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It was interesting what Chris said about recap culture and how this set of podcasts is different from the last. Related to that, might it be a better fit to delay the podcast to the end of the week, or maybe the next week? Of course you've got busy schedules so that might not be an option, but an extra 48-72 hours to digest might be useful. I'm in Europe so I'm watching on Monday morning and I feel like I'm tripping over my hot takes just to try and contribute something semi-interesting in time. But it's tough to filter through everything - it must be a nightmare doing the podcast! If being part of the recap zeitgeist isn't vitally important to you guys, would a delay not be helpful?

I think the image of Cooper as a boyscout isn't quite accurate. Having rewatched the pilot recently, it struck me how impish and mischievous he is. He messes with Bobby, he's super enthusiastic about the letter under Laura's fingernail. Granted, these examples are borne of professionalism but he's far more impulsive and interesting than the thumbs-up Mr Positive I tend to remember. He's got an incredible moral compass (and as tantilising as a GoodCoop/Audrey relationships would have been, I think it would have been hugely inappropriate) though again, we're shown via Caroline that he has faltered in the past. I guess it depends what doppelgängers are. If they're just unchecked id then I think BadCoop could certainly be connected to GoodCoop. Also, if Briggs had been in the White Lodge, maybe time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth. Okay nerds, tell me that reference 😉

Re. Brigg's body - is it possible BadCoop somehow used Briggs body to 'power' the creation of Dougie? Or as a vessel to copy-paste into? That wedding ring found in his stomach (from the 'spiritual' finger) could be a some sort of calling card - BOB used to leave letters under nails and seemingly wants someone to put the jigsaw together - or it could be a talisman used to tie his physical being to Dougie. Hell, I'm just rambling. Hot takes: - When AutoCoop (a new Cooper?! ) took over and throat-chopped Ike I literally jumped in the air and excitedly yelled to my wife in the other room "COOPER JUST DID SOMETHING!" Then I skipped back to show her. Then I had to explain wtf the tree-head thing is. - This episode spent a lot of time explicitly explaining stuff from the past. Maybe this is Frynch's nod to new viewers, but it's a welcome change of pace after all the unexplained shenanigans. Annie gets name-checked - I'm steering clear of castlists but I thought Heather Graham wasn't appearing. Hawk and Truman both seem pretty cool with the Lodge stuff but Annie's the only person to come out alive. I imagine she's got to turn up at some point. - I loved the Skype call. My mind went to poo (thanks Important If True!) when Doc mentioned brown trout in his pyjamas. - When Ashley Judd left the room and the camera zoomed in to the corner, I immediately thought of Josie. Did she die in the hotel or at the Packard Mill? - Some pretty dark BadCoop implications with Diane and Audrey. - I'm now very happy whenever the credits don't roll over a band in the Roadhouse. A great episode. I give it two peaks.

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There's an interesting article HERE that discusses the first four episodes and many of the intertextual references with Lynch's film work. It also touches on the multiple reality theory, references to the various books that have been published (the Secret Diary, Cooper's autobiography, etc) and several other ideas that have been brought up here.

I listened to the Bombcast with Phil Spencer and he makes me want to buy an Xbox. It's sad that the most original sales pitch is simply sounding like a human being, acknowledging other video games exist and are great. I'm being played like a pipe but, gee, he sounds like a swell guy.

The Great Northern room key.

Smash Bros is part of the E3 sale, and another game announcement was teased in an AMA. It's got to be Super Smash Bros for Switch, no?

While I agree in the main, I do think that this series is following a trajectory established in the first two. From the introduction of the red room to the Leland/BOB reveal, Josie's death and the season 2 finale/FWWM, it was always moving in that direction.

I had the same reaction to Odyssey last time but I enjoyed what we saw this year. Besides that, Nintendo's video felt slim. Xenoblade didn't interest me, FE Warriors didn't show any gameplay, we'd already seen Rabbids. Epic Yarn aside, Kirby games do nothing for me. Yoshi looked cute, very much in the Woolly World mould. Rocket League is great news, but Winter?!? Prime 4 was a logo, so that's a 2019 game at the earliest. Pokemon was a dude saying we're doing a proper Pokemon - 2020? Zelda was nice but a known quantity. Arms & Splatoon were appropriately brief. It was adequate, and I'm sure Smash will get its own Direct, but I wonder why they didn't save their Online details for this. Maybe they'll bleed out some more things over the next couple of days a la Return of Samus, which i think is smart. But re. the Spotlight, that fleeting Metroid logo did a LOT of work propping it up. Edit. And jeez, what was up with Reggie's script. I half expectedly it to fade to a b&w close-up and him start spouting random abstract nouns like a Calvin Klein ad. "Fate." "Challenge." "Victory." "Games. By Nintendo."

I quite enjoyed the MercurySteam Castlevania but I feel like this remake will disappoint anyone who played AMQ2...(what the hell was the actual acronym?!) People want sprites. Also, side/semi-interesting note: Yoshi is using Unreal Engine!

I really click with this interpretation! I read it as the kid being sucked into the grid but his green energy thing went into the sky. It's far more logical that all the pain and melodrama of Twin Peaks feeds into the grid through TVs and such, and fuels the Lodge dwellers. But BOB isn't satisfied with the dwindling supply an idyllic little frontier town can provide so he sets out to solve the energy crisis.

I did grin when the Ubi guy accidentally said X-Bone in the MS conf.

I thought it was alright. In fact, the whole Ubi conference was pretty good. Assassin's Creed looks like it has done for a decade, as does the spin-off pirate ship thing (seems like a kick to Rare's nuts too) but that No Man's Sky/toys-to-life thing looks intriguing. BG&E2 looks really ambitious, much more than the standard cookie-cutter sequel. Even Far Cry looked better than I expected. Going back to the MS conference, the most interesting looking games were The Last Night and Anthem. Super Lucky's Tale looked like a Conker X 3D World response to Yooka-Laylee. Weird.

Miyamoto at the Ubisoft conference!

He was actually in the restroom?! Good work! I have noticed that Al Strobel is credited as Philip Gerard and not MIKE. Where was Gerard last time we saw him (chronologically) before season 3?

Here, here. I feel like I might have instigated the derailment with my glib fuck Notch. Mind you, it would have come up at some point, no doubt. Microsoft had plenty of stuff. Stuff, but nothing that makes me need an Xbox, X or S. If one came out of a Christmas cracker, fabulous! But they never seem to have that one irresistible game - it's the same every year. Backwards compatibility is a crowd pleaser. Theoretically I could have the best of everything MS have ever done in one smallish box. That's attractive...at $250. But then I'd know i was missing out on the 'proper' one. Related question: who here actually owns an Xbone? Not going to watch the EA conference. I listened to the Tired Old Hack podcast summary and it sounds toilet. I watched a DF video of Battlefront 2 and it looked predictably pretty.

Insensitivity aside, I thought the murder scene itself was very effective. Difficult and nasty. Are people getting the name Ike the Spike from the credits?

I'd guess most people would find it interminable. Do you think there's any way to get somebody into it without making them watch the original series or assuming they're fans of Lynch's film work? I thought Deer Meadow was supposed to be an hour or so's drive from Twin Peaks. Leland was driving there for his meetings with Teresa Banks, no? Laura went there so it can't be hours away. Not sure how that marries with actual world geography - I'm assuming real Oregon is quite a way from the Canadian border.

It would be really interesting to hear a Twin Peaks first-timer's perspective - does anybody know one? I'm really enjoying the indulgent, unhurried pace and am analysing every blink of MacLachlan's performance(s) but I really wonder how the average viewer is handling five solid minutes of Cooper scrawling over case files! How do you explain the nuance of every second when 1) I don't fully understand most of it, and 2) I've got 35+ hours of context and character affection built up. It's easy to fall into the trap of saying 'Oh, that's just Twin Peaks!' which is complete rubbish. So much is happening in each episode, too! The opening almost had me tearing up. I also think they are mixing by up the old and new characters very well. There are so many new places and threads, and we also get to go back to Fat Trout. Question - is the junction where the hit and run occurred significant? Is that where Mike drove up next to Leland and Laura in FWWM?

Main thought so far: fuck Notch.

After seeing @BigJKO's Lego renders it inspired me to dig up a model of the Twin Peaks red room and see if he wanted to render it (which he did.) Which made me realise I should probably send it in to the Lego Ideas site - they made the Ghostbusters and Back to the Future models, so why not this?! I got the this afternoon - turns out Twin Peaks is a bit too racey and bloody to get approved Still, it looks pretty and I actually built the physical model which is cool. There are more photos on my blog if you fancy

Even if it's perfect, I've got 3 or 4 pads around that would already do the job. I fired up Wave Race 64 and 1080 Snowboarding this morning and, graphics aside, those games really hold up well. The physics of both are spot-on and the simplicity of the set-up is really refreshing. No boosts, no items - just some great environments and the thrill of nailing an apex or timing a jump. They mentioned on the Bombcast this week the idea of Nintendo putting out a Hits game a la Rare Replay. Instead of spending $60 on a NES Mini, spend it on the NES Collection, with some rare art and behind the scenes gubbins like the Mega Man Legacy Collection. I'm now imagining an N64 Collection with a load of 1st-party games running in HD. With an N64 Mini being unlikely (think about that controller!), I'd jump on a compilation cart. I guess we'll have to see what happens with this online VC thing. Just a shame that N64 library isn't being used.

I would guess it's from the Roadhouse.

So, that Retroblox console has been rebranded the POLYMEGA. Here's a video showing the UI: All very PSNy. The console looks interesting and the disc drive is attractive. I bought Die Hard Trilogy PS, you know, just in case. Negatives for me include the change of language around the price - they had said it would be 'significantly less than a Switch'; now it's just 'less than a base Nintendo Switch' - that's just for the base, one module and the wireless pad. The quality looks good but pricing this with the other consoles would be a big risk. IMO any more than $200 won't work, and that's pushing it. Also, I don't want ANOTHER pad. This needs to support PS4/Xbone/Switch Pro/Steam controllers. NOBODY who buys this needs another pad. Keep costs down and remove it from the bundle. Also also, while I get it, the name isn't doing it for me. Logo's alright.