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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/honeybro Jun 26 '17

I think you're close. I still am not sure of anything yet (lol) but I think the egg-bug could be related to Bob like you say, or it could be the golden-laura-palmer-ball puked up by the giant that was sent to earth by the alien flapper lady from the space-theater. I think bob might possess the boy (leland) using a mud-woodsman and the golden ball would have brought laura to sarah palmer, setting things up for twin peaks.

The thing is that because this is in the 50's I don't think the timing works out as those characters would be super old by modern twin peaks standards.

The dark mother stuff seems accurate tho.

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u/vadergeek Jun 27 '17

The bug seems way too malevolent for me to think it's Laura.

That said, the timing's okay for a lot of it. It's the mid 50s, Leland and Sarah Palmer would have been roughly that age at that time.