This episode is more about getting to know the characters than the investigation, which is great because the characters are one of the many strong elements of Twin Peaks. There's Albert who understandably wants to go about the investigation but does it in a disruptive way to local residents. This leads to an interesting conversation in which Cooper describes how Twin Peaks is a special place with good people, a place unlike anywhere he's seen. What he's saying totally makes sense to the viewer as throughout the three episodes Twin Peaks has consistently given off that vibe. It would make more sense though if Cooper himself was normal, as an outsider to Twin Peaks. The fact that he is as weird, or weirder, than Twin Peaks, negates the full impact of what he says about the place.
Twin Peaks is at its best when it deals with grief, and there's no shortage of grief here. Different people deal with Laura's death in different ways. Laura's father hasn't got over it, leading to a brilliant, disastrous funeral scene that shows how the funeral has been precisely the opposite to what it was intended to be. When Laura's father jumps onto the coffin, it's just the right mix of comic and sad (when he tries to get people to dance with him later though, that's over-the-top and silly in my opinion).
Bobby at first gives off the image of not being too disturbed, but the way he reacts to the funeral shows otherwise. He says what surely other people must be thinking, that it's pointless. And he's right, in a way, what does a funeral achieve? It's meant to achieve a sense of closure, but it doesn't look like it's achieved that for anyone. And as he gets into a scuffle with James, another one who is struggling to move on, farrow providing a sense of closure, the funeral has actually caused all the emotions rise to the surface.
In the Bookhouse Boys there's also the first clear confirmation of something that's been felt from the start by that unsettling vibe: there's darkness in Twin Peaks.
Twin Peaks is at its best when it deals with grief, and there's no shortage of grief here. Different people deal with Laura's death in different ways. Laura's father hasn't got over it, leading to a brilliant, disastrous funeral scene that shows how the funeral has been precisely the opposite to what it was intended to be. When Laura's father jumps onto the coffin, it's just the right mix of comic and sad (when he tries to get people to dance with him later though, that's over-the-top and silly in my opinion).
Bobby at first gives off the image of not being too disturbed, but the way he reacts to the funeral shows otherwise. He says what surely other people must be thinking, that it's pointless. And he's right, in a way, what does a funeral achieve? It's meant to achieve a sense of closure, but it doesn't look like it's achieved that for anyone. And as he gets into a scuffle with James, another one who is struggling to move on, farrow providing a sense of closure, the funeral has actually caused all the emotions rise to the surface.
In the Bookhouse Boys there's also the first clear confirmation of something that's been felt from the start by that unsettling vibe: there's darkness in Twin Peaks.