It's really very difficult to predict what will happen. Most of what has happened so far I did not see coming. Well, the beginning of Part 8 I saw coming. Ray and Mr C driving in a car at night, just as I expected. Then Ray gets out for a wee and Mr C goes to shoot him but his gun doesn't work and Ray shoots Mr C instead. All rather predictable...but then immediately followed by WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF all the way to the end. Mind almost completely destroyed!
At this point, it wouldn't even surprise me if Part 9 consisted entirely of the first 8 parts stuck together, played at 8 times the speed and in reverse, with a background sound of a cow giving birth to a new universe.
In fact, I can just imagine a conversation between Lynch and Badalamenti:
Badalamenti: Okay, so what sort of mood are you looking for here?
Lynch: Can you play something that feels like a cow giving birth to a universe?
Badalamenti: How about this?....(plays some stuff)
Lynch: Yes, that's beautiful, almost perfect, but more purple...
Badalamenti: You mean like this?... (plays it slightly differently)
Lynch: Yes, just like that, but now make it like an unexpected thought but upside-down and more red but also a bit of green and also marshmallow and betrayal and regret and the sea...
I'm wondering if BadCoop is going to go "Colonel Kurtz".......Imagine how much more dangerous he'd be if neither lodge could control him.....all he has to do is destroy both entrances to our world...
The Return has managed to confound at every turn. So rather than try to predict what we'll see next, we should catalog what we've gotten right so far.
Mine's a pretty short list:
1. Diane would be played by Laura Dern.
2. The missing evidence Hawk was searching for were pages from Laura's diary.
3. The decapitated body was Briggs.
That's it.
Dougie gets locked in a room and spends a full 50 minutes walking in circles. Then 9 minutes of sinister beings streaming out of a hole in the moon accompanied by an aggressive buzzing sound. Then we see Shelley point at a chair and say “This is the chair”, which lasts a minute. It wins all kinds of TV awards.
Also Monica Bellucci appears.
My dream episode !
I think we will be given closure about the "investigation" DougieCoop is doing for his Boxer boss. I think they're moving this story on rather quickly, compared to the others, and it would be a nice way to take the Dougie story to the next level, get some real stimulus going. A LOT of things seem to stewing in the pot for Dougie, boiling point is nigh.
Dougie gets locked in a room and spends a full 50 minutes walking in circles. Then 9 minutes of sinister beings streaming out of a hole in the moon accompanied by an aggressive buzzing sound. Then we see Shelley point at a chair and say “This is the chair”, which lasts a minute. It wins all kinds of TV awards.
Also Monica Bellucci appears.
Yes! But first we only see her backside for 6 minutes while hearing her breathe, then camera slowly circles and we see her face.
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I'm loving Twin Peaks Season 3 so far!
Wondering though about some the resolution of some of the smaller plot elements like:
Will we see Big Ed, Norma, and Nadine in a scene together?
Will Bobby and Shelley have a scene together?
Will there be a surprise cast addition such as Michael Ontkean, Heather Graham, or Piper Laurie?
Will we see Doc Hayward again as we will be seeing Gersten Hayward again?
Is Becky going to get any more screen time?
Who the hell is Red and why can he do magic tricks ala Mrs. Tremond's grandson?
Will James ever be seen again, and why was James' friend wearing a green glove?
Is Gordon Cole going to turn out to be a villain?
What was up with all the red balloons in the first early parts?
Why was there a bonzai tree in New York?
Will the Jumping Man show up inside or outside of a convenience store?
Will Dr. Jacoby's gold shovels have any significance or importance?
Where did the woman who looks like Laura Palmer go? (we all agree that that woman in black in the Waiting Room is NOT and was NEVER really Laura Palmer, correct?
Why did Leland ask Agent Cooper to find Laura?
Is Ray working for the FBI? Is Ray working for Philip Jeffries? Is Philip Jeffries alive?
Why was Dougie's wedding ring inside Garland's body?
What is the difference between the Experiment and the Experiment Model?
Why does Gordon have a picture of a corn cob in his office?
Does creamed corn only smell bad when it is vomited? Does it smell like hospital food? (imagine that!)
Will we see Ronette Pulaski? Who is the American Girl?
So many questions that I hope we get answers to!
Jack
PS: I love that David Lynch loves the character of Heidi as much as he does. Ipso facto he must also love Andrea Hayes.
I'm thinking we might see who bob is inhabiting now and more of the school principal, much more in twin peaks from now on and the events that are unraveling there
well..... Jeffries told MR C on the phone that Mr C had to go back inside so that he could be with BOB again....so maybe Bob is now looking for Jeffries....the reason could be that BOB makes people more powerful
Jack, I think we all would like to know the answers to these questions, however I seriously doubt we'll find out all of this tonight;)
And after Part 8 I decided that I will not try to predict what's next...:)
My suggestions are as follows:
1. Some development with EvilCoop
2. Some development with Andy/truck/Richard Horne
3. Some development with Warden Murphy (in term of him answering the question coming from Gordon Cole WHERE IS COOPER)
4. Something with Dougie, but this whole arc is so unexpected and unique, that i'am not daring to imagine what it may be. He may wake up or he may meet Laura or you know, he may just smile watching Sonny Jim. But mostly, I think, it'll have something to do with his boss (the boxer guy)
5. Something with the Mulholland Drive guy in Vegas. Maybe he'll get killed, because Ike The Spike didn't manage to kill Dougie.
6. Diane. Maybe Bobless BadCoop will go meet her?
7. Ray will go to Buella (The Farm), there he'll meet Chantal and her husband (whatever his name was).
Very nice suggestions. I'd like to add the following:
8. More scenes involving Becky Burnett, her potential connection w/Laura and more clue about what role she will play in this series. Amanda Seyfried is supposed to have more screen time later in the series. We only saw her in that one scene so far.
9. We'll finally get introduced to Linda and finds out what exactly is her role in the TP arch.
10. Audrey Horne will appears (finally) and we'll find out whether she's really Richard's mom or not.
11. BONUS: Annie's fate is implied during one of the scenes in Twin Peaks - perhaps revealed by Hawk as he investigates Laura's diary further.
Not Jacques, a brother or cousin named Jean-Michel.
Yep, I've forgotten the name.
Well, I also guess (hope) we'll be back to the Fat Trout Trailer Park.
Yup. We'll get more scenes with Carl Rodd which explains why he seems to have the power to recognize souls. Plus, hopefully we'll get to see Linda somewhere in his trailer park.
I'm loving Twin Peaks Season 3 so far!
Wondering though about some the resolution of some of the smaller plot elements like:
Will we see Big Ed, Norma, and Nadine in a scene together?
Will Bobby and Shelley have a scene together?
Will there be a surprise cast addition such as Michael Ontkean, Heather Graham, or Piper Laurie?
Will we see Doc Hayward again as we will be seeing Gersten Hayward again?
Is Becky going to get any more screen time?
Who the hell is Red and why can he do magic tricks ala Mrs. Tremond's grandson?
Will James ever be seen again, and why was James' friend wearing a green glove?
Is Gordon Cole going to turn out to be a villain?
What was up with all the red balloons in the first early parts?
Why was there a bonzai tree in New York?
Will the Jumping Man show up inside or outside of a convenience store?
Will Dr. Jacoby's gold shovels have any significance or importance?
Where did the woman who looks like Laura Palmer go? (we all agree that that woman in black in the Waiting Room is NOT and was NEVER really Laura Palmer, correct?
Why did Leland ask Agent Cooper to find Laura?
Is Ray working for the FBI? Is Ray working for Philip Jeffries? Is Philip Jeffries alive?
Why was Dougie's wedding ring inside Garland's body?
What is the difference between the Experiment and the Experiment Model?
Why does Gordon have a picture of a corn cob in his office?
Does creamed corn only smell bad when it is vomited? Does it smell like hospital food? (imagine that!)
Will we see Ronette Pulaski? Who is the American Girl?
So many questions that I hope we get answers to!
Jack
PS: I love that David Lynch loves the character of Heidi as much as he does. Ipso facto he must also love Andrea Hayes.
A few thoughts: Red is a drug dealer who does basic sleight-of-hand conjuring. The coin that appears in Richard Horne's mouth is a hallucination caused by whatever drug he had just ingested.
Before the new series aired, Lynch said that the Cole character would be central to the story. It's possible that, 1. he is the teenage boy in the 1950s segment of episode 8 (if the new series is set in 2014 or 2015 Lynch/Cole would be around the right age) and 2. he might be the father of Shelly's daughter. Remember he had a minor romance with her in series 2 and Denise Bryson made reference to his penchant for younger women.
The Bonsai tree is most likely a reference to the Bonsai that Windom Earl used to bug the Sheriff's office in S2 (then one that Cole yelled into).
There is more to Ray than meets the eye. He was genuinely shocked by what happened after he shot Evil Coop, but we can infer from his subsequent phone call with "Phillip" that he knew a lot more about Coop than he let on. If he's been in contact with Jeffries, he's presumably been told about the lodges. FBI? CIA? Who knows?
The woman who looks like Laura Palmer? Interesting... A possible theory - maybe Laura Palmer's doppelgänger was killed in 1989 and the real Laura, like the real Dale, has been trapped in the lodge for 25 years. Pretty far out, but consider this - Laura was a study in duality. A popular student who was Homecoming Queen, tutored Johnny Horne and delivered food to elderly people. The "same" Laura Palmer that was a coke-addicted teenage prostitute. Light side and dark. "Real" and "shadow" self. Remember what she said to Cooper - "I am dead, yet I live". Maybe Leland's plea "find Laura" meant exactly what he said - find the "real" Laura who never really died.
Of course, I look forward to being proved completely wrong...
Oh yeah, I forgot - maybe we'll find out what the hell is going on with Bill Hastings. His wife is dead (shot through the eye, just like Ruth Davenport), yet the police in Buckhorn haven't made reference to this yet, busy as they are with the mystery of Major Briggs' headless corpse. Evil Dale told Phyllis Hastings that she "followed human nature perfectly". Is she a manufactured entity like Dougie? Evil Coop wants something from Bill's secretary, implying that Bill himself has some kind of connection to Evil Coop - the Lodge or Project Blue Book?
Episdoe 9: The origins of Mike & The Arm.
Cue internet exploding.
I don't have any predictions, but what I'd like:
Some reference to Major Briggs and what happened to him.
A link to what's currently happening to a major character from the original series. Not just include them for the sake of including them.
Signs that coop is getting back to his old self!
A lot to ask from one episode I know 🙂
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