Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

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Classic, but only just. Windom Earle storyline was just staggering levels of bullshit. The supernatural stuff was all incredible ("It is happening again" scene probably my fav) but as others have noted - Nadine being a teenager, Norma's mother the food critic, every single thing involving James... and so on and so on. It wasn't all awful, it just weren;t especially good or enjoyable. This bit though -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0bpk2Dw6U

Maybe it's because I watched S2 up through the reveal in two days, but the first time Nadine shows her super strength, when she's in a coma and Big Ed sings "On Top of Old Smoky" and she responds by breaking through the chains restraining her to the bed and claps is pretty effective. I think that's because it happens in the midst of so many other bugged out scenes, like the Giant and Audrey at One Eyed Jack's and Ronette Pulaski's awful flashbacks to the train car and Mike not taking his medicine and getting real freaky. It just seems like one more fucked up, scary thing happening.

Mind you, I'm not defending where that story line goes. Just saying that in context, it didn't initially come across as quite as dumb as it eventually became.

Also adding to the relentlessly elevating creep factor - every time Leland sings a song like that. For me that's a situation where knowing what happens next makes that all the freakier. "I'm back!" Gah, you are, RUN.

yes!

season 2 up until the reveal nearly on par with season 1 imo. harold smith storyline almost makes up for the loss of invitation to love.

the scene where ronette pulaski sees bob running down the hospital hallway scares the shit out of me

season 2 up until the reveal nearly on par with season 1 imo

yep. it's post-reveal that things fall down

Twin Peaks cat toys

Finished! Thought it tightened up a good bit the last few episodes, tho obv there's a lot of stuff in the way of the 'plot'. Final episode not as scary or satisfying as i'd hoped tbh.

wonder how the show comes across 4 non americans

dmac u gotta watch fire walk with me now

Apart from other Lynch movies FWWM is probs amongst the most scariest shit I have ever seen.

Yeah it's on the list. For all my moans during season 2 you can't f/w the series as a whole.

it's not as good as the series but its still a must-watch now that you're done

lynch's contributions to the score are pretty rad imo

Will report back.

did we mention the hollywood dynastic thing with lynch? Laura dern, eric da re, i'm assuming the gyllenhall directing the second last episode is related, is the deschanel who plays lara flynn boyle's mother 'a' deschanel, etc

Miguel Ferrer. Never noticed that.

is the deschanel who plays lara flynn boyle's mother 'a' deschanel, etc

Yeah Mary Jo Deschanel is Emily and Zooey's mom, her husband Caleb Deschanel directed a few episodes of the show and I *think* was the show's go-to cinematographer but I don't remember exactly.

If don't know much about Ferrer then even a cursory web bio on him could very well blow your mind. Dude has lived an amazing life.

sherilyn fenn musta been pretty pissed when angelina happened instead huh

xp holy shit he's george clooney's cousin?

I'm pretty sure zooey deschanel is also in twin peaks at one point. isn't she lara flynn boyle's little sister who plays piano?

oh wait no that was alicia witt

I dunno, seems like that would have been mentioned here? she just talks about being on set as a kid, not being in an episode.

http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/actors/zooey-deschanel-twin-peaks-set/

did not know there was any connection though. weird.

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so here's something I noticed randomly the other night

Gordon Cole is the name of one of DeMille's studio flunkies in "Sunset Boulevard".

yeah and waldo/lydecker is from "laura." there's a lot of that iirc.

i'm sure this has been pointed out on this or one of the other TP threads but as a native washingtonian growing up in the 80s i think it's a thing of beauty:

d.b. cooper = man who (literally) dropped into rural wa and disappeared

h.s. truman = man who refused to leave his isolated home in rural wa and disappeared (under ash)

although looking it up now the latter was actually harry R truman grr

so on this date in 1865 lee surrendered to grant. on this date 23 years ago, twin peaks premiered. looking at you, benjamin!

that whole civil war biz is 2nd season, i know.

http://youtu.be/6_gdHvg87Q0

WTF?!?!?!

about a year ago i realized that locomotion and the twin peaks theme made sense together, and recorded a crappy mashup of the two:

https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/locomotion-peaks

seriously wtf

my life has been filled with many bizarre moments that i can never explain fully to anyone else. this is one of them.

ah, i see you tried to eq an acapella whereas you should have gone for a pitch-shifted version of kylie's skin-crawling appearance on the des & mel show in 2004

hahahaha

in retrospect, it was the most obvious of mistakes!

best part is, inland empire right

There was this auction to have coffee and pie with Kyle MacLachlan, winning bid def more spare change than I have lying around

nearly finished my first watch through of this (watching it with housemates + never not with a joint)...two moments were completely fucking transcendental

1) bob killing maddy (i have legitimately never in my entire life been so scared by something i was watching. I remember closing my eyes really hard at one point and literally praying for the scene to end. horrific)

2) leland's scene in the cell with the sprinkler system going into overdrive.

FUCK HAROLD SMITH BTW

In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion.

Listening to Biosphere?

My socks are on fire!

dale and major briggs are v. often my favorite characters

I think the scene where jerry interrupts ben's family dinner with the sandwiches is my favorite.

All the scenes with ben and jerry are my favorite. I'm obsessed with them

Jerry Horne and Dr. Jacoby are style icons

I love that baguette scene but it always really makes me want a baguette and there is never one around

a baguette and some good brie

pretty much any scene with food is awesome

I really have to rewatch the baguette scene because going over it in my head it feels like something I dreamed.

In some behind the scenes thing, they talked about Lynch making them do that scene a couple of times because they weren't taking huge enough bites.