Wow, Ed and Norma for the win!
That was very well done.
Predict: Did the electric shock bring Coop back?
That, along with the Gordon Cole reference from Sunset Boulevard, I hope brings Cooper back.
Loved Ed and Norma. And Shelly looking on so happily.
Wasn’t expecting Dalek Jeffries. Guess they had to do that since Bowie passed away.
So Richard is Audrey’s kid. And Audrey’s what? Locked in her own head?
Did anyone else notice that this episode was dedicated in memory of Margaret Lanterman, the character? The actor, Catherine Coulson, was remembered in the first (?) episode.
Goodbye Margaret.
Did anyone else think that Nadine was going to whack him with that gold shovel? When she came marching up so determinedly and carrying that shovel, that was my first thought.
I’m happy to see Ed and Norma finally together. Are Shelly and Bobby next?
I think next week Cooper is either going to wake up or die. If he dies maybe he’ll end up taking over evil-Cooper’s body.
Did Steven shoot himself, or did he shoot the guy walking the dog? And what had he done that had him so upset?
James good natured stupidity gets him in trouble again.
A thought that I had about last week’s episode: An element of green glove guy’s story was that it had become a part of him and that he started to bleed when a doctor tried to remove it. Was this a callback to Eraserhead?
Another thought I had: Is the disfigured guy in the other cell Chad’s doppelganger (or vice versa)? I think there’s a possible resemblance.
Not specifically related to any one particular moment in the last couple episodes, but I was just thinking how it’s interesting that Lynch is sort of recreating a story along the lines of an ancient Greek epic, where the gods are indirectly interfering in the lives of ordinary mortals, using them as pawns in their competitions with one another.
I’ve read complaints that movies like Troy were ruined, in large part, by removing the supernatural element from the story. But I presume they did it because it would be difficult to present the gods in a way that didn’t seem silly. By creating his own mythos, Lynch is able to recreate that style of storytelling in accordance with modem sensibilities.
I’m not sure yet that he has succeeded, but I would be curious whether it’s an intentional throwback or simply his natural inclination?
He couldn’t have shot that guy. The very next scene showed ‘that guy’ walking back into the trailer compound and telling Carl about the crazy-looking couple of youngsters with a gun in the woods.
‘That guy’ by the way was played by Mark Frost.
Oh. That was the same guy.
Now I understand that scene in the trailer park.
Glad to see Ed and Norma get together after all these years. Apparently Ed has recovered from his trip to North Korea getting his hair done by Kim Jong Un’s barber.
The Audrey situation is interesting. I think she’s in a coma and this struggle to get out the door is her struggle to wake up. I think when she finally does open the door, she’ll wake up in a hospital bed.
The scene in the woods where Steven apparently kills himself was quite maddening. I found their dialogue to be incomprehensible, far to mumbly. Kind of cool that Mark Frost was the guy walking his dog.
Dougie Cooper looks like he might finally wake up. What was the movie that came up and was there really a character named Gordon Cole that was referenced?
Yes, it was Sunset Boulevard and yes, it has a character named Gordon Cole.
Sunset Boulevard is one of Lynch’s favorite movies. The name of the Twin Peaks character Gordon Cole is an intentional reference to that movie.
I doubt that Lynch intended to use the movie this way when he named the character, but it worked out nicely.
Speaking of movie references, another favorite of Lynch is *The Wizard of Oz *. The second season has an obvious reference to it in this scene:
I was thinking recently that Andy would obviously be the scarecrow, but looking back at that scene, when Cooper speaks to Andy he mentions a heart and courage, but says nothing about brains.
Was Carl carrying a golden shovel or just a regular shovel?
I’m in the ‘yes’ camp on that one. Maybe he’ll have to travel in Lodgian realms first, though.
I absolutely did!
There is something odd about the disfigured guy. He’s listed as “Drunk” and is played by an actor other than Chad’s actor (Jay Aaseng for Drunk and John Pirruccello for Chad). But he could be a spiritual twin of Chad, maybe.
I agree that this is what we may have in store.
As others have said, the tribute to Margaret Lanterman was moving. Lynch never mocked the character, despite her unusual story and self-presentation.
I watched this episode and 14 back-to-back, so I’m not sure which of the two it featured in, but one thing I don’t see anyone commenting on is the Convenience Store that Evil Cooper went into and where he met the jerk dude (I feel like it’s going to turn out to be his son?)
Wasn’t part of Mike’s story, in the original series, about his history that he lived above a convenience store with Bob? It never really made sense, since Bob turned out to be spoiler and unlikely to have been able to have any significant cohabitation with another person anytime in the previous decade or two. But this particular convenience store seems to be a portal to the otherworld, so that would make it a reference to the evil spirits that were inhabiting them.
He seems to be out of it mentally, and he repeats everything he hears. This is exactly like how Cooper is acting in his current state.
That’s a very good point.
Of course with Lynch (and Frost), sometimes a parroting guy is an otherworldly phenomenon, and sometimes a parroting guy is just comic relief. The rather horrific facial wounds on the Drunk do seem to imply he’s more than comic relief, though. (Maybe he went through an outlet more than once. That’s bound to be traumatic.)
Has there been any indication that anyone other than Chad can see or hear the guy?
A lot of people think that she’s been in a coma since the bank explosion. That may very well be true. It makes sense.
If that is the case then she must have given birth while comatose, since it was confirmed that Richard is her son in the scene with him and evil-Cooper at the convenience store.
If so then either she was pregnant at the time of the explosion, or she was raped while comatose. Or I suppose the birth could have been some supernatural thing (or high-tech alien thing, if that’s what’s going on).
Recall Sheriff Frank Truman’s Facechat with Dr. Hayward. The good doc recounted that on the day “Mr. C.” emerged from the Black Lodge, he was “acting crazy” (i.e., smacking his face against the mirror, shrieking “HOW’S ANNIE?” and cackling), so they brought him to the hospital. Will later says he thought he saw “Cooper” (actually Mr. C.) leaving Audrey’s room.
It’s also worth noting that the real Cooper refused to have sex with Audrey in s.1 because she was still a minor. It would be very in keeping with the twisted ‘dark phoenix’ version of himself to deliberately do something that would go very much against the grain of Cooper’s strong moral code. Raping a comatose girl who was still in high school fits that bill.
Evil-Cooper would obviously have no qualms about it.
He may have done it for the hell of it, or he and Audrey having a child might be part of whatever master plan is going on (if there is indeed some master plan).