Hi hi hi that's neat :-)))

But really, is it possible that they shot these two prison scenes so close (in time) to one another?

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"She was beautiful."  - Truman about Caroline. C'mon, man, can't you come up with any adjective for a woman besides beautiful?

Catherine says Pete and Andrew are like the Hardy Boys (I read tons of these when I was a kid)

I'm glad the John Justice Wheeler theme music is not on a soundtrack to remind me of the pompous jackass.

What is up with Ben's newfound fascination with raw vegetables?

David Patrick Kelly chews up any scene he is in with his dry sense of humor.

It's funny how theatrical and melodramatic James and Donna act about their "difficult" lives.

Every time I see David Warner I think of Tron.

When it first aired, the main thing I wanted to see were scenes with BOB in them.  Josie's death has hands down the worst and only bad appearance of BOB in the series or film.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

In Ep.26 Cooper calls Audrey, Donna and Shelly to the police station and finds out that Earle had visited all of them. I remember Shelly said she'd got a very big tip (and it as from Windom).

But is there another scene of Windom Earle at RR? Or was he supposed to leave that tip in Ep.23 at the same time that he left the "gathering of angels" message? Because if so, then all the money was apparently taken by Norma who made sure it found its way to her pocket ;-) That's what I noticed.

Also did you notice that after all it was Harry who was right about Earle's reaction to the chess move? Cooper seems very certain that his opponent's sick sense of honor works the way it is expected to work. But his (not exactly his) move frustrated Earle and he did kill anyway just like Sheriff had foreseen.

Oh, and one more - in the Horne/Wheeler dinner scene there's a piano tune played in the background. I don't think we see the pianist but I can obviously sense the presence of Mr Angelo who sits round the corner and plays... it's beautiful! And of course it's the tune that gets used from time to time (but in more jazzy arrangement) in these late episodes, including one of my favourite scenes, ie. Cooper and Wheeler in front of the fire in Ep.26.

Anyway, what a great episode it is! I haven't seen it for a couple of years until this morning... and it's really high quality! I'll go as far as saying it is better than the preceding one and who knows me, knows that's saying a lot

For me everything works great and there is not a single bad or unnecesary scene. Even the usually cheesy ones feel alright: Nadine-Ed is just fine, better than most of their scenes together since Nadine became high school , Ed-Norma when he comes and asks her to marry her is very good, too, unlike some of their other scenes where they would do their ritual talks (now it's your turn and so on). Bah, even the over-sweetness of the Donna and James picnic seems kind of nice to me; it is short (thanks God) and visually beautiful (perhaps a bit too beautiful, but I like it anyway). And I am listing the potentially bad scenes.

But the ending gave me creeeeps and I'm not just talking about the very last scene. Everything was leading to it, the tension was very well built. Did you notice that?

Some things I noticed, not details and trivia this time but the more review kind of stuff:

- Josie's falling to pieces in all this episode is really splendid. We may have different opinions about Joan Chen's acting here and there but in this episode she gives her very best and especially the scene with Catherine is a five-star rate

- Cooper's concern and Harry's sense of a disaster coming made me more than just anxious about the finale, they made me care. Catherine's "poor man", given with such great timing, sums it up perfectly

- All the scenes with Andrew and his meeting with Eckhardt in the elevator are very good ones. We never find out much about these characters but their brief appearances (and very good acting!) let us see and feel that both these men must have been powerful figures indeed

- The short scene with Leo and the arrow... Emptiness in Leo's eyes, even when he smiles. His eyes, his face express NOTHING, except that they show how the menacing Leo became no more than a puppet

- OK, I know that it's popular to hate John Justice Wheeler. I am not exactly into this thing, I'm not a fan of course, but I never had anything against the guy, either. And I definitely do appreciate the way his character has been introduced. How he caught Audrey in a moment when she was under some new stress and feeling kind of embarassed and insecure at her new "work"... and how he took her mind of that bother and completely unexpectedly brought back some memories of childhood...  and that on his way out he helped the old lady so gallantly and of course she saw it... This scene is set very realistically - between problems at work and getting a strange note but the appearance of Jack, emphasized by really great use of music, brings something dreamy to it. As much as I would prefer Audrey to stay in love with agent Cooper, I can't help feeling that the way it turned out with Jack, turned out very naturally after this scene

- I do love the poem and the scene at the Roadhouse is very well directed in my opinion - short, precise, three pieces of paper fit together and make a beautiful whole

- "it's incredible roasted" - this is one of Jerry's best!

But of course most of all the very ending strikes me as great. Shivers down my spine when BOB reappears, his hand from behind of the bed, the sound of broken glass that we heard a few times before but which is coming ever more often near the end of the series. Little Man From Another Place again! Goodness knows what he was doing there but nevermind - how great it was to see him again! Finally the most terrifying sight and sound of the wooden face desperately calling for help in the drawer pull. An excellent ending of an excellent episode.

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That tune you say, is it "Great Northern Piano Bundle" from the "Twin Peaks Archive" album in davidlynch.com? It's brilliant!

And yes, you've made me remember of something I've always thought, but I think I haven't mentioned here... When Coop asks the girls if they remember someone peculiar or behaving strangely and Shelly mentions that stuff about the tips I thought it was strange, like...unimportant... The other two met Earle and Shelly did too, but was the only one who didn't find him odd, biker Earle (or hippy or whatever) is never mentioned... However, the writers felt she needed to mention *something* and it was...the tip thing... I thought too bearded Earle was the one who left the ohsoawesome tip, but who knows... Maybe Coop left the tip and she doesn't remember...

COOP: But I left the tip Shelly, don't you remember?

SHELLY: Uh, no... Really? I thought it was this tough-looking biker that told me I was very pretty...

DONNA: James?

AUDREY: James is a tough-looking biker only in your imagination, my very young padawan.

I forgot all about the biker scene.

OK, so Earle is shown at RR twice, in Ep.23 and then in Ep.24 as a hippie biker. The only time we see him leave any money is when Norma takes it and places it safe in her pocket. I'll have to check it out in Ep.26 when Cooper talks to the girls about the poem.

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Biker Earle... Do you think Coop *felt* his presence? Or simply saw him from the corner of his eye?

BTW, one of my favorite Earle disguises, and I think you mentioned it once as a favorite too, is "postcards Earle"... Remember the scene? Great Northern Hotel... "Owls!!"...

Of course I do! There is some great work with music there, too, A melancholy tune coming out of the waterfalls, and Cooper whistling in harmony with this tune. And the disguise - the best!

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i believe i have searched the whole board for a "did you notice ..." thread on episode 20, but i didn't manage to find one, so i thought, i'd just post it here. has someone beside me ever noticed that the scene (08:50+) of episode 20, with shelly, bobby and leo could be viewed as some kind of biopic of leo johnson's early childhood? as if bobby and shelly were his actual parents. bobby drinking beer, having no time because of baseball, threatening to leave the family, quarrels, even violence in front of little leo, an utter disregard for his needs, childish wishes, brought forward in a childish awkward way ("new shoes"). and later he attends primary school, taught by windom earle himself. i thought of something like "introduced to the black lodge at age 7", when it's hardly possibly for him to distinguish the place from anything else (his only world, no memory of another one, therefore no possibility to leave (where to? doesn't know any other place)). and later, in episode 29, he (or the scene) looks as if he (or it) would be waiting for the viewer to free him (i know there's a scene in the script where he is freed and dies (or at least causes the spiders to drop on him by trying to speak).

whatever, just wanted to point out, that the bobby shelly leo - scenes could be viewed as some kind of leo-biopic (early childhood). 

edit: forgot to mention the birthday-party imagery! edit2: and unforeseen financial difficulties because of raising a child, driving a couple apart, anger and stuff projected on child.

edit3: oh! now that is very embarrassing. i searched the whole board ("manually"), but it was one or two weeks ago...i must have forgotten to search through the first page of the board! well, now it's posted here, i guess. i've PMd a mod now, so i guess it should be moved sooner or later.

shouldn't be a problem for the moderators to move your post to Ep.20 compendium, I believe?

Anyway, wow, that's a very unusual perspective and as an interpretation one could call it far-fetched - but why not? Very interesting idea, never heard or thought about it before! Leo's childhood could well look like that, I mean he became what he was for some reason.

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