He says the Red Room changes according to the person who enters it, or from whose perspective it is seen. They each play out according to a person's specific subconscious references Well I did assume that, yes, the "trials" or tests change depending on the explorer's subconscious fears, f...

and in the Atmospherics deleted scene when they're both Doppelgängers. During Cooper's dream it is clear that he has the same tattoo as Mike. In the same dream from episode 2 Bob is seen walking towards the screen/Cooper. Even Bob has a Doppelgänger. This is Cooper's Red Room (One-Eyed Jack's: Audr...

Bob was spelling his name; a signature on a demon's self-portrait. He was inscribing himself in his victims. Fair enough, but c'mon. Is the demon who has existed "since the beginning of time"'s name really Bob or "Robert"? Would such beings actually have human names? I like it f...

MFAP eats the corn of pain and sorrow only after Leland is healed. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. His nourishment is someone else's healing, even if Laura had to die for that to happen... Since Leland/BOB is the knife-wielding aggressor in Fire, his wound is particularly puzzling. How I interp...

Speaking of which, where IS the giant in FWWM? ...why isn't Mike in the Convenience Store scene? And I think that speaks volumes about the Giant. In the film, it seems like we only see, with the exception of the angels I suppose, Black Lodge spirits--those spirits who consume garmonbozia, such as i...

OH this thread gives me the chance to ask about something else I've always wondered about. At the end of the film, in the train car, Leland whimpers to Laura, "I always thought you knew it was me." But then BOB manifests and hisses, "I never knew you knew it was me..." I don't un...

He says it has something to do with the fact they want to go home but can't. So no matter how the ring is used throughout the film, and how it differs from Cooper's ring in the series, it will always have a bearing in Mike and Bob returning home (to the fields/planet of corn.) But I don't understan...

I always found episode 16 awkward and unsatisfying for numerous reasons. So true. I cringe when hearing Cooper say Leland danced because the Little Man danced (Audrey danced too! the Little Man dances later even after Leland is done with!) or his hair turned "gray" because BOB is a long-g...

I think if the plan was to have Maddy come up dead, wrapped in plastic, the list of tenable suspects would have narrowed considerably. I can't think of anyone besides Leland who had any meaningful contact with her anyways, and his increasingly bizarre behavior was already singling him out. Maybe the...

When Mike says in the dream and later in the interrogation that he took the arm off I always assumed he removed his host's arm (maybe by causing the car accident somehow, though that could just be Lynch and Frost purposefully fucking with our ability/desire to reconcile the two worlds). Keep in min...

It is MIKE's division throughout the different planes that enables him to get the upper hand over BOB. When the Little Man (and not Gerard) eats the corn, it allows him to preserve that balance without neutralizing Gerard's efforts. It also relates Little Mike positively with Laura (his cousin), as...

Since Mike is Phillip, I'd assume axing the physical arm coincided with axing the metaphysical arm. Otherwise it's the world's biggest red herring (and non sequitur)! But MIKE is an "inhabiting spirit", Philip is "host to [him]". So MIKE should have existed long before Philip Ge...

In that sense the red room appears to be the very domestication/balance between Bob's unrestrained momentum and The Arm's reaction to invoke Walking, to which Bob consents, thus laying out the rules of air on fire (Wow Bob Wow), unboundedness and finally containment So how really do you think the R...

In a way, I think you may have answered your own question here! Maybe more so than any other character, the one-armed man changes purpose and meaning depending on the context he's used in. His role is ambiguous enough early on that Lynch can get away with this kind of reboot approach though if one ...

SIX PEOPLE in a large, barren, filthy room. (Bob, Little Mike, Grandson, Grandmother, Two Woodsmen) But it ended up being more than six people. The Electrician and the Jumping Man were added. However their proximity doesn't indicate a complete reunion as the original MIKE's killing instinct (which ...