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And then there’s the rotation applied to Dinah Mo Humm’s sugar plum

Spirals are actually quite common. Electromagnetic waves are spirals, the Earth’s orbit spirals through the galaxy. A spiral is just non-static circular motion. Circular motion is one of the most basic and widespread phenomena in the universe, at every scale. It’s not really mysterious that they would show up a lot.

Or Gurren Lagann

I think anyone who claims to fully understand it can be safely ignored. It’s not supposed to be understood, it’s supposed to be felt. Lynch intentionally tries to invoke a dreamlike feeling, where things simultaneously feel internally consistent and incomprehensibly bizarre. There are certainly things to understand, but there are also things which are meant more to inspire an idea of something that could be understood, without having a concrete explanation. That’s part of the magic.

I think the middle of season 2, when he stepped away to work on Blue Velvet, is frustratingly weak, but they got there in the end. I think The Return was good, but not quite as good.

Overall I love it and reference it frequently.

Look up which season 2 episodes Lynch was involved in, and which ones he wasn’t. For me, the drop in quality perfectly aligns with his brief departure.