouldn't have been so "Yup, we all got older" about it. Lynch is handling this with a great deal of forthrightness that a lot of showrunners don't like to embrace.

Twin Peaks is basically meant to be vaguely timeless, in the sense that it seems to exist in a time all its own. Lynch has a very 40's and early 50's aesthetic he loves, and you see a TON of it in the original. TP wasn't exactly right on target for the style, looks, or trends of the early 90's either, but it had its…

Hawk's instincts are right on track - it was probably Leland/BOB. They show Leland/BOB taking the pages in FWWM, and there are some things implied about Leland in FWWM (especially in his final scene with Laura) that have always led me to believe he would have kept those diary pages on his person, rather than risk them…

I have a friend who also lived through a pretty horrific incest situation (Jesus, how terrible in this world that so many of us can talk about this with "my friend, the incest survivor") who said FWWM resonated so much because of Laura's dissociation primarily - her seeming lack of knowledge as to who was abusing her.…