Makes you wonder if Garland Briggs had his own anger problems when he was Bobby's age.

Ella says that she's not sure why she got fired, she's assuming she got fired for being high at work, because she can't remember anything that happened during that time.

Yeah, they're building Chad up to be such an epic douchebag with no redeeming qualities that I feel like we're going to get a nice payoff when Sheriff Truman arrests him for all his idiocy later on.

Hilariously, it's the only time in the show I HAVEN'T hated that guy so far. I actually felt bad for him. Like, seriously, there's only three of you - you can't go into the Sheriff's office for this?

Yeah, I think he was messing with her just because he could.

I was seriously waiting through that whole thing for him to suddenly shake himself and go, "Where the hell am I?"

I think Donna grew up and got the hell out of town and is living somewhere near Portland. I think she owns an independent bookstore that has a store cat and a coffeeshop in it, and the only books she refuses to carry are about motorcycles.

I always felt that Major Briggs acted with Bobby as one who knew This Too Shall Pass and was willing to see Bobby's teenage anger through to its eventual end point.

Ella, I imagine, is probably hooked on whatever the Rockabilly Bond Villain is selling. Although this being Lynch, her "missing time" could either turn out to be incredibly important later or totally unimportant in any conceivable way.

No, I was thinking of My Sweet Audrina, actually - a pretty wretchedly wonderfully awfully good V.C. Andrews novel from the Gothic Weirdness tradition. The main character's "swiss cheese brain" is mentioned repeatedly in the book.

Nah, my dad isn't creepy and I don't have a sister-cousin bent on murderous revenge.

I read in an interview with one of the TP actors, can't remember which one, that "fire" in the original series almost always refers to the Lodge spirits. The "fire, walk with me" chant is about asking to be possesses/used by Lodge spirits, presumably in exchange for knowledge of the Lodge/the worlds.

You could definitely argue that at least some of the denial was a conscious choice. Especially when you see moments in FWWM like the "dinner table conversation" scene when Leland acts aggressively inappropriate with Laura at the dining room table just before dinner and Sarah just says something like "Leland, stop"…

I think once Sarah Palmer "woke up" to realize what she was experiencing, and had gone through utter loss not just once but twice, I think she was connected to the Lodge spirits more securely and permanently.

Much the way that a big part of the movie(s) the Thing is what lies as an undertone to all the horror: the Thing isn't evil. It's just Not Us and is reacting to a set of stimuli that are as inherently alien to it as it is to Earth.

The White Horse seemed to precede the appearance of BOB for Sarah in a way that wasn't explicitly linked to her drugging, I thought. Although I did wonder if the Horse was an attempt to warn her that she was being drugged.

The Giant seems to be able to enter the Black Lodge - and in the original series the Black Lodge is described at one point/implied to be kind of a "waiting room" area where people are before they can enter the White Lodge. So there must be a doorway between them, and the Giant seems to be able to be in both places.

No, it seemed more like it wasn't that BOB did not exist at all prior, but that he wasn't walking on Earth as a living breathing entity.

I didn't think about the possibility of hobos/transients having been staying in a town that was destroyed. Huh. That gives the Woodsmen kind of a new take that I had not considered.

Yeah, I always felt that much of what we see/experience in the Black Lodge in the original series was essentially a take on something that Lynch has dealt with extensively and Stephen King also likes to write about - the idea that sometimes, our brains just short out and structure grand concepts in ways that we can…