Urthman

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  1. Posted

    My future holds alot including you
    And online shopping sounds fantastic too

     

    I won a chocolate bar in school today
    Mistakes were clearly made along the way.

     

    My sister thinks miami is a state
    im gonna take her on a ice-cream date.. ::)

     

    Real music isn't on the radio.
    Who doesn't like a ballerina though?

     

    I'm cut and weeping like a rubber tree
    your twitter drama doesn't interest me

     

    My new obsession after ruby red
    food, shower, cellphone search, assignment, bed.

     

    I'm getting back into the gym today
    DELAY DELAY DELAY DELAY DELAY...

     

    Our thoughts determine our reality.
    The person you were kissing wasn't me.

     

    I'm tired of pretending I'm okay
    I wanna be a mermaid for a day

     

  14. Posted

    On 9/8/2017 at 8:40 PM, Jake said:
    I just read this theory that DOES attempt to connect every single thing together. It doesn't ring emotionally true to me, to what I got out of the season, but it was still an interesting read: http://www.waggish.org/2017/twin-peaks-finale/

     

    While much of that seems to go too far into writing his own story that fits with what we saw, I really like the idea that Coop and Dianne are having sex in an attempt to summon the creature that killed the young couple having sex in Episode 1 (which must have been captured on film and seen by--Bad Coop? the FBI?)  It explains a lot of how they interact in that scene and provides significance to what otherwise seems like a gratuitous horror trope in the first episode.

    Also huge slap to the forehead for the observation that Naido flipping the switch from 15 to 3 corresponds with Cooper fully coming to himself back outside the Lodge in Episode 15 rather than when he attempted to leave in Episode 3.  I hate/love/hate/love it.

  16. Posted

    17 hours ago, Mentalgongfu said:

    Cooper looked very much like Mr. C during the sex scene with Diane. I think this was intentional, as I have seen I'm not the only one in the audience who made the connection. No idea what it means yet, but kind of goes along with the black hat idea.

     

    I wonder if that was meant to be Diane's perspective?  No matter how glad Diane was to be with the real Cooper, it seems hard to believe she could kiss him or have sex with him without having traumatic thoughts about Bad Coop. Cooper could have been grinning like Dougie when they were having sex, and she might still see Bad Coop's face.  It was frightening the way she was completely covering his face with her hands.

  17. Posted

    I think that Lynch/Frost did not have a lot of great ideas for Twin Peaks plots; they had a lot of great ideas for Twin Peaks scenes, and decided those were worth filming even if they had nowhere to go with them.

    For instance, if Lynch came to me and described the scenes he had planned for Audrey Horn and said, "But I have no good ideas where to go with that; whether she's in a coma or a dream or a spirit realm--none of those ideas seem to lead anywhere interesting." I would say, just go ahead and film what you've got, because that final scene at the road house is sublime. That scene of Steven and Gersten nestled in the roots of a gigantic tree, cowering on the edge of violent death, was incredible and shouldn't be cut out just because Lynch doesn't have a great idea to answer the question of what exactly Steven did that got them there.

    The resolution to Bad Coop can be seen as Lynch saying, "Look, I could try to resolve everything left dangling, but it wouldn't be very good. Wouldn't you rather I just move on to the ideas I have for scenes that I think will be good?"

    And that's the nature of soap operas. They never end. They're always dangling new plots, so no matter where you stop, you're always left with lots of things unresolved. If you don't enjoy the journey for its own sake, you might as well skip it. 

  19. Posted

    If you had told me before the show started that Lynch was put Sherilyn Fenn out on the dance floor and have her do Audrey's Dance again, I would have thought for sure it was going to be the worst sort of lazy "Hey remember this thing? Here it is again!" approach to reviving/revisiting old TV shows.  But instead it was one of the most beautiful and eerie moments in the whole series.

     

    For one thing, when was the last time you got to see a woman of Fenn's age and build dance on TV and she's not an object of ridicule and she's not dancing to seduce some dude, just because she's caught up in a song?  And that song/dance always seemed like Audrey's way of escaping Twin Peaks, dreaming of being elsewhere, dreaming of being with Cooper -- for it to be the means of escaping whatever purgatory she's been trapped in (and maybe also some awareness that Cooper is back?), and seeing her finally smile for the first time (as well as that uncanny introduction and the swaying of the crowd) was all so good.

     

    This series has been full of moments that would have sounded like a total disaster on paper but that Lynch has really made work.  It's amazing.

  20. Posted

    I think the reason Hutch and Chantel's fate doesn't seem like a cheat is that they had already lost.  The FBI is there, the mobsters are there with their guns, Dougie isn't even coming back to the house--there's no possible way they can carry out their hit.  So having them die picking a fight with a random stranger rather than being ambushed by the FBI and/or the mob ends up giving them more agency rather than less.

  23. Posted

    1 minute ago, Jake said:

    I don't buy this. I think it's easy to think that because it's the show we got. BOB manifests as a sexual predator when he guides Leland's hand, but does that mean it had to apply to Cooper? If it "must" mean that, they also had the choice to tell the story differently than they did, and actually focus on it on anything resembling a human (and I'd argue, actually interesting) level. Instead - up to this point at least - I feel like we're watching an attempt to have cake and eat it. "Well yes he would be a rapist and isn't it totally fucked up that he'd be a rapist? Anyway moving on to cool meta-arc lore..."

     

    I don't know what else you could think was meant by Cooper/BOB cackling about "Annie? Annie?!" 

     

    I agree with you that they could have contrived some reason that Bad Coop wasn't able to do those things, but Twin Peaks has, I hate to say, always been about women getting assaulted.  Cooper and the agents in Fire Walk With Me are investigating a string of these crimes (are we to think Leland killed all the women with letters under their nails?).  I wish it weren't.

    I also agree with you that if this is where Lynch wanted to go with the plot he ought to have done much more to make women subjects rather than objects, which I think was why the treatment of this subject in Fire Walk With Me is better.

  24. Posted

    40 minutes ago, Nordelnob said:

    Having some evil version of you running around doing such horrible things like rape and murdering people.. it's just unthinkable. it's the worst kind of violation. people you love now think you did this to them. I can't think of anything worse.

     

    Being raped is probably worse than having an evil doppelganger do those things.  Being raped is definitely worse than people thinking you are a rapist.

  25. Posted

    As much as I hate hate hate the idea of rape being part of Diane's story and Audrey's story, I feel like that die was cast as soon as they decided the premise of Season Three is Bad Coop has been on the loose for 25 years.

     

    Because the whole entire reason the cliff hanger at the end of Season Two is so horrible is the implication that Cooper has become what Leland Palmer was, that he's going to go hurt Annie and any other women that Cooper cares about.  (Which was, I hope, originally an--unless Sheriff Truman & his crew can somehow stop him and/or the Real Cooper escapes--scenario.)

     

    I've always been repelled by that part of Twin Peaks (I couldn't even bring myself to watch all of Fire Walk With Me).  I usually avoid movies or TV that use rape as a plot device.  Lynch has done all sorts of fascinating, beautiful, sublime, silly things with Twin Peaks, but I really wish it didn't have this element at its core.