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[TheGSMoeller]

Um, woah. Episode 8. That just happened.

And the 2001, David Lynch style? Woah, again. I'm floored by this episode.

[Rinaldo]

Um, woah. Episode 8. That just happened.

And the 2001, David Lynch style? Woah, again. I'm floored by this episode.

Man oh man. When I thought it can't surprise me any more..

Gotta light?

[TheGSMoeller]

Ok, I'm feeling really inspired after that  Gonna get back to work on this string quartet I'm (seriously) writing, gonna be the most brutal, alien, cosmic thing I can possibly write 

I completely understand. I felt like we were back in Eraserhead universe.

That episode on its own is one of the most beautiful creations of Lynch's career.

[Rinaldo]

I completely understand. I felt like we were back in Eraserhead universe.

That episode on its own is one of the most beautiful creations of Lynch's career.

Agreed. The whole castle (?) in the sea sequence was so powerful and moving.

[milk]

amazing. anyone know the music that went through the bomb sequence? Sounded like Xenakis or something. Or something spectral.

[milk]

I mentioned a few posts up but Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"   

Sorry. now I see it. great!

[milk]

It seems funny and almost trivial how last week we where getting exited about the Diane reveal and whatnot but with this week's episode it's like everything has changed. Perceptions have been altered to the largest degree, nothing about Twin Peaks feels the same now (in a revelation way). Minds have been shattered tonight folks 

There has never been anything like that on TV. Everyone (that makes TV) has the excuse that they're not David Lynch but they don't anymore have the excuse that television can't be amazing. It can.

[Sergeant Rock]

It seems funny and almost trivial how last week we where getting exited about the Diane reveal

I'm still excited about Diane but, yeah...seeing Laura and Bob's "spiritual" birth was amazing. But what was in the egg that came out after Bob? It lands in the desert, hatches, and infects the girl. WTF?

Sarge

[Rinaldo]

But what was in the egg that came out after Bob? It lands in the desert, hatches, and infects the girl. WTF?

What, you never saw a cicada crossed with a frog climb into someone's mouth? Lynch is becoming sooooo predictable!

(I can't get this episode out of my head.. been replaying it in my mind over and over.. this is the water.. and this is the well..)

[Sergeant Rock]

What, you never saw a cicada crossed with a frog climb into someone's mouth? Lynch is becoming sooooo predictable!

But seriously, locust and frog...a biblical reference? The bomb unleashed a plague on earth, literally infecting people?

Sarge

[Rinaldo]

Great write-up in the NYT.

[Crudblud]

Only David Lynch could bring *that* to television.

The theory going around is that the girl is Sarah Palmer

Might go some way to explaining Sarah's occasional psychic visions.

[mc ukrneal]

Looks like the ratings suck. Maybe they'll cancel it?    0:)

http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/twin-peaks-season-three-ratings/

[Crudblud]

Looks like the ratings suck. Maybe they'll cancel it?    0:)

http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/twin-peaks-season-three-ratings/

I don't think broadcast ratings have quite as much power for a VOD/streaming company as they do for a traditional broadcaster, not to mention on demand services have become very popular and a lot less people watch broadcast television now compared with ten years ago, so ratings for pretty much everything have dropped. Showtime's PR has also been vocal about Twin Peaks bringing a lot of new subscribers to their online service, so I imagine they're quite happy to let things play out as they are.

[Sergeant Rock]

The theory going around is that the girl is Sarah Palmer, and the frog.....is Laura (who's soul was in the orb thing)

Except Laura was produced by the Giant in, presumably, the White Lodge (and therefore a source of good) and the egg that produced the locust/frog was spewed out along with Bob by the Experiment (Mother?), a source of evil. How can the orb and the egg both be Laura? That makes no sense (I'm disregarding what could be Lynchian sense  ).

Okay, thinking about it a bit more, Laura was the quintessential good/bad girl. Still, I'm having trouble believing that insect/frog creature being proto-Laura.

Sarge

[Rinaldo]

https://www.youtube.com/v/Ej3waO0iZJE

[Cato]

I am behind in my viewing, but caught III and IV last night!

And therefore I caught...

WALLY BRANDO!!!  

https://www.youtube.com/v/tkzp_HM_K8E

[Sergeant Rock]

Fruitcake, anyone? 

Sarge

[Crudblud]

Episode 9 is a really nice contrast with 8. I also feel like the two-week break really worked for these two, it was tense waiting to see how they were going to follow 8 up, but they've come back with something very close in feel to classic Peaks, at least in the sense of how it balances darkness with goofy humour and idiosyncratic asides.

[Rinaldo]

Now that was more like it. Probably the most hilarious episode yet.

And Del Rio singing at the end.. chills.