Although it's well done and a good episode, the Hank and Jonathan cliffhanger was by far the weakest yet.

But the worst for me - and by a pretty wide margin - is Windom Earle finding Owl Cave (which is also from a good episode).

idk, yo. it seems to me that harold's garden rake facial wound is pretty much a wtf moment that i could have lived without.

It's a wtf moment, all right, but I was actually really scared the first time I saw that. It worked.

For the best i'd have to go with Bob's entrance from the black lodge, while the worst would have to the Hank/Johnathan ending. Also, the Josie-trapped-in-the-door-handle ending also made me think 'what the hell?'

idk, yo. it seems to me that harold's garden rake facial wound is pretty much a wtf moment that i could have lived without.

  I really liked that. I love Harold, he's not mentioned on here much but I think he's a really strong character and his plot works really well. As the first time I watched the episodes, I found him really scary and was just waiting for him to attack Donna, I was squirming when she went exploring in his living room. And the second time, the fear factor was gone as I knew he never did anything but I felt really sorry for him and realised how exploited he was by Donna, which I didn't think about first time through.

don't get me wrong, i think the suspense in the harold scene is great... it's just the face-raking action that needed to have been rethought.  there is no purpose for it, it isnt executed well, and it looks stupid in the following episode where he's running around with these gaping face wounds and screaming "NO!" 

And let's not forget, "Do you know what the ultimate secret is?  Laura did.  The secret of who killed you."  Oh yikes kids, really? 

I don't have any trouble with that line. It's a nice little cliffhanger - it makes you wonder how much Harold actually knows.

Btw, what do you mean by "no purpose"? Tell that to all the kids out there with self-inflicted wounds.  ;)
Seriously, I think it works because you're not sure if Harold's homicidal, suicidal or both.

I forgot about the Thomas Eckhardt one.  He might as well have had someone write THIS GUY IS BAD with a black magic marker on his forehead.  The fire in the sunglasses -ooooooooooh- spooky!

I really dig Harold's ketchup-dispenser gardening tool... Well, ok, I don't...

I vote for Hank vs. Jonathan too...

I agree with the Josie in the knob thing.  Nothing ever came of that.  What does it all mean???

Ep 28....Coop standing like a moron, with the stupidly poorly delivered "what...?" It amazed me how only Andy seemed to realise IT WAS BLATANTLY A MAP!!! Argh!!! Thank god ep 29 was so good. I hate hate hate ep 28!!!

It isn't exactly an ending but playing the Ben and Jerry cine-film under the closing credits doesn't seem right. It makes Twin Peaks seem a less interesting drama and comes across as being corny, reducing the show to a kind of family drama with cheesy recollections of the 50s. We didn't need that because the show was already in a kind of indeterminate time zone.

 I agree in part. I think the director had that change in credits okayed by DL (I recall that from an interview on the dvd). Though, in a way, that was a kind of lull in the show after Leland Palmer and before the Windom Earle storylines and the gentle atypical credits reflected that.

It was hard to believe that the dumbest person on the show Andy would figure out the heiroglyph was a map and not Agent Cooper or someone else.

Ben Horne's home movies are actually one of my personal favorite endings. On one level, it gives us a glimpse, albeit a very small one, into the town's past. The Great Northern is one of the defining locations in Twin Peaks, and here was a look at how it began. On another level, it allowed us to delve into Ben Horne's character complexities, of which I've always said there are many. I never saw him as a two-dimensional Mr. Burns character, and there are several episodes where we get inklings that there really is more lurking beneath the surface than we're let on to believe.

For me, the home movies reel lent the episode a feel of nostalgia and lost hope that is very Lynchian.

Ben Horne's home movies are actually one of my personal favorite endings. On one level, it gives us a glimpse, albeit a very small one, into the town's past. The Great Northern is one of the defining locations in Twin Peaks, and here was a look at how it began. On another level, it allowed us to delve into Ben Horne's character complexities, of which I've always said there are many. I never saw him as a two-dimensional Mr. Burns character, and there are several episodes where we get inklings that there really is more lurking beneath the surface than we're let on to believe.

For me, the home movies reel lent the episode a feel of nostalgia and lost hope that is very Lynchian.

 Yes!! Spot on.

This, and the scene with Louise Dombrowski(?) really makes the town to seem more "real" to me.