That episode was okay. The Dougie stuff is starting to drag on a bit as there's no clear direction for it. I imagine it would be a lot better if all the episodes were availabile but watching week to week you're just waiting for old Cooper to come back.
There is a clear direction. Progress! I cheer every time another penny drops. You've got to remember here that Coop has come back to a life that has almost nothing that is familiar to him. Had he swapped back with Mr C, he'd already have seen Albert and Gordon and would presumably be well on his way to a full recovery.
Every time he sees or hears something familiar he gets a tiny bit better. It's like, he knew he wanted to get home... but when he got to Dougie's home, and it doesn't trigger anything... he has no idea what to do next. So he's just in a holding pattern waiting for something, anything, to either shake him awake or give him another goal.
Everyone is treating him as if he is where he is meant to be, too, which doesn't help.
But inevitably, even in a life as separate from his own as Dougie's, he's still stumbling on little triggers. I think we'll see a competent, but still amnesiac Coop soon, but that until he either gets back to the FBI or Twin Peaks, it isn't going to all come flooding back.
I'm strapped in for the ride now, as hard as it was to first watch Part 3. His progress was so slow at first that I couldn't see it, but now that I do see it, I'm enjoying the journey very much, and it's easier to laugh at the comedy of all these moments when he's evidently recovering.
Also nothing in this episode looked like cheap video, which really helped. I'm beginning to think the cheap video look was a choice for a couple of reasons (and I know no one else cares about this).
In the purple room, it would go back and forth, literally repeating the same shot. One time, processed to look like film. Next time processed to look like really bad video. Only after this do scenes look like video for the rest of Part 3 and a good chunk of Part 4.
Just as music seems to be slowly coming back into the world, (a theory which I'm on board with now after episode 5 being packed with music), I think the richness of the picture coming back into the world was also a choice. Like the whole world is sick, but recovering as Coop recovers.
Goddamn this series so far is better than I dared dream.
Edit: Also, more and more things are tying together.
The wedding band tying the Jones's to Buckhorn. The body being Major Briggs (maybe one of many dead Major Briggs that have turned up too) and the military saying they'll have to bring in the FBI if it turns out to be anything. Which is going to tie three major pieces together. Plus Jade posting the key, could well get traced back to Jade, as the guy who works at the carwash by that mail box knows her.
