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"AAAA! AAA! AAAAAA! AAAA!" What the hell, man, I was cracking up, though.

I never would have expected this throw-away bit (in my view) to have sparked possibly the biggest topic of discussion so far. I think some are reading way too far into it, but this is cool.

I'm a progressive -- vegan and all -- and even I share the frustrations. We are the Fun Police. Being progressive, sometimes it feels like other progressives are your biggest hurdle as you're judged on not being hardcore enough. I'm fully on the side of "There is a cultural problem that's far more prevalent than the man-hiding-in-alleyway image," but sometimes I wonder what other couples' intimate moments are like. "Consent is sexy", yes, but I envision forms being signed before each and every encounter. If you wake up one morning to your partner performing foreplay on you, were you raped because you weren't awake to sign off on it? There are people who will say that you absolutely were. And while there is a certain logic there, I can see how someone could lead themself down that mental path, I think they're trying to find more victims than there actually are. Which only makes it harder for the world to take you seriously when it really matters. In a season that's been far more brutal than we were expecting, can we not have a moment of levity without it being yanked away? Am I now supposed to feel guilty about giggling at DougCoop's giant grin and floppy arms? We might as well also discuss the trauma that Sonny Jim suffered that night and all the therapy he'll need after what he heard. Does this season really need one more victim? The fact of the matter is, we don't get to see what happened between the kitchen scene and the sex scene. We have no idea how that played out. But Lynch would probably be amused by how each viewer filled in that blank differently, and in doing so revealed something about their worldview.

With each episode, I'm becoming more and more confident that we don't get Cooper back until the last episode. There's, what, 8 episodes left? I can totally see it taking 7 more episodes to do whatever it takes to snap Dougie out of it, at the pace this show moves.

Donuts and coffee don't stink up a room. Note that the first thing they do once Chad leaves is open a window. As someone who worked at a place where the IT department microwaved fish stew in the lunch room every single day, I support this rule.

Even when asking for help, Chad doesn't say the magic word. "Are you gonna get the door? A little help here?" Nah, Chad needs what he got from Hawk.

This used to be a common "mistake" in movies, but I imagine these days when they decide to flip a shot, they fix any side effects with computers.

I think the shot of the plane is a mirror image, but I'd have to re-check to confirm. It looked like the "serial number" of the plane was flipped.

Twitter is lavishing it with praise tonight. I'm glad people enjoyed it, but personally I was sighing all through this episode. Especially after leaving episode 7 thinking, "Okay, things are finally starting to come together."

Absolutely no one in my Twitter feed talks about Twin Peaks, which is the opposite of what I was expecting. Pretty disappointing, really.

Oh good, so it wasn't just me. My wife didn't notice it, and when I exclaimed, "Uhhhhhhh, WHAT?!" I had to point it out. I can't decide if it's deliberate, or just a visual effects glitch that Lynch liked and kept.

"Fuck you, Tammy."

I wish the Cooper autobiography wasn't out of print and nearly $300 on Amazon. Would have been nice if they had re-released all the "canon" books, and not just the Secret Diary.

Ignoring that there was a Jade on Invitation to Love... Josie? A friendly woman who used sex to get ahead in life. Ultimately betrayed Cooper (shooting him / dumping him off at a casino).

I keep looking forward to the next part, too, but it's out of a desire to see this stuff finally get somewhere. I agree with Chris's remarks that nothing has really gotten a chance to breathe. There's way too many threads, some of which we're kept away from for far too long. I'd like to see things start to converge, and I'd really like to start spending more time in Twin Peaks. It's not that I'm not enjoying what's on screen, but it feels more like a series of David Lynch shorts than a show.

I'm finishing up The Secret History and I seem to remember it mentioning that Deer Meadow is just one county over. How Twin Peaks is near both the Oregon and Canadian border, beats me.

Can we call him Finger-gun Sorcerer?

When Ike "The Spike" opened his envelope and music started blaring, did anyone else think it was one of those greeting cards that plays music? Haha

Agreed. I get the feeling that Boss Man only cares about results. He frankly doesn't care if you're a mess, he doesn't care about you personally, as long as you're an asset to the company. It's other characters outside of work that make me surprised he hasn't been checked into a hospital yet.

I thought so, too, joking "How did they get a picture of Cooper in the Red Room?" But given a closer look, it looks like it's a wooden door or wall behind him. Could be the Great Northern, could be an office. But in any case, yeah, it's pretty much a publicity still, which cracks me up.

Of all the Twin Peaks cliffhangers, Leo is the one I've been wanting to know about the most. I keep yelling, "But what about Leo?!" every time a returning character is introduced. I mean, he's probably fine. Part of what makes his predicament so ludicrous is that a tarantula bite is basically like a bee sting. But this is from a time when a lot of media portrayed them as lethal creatures. If the cage fell, Leo maybe got one or two bites from surprised spiders who then scampered off. Just being tied up in a cabin in the woods is by far the worst part of his situation.

That's right, I'm still coming to terms with the kids of Twin Peaks having kids of their own now!

I'm more inclined to believe he's simply the son of the wealthiest man in town. We see he's got the authorities in his pocket. What does he need restraint for? Now, what's his motive in this scene? That we don't know yet. Is he out to harm this girl for a specific reason, or is this just what he's like?

It's becoming extremely distracting that he's made it this far. How has no one thought by this point that maybe he's had a stroke?

It says so much with so little. This guy has been ordering coffee his whole life out of peer pressure, faking his enjoyment, even though everyone around him knows it. Then it turns out he's been a tea person all along and he didn't even know it! I was about to turn to my wife and say something like, "Man, poor guy," but then she said to me, "You know what? I'm kinda on her side! Yeah, it's NOT fair!" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯