It just occurred to me how admirably Miguel Ferrer has avoided cashing his chips and riding his cousin's coattails to a William Mapother-esque career.
― Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
Mad respect for Ferrer that's one biography i want to read.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Guess he's in! https://twitter.com/Miguel_J_Ferrer/status/599622511588835328
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 October 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
it's kind of weird how no one aside from McLachlan has really been confirmed for this; if shooting started already aren't people being seen in the area? Are they hiding out in disguise? Have no actual actors shown up yet?
― akm, Friday, 9 October 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
I hope the series starts with Donna's funeral
― akm, Friday, 9 October 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
tons of ppl have been seen and have been confirmed thats why we were all like "wow its amazing everyone is coming back"
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
I keep just seeing "only mclachlan is confirmed to return" so who is the full list? IMDB lists:
dana ashbrookkyle mclachlansherilyn fennkimmy robertsonsheryl lee
and that's it for returning people for more than one episode. a crapload of others are listed for 1 episode only but it seems like just the complete list of original cast, to me, so that seems all pretty unlikely.
new people:
amanda seyfriefbalthazar getty
― akm, Friday, 9 October 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
loads of people have been reported on-set shooting see upthread
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
haha I take it back those are all imdb links
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
list is longer than yrs tho
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
that wordless ontkean close-up in "the descendants" was so odd. it's obvious that he probably had a smallish speaking role that was trimmed out in the editing.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 9 October 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
oh I missed that list above. keenly leaves out Fenn....she's been quiet on FB lately too. Hope she's back.
― akm, Friday, 9 October 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
what happens to audrey at the end of the show is somewhat ambiguous i guess but i feel like not really?
SPOILER ALERT
that was a p big explosion she was very close to
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Friday, 9 October 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
i feel like there is no way this going to be good but i will of course watch it
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Friday, 9 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Almost off-topic but I was very disappointed to find out recently that Lynch's transcendental meditation thing is not just a relaxation/concentration technique but a full-blown moneymaking cult. Not nearly the craziest or evilest cult but still pretty loopy and dodgy. Of course it's been going on long before him but it's sad that he's contributing to it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
xpost I think it stands a very good chance of being good. I think it also stands the chance, however, of not closely resembling classic Twin Peaks.
― Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 October 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
full-blown moneymaking cult
eh not really
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
I mean they aren't the Moonies or Sai Baba or Heaven's Gate or even Scientology
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
im really looking forward to attending the invincible donovan university in edinburgh once it's up and running
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Friday, 9 October 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
From what I've seen and read there is quite a lot paying to learn things that could be done for free. And the promise of magic powers.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
they're not dhamma.org but they're largely non-profit and there's no dogma, there's no isolating practitioners from their families/lives, there's no hierarchies based on abuse, there's no indoctrination etc.
I mean, they're pretty harmless. Complaining that they make money from their activities is legit imo, (if you don't think religions should charge people for things, which I happen to agree with), but again with these types of organization the line between religion and idk "educational" outfit is pretty blurry.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
it works for Lynch (obviously) so I don't really gaf personally
Maharishi was always a bit of a suspect figure and anything that has Mike Love as a core supporter is suspect to me.
― akm, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:54 (eight years ago) link
although if Mike Love showed up on twin peaks as some kind of deranged creature from the black lodge or some woodlands dweller with a basement full of corpses, I'd like him a lot more.
― akm, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
haha yes
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
Maharishi was always a bit of a suspect figure
not really. the "rumors" that spooked the Beatles have been debunked many times over as being trumped up
he does seem like a weirdo.
but then lots of saddhus are weirdos
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
(yes I know he was not a saddhu btw)
Mike (Love) and Bob
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 October 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
and he's not like Sai Baba, who faced constant accusations of sex abuse and fraud for years
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
http://www.suggestibility.org/
I've mostly read this by a former teacher of transcendental meditation. He makes the whole thing sound pretty sinister.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 October 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
religious gurus are always suspect figures full stop.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 9 October 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Ya'll seen the documentary about Lynch and TM, David Wants to Fly? It'll give you the heebie-jeebies about the Maharishi, and, sadly, Lynch. Also I grew up in the Iowa town the Maharishi university is and I assure you, it is aggressively weird there.
― The Thnig, Saturday, 10 October 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
I've practiced tm on and off for 25 years (I wish I could be more consistent with it bc it def works for me) without interacting with Maharishi corp at all (after paying a couple hundred bucks to learn the technique at the beginning). I'm definitely a booster of the technique itself but not all the stuff that comes along with it which is super gross to me.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 October 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
so is sherilynn fenn back or not? she's been silent on FB, on twitter she said she's back filming "shameless" where it was nice to work with people who treated her professionally; and someone else told her that her temper tantrums weren't helping her career. It's a little unfathomable to me that they would consider the show without her.
― akm, Monday, 26 October 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
If she's not doing TP, it'll be pretty easy to explain what happened to Audrey, since we never found out whether she died in that explosion in the penultimate episode. And I guess they're gonna use the same reason to explain why Pete isn't around anymore.
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 October 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link
Yeah but it's be a shame if there was a need to do so. Obv with nance it's unavoidable but if fenn is written out due to ill-feeling that's way more of a bummer than ontkean just not wanting to act anymore, esp given how central fenn was both to the original show and the campaign to get lynch back onboard
― Tell The BTLs to Fuck Off (wins), Monday, 26 October 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link
She's also pretty much the only person from the show who has aged naturally. I hope that has nothing to do with it.
(speaking of which: any word on Boyle or Moira Kelly?)
― akm, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
I suppose Pete and Audrey could've been mangled by the bomb blast and are now to be portrayed by other actors swaddled in bandages or disfigured beyond recognition.
― I Was Picking Up A Teaspoon When Something Happened To My Spine (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
i'll probably be totally wrong, but i'm not expecting twin peaks II to be a direct, linear successor to the original. i expect that they'll make connections to the old series, of course, and that there will be some continuity with the old characters and what they were doing. but in general i hope that the new series kind of rhymes with the older one rather than trying to pick up where it left off, if that makes sense
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I think people who are expecting a direct continuation are going to be mighty disappointed. I wouldn't be surprised if, for example, the first episode didn't even feature any of the original characters (a la the opening half hour or so of FWWM).
― I Was Picking Up A Teaspoon When Something Happened To My Spine (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
x-post: totally makes sense to me. and sincerely hope it turns out that way!
― willem, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it'll all take place in the Black Lodge.
― :wq (Leee), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSVqkqBWwAA7MdX.jpg:large
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
but in general i hope that the new series kind of rhymes with the older one rather than trying to pick up where it left off, if that makes sense
like poetry?
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 03:32 (eight years ago) link
(otm tho)
is that a leaked set pic? woah
― akm, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
Seeing that picture of what I presume is Evil Dale just made me realize for the first time that Hank probably also took a trip into the Black Lodge at some point, huh?
― Hellmann's All-Beef Bolognnaise (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
I dont wanna see set pics tbh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
The Daily Mail leaked that set photo, and there's another one that indicates a really promising cast addition, but they didn't recognize the person.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link