Twin Peaks Watch Along: The Return Part Eight
Good grief, it's been a while!
But here we are, at what from memory was for me at least, the biggest mindfuck of the series.
Twin Peaks The Return: Part Eight
Annoyingly right off the bat the episode I was able to download has annoying subtitles, but that seems to be the case with all the episodes I've tracked down of this season. I need the DVD for this.
After such a big break between episodes, I'm slightly lost here but we start with Evil Dale after his prison break. Evil Dale and Ray on the road in a tracked car. It appears we are heading to a "farm"... Ray appears to want to extort money from Evil Dale. I'd settle for being out of prison and be done with it.
Evil Dale has been shot and now things start to fly into the sun. People tearing at Evil Dale, taking him back to the Lodge?
Ray contacting Phillip Jefferies, the whole Phillip Jefferies thing is confusing.
And then randomly we jump to Nine Inch Nails playing at The Roadhouse. Not sure about this choice of musical guest overall but they kind of work for the tone of this episode.
And now we pan to the slow-mo atomic bomb blast over New Mexico. This is Lynch at his batshit finest, and I think that's all we need to say here. This is a phenomenal scene.
Followed by the craziness of the Convenience Store scene, lots of Woodsmen, and crazy sound glitches. The hilarious thing is someone is still attempting to subtitle this.
And now we have someone listening to a record, and is that the Giant randomly appearing to tie things back into the Twin Peaks of old? To be fair, this scene is a little marred by some ropey visual effects, namely the golden orb with Laura Palmer's face in it.
And now we get to the infamous 'gotta light' sequence!
The Woodsman still needs a light, I don't think this woman has a light. Hopefully our hapless disc jockey has one for him. He keeps killing people before they can answer him!
At this rate, he's never going to get a light.
And some insect/body horror for god measure as that weird frog thing crawls into that girl's mouth...
And we close on a shot of said girl with the credits rolling.
Fuuuuuuk, what an episode!
This has to be up there with the the absolute highest quality episodes. That being said, trying to write and describe everything that goes on here wouldn't do it justice. Similarly I think overthinking it and trying to make sense of it wouldn't do it any good either.
I think this episode is best enjoyed by going along for the ride and letting it take you where it takes you.
Phenomenal episode.
This was a long break between episodes, mostly due to getting my hands on this episode along with being otherwise busy.
I already have Part 9 sorted with Parts 10 and Eleven not too far behind either so I'm back on it for the glorious final stretch of episodes, it's been a journey!
But here we are, at what from memory was for me at least, the biggest mindfuck of the series.
Twin Peaks The Return: Part Eight
Annoyingly right off the bat the episode I was able to download has annoying subtitles, but that seems to be the case with all the episodes I've tracked down of this season. I need the DVD for this.
After such a big break between episodes, I'm slightly lost here but we start with Evil Dale after his prison break. Evil Dale and Ray on the road in a tracked car. It appears we are heading to a "farm"... Ray appears to want to extort money from Evil Dale. I'd settle for being out of prison and be done with it.
Evil Dale has been shot and now things start to fly into the sun. People tearing at Evil Dale, taking him back to the Lodge?
Ray contacting Phillip Jefferies, the whole Phillip Jefferies thing is confusing.
And then randomly we jump to Nine Inch Nails playing at The Roadhouse. Not sure about this choice of musical guest overall but they kind of work for the tone of this episode.
And now we pan to the slow-mo atomic bomb blast over New Mexico. This is Lynch at his batshit finest, and I think that's all we need to say here. This is a phenomenal scene.
Followed by the craziness of the Convenience Store scene, lots of Woodsmen, and crazy sound glitches. The hilarious thing is someone is still attempting to subtitle this.
And now we have someone listening to a record, and is that the Giant randomly appearing to tie things back into the Twin Peaks of old? To be fair, this scene is a little marred by some ropey visual effects, namely the golden orb with Laura Palmer's face in it.
And now we get to the infamous 'gotta light' sequence!
The Woodsman still needs a light, I don't think this woman has a light. Hopefully our hapless disc jockey has one for him. He keeps killing people before they can answer him!
At this rate, he's never going to get a light.
And some insect/body horror for god measure as that weird frog thing crawls into that girl's mouth...
And we close on a shot of said girl with the credits rolling.
Fuuuuuuk, what an episode!
This has to be up there with the the absolute highest quality episodes. That being said, trying to write and describe everything that goes on here wouldn't do it justice. Similarly I think overthinking it and trying to make sense of it wouldn't do it any good either.
I think this episode is best enjoyed by going along for the ride and letting it take you where it takes you.
Phenomenal episode.
This was a long break between episodes, mostly due to getting my hands on this episode along with being otherwise busy.
I already have Part 9 sorted with Parts 10 and Eleven not too far behind either so I'm back on it for the glorious final stretch of episodes, it's been a journey!