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* Gordon Cole yelling at Windom's bonsai tree might me another quirk of his, but he yells because of his deafness. But then [[Tropers/{{Notahandle}} I]] remembered that Cole's hearing aid may had picked up on the bonsai tree's bug, so in essence, he was yelling at the tree on purpose.
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* Gordon Cole yelling at Windom's bonsai tree might me be another quirk of his, but he yells because of his deafness. But then [[Tropers/{{Notahandle}} I]] remembered that Cole's hearing aid may had have picked up on the bonsai tree's bug, so in essence, he was yelling at the tree on purpose.
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** It helps that [[TheSkeptic Albert]] describes BOB as the evil that men do.
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** It helps that [[TheSkeptic [[AgentScully Albert]] describes BOB as the evil that men do.
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** Think about the last episode, [[spoiler:Earle kidnaps Annie and Cooper goes to the rescue but Cooper has to enter the Black Lodge to face his fears that are as he mentioned in past episodes his faults as an agent which are shown in full detail, what follows is Windom Earle getting his head "fired up" by BOB and it finishes with Cooper coming back only with Annie consumed by BOB aka, the evil of men]]. What if something arguably more mundane happened that day?
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** Think about the last episode, [[spoiler:Earle kidnaps Annie and Cooper goes to the rescue but Cooper has to enter the Black Lodge to face his fears that are fears. These are, as he mentioned in past episodes episodes, his faults as an agent which are shown in full detail, what detail. What follows is Windom Earle getting his head "fired up" by BOB and it finishes with Cooper coming back only with Annie consumed by BOB aka, the evil of men]]. What if something arguably more mundane happened that day?
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* Donna has an in-universe one in the pilot as she puts together in a few seconds the fact Laura Palmer is missing from her seat, the somber announcement, the secret message being relayed to the teacher, and the mood in the room to realize her best friend is dead. Also counts as an especially {{Tearjerker}} AwesomenessByAnalysis scene.
* In the bar scene in the movie, a man is seen putting something put a bottle of beer and giving it to Donna, suggesting he roofied her.
* The [[GainaxEnding ending scene]] of the [[CliffHanger second season finale]] in its '''entirety'''. [[spoiler:The real, good Coop is trapped in the Black Lodge while [[GrandTheftMe his body has been hijacked by BOB]], whom need we remind you, is a demonic rapist serial killer that forced his last host to torment and murder his own daughter!]] Until the new season comes out, we have no clue what horrors went down during those 25 years. To make matters worse, time flows differently in the Black Lodge than in reality; [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream it's unknown what 25 years in that place could feel like to Cooper]] ]] and [[spoiler:[[NotHimself what it could do to him psychologically]] ]].
* In the bar scene in the movie, a man is seen putting something put a bottle of beer and giving it to Donna, suggesting he roofied her.
* The [[GainaxEnding ending scene]] of the [[CliffHanger second season finale]] in its '''entirety'''. [[spoiler:The real, good Coop is trapped in the Black Lodge while [[GrandTheftMe his body has been hijacked by BOB]], whom need we remind you, is a demonic rapist serial killer that forced his last host to torment and murder his own daughter!]] Until the new season comes out, we have no clue what horrors went down during those 25 years. To make matters worse, time flows differently in the Black Lodge than in reality; [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream it's unknown what 25 years in that place could feel like to Cooper]] ]] and [[spoiler:[[NotHimself what it could do to him psychologically]] ]].
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* Donna has an in-universe one in the pilot as she puts together in a few seconds the fact Laura Palmer is missing from her seat, the somber announcement, the secret message being relayed to the teacher, and the mood in the room to realize her best friend is dead. Also counts as an especially {{Tearjerker}} TearJerker AwesomenessByAnalysis scene.
* In the bar scene in the movie, a man is seen putting somethingput in a bottle of beer and giving it to Donna, suggesting he roofied her.
* The [[GainaxEnding ending scene]] of the [[CliffHanger second season finale]] in its '''entirety'''. [[spoiler:The real, good Coop is trapped in the Black Lodge while [[GrandTheftMe his body has been hijacked by BOB]],whom need we remind you, is a demonic rapist serial killer that forced his last host to torment and murder his own daughter!]] Until the new season comes out, we We have no clue what horrors went down during those 25 years. To make matters worse, time flows differently in the Black Lodge than in reality; [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream it's unknown what 25 years in that place could feel like to Cooper]] ]] and [[spoiler:[[NotHimself what it could do to him psychologically]] ]].
* In the bar scene in the movie, a man is seen putting something
* The [[GainaxEnding ending scene]] of the [[CliffHanger second season finale]] in its '''entirety'''. [[spoiler:The real, good Coop is trapped in the Black Lodge while [[GrandTheftMe his body has been hijacked by BOB]],
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* Dick Tremayne's seemingly innocuous act of lighting a cigarette [[spoiler: triggers the sheriff's office sprinklers, causing Leland/BOB to become so agitated he breaks free of his restraints.]] In The Return, Dick's smirking line [[spoiler: "Got a light?"]] is echoed [[spoiler: or predicted? ]] in a different and equally disturbing circumstance.
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* Why does BOB let [[spoiler: Dopple Coop do the steering in their relationship? Well, BOB is all about feeding on the pain and suffering of his victims. In Leland's case, it was torturing Leland's own daughter for decades. In Dopple Coop's case, he has a endless stream of victims and terrified associates. Dopple Coop is just so much BETTER at doing evil than BOB.]]
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* Why does BOB let [[spoiler: Dopple Coop do the steering in their relationship? Well, BOB is all about feeding on the pain and suffering of his victims. In Leland's case, it was torturing Leland's own daughter for decades. In Dopple Coop's case, he has a an endless stream of victims and terrified associates. Dopple Coop is just so much BETTER at doing evil than BOB.]]
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** Though when it comes to Cooper's rock-throwing method, it's worth remembering that it ''did'' work -- it pointed him to the one and only person on his list who witnessed Laura's murder. He just didn't have enough information yet to put the pieces together.
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**Arguably the techniques work in the first season. Cooper treats his dream in symbolic terms, and there is no indication that the Red Room is a real place.
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* Dick Tremayne's seemingly innocuous act of lighting a cigarette [[spoiler: triggers the sheriff's office sprinklers, causing Leland/BOB to become so agitated he breaks free of his restraints.]] In The Return, Dick's smirking line [[spoiler: "Got a light?"]] is echoed [[spoiler: or predicted? ]] in a different and equally disturbing circumstance.
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* The Arm refers to the liminal space of the Black Lodge as "The Waiting Room". True, it is a place Cooper 'waits' in for a long time; and it is a place that briefly contains a waiter, the other self of the Giant. But a third meaning is possible: this is the room that the Lodge had prepared for Cooper. The room that was waiting for him.
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* Dale Cooper seems to ave a nutty approach to investigating the murder - throwing rocks at things and using dreams - which can be read as a parody of Literature/SherlockHolmes and his rational, logical ilk. The character claims to use science and rationality, but everything they do is based on insight and illogical leaps that happen to be true. Cooper uses the least rational investigating techniques on Earth, and he's equally as correct. It puts a new spin on his character - maybe he's actually GenreSavvy, and knows no matter what he does everything he does will lead him closer to the killer.
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* Dale Cooper seems to ave have a nutty approach to investigating the murder - throwing rocks at things and using dreams - which can be read as a parody of Literature/SherlockHolmes and his rational, logical ilk. The character claims to use science and rationality, but everything they do is based on insight and illogical leaps that happen to be true. Cooper uses the least rational investigating techniques on Earth, and he's equally as correct. It puts a new spin on his character - maybe he's actually GenreSavvy, and knows no matter what he does everything he does will lead him closer to the killer.
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!! Refrain from using [[Administrivia/FirstPersonWriting first person pronouns]], please. This is a Fridge page, not a forum.
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* I love Dale Cooper and his nutty approach to investigating the murder - throwing rocks at things and using dreams. It wasn't until I read the first comment on [[http://www.ferretbrain.com/articles/article-167 this blog post]] that I realized why he does what he does. Basically, it's all a parody of Literature/SherlockHolmes and his rational, logical ilk. They claim to use science and rationality, but everything they do is based on insight and illogical leaps that happen to be true. Cooper uses the least rational investigating techniques on Earth, and he's equally as correct. It puts a new spin on his character - maybe he's actually GenreSavvy, and knows no matter what he does everything he does will lead him closer to the killer - {{Tropers/randomfanboy}}
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* I love Dale Cooper and his seems to ave a nutty approach to investigating the murder - throwing rocks at things and using dreams. It wasn't until I dreams - which can be read the first comment on [[http://www.ferretbrain.com/articles/article-167 this blog post]] that I realized why he does what he does. Basically, it's all as a parody of Literature/SherlockHolmes and his rational, logical ilk. They claim The character claims to use science and rationality, but everything they do is based on insight and illogical leaps that happen to be true. Cooper uses the least rational investigating techniques on Earth, and he's equally as correct. It puts a new spin on his character - maybe he's actually GenreSavvy, and knows no matter what he does everything he does will lead him closer to the killer - {{Tropers/randomfanboy}}killer.
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* Janey-E has sex with Dougie when he can't give verbal consent is slightly less creepy when you remember that she's witnessed him subdue a KnifeNut purely by reflex. If Dougie didn't welcome her advances (especially since she was on top during the whole thing), he definitely would have made it clear.
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* Janey-E has sex with Dougie when he can't give verbal consent is slightly less creepy when you remember that she's witnessed him subdue a KnifeNut PsychoKnifeNut purely by reflex. If Dougie didn't welcome her advances (especially since she was on top during the whole thing), he definitely would have made it clear.
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* When Cooper comes across MIKE in Part 17, he greets him with an enigmatic warmth, reciting the "Fire Walk With Me" poem in his normal voice (rather than the Black Lodge backwards-speak). Whatever meaning you attach to the poem, it's clear from his tone that MIKE is affectionately saluting Cooper, and acknowledging everything they've gone through together. After 25 years, perhaps the poem has now taken on a new meaning for both of them.
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* Throughout the first and second season the various figures that come to Coop offer messages that are either too cryptic to decipher initially ("That gum you like is going to come back in style") or come too late ("It is happening again"). This can be interpreted as the product of non-human beings, living in a non-human state of existence, trying their best to communicate in human terms. Then, in ''Fire Walk With Me'', it's explicitly shown that it's not only BOB who feeds on "Garmonbozia", or pain and suffering - it's '''all''' of the inhabitants of the Black Lodge, including MIKE and The Arm. Which leads to the disturbing idea that The Arm, MIKE, The Giant and others...might not actually be trying to help Cooper, or Laura. They might be deliberately being cryptic, or even ''un''helpful, because to see Cooper and the others try and fail, over and over, is just a different flavour of Garmonbozia. A kind they prefer.
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* Throughout the first and second season the various figures that come to Coop offer messages that are either too cryptic to decipher initially ("That gum you like is going to come back in style") or come too late ("It is happening again"). This can be interpreted as the product of non-human beings, living in a non-human state of existence, trying their best to communicate in human terms. Then, in ''Fire Walk With Me'', it's explicitly shown that it's not only BOB who feeds on "Garmonbozia", or pain and suffering - it's '''all''' of the inhabitants of the Black Lodge, including MIKE and The Arm. Which leads to the disturbing idea that The Arm, MIKE, The Giant and others...might not actually be trying to help Cooper, or Laura. They might be deliberately being cryptic, or even ''un''helpful, because to see Cooper and the others try and fail, over and over, is just a different flavour of Garmonbozia. A kind they prefer.
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*** Albert is of course quoting Julius Caesar, wherein the full line is "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Caesar", said by Mark Antony at Caesar's funeral. This context is illuminating: when Brutus later sees Caesar's ghost, it identifies itself not as Caesar but as "Thine evil spirit, Brutus" - i.e., the personification of Brutus' own evil act of killing Caesar. Like BOB, the ghost is the manifestation not of a person but of a concept.
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* When first broadcast, Laura Palmer's promise "I'll see you again in 25 years" seemed as mysterious as anything else said in the Black Lodge. With the Return being broadcast a real quarter-century after that line, it takes on a tragic, terrifying new meaning. Time itself fades into nothingness in the Lodge. When Cooper sees Laura again, this is the only way he knows how much time has passed...
** Similarly, where the line "When you see me again, it won't be me" originally might have indicated the presence of an avatar of the Arm (or the Man From Another Place) on Earth. In the new series - with the original actor not making a return - it becomes a prophecy of his strange transformation.
** Similarly, where the line "When you see me again, it won't be me" originally might have indicated the presence of an avatar of the Arm (or the Man From Another Place) on Earth. In the new series - with the original actor not making a return - it becomes a prophecy of his strange transformation.
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* When Cooper escapes the Black Lodge, and before or after he emerges in the observation box in New York, he plummets through a claustrophobic black void covered in white spots like static. In "Episode 8/Gotta Light?", we discover that same spotted void in the aftermath of "Trinity", the first atomic bomb test in 1945-era New Mexico. The radioactive fallout has long since dissipated, but the overall harm of that first test by the Manhattan Projects is still reverberating through time...
** It is notable that in the aftermath of the "Trinity" test, fallout descended on neighbouring areas in the form of a white mist. When this settled on local livestock it resulted in a temporary loss of hair, which grew back white. A connection, perhaps, to Leland Palmer - and the line "The Horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within".
** It is notable that in the aftermath of the "Trinity" test, fallout descended on neighbouring areas in the form of a white mist. When this settled on local livestock it resulted in a temporary loss of hair, which grew back white. A connection, perhaps, to Leland Palmer - and the line "The Horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within".
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* 11 years after the "Trinity" test in New Mexico - the detonation of an extremely bright and destructive atomic bomb - the Woodsmen descend on the area, one of them repeatedly asking "Got A Light?".
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* I love Dale Cooper and his nutty approach to investigating the murder - throwing rocks at things and using dreams. It wasn't until I read the first comment on [[http://www.ferretbrain.com/articles/article-167 this blog post]] that I realized why he does what he does. Basically, it's all a parody of SherlockHolmes and his rational, logical ilk. They claim to use science and rationality, but everything they do is based on insight and illogical leaps that happen to be true. Cooper uses the least rational investigating techniques on Earth, and he's equally as correct. It puts a new spin on his character - maybe he's actually GenreSavvy, and knows no matter what he does everything he does will lead him closer to the killer - {{Tropers/randomfanboy}}
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* I love Dale Cooper and his nutty approach to investigating the murder - throwing rocks at things and using dreams. It wasn't until I read the first comment on [[http://www.ferretbrain.com/articles/article-167 this blog post]] that I realized why he does what he does. Basically, it's all a parody of SherlockHolmes Literature/SherlockHolmes and his rational, logical ilk. They claim to use science and rationality, but everything they do is based on insight and illogical leaps that happen to be true. Cooper uses the least rational investigating techniques on Earth, and he's equally as correct. It puts a new spin on his character - maybe he's actually GenreSavvy, and knows no matter what he does everything he does will lead him closer to the killer - {{Tropers/randomfanboy}}
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** There actually was solid evidence to arrest Leland as Maggie's killer. He claimed to have dropped her off at the bus station the morning after he killed her, while the autopsy on her was precise enough to confirm she died the night before (this was solid enough to not let Ben off the hook whom they arrested a little afterwards). I really thought Cooper would speak to Donna or Leland and figure this out only instead Laura just told him via magic...Great job there Coop. Just wait until everyone tells you via magic.
