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I feel the same. They explained so much about the TP world that at this rate they could actually wrap everything up too neatly and leave nothing to the imagination. It's funny for me to say this because my biggest pet peeve with 90s TV shows was X-Files style spaghetti plotting where there were no answers to anything. Here, I just want more mystery, more characters and subplots, and not as many infodumps.
Watching this scene, I kept thinking "is this music really so captivating"? She seemed like a maniacal fan who got lost in the performance.
He's the leader of the bums that swarm the building and just sit there doing nothing. Worst part of the movie for me, I had to do a double take to make sure if that's really him....
It's a rehash though, not an original idea. And, damn, don't remind me of Hellworld! I was almost ready to forget that one for good...
By the way, if there's a Carpenter movie that needs a good remake, it's Prince of Darkness... Just give it a better cast, cut the goofy stuff with Alice Cooper and you've got a winner.
I didn't catch them. Can you spoil them for me?
Didn't Laura do the same in one of the earlier episodes? Right before she was ejected from the Black Lodge.
Ah, don't mind me. This movie looks cool and I'll make sure to check it out anyway. Thanks! :)
She was shown very briefly during Andy's recap in the White Lodge (?). Actors in archival footage get full credit this season, including deceased cast like Frank Silva or Don Davis.
I know Lynch brought back the actor playing Renault just to give him a paycheck, and (100% my speculation) I think he insisted on this credit format in order to give Sheryl Lee money each time she's shown in the opening. He seems to be doing a lot of favors this time around - both of these actors needed cash for medical treatments.
Experiment is played by Erica Eynon, that's the figure spewing the frog eggs in Part 8.
The eyeless woman is Naido, played by Nae Yuuki.
About the cops and Woodsmen... Yeah, I guess so. I think we can reasonably guess that this effect shows up when physical bodies (and not spirits) are passing between worlds or dimensions. Unless people are somehow transformed (from body to spirit) when crossing a vortex, then it's possible that the Woodsmen are flesh and bone.
I remember there was some speculation that they were the dugpa sorcerers mentioned before S3, but maybe they're just hosts who'd become corrupted by possession and "acclimated" to the Lodge?
Didn't Sheryl Lee hint on playing a new character in one of the early S3 interviews? I could be misremembering things, but I think the redhead character she was supposed to play after Maddie was mentioned this year by her and/or Lynch.
This sounds incredible. I can't believe I haven't seen it! Thanks a lot, I'll make sure to watch this one as soon as I can.
Edit: I made my post before you added the second paragraph, so the above is about Grand Prix.
I'll try to grab the Speed Odyssey too. I grew up with VHS, I'm not too needy when it comes to video quality. You've hyped me too much for me to wait, anyway. :)
Well, that WAS weird, huh? I think Andy was singled out because of his pure character and nothing else. He had the best possible connection to the White Lodge out of the guys there. I guess it helped that, like Major Briggs, Andy doesn't have any capacity for malevolence.
I wasn't expecting the eyeless woman to show up again. Her appearance is a real curveball, since it shows that (at least some) Lodge dwellers can fully incarnate in the real world. There's nothing to suggest that she's a trapped human like Cooper, who'd "belong" on Earth - maybe the rules for passing into the real world are on a case-by-case basis. After all, Bob was a highly powerful spirit but needed to possess proxies to accomplish his goals. But that's just me thinking out loud, I don't think we've got all the puzzle pieces here.
One thing that you didn't mention that I thought was really interesting was the scene where the cops reappear around the Jackrabbit's Palace. It's the same effect we've seen in Parts 8 and 11 with the Woodsmen phasing in and out of view.
Thanks, this is the first time I heard of the Speed Odyssey. I think racing events (or just sports events, really) are a topic begging for someone to really go knee deep there and break it down from a two hours broadcast into the big picture that it is on the ground.
Show the preparation, the personal and team efforts, the circumstances of how all these people came together on that particular day, then the big lightning and thunder, and then show what they're taking home afterwards. Everyone, from the drivers to the mechanics and the WAGs. Instant plot, just add water and treat your characters well.
It's disappointing that we can't watch this kind of stuff on the regular, because it just writes itself. Sports events are biographic landmarks for everybody there, including the audience. They'll keep bubbling up for as long as you're around, and anything that occurs at a landmark is worth showing.
Thank you kindly!
Tell me all about it! Horror has really become the mocking mirror of 90s rom-coms. Ok, maybe that's too harsh, but it's close enough. Pure formula where the cast is the only thing that ever changes.
Imagine something like Hellraiser, The Thing or Jacob's Ladder getting made today. Do we even have original horror writers anymore?