Drink full: The TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread, part 2

brad I'm going to quote you on that complete with typo

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, September 22, 2017 6:22 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

literally only just noticed the typo, wow

A steep trap is very difficult to escape from, perhaps even moreso than one made of steel.

Like an ant lion.

It's slippery in here

I don't agree with Trump on much, but I fully endorse his travel ban on Chad.

https://25yearslatersite.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/twin-peaks-recap-episode-5-0006-1497301577-640x358.jpg

over on the billy joel thread i think we just found the ur-text that explains a lot of what's going on

"I've been watching you waltz all night Diane
Nobody's found a way behind your defenses
They never notice the zap gun in your hand
Until you're pointing it and stunning their senses"

goddamn

Tommy (Ronnie Gene Blevins) the loan shark who meets Janey-E in park (E06) is found dead in Carrie's house // Univers (E18) #TwinPeaks2017 pic.twitter.com/yod04wv7dz

— SAgentDaleCooper (@DaleCooperBack) September 25, 2017

whoa is that right

huh

mark frost "liked" it on twitter is that a confirmation?

kind of leads me into the whole meta-narrative angle, where Twin Peaks is a tv show for us so reusing bit actors when they're in completely different contexts is no big deal, but as a fictional universe there are only so many locations and people in TP so seeing the same man in a different context is about as trivial

i don't really think it means anything but it's interesting that no one noticed until now (if it's true)

now if either one of the characters was David Lynch in a wig....

whaaaat

i guess it could be important if it suggests that similarities exist between the laura palmer world and the carrie page world

tough dame

lol of course it's not meaningless, even if it's just another example of elements of alternate realities/timelines bleeding into each other

just another example of elements of alternate realities/timelines bleeding into each other

this is how I take it. In the final episode Cooper is just in yet another parallel version of reality where identities/roles are jumbled up

if I saw Kyle Maclachlan on the street I'd get the same feeling tbh

Phillip? #twinpeaks pic.twitter.com/IAUrfzJ9Pk

— Kyle MacLachlan (@Kyle_MacLachlan) September 27, 2017

i met kyle m the other day at a wine tasting and he was a little buzzed and it was very dougie-ish

Did you speak to him much?

i actually did! he was chill af. i met lynch the same day and was rushed through like a jailhouse food line.

would love to go to a kyle m wine-tasting. love that walla walla terroir

haven't read, but i guess you can

http://cinema-scope.com/columns/a-little-night-music-twin-peaks-the-return-part-eight/

btw the line up at the lynch festival of disruption could def fit into the "worst lineups" thread

Over the course of this final section, a young girl (possibly Grace Zabriskie’s Sarah Palmer, mother of Laura)

really tired of how far this stupid idea travels

Is Pete Holmes in this festival the comedian Pete Holmes?

yes

thee worst

made it through two episodes of his shitty HBO show

I was gonna go to that Lynch signing just to rubberneck but it sold out

If only I'd known I coulda bumped into Chaki and ended up winetasting with Mr Jackpots

haven't read, but i guess you can

So proud of Kate!!!

It's a great piece - in fitting with you guys being the most intelligent podcast discussion of twin peaks.

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Didn’t know about Killing of a Chinese Bookie! Sweet

I was watching a criterion collection documentary from 2014 about Eraserhead the other day. It featured Catherine Coulson, and I was both amazed and saddened at how great she looked. Cancer is a motherfucker.

I checked in to a hotel tonight and the clerk handed me a real old fashioned key with a green fob that guarantees postage if you drop it in the mail. I almost died.

yet you live

man, i got tagged on a facebook thread about twin peaks populated with normal people, and it is crazy to see how almost everyone hates it! like out of about 15 people who have commented, one other person has said they liked it, a couple are still in the middle of watching, and everyone else absolutely hates it! it's a good thread, i guess, because i realize i'm in this bubble where everyone that i interact with loves the show. but in general...no, people don't seem to like it at all

To be fair, it's kind of hard to get into the show if you're not a fanatic of it. Like if your memory of the original show/fwwn is hazy or you don't dive into intense theorizing after each episode, it's tough to really love.

Fan reaction, what I've seen of it, has been fascinating. A lot of people absolutely lost their minds after part 12 (the ep with all the hotel shenanigans & Audrey intro), let alone the finale. I wonder what the audience consensus is, given that almost no "casual" viewers would have bothered to watch this. It's been incredibly warmly received critically and in places I care to look but I do get the sense people are split on it with some people really feeling disappointed or "trolled" or whatever.

There's definitely a sense of "same as it ever was" with this stuff tho - upthread somewhere there's that twitter thread quoting usenet rants from the day after the original TP finale aired & it reads pretty much identically to some posts itt, fire walk with me was famously reviled by many fans at the time &c. (Even before that tbh, people started turning on the show way earlier than is usually acknowledged). I never felt too lonely as an Inland Empire fan but you only have to go a little bit off your regular beat to find sets of ppl among whom it's just a given that that film is a monumental folly, a punchline, and you'd be seen as an utter contrarian to say otherwise.

I'm sure the return looks like a bomb from some angles, but if I were inclined to be concerned about its lasting reputation (which I'm not) stuff like the twitter explosion immediately following part 8 would convince me I could rest assured.

i got tagged on a facebook thread about twin peaks populated with normal people, and it is crazy to see how almost everyone hates it!

My impression is that normal people barely know it happened!

who cares what normies think

not us fucking freaks who watched a tv show

messing with the loser squares by paying extra to hulu for added showtime access

Reaction among Twin Peaks fans (as distinct from fans of Lynch's work in general) was always going to largely fall within the 'neutral-to-negative' spectrum because Lynch was never going to produce a warm & fuzzy nostalgia-fest.

I wonder which tropes will become the iconic objects of fandom's obsessive hyperfocus after the inevitable rediscovery and reassessment of The Return. Expect to see lots of people wearing single gardening gloves and dressing up like teapots at Twin Peaks Fest 2024!

oversized green blazers for all

Can't wait to give the boxset as an Xmas gift. My parents watched the pilot when it aired in 1990 and were astonished. Blue Velvet is the only movie my dad has ever seen two days in a row in a theater, he thought the Twin Peaks pilot was Blue Velvet but better, & obviously groundbreaking in every way we all know. But neither of them kept up even through the first season, primarily because you had one opportunity to watch any given episode each week, & they were busy or just lost interest. But they always talk about how amazing watching the pilot was.

i rewatched the pilot the other night when i cam home drunk from the pub and for reasons i won't bore you with didn't have any internet and precious few dvds on hand. i absolutely loved it and want to rewatch the show again (ok maybe i won't finish season 2). but it did reaffirm for me that i, the dreaded normie, enjoyed rewatching the pilot that I've seen a dozen times more than i enjoyed watching all 18 episodes of the return put together.