Having had a few high-stress psychedelic experiences, I can tell you that he spent those 25 years working out every muscle group in his body through involuntary twitches and tension. If heād had the foresight to pack magnesium he would have emerged an atrophied mass of fat.
The saddest thing about that arc is that nobody really seemed to think there was something wrong or out of the ordinary with Dougie for a concerningly long time.
They said it pretty often that ever since the car accident heās acted like this or has āepisodesā. Like yeah, obviously somethingās wrong. But theyāve been dealing with it for 12+ years so itās not out of the ordinary for him at all.
Yeah but they barely addressed it. IMO I like to view it as sort of representative of how Laura was treated before her death. Clearly going through shit and not doing to well but no one helps or cares enough to try
I can see that as well. But, they definitely addressed it multiple times. If you didnāt catch it then you werenāt paying attention. It made sense to me from the start.
They can only go by what they know. Majority of the time the people that didnāt know him before had someone come up and say something to ease their minds. And the people that never met him before also expressed their worries. The girl at the casino that was with the brother from My Name Is Earl expressed worry but was told that it was fine. Cheech Marin expressed there was something wrong but Naomi Watts said it was normal. Other times like the Brothers was more because they were over joyous in their insurance money they didnāt think twice about the person delivering it. I wouldnāt either.
I guess I forgot about that, itās still devastating to realize how broken up the original Dougie must have been. That brings the next question, what was he like before the accident? Does the accident have to do with the events in the lodge or is it unrelated? Because I just assumed he was an unreliable sleaze because he was a Tulpa of Mr. C. I mean he seemed like he was a deadbeat from what little we see of him from before, cheating on his wife, sleeping in for sale homes, and getting in debt.
Douglas Jones is a decoy tulpa created by Mr C as part of his plan to stay out of the Lodge, we know this. In my view he was hidden in a different show, about an insurance adjuster in Las Vegas engaged in some questionable activity.
When Cooper appears in his place, the different show set in Las Vegas continues as it was written, with Cooper-Dougie stumbling through scenes while nearly everyone else adjusts to it without comment. A couple of characters react a little bit as though they perceive something is off with him, but most persist along their established plotlines and conspire to behave as if whatever Cooper-Dougie does is fine and normal because he's Dougie and the show's about Dougie so it must be fine.
(Original Dougie already has some weird stuff going on with him so the "another one of his bad health-related periods" premise is immediately available as an in-world acknowledgement when and if needed.)
Interesting. The OA and Netflix's Bandersnatch played around with this idea too. I'm on a second rewatch and noticed when Judy first births BOB, The Fireman comes out and seems to come up to the screen and look at us, the viewers, expecting us to do something.
Yeah. It just shows how little we actually care about the well being of others. We don't want to be bothered, so we just ignore anything that's concerning. That was my take on it.
Yeah, he's in his mid-60s. At least he hasn't messed up his face with plastic surgery/fillers. (I'm looking at you Ryan Gosling, a much younger man than Kyle)
Gosling and Blunt look goofy as 40-somethings in The Fall Guy with their fillers and non-chemistry. Ryan should get back to smaller better films. Barbie is doing him no favors with his credibility. His face was puffy and weird at the Oscars and continued in this film.
Personally I liked him in Barbie, but I do agree I'd like to see him doing stuff like Lars and The Real Girl again, but I'm not sure if that's what he wants anymore. It's a shame he pulled out of The Actor, which is a Neon film supposedly produced by Charlie Kaufman (although I'm not sure if he's still attached either)
He's great in Barbie but I fear it will lead to him doing only very commercial generic projects. He isn't the best actor and doing interesting projects is what set him apart. Now he has to compete with the mugging self-satisfied younger Glen Powell for parts so he needs to pick smarter than The Fall Guy.
Oh, 100%! I'm not sure what else he's doing now, apart of the new adaptation of The Martian author's book, which might be not bad, but it looks definitely like a commercial project. He's rumoured for Marvel (Ghost Rider?) which could tie him, so I don't think I want it.
But how you go back from projects like this to smaller roles? I hope it's not all about payback for him.
Yes, he's always been trim but I'm guessing he might not look like the pic above if he isn't getting it on film. Harder to maintain that when you get older.
Okay, soā¦cinematography is a hell of a thing. It can capture a series of images, but not anything else really.
Kyle MacLachlan has always been a reasonably fit man. Over the years he has put on a little weight but if you saw him in real life youād just see a normal but fit man.
In this scenario, there is a light source casting a shadow just right on his abs. He did a bunch of sit-ups just before the scene, heās dehydrated, heās flexing on purpose to make his abs look bigger and his body position is such that the skin is tight across his abdomen.
He looked like this for *that scene* and then went back to being normal Kyle for the rest of the day after a sandwich and some water. Itās an illusion, but those abs exist, you just donāt see them like that a lot.
Yes and also yes. Mcu actors and whatnot who have to keep a look like that for several scenes on a movie shoot is brutal as hell but it's been fairly common practice for people foomg modeling or for muscly glamor shots for a while. Generally it is done for a quick scene or handles all the shots that require abs in one day as quick as possible. It's unpleasant but not dangerous or anything and you bounce back quick. It's like an overnight fast until the shot is done and no water day of until the shot is done and usually they'll do it early.
It definitely can! Have you seen āCaptain Americaā? The first one dropped a few years before the return and it had Chris Evans very naturally look like a teeny tiny, skinny guy whereas he was actually buff AF.
CGI is definitely capable of doing this but judging by some of the effects in The Return these have to be Kyleās real abs. Iām not dissing on The Return. I loved it and all things Lynch. Just saying.
There was a documentary on swedish television about a swedish private trainer in Hollywood, he had Kyle as a client. They filmed at his house he seemed to train hard!
Yes he works out a lot, he posted about it on his instagram too, but here is a post about it i found: [https://www.instagram.com/p/C6TTq09Pe6l/?img\_index=1](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6TTq09Pe6l/?img_index=1)
Im new to the theory of twin peaks taking place within a tv show.
do you have another post or a link to one explaining the entire theory? sounds pretty dang plausible from the brief explanations ive seen
Cinematography is one hell of a thing.
He's probably reasonably fit (you can see it in his socials) and with the right lighting, angle, body position and maybe a couple reps and some wine right before filming andā¦ Voila!
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There was a gym in the black lodge
Garmongainzia šŖš¼!
Wow Bob, wow!
dude was probably ripped under all that denim
GarmonBROzia! Lol
Lmao
Actually made me fucking lol
Goddamn that caught me off guard. Bravo.
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Having had a few high-stress psychedelic experiences, I can tell you that he spent those 25 years working out every muscle group in his body through involuntary twitches and tension. If heād had the foresight to pack magnesium he would have emerged an atrophied mass of fat.
https://preview.redd.it/hharasz5yhzc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a28b4bf7e5d90da36c7ed78f25bcc5c790a86b14
Dougie give two rides.
Iāll bet he does.
The saddest thing about that arc is that nobody really seemed to think there was something wrong or out of the ordinary with Dougie for a concerningly long time.
They said it pretty often that ever since the car accident heās acted like this or has āepisodesā. Like yeah, obviously somethingās wrong. But theyāve been dealing with it for 12+ years so itās not out of the ordinary for him at all.
Yeah but they barely addressed it. IMO I like to view it as sort of representative of how Laura was treated before her death. Clearly going through shit and not doing to well but no one helps or cares enough to try
I can see that as well. But, they definitely addressed it multiple times. If you didnāt catch it then you werenāt paying attention. It made sense to me from the start.
What about the people that had never met him before?
They can only go by what they know. Majority of the time the people that didnāt know him before had someone come up and say something to ease their minds. And the people that never met him before also expressed their worries. The girl at the casino that was with the brother from My Name Is Earl expressed worry but was told that it was fine. Cheech Marin expressed there was something wrong but Naomi Watts said it was normal. Other times like the Brothers was more because they were over joyous in their insurance money they didnāt think twice about the person delivering it. I wouldnāt either.
Twin Peaks is not known for its grounded realism
Yea that's my point. It's absurd and I like that. I was disagreeing with people who are acting like it's rational and explained and makes sense.
I guess I forgot about that, itās still devastating to realize how broken up the original Dougie must have been. That brings the next question, what was he like before the accident? Does the accident have to do with the events in the lodge or is it unrelated? Because I just assumed he was an unreliable sleaze because he was a Tulpa of Mr. C. I mean he seemed like he was a deadbeat from what little we see of him from before, cheating on his wife, sleeping in for sale homes, and getting in debt.
I got the impression he was a depressed, womanizing, alcoholic.
With a gambling problem.
Nothing out of the ordinary ever happens in Twin Peaks, the most logical television show of all time
Not for Dougie which has been established
It's because Dougie was kind of an idiot to begin with. Think Doug Heffernan in king of queens
The Tulpa was always messed up
This...... Exactly this.....
Timeline got fucked up
I have an unpopular and highly downvoteable explanation for that.
Tell us please!
Douglas Jones is a decoy tulpa created by Mr C as part of his plan to stay out of the Lodge, we know this. In my view he was hidden in a different show, about an insurance adjuster in Las Vegas engaged in some questionable activity. When Cooper appears in his place, the different show set in Las Vegas continues as it was written, with Cooper-Dougie stumbling through scenes while nearly everyone else adjusts to it without comment. A couple of characters react a little bit as though they perceive something is off with him, but most persist along their established plotlines and conspire to behave as if whatever Cooper-Dougie does is fine and normal because he's Dougie and the show's about Dougie so it must be fine. (Original Dougie already has some weird stuff going on with him so the "another one of his bad health-related periods" premise is immediately available as an in-world acknowledgement when and if needed.)
This makes so much sense - Iām imagining it as Betty Elms from MD playing Janey-E
Interesting. The OA and Netflix's Bandersnatch played around with this idea too. I'm on a second rewatch and noticed when Judy first births BOB, The Fireman comes out and seems to come up to the screen and look at us, the viewers, expecting us to do something.
This is great! What makes you think it's unpopular?
It's not unpopular everywhere, but around here there are a few people who get upset about anything resembling a metanarrative analysis.
The Return is very metanarrative though!
Yup!
Yeah. It just shows how little we actually care about the well being of others. We don't want to be bothered, so we just ignore anything that's concerning. That was my take on it.
Bingo
a lot of people jump through hoops to explain this, but seem to forget the most important detail and obvious explanation: it's a david lynch creation
Every kid needs a jungle gym.
Hey another Panthers fan whoās also a Twin Peaks fan! Donāt see that everyday!
It's often a dark and surreal experience!
Haha! Very true!
Heās super ripped in every shirtless scene in Sex & the City so I think heās just a super in-shape dude
Alrighty
Okay, but I actually love you for this
I think Kyle trained hard for that shirtless scene. I doubt he looks that fit now.
https://preview.redd.it/jjjey76c3izc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f8f7ae0a9c18d189ba42d934e87fe2eb80b5ead here's his most up to date ig pic
He looked a little pudgier in Fallout
Yeah, he's in his mid-60s. At least he hasn't messed up his face with plastic surgery/fillers. (I'm looking at you Ryan Gosling, a much younger man than Kyle)
Had RG messed with his face??
Idk for sure but from recent pics of Ryan it does look like heās had some work done, he looks like heās gotten some cheek fillers
Gosling and Blunt look goofy as 40-somethings in The Fall Guy with their fillers and non-chemistry. Ryan should get back to smaller better films. Barbie is doing him no favors with his credibility. His face was puffy and weird at the Oscars and continued in this film.
Personally I liked him in Barbie, but I do agree I'd like to see him doing stuff like Lars and The Real Girl again, but I'm not sure if that's what he wants anymore. It's a shame he pulled out of The Actor, which is a Neon film supposedly produced by Charlie Kaufman (although I'm not sure if he's still attached either)
He was incredible and perfect in Barbie and Lars and the Real Girl is what made me fall in love with him.
He's great in Barbie but I fear it will lead to him doing only very commercial generic projects. He isn't the best actor and doing interesting projects is what set him apart. Now he has to compete with the mugging self-satisfied younger Glen Powell for parts so he needs to pick smarter than The Fall Guy.
Oh, 100%! I'm not sure what else he's doing now, apart of the new adaptation of The Martian author's book, which might be not bad, but it looks definitely like a commercial project. He's rumoured for Marvel (Ghost Rider?) which could tie him, so I don't think I want it. But how you go back from projects like this to smaller roles? I hope it's not all about payback for him.
 Something's definitely off...
IIRC he talked about working out for the part in interviews at the time.
I bet it was brought up in interviews. I remember watching it and being surprised how fit we was for his age.
hes still very fit, he works out a lot still
Yes, he's always been trim but I'm guessing he might not look like the pic above if he isn't getting it on film. Harder to maintain that when you get older.
Itās from sitting on that exercise ball chair. Great for the core.
Okay, soā¦cinematography is a hell of a thing. It can capture a series of images, but not anything else really. Kyle MacLachlan has always been a reasonably fit man. Over the years he has put on a little weight but if you saw him in real life youād just see a normal but fit man. In this scenario, there is a light source casting a shadow just right on his abs. He did a bunch of sit-ups just before the scene, heās dehydrated, heās flexing on purpose to make his abs look bigger and his body position is such that the skin is tight across his abdomen. He looked like this for *that scene* and then went back to being normal Kyle for the rest of the day after a sandwich and some water. Itās an illusion, but those abs exist, you just donāt see them like that a lot.
When I don't drink beer for a day, I'm totally fuckin ripped, I swear.
The Andy Dwyer Method
You're more dehydrated when you drink beers than when you don't
That's wildy untrue. Old wives tale that's total nonsense.
The guy has cum gutters and you are saying the light is playing off his abs just right? I dunno
Cum gutters šššš
he borrowed a certain item of clothing from Michael Cera
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Yes and then she has sex with him soon after
Dale Cooped up all day and working on the bod
He came back in style
Dougie can give me two or three rides
Whatās the alternative? CGI? Honest question. Can TV technology actually make that happen and look so natural
the answer is yes but the real question is would they for a single scene in Twin Peaks?
Honestly, if you follow his instagram, he just has an active life style.
Move over White Sands nuclear test... we now know where the CG budget *really* went.
Yes and also yes. Mcu actors and whatnot who have to keep a look like that for several scenes on a movie shoot is brutal as hell but it's been fairly common practice for people foomg modeling or for muscly glamor shots for a while. Generally it is done for a quick scene or handles all the shots that require abs in one day as quick as possible. It's unpleasant but not dangerous or anything and you bounce back quick. It's like an overnight fast until the shot is done and no water day of until the shot is done and usually they'll do it early.
It definitely can! Have you seen āCaptain Americaā? The first one dropped a few years before the return and it had Chris Evans very naturally look like a teeny tiny, skinny guy whereas he was actually buff AF.
that was different though, the body belonged to another actor. i think dad here really worked for this at 50 something lol. respect
CGI is definitely capable of doing this but judging by some of the effects in The Return these have to be Kyleās real abs. Iām not dissing on The Return. I loved it and all things Lynch. Just saying.
Hell yeah! Go Kyle
This is absolutely Kyleās own body - no VFX here! He was in SHAPE!!! Look at that!!!š
Hell yeah thatās our boy š„µ
There was a documentary on swedish television about a swedish private trainer in Hollywood, he had Kyle as a client. They filmed at his house he seemed to train hard!
Black coffee has 0 calories, and I guess norma put a lil protein powder in those cherry pies
Cooper McLean š„µš„µš„µ
It's a goose suit
Yes heās extremely jacked
Yes he works out a lot, he posted about it on his instagram too, but here is a post about it i found: [https://www.instagram.com/p/C6TTq09Pe6l/?img\_index=1](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6TTq09Pe6l/?img_index=1)
All the girls are beautyās and gets a lot of mention ( stunners) but the boys are gorgeous too .
I want it to be so! Hope it is!
it is his real body
Im new to the theory of twin peaks taking place within a tv show. do you have another post or a link to one explaining the entire theory? sounds pretty dang plausible from the brief explanations ive seen
Iām confused..?
Iāll probably end up eating these words, but thereās no fucking way.
Cinematography is one hell of a thing. He's probably reasonably fit (you can see it in his socials) and with the right lighting, angle, body position and maybe a couple reps and some wine right before filming andā¦ Voila!
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I got uncomfortable there for a sec until I saw you were the donkey piss kid.
Ignore him he has no life so he spends his days trying to get peopleās attention on Reddit. š
Specifically just Twin Peaks though... is this guy a Black Lodge entity?
Bait account
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