Worst ongoing plotline in the second season of Twin Peaks (SPOILERS)

Ian Buchanan appears in eleven episodes across a nineteen-episode span. Of the seven credited and six actual writers, David Lynch is 0% of them. Of the nine directors, Lynch is also 0% of them. He appears as Gordon Cole in one of the eleven; the one that came nineteen episodes after Tremayne's first appearance.

even ignoring the finale, s2 eps 1~7 > s1

This is true!

I really dislike both Leland’s death and Cooper basically absolving him when talking to Sarah in the next episode.

I forget if it was someone here or elsewhere who suggested that Maddy is the most Tulpa-like figure on the show - she shows up out of nowhere to provide solace for the grief of the family and friends, and provide a new target for Leland/Bob, and point the way towards solving the mystery for Cooper, and then once she’s dead it’s like no one remembers she existed.

ooh yes, that’s a hugely important link between the seasons I had entirely missed!

(xposts) All of that math is interesting, but at any point in Twin Peaks' history--first two seasons, movie, relaunch--is it ever not first and foremost David Lynch's sensibility guiding it? If I'd said Dick Tremayne was Harley Peyton at his too-jokey worst--writer of 28% of S2 episodes--that would be confusing.

Anyway, on IMDB, Lynch is listed as one of the writers on every single S2 episode.

Stop the presses! sic, I stand corrected--Wikipedia doesn't list Lynch as a writer of any of the S2 episodes, and there's also this, which I'd never read (but I bet most everyone who posts on this thread has):

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/05/david-lynch-twin-peaks-season-two

Sounds like Lynch might hate Dick Tremayne as much as I do (I'll stand by that, whoever's responsible).

Why doesn't IMDB correct that?

credits on IMDB are user-submitted. in the above question, "IMDB" is clemenza, a user who has identified a correction.

If that's the case, I think I'm going to submit my name as one of the co-writers of Citizen Kane and hope it sneaks through.

When asked why he would do such a thing, IMDB user clemenza would only say "I think it would be fun to be listed as the co-writer of the third-greatest film ever made."

IMDb lists creators and showrunners under writers (because they obviously are) - and for anyone's list as writer, each entry will have a summary of their roles (created by / showrunner / story by ...) and an 'i' symbol which will break down the roles per episode (so it's only the first three episodes of the first series that are listed as written by him, though see above). In conclusion you are a pair of knuckleheads who bring much noise and little light.

That's much clearer, thanks.

https://i.postimg.cc/mrbrP4qD/map.jpg

DL:" season 2 is too goofy" (goes on to make "on the air")

knuckleheads who bring much noise and little light

I apologise for taking clem’s IMDb report in good faith and replying truthfully but at face value, instead of assuming he was wildly incorrect and bringing actively-researched light as in my prior post

will endeavour to not make this error again