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  1. Posted

    4 hours ago, BonusWavePilot said:

    (Although digital errors can have their own horror: my favourite is when you get that effect where the compression is glitching out and getting the shape right, but still displaying the previous content, so you get people-shaped smears of background talking to each other.) 

     

    I attempted to make a broken gif like that a couple of days ago! it's Not Very Good but it was the first time i was able to get something all the way through the programs used, so i was excited ^___^ 

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  2. Posted

    2 hours ago, Jake said:

    And because bad things happened to him he's good now?

     

    Possibly! Emphasis on the 'now.' I'm positing that a near death experience when he was already working on a path to attempted redemption (even if tongue-in-cheek) and 25 years has made him chill on the whole actively bad person thing. Grave injuries are known to change outlooks, no? I mean yeah, One Eyed Jacks and Ghostwood things certainly would beat out the mild neutral living he seems to do now (from what we've seen) in a tally. It just seems like he worked his way out of a lot of those bad 'habits' to become a seemingly pleasant, possibly good-at-the-moment person. But true, maybe the good person descriptor should account for collected works rather than recent selected works. I guess there are a lot of evil real world people I'd probably never call 'good' under any future circumstance. Maybe I'm just charmed. And with that I'll stop getting offended for this fictional character, lol.

     

    relevant Andrew WK tweet I saw today.

  3. Posted

    I take issue with the notion that Ben Horne isn't a Good Man.

     

    The last time we saw him he had (maybe) a near death experience after (merely?) ostensibly trying to be a Good Man for half a season, post mental breakdown. Maybe this plus his daughter being put in a coma was enough to push him fully into Good Man territory. We definitely haven't seen anything this season to contradict Beverly's claim.

     

    Also I too think it's a bummer that Jake found Tammy distracting during the cigarette scene. I thought it was a really well done sequence of subtle POV shifts, starting with Diane obviously and quietly bouncing around based on gazes and bodies shifting. It was really impressive for such a static shot, imo. I also thought maybe Tammy was so shifty partly due to high heel fatigue (since the clacks were so prominent in the sound mix), but maybe that's a weird thought, lol.

  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, unimural said:

    I think common human decency tells you that you should open a door for someone who has his hands full. Especially as you want the person to leave to room. By not facilitating that you're both mean and counterproductive. I agree with Urthman, it felt small of Hawk.

     

    lmao, what?

     

    Wasn't Chad a horrible prick to Andy or something in an early episode when Hawk was in the room?

     

    I also get the feeling Hawk suspects his illicit side-activities, or at least doesn't trust him in general.

     

    And he's never been one to show courtesy to bad people, e.g. tripping an injured Hank when Hank was giving Truman grief.

  7. Posted

    10 hours ago, prangman said:

    -On an unrelated note, I love that nearly every Black Lodge figure we have seen across the series has their own signature poem, and that they kind of suit their characters.

    MIKE, who is played in an almost hammy, Shakespearean way by Al Strobel has 'one chants out between two worlds, Fire walk with me' a rhyming, formal poem with arcane language. BOB has a dark version of a children's nursery rhyme ('catch you with my death bag...') and the woodsman has an almost hippyish free piece of free verse ('water...well...white horse'), perfectly suited to his almost hipster-y appearance.

     

    This is cool. Also with the Woodsman's poem, I like how it kind of becomes a long, single mantra poem in its repetition. I'm sure DL knows a thing or two about mantras.

     

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    A mantra (from Sanskrit: man- "to think" and -tra meaning, tool) literally means "instrument of thought." Originating in ancient India out of Vedic Hinduism, mantras serve a variety of functions and are especially popular as aids to meditation and devotion. As powerful sound vibrations, mantras encompass various forms of sacred utterance (syllable, scriptural verse, or sacred formula), which can be repeated silently or chanted for different purposes such as instilling concentration, facilitating spiritual growth, and helping to visualize a deity. It is said that a mantra, when recited with proper understanding and intonation, can revitalize the mind with mystic power and help deliver it from illusion to enlightenment. Mantras have also been used in religious ceremonies to accumulate wealth, avoid danger, or even allegedly to eliminate foes.

     

    In addition to Hinduism, mantas are also used by Buddhists, Jains, Tantrikas, Sikhs and followers of some new religious movements. The practice of prayer in the Abrahamic religions is said in some ways to have a similar function to mantras.

     

    Mantras have two components of primary importance - Meaning and Sound. For the mantra to be effective, great emphasis is put on both correct pronunciation and the level of concentration of the mind on the meaning of the word or words that are recited. This emphasis on correct pronunciation resulted in an early development of a science of phonetics in India. It was recognized that words do have a mysterious power to affect human beings.

    Since the term mantra is derived from the roots: "man" (to think) and the action oriented suffix "tra," a mantra can be translated as a linguistic device for deepening ones thought, or in the Buddhist context for developing the enlightened mind. However it is also true that mantras have been used as magic spells for very mundane purposes such as attaining wealth and long life, and eliminating enemies. Indeed, Dr. Edward Conze, a scholar of Buddhism, frequently translated "mantra" as "spell," and one scholarly etymology links the word mantra with "manas" (meaning "mind") and 'trâna' (for protection) making a mantra something which protects the mind. Indeed, vocal sounds in India are frequently thought of as having magical powers, or even of representing the words or speech of a deity.

     

    There are various purposes of mantras depending on the religious school involved, and intention of the practitioner. It is often said that the purpose to mantras is to deliver the mind from illusion and material inclinations and to bring concentration and focus to the mind. It is claimed that a mantras can change one's consciousness, help the devotee attain one-pointedness, or concentration on the chosen deity or principle idea of the mantra. The vibrations and sounds of the mantra are considered extremely important, and thus reverberations of the sound are supposed to awaken the prana (breath or spiritual life force) and even stimulate chakras according to many Hindu schools of thought.

     

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  8. Posted

    there are pretty clearly forces at work irl that cause pain and suffering, and those that oppose pain and suffering. i'm not surprised nor disappointed that Lynch/Frost chose the worst, most absurd *human* evil imaginable as a literally explosive lyrical threshold potentially leading to the *human* pain and suffering we've seen throughout twin peaks.

  9. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Ford said:

     

    It's not fan service. It's the only coherent narrative the show runners have given us to latch onto. The rest has been music videos and unrelated vignettes.  I'd argue the old cast cameos are much more fan service than anything we've seen with the Cooper thread. 

     

    I conflated your 'dangling the cooper thread' comment with the desire to see our old quippy cooper back immediately, my bad

     

    i still think folks should turn off their instinct to find issue immediately and just bask in the fire a bit

  10. Posted

    Weird to me that anyone considers the show as 'dangling the cooper thread'/'manipulative' especially after a feast of an episode such as this one. Seems to me like the need to Have Cooper Proper and Have Cooper Proper Now comes from a place of impatience and borders on a demand for fanservice. 

     

    Also for anyone who... liked (?) the bomb zoom I would highly recommend Bruce Conner's experimental film Crossroads. I can't find the actual film but Operation Crossroads videos contain the footage he used. In the moment I felt like Lynch was somewhat visually referencing it in particular. 

     

     

     

  12. Posted

    The magic scene is the kind of moody fuckery I am Here For.

     

    I've seen some twitter folk shit-talking the hit-by-truck scene but I think we were due for some excruciating pathos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

     

    I thought the soul leaving (???) was pretty silly at first but once it was revealed to be from Carl's POV I was down.

     

    I really need to rewatch FWWM.

  13. Posted

    16 hours ago, James said:

    It's implied that Dougie was a pretty crummy husband, so I can forgive a less than perfect response to Cooper's condition. It seems like Janey-E is just barely holding things together while her husband is off racking up dangerous gambling debts and visiting sex workers, so she might well not have the energy to be as sympathetic as one would hope. Besides, who hasn't reacted poorly to a situation out of a feeling that it's unfair? 

     

    Maybe I'm reading too much into the details we've seen - they have a nice house and  a seemingly well-adjusted son - but that's the impression I've been given. 

     

     

    Agreed, I think she's definitely catching too much flak... All else aside he's been 'back' from a two day bender for less than 24 hours! (wait, is that right? were breakfast and the car ride to work the same day?)

  14. Posted

    Just listened - cool stuff! Enjoyed the Doppelganger specifics discussion.

     

    Maybe it's just speculation-fatigue and obviously we can't know anything with this show but I'm surprised at how few people have touched on potential implications of Jacoby's new career. He's a conspiracy theorist in a world that features actual shadowy multidimensional intrigue! I wonder if he'll actually play a role in uncovering anything, or if he'll indeed function as this season's metamirror Invitation to Love, with his ramblings vaguely echoing things in the 'real' story world - politicians replaced by lizard people vs. cooper doppelgangers, etc.

     

    Also on the topic of Twin Peaks shoe motifs there's the moment in season two where Nadine is concerned that folks can maybe see up her skirt via her extremely shiny shoes ^___^

     

    And I think the lady who lets Cooper into the bathroom implies that she previously did not let Dougie kiss her? Maybe she finds herself more attracted to Cooper than she was to Dougie. I guess he lost a little weight? (or maybe it's just a continuation of a cheeky withholding-flirt).

  15. Posted

    18 minutes ago, LostInTheMovies said:

    There's something that feels very "fifties" about the form this critique takes (I also think it's probably heavily due to Frost as well as Lynch) - right down to the contrast between the suited salesman and the cowboy statue. I love the ambivalence of that image and how many layers it contains. Not simply the contrast of a mundane present with a mythic past (that probably never quite existed like that) but also an implicit recognition, with the consistent focus on the gun, that both past and present were formed through and linked by an unspoken violence. And then there's the poignant mirroring between this frozen, incommunicative statue and Dougie's own state, but also its heroic status and his own humble standing: it's both an embodiment of his condition and an aspirational ideal. And, just on the story level, the shoes!

     

    This is cool.

     

    I also read Cooper's second trip to the statue as him feeling a little bit of recognition with the gun-pointing gesture - his past as an Agent obviously.

  16. Posted

    13 minutes ago, fellintooblivion said:

     

    Did you watch the rest of the episode?

     

    The Air Force said they have had people entering his prints into a search 16 times in the past 25 years.

     

    I don't understand how you can take that as confirmation the body was Briggs' without some real willful ignoring of facts.

     

    Major Briggs's head floats around space while his torso walks the earth, leaving fingerprints, planting macabre clues - this time in the form of another torso: Dougie's.

     

    As most assumed.

     

    (I had actually considered last week that the corpse might be Dougie's by some weird timefuck - I edited it out of my reply in the e4 thread because I was embarrassed by the thought, lol. it's still probably not Dougie's but the ring inscription made my eyes widen slightly)

     

  17. Posted

    4 minutes ago, SuperBiasedMan said:

     

    This scene in the bar was so distressing because of how the women were shocked and taken aback, but they neither called for help nor tried to fully break out of the dude's grip. It seemed like they were resigned to the idea that he can get away with this so they just let it happen.

     

    And the way it just ended without resolution, with his hand around her throat. His threats felt a bit "Do you wanna play with fire, little boy?" (I'm not actually making the connection beyond vibes though)

  18. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Gamebeast23456 said:

    but then Lynch's conception of how women might mistreat men is just like - nagging them? 

     

    Well, we have Laura 'vs.' Bobby and James which got pretty complex and then Evelyn vs. James (I guess). And Phyllis vs. Bill. But yeah Truman's wife certainly could be lazy shorthand. It went on so long though that I couldn't tell if it was intended to be grating in a way that recognizes the cliche.

  19. Posted

    There was indeed a green light. My first thought definitely linked it to the slot machine video game quest markers, but then, Cooper proper was always almost spookily good at reading people, right? I wonder if that was somehow a post-Lodge visual manifestation of how Cooper mentally saw the world in the first place, only maybe he 'sees' that way for real now. I don't think that would track with the slot machine markers but maybe this was something else, who knows.

  20. Posted

    just listened to the episode - great stuff! A couple of things:

     

    - I'm not sure Gordon doesn't trust Agent Preston - if I remember right he clarifies that she's wearing a wire as he requested before sending her away, so it seems like he just doesn't want the following conversation on the record, obviously with good reason. Though I guess maybe it's sensitive enough info to want to only keep between he and Albert anyway.

     

    - Something that would click with the Major Briggs Buckhorn corpse theory is that in Black Lodge Liminal Purgatory Outer Space, we only saw his disembodied head. The timeline on his corpse not being a skeletal nothing at this point does seem pretty wacky though.

     

    - Wally Brando minus lyBran = Waldo. Lucy loved that bird as proven by the voice activated tape recorder and it certainly contributed to the naming of her son. I'm sorry but this is canon.

  21. Posted

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    It feels like he's just dressing up as original series Andy and I just don't buy it.

     

    It certainly seems like Andy and Lucy are literally stuck in the old show. Andy looks like a cartoon character surrounded by the Lynch cinema aesthetic. It makes me uncomfortable but I almost like it in a bizarre metatextual way? Will be interesting to see where it goes.

     

    Also, folks!! This is from episode two and i don't know if it's been mentioned but I'm rewatching the original in between new episodes and this connection gave me chills. It might look like a reach here but if you watch the scenes it's pretty uncanny. Bob very specifically straight devours Maddie's chin, as does the cat to the water buffalo. A couple of folks in the episode 2 thread commented on how it looked like the cat was killing and making out with the water buffalo, and, well, that certainly checks out wrt to the former scene. Present-day Sarah definitely changes her expression and perks up a bit when the weird mouth stuff starts happening (though this could just be a reaction to the intense violence). To me it seems like the violent gesture is visually echoing in the room 25 years later. I wonder if we'll see more of that. I assume it's not an actual plot point but it's a hell of a reverberating mood bit.

     

    Also did anyone notice how the water buffalo's camera red-eye goes to black a few frames before it cuts to the bang bang bar? so eerie.

     

    Another little echo I felt, from episode 4, was when the Casino guy directed Cooper's attention to the camera above them. Reminded me of the glass box slightly, but moreso the recording of Cooper at One-Eyed Jack's. I don't know if connections like these are meaningful at all but the lines of flight are fun.

     

    (is it ok to post episode 2 stuff in the 'current' thread or should I edit this out and go back to 2?)

     

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  23. Posted

    I finally saw Possession and I want to marry it.

     

    I haven't read up on it much yet but to me a lot of it felt like characters' ids were on full display, but the times at which each was on display did not sync up with the others, so you'd have one character being totally deadpan and reasonable and one being absolutely wild, and it could be anyone at any moment. And of course, a character being deadpan at a particular time could seem more insane than the character going wild, as going wild might be more appropriate in a given situation.

     

    Just, so damn good.

     

    And that floating camera was like a more spastic version of Tarkovsky's in The Mirror.

     

    I loved the quiet close-up scene punctuation marks. after a highly mobile and choreographed domestic fight, often it would end with a stark, stationary closeup and a single, resonant line.

     

    I'm in love.

     

    RIP.

  24. Posted

    is what helped me make the break-through of understanding what properties, variables, classes, instances, and functions are.

     

    I struggled with these concepts for a while even when hearing people explain it fairly well.

    I'm sure everyone learns in different ways, but I tried to learn a programming language before working directly in Unity and it never caught. Making things happen in a game I was making was the level of feedback I needed in order to encourage me enough to really need to internalize the concepts.

     

     

    This is exactly the type of thing I've been looking for, thank you!!