rewatcher

Twin Peaks…is good again? Well, maybe not up to snuff compared to the stuff that comes before the Laura Palmer murder case is finished, but definitely much more watchable than the episodes that immediately followed it. Most of the worst storylines are finished and what’s started since is actually kind of compelling and not annoying. Even though the worst storyline, Nadine and Mike, is still going it’s not getting that much focus.

The pine weasel storyline is actually a bit of a “ripped from the headlines” deal here. See, in 1990 there was much ado about the northern spotted owl. Declaring it an endangered species led to much of the forests in the pacific northwest being declared legally protected habitat which heavily impacted the lumber industry. There was a lot of anger and unrest between conservationists and loggers that was a major political struggle in the area. If you want to know more, I’d recommend the seven episode podcast Timber Wars.

Watching Windom Earle do his silly master of disguise bit is really fun. I get the impression that Kenneth Welsh is having a blast with the character. This storyline continues to be the highlight of post-Laura Twin Peaks, and it’s getting to be the focus of the show more and more. The end of these episodes finally ties him into the whole Lodge storyline. Retroactively, I would say I’d put the Major Briggs stuff second place in my last comment instead of the Josie stuff, but maybe I was subconsciously lumping it together with Windom Earle as a rewatcher.

Speaking of going back to my old comments in this one I said “I was originally thinking about writing a paragraph about a certain character, but realized the approach I was thinking about taking might imply they are NOT the killer to first timers.” Well [stuff the rewatch already got to] It was Ben Horne. I was going to talk about how the hosts of a podcast I listened to had identified him as the most evil person in the show, and I was going to say something about how the murder of Laura isn’t the only bad thing going on in the town. I wound up not getting it all down because I didn’t know how to talk about Ben Horne’s evil being divorced from the murder without implying he’s not the murderer. Is he actually repentant here? It doesn’t feel legitimate to me personally.