The day Hastings is arrested ("day 4" by your reckoning) is strongly implied to be a Saturday. Dave asks Bill to account for his whereabouts the last three or four days, Bill tells him about Weds.-Fri. then says he spent today at home.

Re: "the paper": DKL read that quote from the Upanishads before every screening of IE he attended. The Return won't be a literal dream any more than IE was. DKL frequently uses dream logic in a metaphorical way, and seems to view life as a sort of waking dream. I wouldn't take any of this ...

Sorry if you think I'm over rationalising, genuinely loving the show (so far) and am shocked at the backlash and negativity on here. Might give the forum a break for a while. I've been shocked by how little negativity there's been, honestly. Yes, the day after premiere there was a lot (including a ...

Considering that (so far) DoppelCoop seems to be very much his own man despite how we saw him last (inhabited by Bob) in Episode 29, maybe inhabiting spirits sometimes become irrevocably fused with their hosts under certain circumstances. Perhaps, just as Mike eventually moved on from whatever earli...

Is it a tree or nervous system? I think The One-Armed Man (Mike) is a spirit, but the question is why does he look the same as Philip Gerard? The interesting thing is that DKL has obvious paid a lot of of attention to how character names appear in the credits....and Strobel has consistently been cr...

No E.T. Associations on here? Or did I miss them? “HOME” I think the repeated references to "Home" are likely a reference to the Wizard of Oz ("There's no place like home"). This is in line with a theory posted by others earlier in this forum (I cannot take credit for the theory...

And Chrysta Bell? What a horrible trainwreck. I was so looking forward to the Tamara Preston character after reading the TSHOTP. But Bell is not only ruining that character but her acting is so fucking bad that she is taking me (us) out of the show. It's like watching two of my favourite characters...

Yeah Piper Laurie said she waited for the call, but never got any. So it's safe to say she won't appear. Certain former posters on this forum who were in the know said there was another side to the story of why she's not in the show. Either way, it seems unlikely that she'll make a surprise appeara...

douglasb wrote:Cast also probably didn't get their lines much in advance - and even if they did, did the script specifically say 'Learn these lines backwards'?

They also got the Episode 29 lines pretty late though -- I believe a lot was improvised on set per Carel Struycken?

Yeah Piper Laurie said she waited for the call, but never got any. So it's safe to say she won't appear. Certain former posters on this forum who were in the know said there was another side to the story of why she's not in the show. Either way, it seems unlikely that she'll make a surprise appeara...

Insofar as anyone thinks the backwards-speak was less well-done this time (I didn't notice), keep in mind that MJA had been speaking phonetically backwards since high school, and acted as onset coach to the actors in the original show. Maybe DKL and everyone else on set just aren't quite as good at ...

Not sure if this is super-obvious, but I haven't seen it mentioned. The "click" that sounded in all the promos each time a new shot came up was Laura snapping her fingers in reverse from Episode 29, right? I just decided to rewatch the first few minutes of Part 1 before bed, and the sound...

Not sure if this is super-obvious, but I haven't seen it mentioned. The "click" that sounded in all the promos each time a new shot came up was Laura snapping her fingers in reverse from Episode 29, right? I just decided to rewatch the first few minutes of Part 1 before bed, and the sound ...

Something about the kid especially seemed very directly alternate Sonny Jim. I thought back to the kid first time I saw Sonny. Then again, that might be because there so few kids in these episodes I've often thought about the fact that, despite having a very childlike wonder at the universe (and st...

*Facepalm*. I return my fan club card in shame. Anyway, I thought it was a neat connection, given his name, the title of his loopy ramblings, and the fact that he was a UFO guy. Died in a hail of bullets with the law. Heh, happens to the best of us. And the Log Lady intros by their nature do tend t...