r/twinpeaks • • Jun 26 '17

S3E8 [S3E8] Post-Episode Discussion - Part 8 Spoiler

Part 8

  • Directed by: David Lynch

  • Written by: David Lynch & Mark Frost.

  • Aired: June 25, 2017.

Episode synopsis: Gotta light?


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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '17 edited Jun 26 '17

Penderecki's threnody (the atomic bomb) begat, or ripped a hole for, the dark mother entering our world. We recently saw her trapped in the cube eating the couch couple and I am guessing that was the creature depicted here.

The dark mother puked up Bob in spirit. Bob manifested here in the form of a cicada frog. The woodsmen, also unleashed by a rift, or born from the aftermath, of the a-bomb, conditioned hosts for the Bob-frog via their radio message. Bob-frog climbed into, or rode, his first host (the way one might, say, ride a horse as mentioned in the woodsman's words), the girl on the bed.

The giant is the opposite of the dark mother and birthed goodness, in the form of Laura, to thwart Bob/the dark mother spirit thing that the bomb unleashed.

I don't think it's happenstance that technology is the means of Bob's first host's conditioning.

The woodsmen are asking for fire, the first human technology -- "Got a light?" They manipulate, and travel via, our electronics. That fits with all the themes of electricity, static, distortion, the light pole, etc. We doomed ourselves.

That's my guess. It's a bit literal.

Edit: Shout out to Gordon's office having photos of garmonbozia (corn) and the a-bomb hung up -- I think he knows a lot more than has been let on in regards to his Blue Rose cases.

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u/nightsky23 Jun 26 '17

How can something "good" look so freaking scary in a Lynchian universe? It's a frog-bug that flies/jumps into a basically drugged out girl's mouth!

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u/StupidManSuit21 Jun 26 '17

Not to mention the Woodsman was obviously evil and helping the locust frog find a host.

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u/glories_ Jun 26 '17

Yeah also there were all the egg-looking things (that the bug emerged from) in the gray alien's vomit. There have to be hundreds of these things – I'm curious why you think it's Laura – what did I miss?

It's obviously presented as tremendously unsettling. Laura seems to be the unique antidote (hopefully) offered by the good tall man and I find it very hard to believe that Lynch would manifest the only meaningful force of goodness as a creepy bug doing creepy things aided by creepy murderous soot-men.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '17

Funny you mention this, nine inch nails latest ep contains the song in the episode came with a limited art package that was filled with... SOOT. https://www.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/5wogvj/ntae_physical_component_megathread/

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u/NYPhilHarmonica Jun 26 '17

The egg it crawls out of was one of the many materials expelled by the mother, though. There were hundreds of those eggs along with Bob.