At 7/4/19 01:02 PM, Absurd-Ditties wrote:
At 7/4/19 11:33 AM, Jackho wrote:
Watched Twin Peaks: The Return part 8 last night, ama. @absurd-ditties @dean
Got a light?
Here's more thoughts since I have nowhere else to regurgitate them. In all honesty I thought it was overhyped. It's a great episode, but having heard extreme reactions right from its release my expectations were out of wack.
I was actually surprised with how straight forward it was, after so many 'what the fuck did I just watch' reactions - not that it isn't weird or that I can explain every detail of it, but I found the gist of it easy to follow.
Here's how I saw it, trying to keep it simple:
-The new mexico nuke either created the glass box creature, or allowed it to enter this dimension from somewhere else.
-Glass box creature spawned Bob in larvae form.
-In response the Giant creates, uh, like the essence that would become Laura, or Laura herself, or maybe it was an attempt at a protection spell, or maybe it wasn't literally Laura and her image was just used to convey the idea of 'goodness,' or...
-Other black lodge dudes have some investment in keeping Bob alive. They brought Booper back after the gunshot, and way back when helped him take form in the first place. Maybe the black lodge entities are regular evil, while Bob comes from somewhere else and is amped up super-evil.
In the OG series Harry had a line about Bob being "the evil that men do," that taken literally it makes sense if the nuke is what spawned him. Leland also had a line that Bob was powerless until he invited him in (paraphrase), so it seems to me Bob is more like a parasite that leeches off and enables his host's behavior, but doesn't actually control. I think Cooper himself killed Windom Earle in the black lodge and that was him "inviting Bob in."
Alternatively, Bob as we know him was a normal man who the bug implanted, who later became confined to the black lodge, which means the lodge and the place the glass box creature (and maybe the giant) came from are entirely separate places. So the bug is in Bob who's now possessing Cooper, the bug is implanted in Cooper by proxy.
There's also some theme of criticizing communication technology going on, in that it was the radio that lulled the adults to sleep, so they wouldn't see what happened to the girl. It might tie back to Jacoby using radio / livestreaming to mislead people and shill his shovels, and Laura's mother having an absolutely massive TV feeding her violent imagery and not much else going on. Maybe she was similarly lulled by technology so as not to notice what was happening with Laura.
That's contrasted by the skype call to Doc Hayward in the previous episode. It's hardly as simple as "technology bad, except sometimes" but that's basically what I got thus far, tech can help us better communicate until someone hijacks it to mislead, and the lonelier denizens of Twin Peaks are the most susceptible to the negative end. In Lynch's masterclass he mentioned that he wrote The Return with Frost entirely over Skype, so communication tech may have been on their mind the entire time.