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
― hwy not write Ohkhaye!" Onktean? (Latham Green), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^low point of the show
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Agreed--although the blonde was pretty great looking. (My other low point is a high point for some people: Ben's Civil War fixation.)
― clemenza, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The civil war story line is saved by Dr Jacoby's presence.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Civil War thing cracks me up, there are a few episodes where it provides the only decent sequences
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
carrot or cigar, got nothing but love for ben horne
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, then you don't get 2.7, the "reveal" episode, which is pretty stunning if you ask me. (xp!)
― Simon H., Monday, 8 August 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Monday, 8 August 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Season 2 episode 1 may be the best in the series.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"warmed it up for ya"
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
For better or worse, I'd advise you to watch it all, in order.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 August 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
season 1 is only like 6 episodes or some shit
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow yeah it's only 8 episodes. My mind playin' tricks on me.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, 8 August 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Monday, August 8, 2011 1:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Monday, August 8, 2011 1:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
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.
― the goon with the braggin tattoo (Pillbox), Monday, 8 August 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
fastforward through the James-on-a-motorcycle scenes and you should be good
that's what killed me on my one rewatch, in 1994
― generous loller at dollies (sic), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― hwy not write Ohkhaye!" Onktean? (Latham Green), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
well they do get back to that, it's just too little too late, no?
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― circles, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Crackle Box, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I am trying to get out of the TP world now but its hard - I feel like I'm stuck in the lodge
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibn3wzHIE6Y&feature=related
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wow
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
omg @ Leo's Michael Bolton hair that is unbelievable
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet Latham's post would look amazing out of context, what with TP standing for toilet paper in the real world.
― StanM, Monday, 15 August 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
there is no real world - all of those cast members on donahue seem very uncomfortable or drugged or something except piper
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, Donohue is so doddering, I don't remember him being that bad.
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Twin peaks theme was my walking into assembly @ primary school music, that and eric satie gymnopodies
IPhone auto correct 'gym poodles'
― Crackle Box, Monday, 15 August 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to have a gym poodle theme until they all died. I particularly like the audience in that donahue - nice eighties styles
― I love obscure members of the Athrotheiria mammal genus and... (Latham Green), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
OTM. James is my least-favorite main character.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
just youuuuuuuuuuuuand Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
wish i lived in twin peaks.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
"Dana, what have you been up to since the film?"
::crickets::
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
... and there's always some point mid-2nd season where i bail.
this. took about 2 weeks to watch S1. Six-plus months (so far) for S2. Must...Power...Thru!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/421270_357558857598559_184122714942175_1241786_1788297953_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
don't let yrself be hurt this time
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, the angelo badalementi thing at the beginning of this mix!
http://soundcloud.com/everybodywantstobethedj/nicolas-jaar-essential-mix-05
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link