Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

The first ep was amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYef8OjlNBw

my new favorite line in TP (from the period dfw says he likes best because it's got the spectacle of lynch trapping himself in a position "where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed ... on national tv") is when harold smith looks almost into the camera and disgustedly says "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SECRETS?" just before he garden weasels his face

it always makes me lol but i don't mean it like that

lol yeah Harold in general is a pretty ridiculous character

(from the period dfw says he likes best because it's got the spectacle of lynch trapping himself in a position "where his own weaknesses as an artist were going to be exposed ... on national tv")

i don't think i've read that, where did he write about TP?

this article for premiere about lost highway but i think that's the magazine version and it doesn't have that quote or as much non-lost-highway stuff in general. expanded version's in a supposedly fun thing.

poor mark frost, no respect. he reportedly had a much more active role than lynch at that point

anyway, that looks good though, thanks for the head's up dlh

the unaired episodes of "on the air" just got progressively weirder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2ueMsSmU0

re-reading Cloud Atlas last night, there's a scene involving a bomb in a safety deposit box and it was killing me trying to remember the movie/tv scene reminded me of. :)

David Lynch To Shoot New Twin Peaks Material, Probably As A Promo For The Upcoming Blu-Rays

would attend casting session

blu-ray seems as much a part of the distant cultural past as twin peaks does

Pretty sure that's still the preferred format for owning a physical copy of a film or TV series, but OK.

will it still be in 4:3?

13:33:10

was the whole thing shot on film? wondering how good it is going to look on blu ray.

Not as good as gold ray dude.

I believe a lot of these types of shows are shot on 16mm? Last year they made a new transfer of the original House of Cards for Blu Ray release for example: http://www.from-the-archive.co.uk/2013/02/blu-ray-review-house-of-cards-trilogy.html

gold ray, if it existed, would be worse than blu ray. you need UV ray to really see the details in the corduroy

Just reading up, and apparently most US TV shows before the late 80s were shot and edited on film, but a lot of TV from then on and through the 90s had editing and post-production done on video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtPGB879Fc8

Years before Benjamin Horne, James Best in Shock Corridor as an institutionalized Korean War veteran who thinks he's a Civil War general:

http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Shock-6.jpg

https://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH/status/466971307934896129

http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/261617/speedreads-new-twin-peaks-box-set-will-include-90-minutes-of-never-before-seen-footage

and also: http://andthemissingpieces.tumblr.com/

this is awfully exciting, the trailer video looks exceptional. I'm assuming these will be strung together into a seperate feature-ette and it's not a completely re-edited FWWM (which would have been preferable) but look at all the shit that got cut out!

I saw two high school aged girls full-on embracing the 90s nostalgia look and one of them had a homemade "TWIN PEAKS" patch on the back of her jean jacket. <3

yeah the early 90s preppy+grunge look has been back for a while.

and yeah the twin peaks patch is sweet.

roll call: how many of you watched the series on its original run? (my hand is way up)

i think some ilxors were born around then, if not later

it was a big deal with my high school AP English class crew, watched it religiously when it aired

*hand up*

My parents watched it, so my memory is as hazy as that famous chill wave VHS sound.

yes, watched it with my post-high school stoner layabout crew every week. went off on a backpacking trip and missed the last few episodes, which at the time I thought meant I'd NEVER see them. I don't think TV shows were even released on VHS much back then, it never went into repeats, and nobody had their shit together enough to tape anything. Seems like a million years ago when something could be there and then gone. Everything lasts forever.

the first season was released on VHS some time before or during the 2nd season, then the whole series was re-released as a box set on (very shitty) VHS tapes a few years after that. I had the box set and loaned it out a lot to friends who had missed the show in its first go-round.

I watched the first season when it was on tv, but I trailed off after that

a friend and i watched it pretty religiously through both seasons, and even joined a discussion group* about it, where we were by far the youngest members.

*do they still have these things anymore? the internet, etc.

said discussion group rented out a room in a hotel to watch the series finale on a big screen.

xp My recollection must be false memory syndrome of pre-intrenet dark ages. I do rememeber thinking, wrongly I guess, that I'd never see the final shows

nah, it's just those NSA brain implants acting up again.

some MKUltra mind control shit most likely

I watched it first time around, yeah

my memory is as hazy as that famous chill wave VHS sound.

but this is otm, there was no "catch up on DVR / VOD / internets" so we would set the VCR for any ones we'd have to miss ...

i could never get my VHS timer to work

(remember all the jokes about this in the 80s?)

that was kind of a problem with the show though ... I was v dedicated to watching all the episodes but if you missed one you were pretty fucked

not by the time they got deep into nadine's super-strength or the misadventures of little nicky.

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

roll call: how many of you watched the series on its original run? (my hand is way up)

Way way up here too. Saw the movie on opening night also.

My memory is that I watched most or all of the first season as it aired; definitely not the second, though I came back for the final episode or two. The first time I saw the entirety from start to finish was when Bravo reran it in the mid-'90s, then I watched it all again when I bought the box set seven or eight years ago.

no Miguel Ferrer in the deleted scenes trailer :/

I watched this religiously. I in my final year of high school when it debuted and I was incredibly sick with bleeding ulcers and had to have surgery, I barely went to school my second semester. Twin Peaks essentially saved my life at the time.