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
<3
― owenf, Monday, 21 May 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvSFOEfHJE
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
still one of my all time favorite you tubes, such a great storyteller!
― Moodles, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
This is probably a common speculation but it just hit me - - - does anyone else feel like the final storyline with Cooper going into the Black Lodge for Annie was originally intended for Audrey before their relationship was squelched? It would make a lot more sense in terms of the idea of Coop being somehow corrupted or making an error of judgement. He falls for the teenager and this takes him off his guard as well as off the pedestal of moral clarity where he could have conceivably stood up to the Black Lodge. Or am I crazy?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 May 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Also (I'm rewatching btw, or re-listening...have this on in another window while I get stuff done, it's like a radio play!) I think a lot of what was missing in the second season also was just that with the Laura thing wrapped up, the emotional stakes for the characters just naturally went way down. Lynch or no Lynch - - - there's something that resonates and creeps out much more when everyone is reeling from this death. Like, just now was the scene with Leland crying and dancing at the Great Northern while the visiting Finns struggle to understand what's going on, and Catherine passes his strained crying and face-wrenching as a new dance move. There's a really potent tension there between the goofiness of the stock "character does something wacky, others think it's a new dance craze!" gag, and the genuine affective touch of this poor guy who's lost his daughter (we don't yet know he's the killer) and is just a traumatized wreck. Nothing in Season 2 can touch that but it's not ... oh shit the scene with leo and shelley and the gun just came on
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 May 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, May 25, 2012 8:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this makes a TON of sense.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 26 May 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, I'd forgotten the amnesiac super-strength Nadine thing started well before the Laura Palmer resolution. Wow. I wonder if there was ever a plan for how that was going to fit in, or if it was just a product of "let's turn soap opera cliches to 11" thinking.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone else feel like the final storyline with Cooper going into the Black Lodge for Annie was originally intended for Audrey before their relationship was squelched? It would make a lot more sense in terms of the idea of Coop being somehow corrupted or making an error of judgement. He falls for the teenager and this takes him off his guard as well as off the pedestal of moral clarity where he could have conceivably stood up to the Black Lodge.
Yeah, this makes sense. As discussed upthread, the "flaw" that allows the Black Lodge to corrupt Cooper seems to be him falling for Annie... But that feels weird, because the there's nothing wrong or immoral in their relationship, they're both adults and single. If (as it seems) Annie was introduced as a replacement for the Cooper/Audrey relationship Kyle MacLachlan squelched, they should've at least added some immoral element to their relationship so that Coop's corruption would've made sense.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 08:20 (twelve years ago) link