The stars turn: the TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread

wins:

I mean I wholeheartedly believe the same is true for the original series and I binged that lol

me too. the hype turned me off in 1990, it's only around 1996 iirc that i rented the whole series (starting with the movie-length cut which made no sense at the time).

Re conventional wisdom I thought I remembered the *extremely chad voice* "I don't like the paaaaciiing" crowd saying that this suffered from being an hour at a time but I guess that was mostly on dugpa.

i had minor misgivings about episode 6 being a midstream sequence of things that are happening with no proper ending, but after episode 8 all is forgiven.

jed (re spoilers): i'm with you on this. giving people a chance to watch the first four was fine, but now it's only 58 minutes a week, and loads of countries get it within an hour of american broadcast. the diane cat's been out of the bag for two and a half weeks ffs. if they don't want it spoiled they can watch it on the day like everyone else.

i mean if people are on facebook going "omg mr c got shot and came back to life" that's probably pushing it, but a photo of diane's living room? eh

like, i'm not deliberately spoiling it for anyone, but i did consider changing my display name to cicadafrogbs

I guess it's a spoiler that there is an actual Diane and that's she's in the show and she's Laura Dern. But deal....

It was. Shock to me too and this show is completely un-spoilerable anyway. Even if you knew everything that happens you'd be guessing along like the rest of us and that's fun so join in.

It was a shock to me too and this show is completely un-spoilerable anyway. Even if you knew everything that happens you'd be guessing along like the rest of us and that's fun, so join in.

CORRECTION.

yes! what are people going to spoil? "well there's that guy from 1991 who's not cooper but looks like him, and he went to prison and came out again, and then he got blood smeared on him by 50 lumberjacks" <-- the entire show is ruined, ruined

Haha, the Twin Peaks official Facebook page is pretty spoilery. And they put spoilery stuff up like immediately after the episode airs sometimes which kinda sucks for people trying to watch it the next day.

Haha thumbs up.

"the giant turned off an alarm and spewed up laura's face" <-- well fuck it, no point watching now that you've spoiled everything

xp to circa1916: stan has been putting up thumbnails of the end of the show, which you have to click on in order to watch the show, which is fucking ridiculous

lol yes

That's such a pointlessly dumb move it's almost comical.

And true, this is kind of impossible to really "spoil" but some moments like the Diane reveal I'd prefer to keep as a surprise.

One of my professors randomly brought up Twin Peaks and offhandedly mentioned Who Killed Laura Palmer in class one day. Granted this was 20 years after the show ended, but the Gold Box had JUST been released and I was set to get it as a gift like a week later. Dumbfounded. I'd studiously avoided that information for years.

the simpsons spoiled the crying game for me

although, to be fair, that's how i heard about the crying game

Re: The Crying Game, what's all the hoopla about? There's supposed to be this fantastic plot twist, but I just didn't get it.

Terrible film.

I don't think so...

What did you like about it?

Haven't seen it for 20 years tbh.

And honestly I like you more than I don't like the film so....

:)

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lol
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it was allegedly a surprise that the character was born a man although anyone paying attention would have picked up on that earlier

"stan has been putting up thumbnails of the end of the show" who is stan?

it's a streaming service with a silly name

I once saw Eddie Pepitone do a bit where he spoiled who killed Laura while yelling about how he hates the forest, but that was pretty funny.

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so I finally caught up on this magnificent thread after my schedule keeping me from watching night of a few weeks here and I'd like to say an honest thanks to all the regular posters for this discussion. It's been charming and helpful to wade through and I have a lot of affection for you folks.

Whoa unrelated but I wanted to give my piece of mind on episode headfuck but this thread is fucking huge so I'm giving my thought on this instead. Took me 10 minutes to scroll to the bottom on my phone with "all messages displayed" and we're on episode 8 of 18. Wouldn't it be healthier to open a new thread each week to discuss every new episode?

could be a good mid-season idea, we're already over 3,000 posts and will definitely hit 10,000+ as new viewers come in. on the back of this discussion about spoilers not really being spoilers because nothing makes sense anyway ("holy shit there's creamed corn in the convenience store!!") maybe we can do a relevant thread title that will confuse the hell out of ilx.

btw simon h, you made my day with "frog-penis-locust"

The lodgers really rose to the occasion - I really liked the teasing out of the idea of the blackened figures as being like the dehumanised, racialised Other prerequisite for the conception of something like the bomb (I had barely started thinking along these lines but not got further than the slightly crass thought "he got away with putting Lincoln in blackface", which I kept to myself)

the other great thing about the lodgers is kate's explorations of how women are portrayed in the show. none of the other podcasts i listen to cover the representation of women in any detail.

<3

because i can't stop watching part 8 i've just noticed the convenience store is on the edge of some kind of forest. does that mean it's nowhere near the bomb site? the aerial shot of the bomb doesn't look all that foresty.

The shot of the woodsmen attending to badcooper's corpse really reminds me of something, but I can't remember what! Silent, b/w, double exposed style transparent little people advancing on the camera. Maybe one of melies's faery films?

Night on Bald Mountain?

Maybe it's this:

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

I don't have it to hand (because my entire library disappeared from iBooks wtf apple you suck) but there's a great story in reflections where I think it's ian Buchanan talks about filming this light fluffy soap opera/sitcom and coming into set one day and seeing buckets of blood all over the place, and realising there was this whole other show that he had essentially no part in. This sort of thing is why I love the tweets above from mädchen and Andrea hays (Heidi) about part 8, but this is an even more extreme version of that story because now virtually all the cast will have been watching that like "this is what I'm in?!"

Which reminds me: the author of that book, Brad Dukes, is apparently pretty upset about part 8 & tweeted that it was worse than the Evelyn Marsh episodes (he hates fwwm too tho which is why the oral history conspicuously misses out its production)

lmao

I can only compare last night with the day KID A leaked. Pure befuddlement, frustration, and ????

— brad dukes (@brad_d_) June 26, 2017

I sorta wanted to include some of the butthurt reactions to Ep 8 in that episode but ultimately I chickened out

I guess brad dukes is the nick hornby of the TP constellation

LOL imagining a generation of dudes for whom the day kid a leaked was like 9/11

imagine being shook by Radiohead

where did dukes say that? his twitter doesn't seem to really indicate he hated it

James and Evelyn episodes>>>#GottaLight #TwinPeaks

— brad dukes (@brad_d_) June 26, 2017

He could just really like those episodes I guess