Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

some classic primitive CGI when Josie gets trapped in the drawer knob

looks better than Avatar tbh

though I might just be enjoying cover connections w/

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cdLXi0wT7fs/SfjzMQyEsKI/AAAAAAAAAik/-dgJ4vSemTU/s400/theprodigy.jpg

lol whoops

so what does she do all day in the knob? she must be so bored

I just learned that James is one of the privates in A Few Good Men charged with carrying out a Code Red. Pretty cute once shorn of his Corey Hart hair.

I am so bored with the James Corey side plot of fixing that ladies car. No wonder people stopped liking the show during season 2

^^^low point of the show

Agreed--although the blonde was pretty great looking. (My other low point is a high point for some people: Ben's Civil War fixation.)

The civil war story line is saved by Dr Jacoby's presence.

Civil War thing cracks me up, there are a few episodes where it provides the only decent sequences

carrot or cigar, got nothing but love for ben horne

Doing a rewatch with friends, first one in over a decade for me... tbh was planning to do all of season 1, then skip to last 2 episodes of season 2 then FWWM. Folly on my part?

all of season 1, then skip to last 2 episodes of season 2

uh yes, this is totally wrong, as the first part of season 2 contains the reveal re: Bob and Leland's death, the arc leading up to that is fantastic

Well, then you don't get 2.7, the "reveal" episode, which is pretty stunning if you ask me. (xp!)

Agreed 100%. If you really want to skip eps, probably watch until the reveal and then pick it up again towards the end although I don't know exactly where to suggest.

problem is the windom earle/black lodge storyline starts up pretty soon after the laura palmer storyline wraps up, it's just woven through all the pine weasel etc silliness

Season 2 episode 1 may be the best in the series.

"warmed it up for ya"

For better or worse, I'd advise you to watch it all, in order.

Hmm ok we should do all of S2 then. Like I said it's been quite a while, and my memory seems to have tricked me into thinking that reveal happened at the end of S1!

We're only on episode 4 and it's just been so intoxicating to revisit this shit. Half the ppl watching with me have never seen it, which adds an extra frisson.

season 1 is only like 6 episodes or some shit

Wow yeah it's only 8 episodes. My mind playin' tricks on me.

Agreed 100%. If you really want to skip eps, probably watch until the reveal and then pick it up again towards the end although I don't know exactly where to suggest.

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I actually kind of love that the show starts out parodying soap operas in certain respects & then eventually devolves into self-parody by adhering to the exact same tropes it once sent up (or at least winked at). Still, unless you make that slog through the dire expanse which spans the pine weasel/evelyn marsh/little nicky/milford bros vs. black widow/john justice wheeler/dead dog ranch/ etc. - you just can't really just skip this stuff & still properly appreciate how thoroughly the out-of-left-field wtfness of the conclusion just sort of laid waste to all the slow-building stagnation.

i think you should watch it all -- why not? it gets bad, but that's part of the show just as much as the good episodes.

fastforward through the James-on-a-motorcycle scenes and you should be good

that's what killed me on my one rewatch, in 1994

I guess the heart and soul of the show was laura's mystery so when it was solved... no excitment. But they shoul dhave just kept on with BOB - BOB goes into someone else body and kills more

well they do get back to that, it's just too little too late, no?

think that's part of what bugs me about the end. if harry and hawk had any sense they'd keep coop locked in a cell for the rest of his life.

Man Fire Walk With Me is really not much of anything like the show. The show is really light in comparison. Actually upon second watch its kind of funny - Laura's expressions of terror are raelly over the top at times. Overall I found Laura so annoying

watching this for the first time as of yesterday

first ep is great in parts, mostly kinda boring, too long

still, i'm in the twin peaks world now, willing to give it a go

I am trying to get out of the TP world now but its hard - I feel like I'm stuck in the lodge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibn3wzHIE6Y&feature=related

oh wow

omg @ Leo's Michael Bolton hair that is unbelievable

I bet Latham's post would look amazing out of context, what with TP standing for toilet paper in the real world.

there is no real world - all of those cast members on donahue seem very uncomfortable or drugged or something except piper

Wow, Donohue is so doddering, I don't remember him being that bad.

Twin peaks theme was my walking into assembly @ primary school music, that and eric satie gymnopodies

IPhone auto correct 'gym poodles'

I used to have a gym poodle theme until they all died.
I particularly like the audience in that donahue - nice eighties styles

Last night I just finished watching the series in it's entirety for the first time in a few years. A new roommate of mine had never seen it, so I was all "Let me join you on this epic journey".

I had forgotten just how awesome that last episode is. Once he got in the Black Lodge my hairs were on edge cos I forgot exactly what happens except for that terrifying screaming Laura doppelganger and I knew that what coming and it freaked me out.

My roommate loved it, and just said she wished that last episode was an extended 2-hour one or something. I agree, tho yeah thank God it's there at all.

Also, during the second season I kept seeing these little surrealist touches that the non-Lynch directors were putting in, quite obviously as an homage or something. These just don't have the impact of anything from that first season, and it's mainly because David Lynch doesn't just think of a random idea for the purpose of being random, he really does go into this unconscious place (TM, whatever you call it) and for that reason even the most outlandish stuff has some kind of coherence, however subliminal.

People that say "Oh, David Lynch just films random nonsense, anyone can do that" are completely missing the point.

fastforward through the James-on-a-motorcycle scenes and you should be good

OTM. James is my least-favorite main character.

Tho it is fun to joke about him leaving Twin Peaks to audition for the Twilight movies.

Been slowly making my way through it again for the last year. You're right about the non-Lynch directors. Watched S2 ep 15 the other night and the meta-ness was particularly distracting. It was directed by Diane Keaton!

just youuuuuuuuuuuu
and Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Keaton's episode has some funny stuff in it but the tone is really odd

i've done that (re-watched the show thanks to a friend who hadn't seen it) a few times since the early '90s... and there's always some point mid-2nd season where i bail. but i always come back for the last episode.

wish i lived in twin peaks.

Dana Ashbrook is doing a Q&A at a Fire Walk with Me screening here, but alas not the one I have a ticket for.