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I think it was an inside joke between Mark Frost and his father. Warren Frost, Doc, was suffering from alzheimer's in real life.

Doc Hayward's scene was heartbreaking knowing the reality behind it. That's three actors on screen who died after filming, now, I think.

Everything about the Dougie/Ike scene was great. I need to watch that again. Are we to believe that Dougie squeezed Ike's hand so hard that it took a few layers of skin off on the handle of the gun? That seemed ambiguous. It looked sorta like the hunk of organic schmoop that was in the trunk of Hastings' car.

We know that Badcoop needs Dougie dead and that both waves of assassins have failed. Badcoop tracing Dougie's steps to handle things himself could lead him to the casino. If Badcoop enters the casino, it will trigger the shady casino goons looking for Dougie. That could be a good confrontation and a resolution to the casino portion of the plot.

I half expected Dougie to legit squeeze Ike the Spike's hand clean off.

I'm assuming he is unless told otherwise.

I think Badcoop assaulting Diane was the implication. Perhaps he dropped in to get Coop's tapes? And, after that potential assault, we learned he visited Audrey in her coma. Oof. That's so dark.

Scattered notes: * Someone said the black lodge symbol could be seen on the wall in Horne's office after the humming. I haven't re-watched to confirm. Could the key arriving to Horne's office have awakened latent lodge forces there? Josie maybe? * Badcoop visited Audrey in the hospital before absconding. Could the implication be he raped her while in a coma and is the father of Richard? * The giant mentioned 430. Andy wanted to depose the owner of the truck Richard hit the kid with at 4:30. * Could the soot/tar hobo be to the principal as Bob was to Leland Palmer? A lot happened.

Guilty as charged. Glad they were of use!

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Coffee being the constant in the doppelganger-ification of all things is pretty perfect. In addition to the dreamlike parallels outlined above, some have pointed out that Janey-E, Sonny (Son-E), and Dougie (Doug-E), all have the same weird appendixes and hint to them all being fake along with their world. I'm not sold on Dougie's entire reality being a construct that traps Cooper. That feels like a cheat in a way I find hard to articulate. I'd be more satisfied if the only manufactured thing in that slice of the show was Dougie himself. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if y'all were right and that's exactly what happens.

I worked with Joel for about two years before the show was picked up by Netflix, off and on, creating the concept art that was the foundation for this new run. New fans have an easier time, I suspect. They don't have the expectations of familiarity. As a fan of the old MST3K, I tried to keep want for the familiar in mind while making the new, but not to the new's detriment. I didn't want to Star Wars prequel-ify the visual language of the show, but I didn't want to restrain it because of my nostalgia either. Respect the old without being stuck in slavish devotion to it. I think that feeling permeated the entire production based on my conversations with Joel. Hopefully that came through. It was a tricky line at times.