mtwentz wrote:Hey, I know the 'Severely Disappointed' group is going to complain about ZZ Top being played at the Roadhouse, so we might as well get it off our chests on this thread...
Why would specifically disappointed people complain about that? Sorry, I don't get the connection between the disappointed group and a random Roadhouse band and your comment seemed to me like you were just trying to find something to make fun of the disappointed group.
About the episode: I usually have very mixed/disappointed feelings about the series (even about episodes where I was leaning more towards "like"), but I absolutely loved this Part. I watched it twice this morning and will probably watch it at least once more today.
I was surprised about the sudden progress in Norma and Ed's relationship and thought it was too good to be true, so I hope it's not just a dream/fantasy. It came out of nowhere. I think it would have been better if we had seen more of them before, how they were sad about not being together and dealing with that. I mean, in Part 13 it looked like she was with Walter but now that didn't seem to be a problem for her and Ed to get back together. But other than that I have no complaints about their scenes in Part 15 and was very happy for them to finally be together. BTW, I didn't really trust Nadine and had a feeling she just released Ed because of her obsession with/crush on Jacoby. She even admitted to being manipulative and selfish, so maybe she released him for selfish reasons.
Finally some progress for good Cooper. He seemed very active this time. What triggered his endeavors to use the remote? It didn't seem like he was just curious but more like he really wanted to turn on the TV. I didn't catch the mention of "Gordon Cole" on the TV the first time and didn't understand why a random movie scene triggered his reaction. I really hope putting the fork into the socket woke him up. It would make sense, but I am a bit wary because we had so many moments that made us think he would wake up soon, just to be disappointed. What if the TV almost woke him up but the socket put him back to a vegetable?
And even if he woke up, I'm not sure we will see him next episode. We had a lot of Kyle MacLachlan this time, maybe the next part will focus on other characters.
One of the kids of the wrong Douglas and Janey at the FBI was wearing bunny slippers. It's not about the bunnies
Finally we got confirmation that Audrey is Richard's mother. Wish we had also gotten confirmation about the father. I'm slightly disappointed we didn't get the talk that Mr. C. promised Richard and hope we will see that in one of the remaining episodes, because that might finally shed some light on Richard's parentage. It seems very likely now that Mr. C. is Richard's father, why else did he tell him to get in the car? In Part 13 I thought Richard might be after Mr. C. because he felt abandoned by him or because is angry that Mr. C. hurt Audrey. Him pulling a gun on Mr. C. convinced me even more of that.
I loved the convenience store scene. The Jeffries "teapot"/bell was weird (he reminded me of a Dalek), but I preferred it to monkey-Jeffries or to the arm-tree. The scene made me sad because I thought of how we might have seen Bowie instead if he were still alive
BTW, the room Jeffries is in looks like the room in which Cooper met American Girl/Ronette and Naido (and where we saw a blue rose on a table):
Why didn't Mr. C. speak backwards when he was in the lodge? Is he now so accustomed to our world that he prefers or is better at speaking normal? Jeffries didn't speak backwards, either.
I loved Audrey's scene. She always found an excuse not to leave the house and seemed more confused than ever.
Two Roadhouse scenes in one episode
When someone in the Roadhouse said "dial 911" I immediately thought of the drugged-out mother and her constant "119" shouting.
Who was the girl in the Roadhouse at the end waiting for? She was so dreamy, only half aware of what was going on around her and showed almost no reaction when the guys sat her on the floor. I loved the scene and the song.
No resolution for the James in the boiler room scene. I'm wondering if he found something/someone there who told him to get himself and Freddie arrested because now Freddie is in the same place as Naido. Maybe he has to protect her from the people who want to harm her.
If the two guys that Freddie punched are both in intensive care (according to Hawk), who is the other guy in the prison cell and why is he bleeding out of mouth and nose? There was another character bleeding from the mouth: the woodsman who was sitting in the chair, the one who was asked by Mr. C. about Phillip Jeffries. Is Freddie's glove-punch turning people into woodsmen or are the woodsmen something like reflections of people from our world?
I didn't understand a word of what Steven and Gersten said. Glad someone here provided the subtitles for the scene. I don't know why so many people are convinced Steven killed Becky. The conversation didn't sound like that to me. Becky and Steven did something, Steven blames himself, and Gersten blames Becky. I thought they were talking about the same thing that Steven and Becky talked about when he said he knew what she did. Besides, Becky called Shelly and told her she was worried about Steven because he didn't come home. It seemed to me they hadn't seen each other since he ran off with Gersten, so I don't think he had an opportunity to kill Becky.
Steven: Are you gonna come up with me?
Gersten: No. No, and you're not going either.
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Steven: and when I - when I see you come up but...but... I may not even see you there, I mean...I mean...i mean gone. Where will I be? Will I be with the rhinoceros? The lightning in the bottle, hm? Please.
Gersten: It's okay. It's okay, okay.
Steven: Or will I be completely all like- like- turquoise? Hm? I feel something. Fuck. Or. Fuck. This is the end. I got a duty to do.
There seems to be more going on. Does Steven want to go to a lodge or lodge-like place? What is his "duty"? Gersten still had the key around her neck. What is it for? Is there a connection to the person who unlocked the door for Mr. C.?
What's up with all these animals? We had the monkey, the zebra, the penguin and now the rhinoceros... Does this have anything to do with the convenience store scene from the Missing Pieces where the electrician said: "animal life" and all those weird screeching sounds?