The eyeless woman reminded me more of the disfigured man at the beginning of “Eraserhead”, the one who appears at the very start and very end of the film, and pulls on a lever on a lever (much like the Eyeless Woman did, which is what made me think of him) to ‘begin’ the story and to ‘end’ it as well.
I’ve read interpretations that the disfigured man was essentially the God of a universe gone into collapse and final decay. I kind of saw the woman in the same way: a metaphysical being existing in some dimension where rational rules of behavior don’t apply.
I was wondering about the vehicles in that scene and whether or not there were any recent models. I hadn’t tried to date any of them. You may have a point. Then again, I keep thinking about Mike saying “is it future or is it past?”
It’s Been Years Since I’ve Seen “Eraserhead”. I’d forgotten about that part.
My impression was that that spaceship was a trap that the “project” in NYC redirected him to so that evil-Cooper could remain here.
By pulling the lever the woman, whoever she was, thwarted the plan by turning off some kind of containment field that was supposed to keep him trapped there. That’s not entirely logical, but this is Lynch after all.
I don’t think so—I was expecting another scene in that weird way-station with the girl and her “mother,” showing that Cooper didn’t quite complete the transition to the real world, and his consciousness was stuck inside that machine with the “3” on it.
Something similar is going on with Evil Cooper; he sounded like a robot in his prison interview with Gordon. My take on this is that Dougie was a sort of homunculus created by Evil Cooper to block Cooper’s return to the real world, but it didn’t go as planned and now both Coopers are trapped in a twilight state.
I also wonder if this is somehow related to the eyeless woman sacrificing herself. Maybe this generated enough energy for Cooper’s body to make it through, but not his consciousness.
I don’t think Dougie was meant to block Cooper’s return. I think he was meant to be returned to the lodge in place of evil-Cooper.
Remember that evil-Cooper told Darya that he had a plan to keep from having to return to the Black Lodge.
What was supposed to happen was that evil Cooper and Cooper were supposed to switch places.
Evil-Cooper created Dougie intending that Dougie would switch with Cooper instead of evil-Cooper doing so, allowing evil-Cooper to remain here.
The problem with that is that there would then be two Coopers on Earth, which isn’t allowed. So the other half of the plan was that thing in NYC, which intercepted Cooper and redirected him to the spaceship prison.
That half of the plan was thwarted by the eyeless woman, leading to the current situation where, according to Mike, one of them has to die.
Is there any indication that Evil Cooper knows about Dougie or about the need to kill Good Cooper? It seems like Evil Cooper’s only concern is Principal Hastings and his secretary.
That was hardly his only concern. He said that he had a plan to keep from returning to the Black Lodge. That seems like a pretty important concern. I doubt that that plan consisted simply of trying not to vomit, so there must have been more to it.
It seems obvious that the existence of Dougie prevented him from going back - Dougie went instead. So I think that it logically follows that Dougie was part of his plan, unless you’re suggesting that he had a totally different plan but someone else’s Dougie based plan superceded his.
I agree. But from what we’ve seen, his plan focuses only on Principal Hastings and his secretary.
Yes, I’m suggesting that another person created Dougie to keep Evil Cooper from returning to the Black Lodge. Further, I suspect that this person is the man Evil Cooper spoke to after killing Darya. That guy seems very smart and dangerous.
Certainly he could be working with someone else but he was aware that there was a plan and apparently was aware that he had to resist vomiting for it to work.
I’m intrigued by the multiple-timelines possibility, especially after watching a certain other recent and prominent pay-cable show. But if the Wrangler was too recent, IDK.
Episode 3 was my favorite of the four that have aired. The other three were also good, but that one was truly stellar IMO. The opening act was completely bizarre and surreal, in a really cool way; but the rest of that same episode was actually about as comprehensible in terms of plot as anything we’ve been presented with thus far.
So far, episode 3 with the extended alternate universe sequence has been my favorite; that is quintessential vintage David Lynch. Episode 4 was a bit of a disappointment IMO; I thought a lot of the slapstick fell flat (especially Michael Cera as the Brando-obsessed son of the Brennans). I was excited to see Denise, but wasn’t especially thrilled about her when she did appear. Same with Andy and Lucy, who were always simple and kooky respectively. But here they were just portrayed as complete morons. Whatever their quirks in the original series, they were at least shown to be competent at their jobs.
I am trying not to read too much into any particular oddities, but I did think there was something a little too coincidental in Deputy Bobby Briggs (who would have thought that??) remarking he had to pee badly, and then Cooper/Dougie shown dancing up and down as he had to pee.
It has struck me that this revival series has (apart from Cooper and the Black Lodge) had remarkably little to do with the original Twin Peaks. We’ve barely seen any of the town itself, and only a few fleeting glimpses of a handful of the two dozen regulars from before. I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise that Lynch would take such a sidelong direction. But it seems that this series seems to be encompassing elements from ALL his old works. Ep. 3 was very “Eraserhead”, ep. 4 seemed to recall “Wild at Heart” (which also got slapsticky).
I’ve been so surprised Lynch has immediately told us what happened to Cooper and with his doppelganger. After 26 years, I expected him to pick up without mentioning it right away and reveal it 10 episodes in.
He’s not the kind of director/writer to “give them what they want”, but he really has. It’s been a direct sequel to where the show left off.
You’re mirroring my exact thoughts on Andy, Lucy, and their son. The two are almost bad parodies of the originals. Regarding their son: in the FB “Twin Peaks 2017” group, almost everyone is raving about the Marlon Brando scene with only a few dissenters, but I agree with you and the dissenters.
I will say that I thought that Hawk saved the scene in the conference room.
“It’s not about the bunny!”
“Is it about the bunny?”
But I did find that scene a bit confusing as there seemed to be two things missing from that box instead of just one bunny. Maybe I’m forgetting something from the original? Was that box of chocolate mentioned before?
Talking about Bobby Briggs, putting him in charge of preventing drugs from crossing the border doesn’t seem like the wisest decision.
I enjoyed the “Wild One” riffing, and Truman’s reaction.
Does anyone know if the actor playing the young FBI agent is Lynch’s girlfriend? I raised an eyebrow when she was described as “barely 30”; looking her up, her birth year is not on Wikipedia–but she graduated high school sometime before 1997.
You can’t both be right. I think I lean a little more toward DD though. One thing to keep in mind is that the vast majority of people who watched Twin Peaks don’t remember how it left off, because they didn’t see the final episode of season two.
Seasons 1 and 2 had many storylines, but for most viewers, the only one that mattered was Dale Cooper’s investigation into crimes related to the Black Lodge.
So far, Season 3 is tightly focused on crimes related to the Black Lodge. I see this as Frost/Lynch giving the audience what they want, and I couldn’t be happier. I don’t care about Big Ed, Nadine, Gary, Norma, and her ex-husband. The scene with Andy and Lucy was quirky, but I would have preferred a scene related to the main story.
The storyline that has me baffled is Dr. Jacoby and the shovels that he’s spray-painting gold. I can’t imagine why he’d be doing this.
The shovels were delivered in factory packaging, suggesting that they are special in some way—otherwise, why couldn’t he buy shovels from a local hardware store?
Gold shovels are traditionally used for groundbreaking ceremonies, but I doubt that’s why he’s painting them. And why does he need so many of them?
ETA: Didn’t see Mahaloth’s post before I hit the button. Dr. Jacoby wore the red/blue glasses throughout the original series, but I don’t think it was ever explained.
Dr. Jacoby. He was very odd in the original, but he wasn’t living under those conditions and he made his living as either a psychologist or psychiatrist, I’m not sure if it was ever made clear which; and you’re right that Laura was a patient of his. She was apparently also his lover, or at least he was infatuated with her and she teased him. He also had an obsession with Hawaii.
A google search shows that gold shovels are sometimes used ceremonially for groundbreaking. Maybe that’s how he makes his living now, selling them on someplace like eBay. Maybe he’s living in Hawaii or maybe he’s still in the Twin Peaks area, or maybe he’s someplace else.
According to The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Dr. Jacoby is an expert on Native American culture and their rituals involving hallucinogenic mushrooms. My best guess is that he had a vision that told him about the gold shovels. I think Deputy Hawk and his team will use the shovels once they figure out the Log Lady’s message.
I’m dying to know about the glass cube. My theory is that it’s purpose is to bring malevolent spirits into our reality. But who constructed it?
I thought the purpose of the glass cube was obvious. It seems like I’m the only one who thinks so, so I’m probably wrong, but I’ll proceed to hold forth on it even so.
Cooper and evil-Cooper were meant to switch places after 25 years, that’s been more or less stated. The glass cube was built, probably by evil-Cooper or someone working for or with him, to intercept Cooper on his way back to Earth and divert him to that spaceship thing, where he was supposed to remain trapped.
