Since before this season began airing all Lynch would say was that it would be "about Agent Cooper's journey back to Twin Peaks," maybe A) all these disparate storylines will coalesce when one or all of the characters Kyle McLaughlin's playing finally arrive there, and B) maybe as we move closer to that point, the…

I pointed out elsewhere (I'll link below) that this season seems like what Noah Hawley's been doing with the "Fargo" tv show (referencing not just the original movie, but also the Coen brothers' whole oeuvre, with new things tossed in also that feel like they'd be of a piece with the older stuff).

It's a book about (among other things) the proliferation of so much random information in society that it all comes to seem both meaningless and heavily weighted with significance.

A+ for mentioning Don Delillo's White Noise, his best (and only sequel) and one of my favorite books ever. (Soon to be a movie finally!)

Sounds like a "Twin Peaks" koan.

If Laurie is Judas, then who is Pontius Pilate, as least metaphorically?

With Season 3, the clear-cut antagonists have been stripped away, so that we, the audience, can see that the main characters have been their own worst enemies all along.

The period at the end is a classy touch.

You don't remember "Homeward Bound"?! Our elders sang it, and so shall we…

I'm glad it was time better spent for you.

Spoiler: His book "Before the Fall" is boring.

Good catch.

Crap — Well, maybe that was him flying the UFO ;)

I agree this was the worst episode of Season 3, however not because I thought the confrontations were too silly or because I think the characters are uninteresting; I simply thought it was noticeable badly edited, with many scenes and stretches of repetitive, stuttering dialogue that should have been severely…

It's a Kevin-spiracy!

Good point — But I read that title more metaphorically, as in: It evokes David-God's Jesus story, in which A) there was a secret twin all along and B) the guy actually in the cave never comes back to life [as I typed that, it hit me that that story explains the David-God backstory!] > In the "Leftovers" world, Kevin…

Totally. Another good one that's even more of an antecedent to "The Leftovers" is the Mimi Rogers/James LeGros movie "The Rapture."

There are a lot of good movies that explore that topic, but I especially like the semi-recent "Sound of my Voice."

Also: Star Wars-esque!

Yeah, but that wouldn't matter if, as I said, there was a metaphorical parallel on the show. With metaphors, it's the gist that matters, not the literal correspondence of details.