The Chauncey Gardiner stuff isn't pointless, even if it's tired. Evil has hidden itself behind a facade of complacent weakness - Dougie's place is corporatized Vegas and the Vegasized corporate world, with half-abandoned housing developments full of thieves and users nearby.
Dougie faces the wrong way in an elevator (reminding us that there kind of isn't one), takes time to look at and appreciate things (compare with Harry, who likes green tea lattes but orders coffee because everyone else does), cries when he sees a bored child stuck in a car etc.
Mr. C would appear to run this world, going by that scene with the Winkie's guy. He's the mayor of rural decay too, judging by his introduction. So this is everything that's happened to America in 25 years. "The evil that men do" was offered as what Bob truly is back in the final Laura-sequence episode. These are the recent flavors of evil. Machines, numbers, dollars, suits, mass-produced homes, rosy advertising - all causing and hiding the despair and violence those like Bob thrive on. If the contemporary world looks different from Twin Peaks it's because one has put the other into shadow. Bob was a demon. Mr. C is the demiurge.
Dougie faces the wrong way in an elevator (reminding us that there kind of isn't one), takes time to look at and appreciate things (compare with Harry, who likes green tea lattes but orders coffee because everyone else does), cries when he sees a bored child stuck in a car etc.
Mr. C would appear to run this world, going by that scene with the Winkie's guy. He's the mayor of rural decay too, judging by his introduction. So this is everything that's happened to America in 25 years. "The evil that men do" was offered as what Bob truly is back in the final Laura-sequence episode. These are the recent flavors of evil. Machines, numbers, dollars, suits, mass-produced homes, rosy advertising - all causing and hiding the despair and violence those like Bob thrive on. If the contemporary world looks different from Twin Peaks it's because one has put the other into shadow. Bob was a demon. Mr. C is the demiurge.
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Yeah, I agree. Forrest Gump isn't pointless either, but is this gonna go on longer than that?
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