Yeah there is the barest continuity between the Donna/Audrey scenes in the last ep and the ones leading up to them. And the pageant is simply not in the finale.
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
also, kudos for just writing james entirely out with a postcard ("I'm in san francisco, its awesome")
one thing you have to understand about james, though - he's cool. he's always been cool.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
james is not remotely cool are you joking? james is such a boring guy you would avoid at parties when you were a teenager. Do not let him have any of my weed. jesus
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
he doesn't talk much these days. but he's cool.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
he's cool
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
just you
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
and i
*swaay*
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
best bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohV3_9mgNGY
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
James's song is legit top 5 scene in first two seasons (although yes comes below mairzy doats)
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
also jerry horne's wardrobe
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:40 AM (twenty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
all in sheryl lee's and lara flynn boyle's expressions
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
tbh if you don't like the finale episode you should prob stop punishing yourself now & skip s3
yeah, exactly. when people ask about the return i usually say that if they liked the finale and fire walk with me, they'll love the return
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:28 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i liked the finale (although i agree with plenty of plaxico's criticisms of it) and fire walk with me and disliked the return ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Its also so disappointing that the show finally runs away from its most troubling intimations (that the family is an institution that allows abuse and violence to be perpetuated) towards something really trite (the woods are haunted).
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
it's both
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
Like what is this show ultimately about? That the FBI and the military are here to keep us safe from evil?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
Yeah the one stands in for the other (for lynch, anyway - I agree that this escapes the other writers in the latter part of s2) xp
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
xpost
there's an answer to that, but it's classified at the blue rose level
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 31, 2018 10:48 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is this the conclusion you drew from the end of the finale or what
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
Truman, Cooper and the Major. Good decent guys from the protective arm of the state, enveloping us in warm enlightened vibes from Tibet, etc.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
The show's reimagining of the Feds as a spiritual chivalric order shouldn't be taken literally imo but also like, they're completely impotent and clueless and fail all the time?
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
Too bad there's all this ahistorical evil out there making us rape our daughters in train carriages
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
^^^^
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
i was agreeing with wins not with plax
you people are going to get me sick of this show before I watch The Return.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
thanks morbs, i hope you do
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
I would skip it entirely. Maybe just read the wikipedia summary or something and then watch something better.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
There is a level on which Cooper and esp Cole are, well, clowns.
btwn this show and X-Files I think '90s TV cultists have a misshapen concept of how often the feds deal with the paranormal. (UFOs, that's another matter.)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
too late, plax, i got the Bluray for Christmas!
Twin Peaks is about the story of abuse itselfTwin Peaks is about dualities and opposing forcesTwin Peaks is about the absence of Laura Palmer in a quaint little town that gets uglier and more violent as the layers come offTwin Peaks is about as serious as a Tom & Jerry cartoonTwin Peaks is about entering a world, falling in love with it, working within it, and letting it talk to you.Twin Peaks is about healingTwin Peaks is about how a small American town reacts to a murder mysteryTwin Peaks is about the masks people wearTwin Peaks is about a lot of things, but basically, it is the mystery of who killed Laura PalmerTwin Peaks is about the battle between good and evil Twin Peaks is about the ugly frisson between public personas and private perversionsTwin Peaks is about the endlessly seductive idea of "mystery," of the ways human beings find to deal with the unknownTwin Peaks is about the complexity, beauty, and horror of our choicesTwin Peaks is about you, because YOU'RE THE MANTwin Peaks is about wrestling with the nature of evilTwin Peaks is about good and bad, about why people cling into certain myths and ideologies, about how far evilness can get into the bloodstreams of our society unrecognizedTwin Peaks is about watching sports and beautiful girlsTwin Peaks is about Baby Boomer shameTwin Peaks is about a town of people whose lives criss-cross back and forth and they all knew LauraTWIN PEAKS is about CONSPIRACIES - SECRETS MYSTERIES HUMAN NATURE AND HUMAN FAILINGSTwin Peaks is about darkness and light, beauty and violence, and the endless yearning for more than real life.Twin Peaks is about sex
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
plax why is it important to you that other people don't enjoy twin peaks
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
twin peaks is about healing
why do you think this is important to me?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
what's important is to watch this show in the most bad faith way possible
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
This poster sums up what Twin Peaks is about pretty definitively
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/40/a9/1840a9c464cc9faf6c0d567bff8c3cef.jpg
― Chris L, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
omg, i was genuinely excited to watch this and enjoyed it and then pretended to still be enjoying it. This is the rage of disillusionment.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
I'm like the richard dawkins of twin peaks
ew
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
hahaha
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
that poster is pretty great
plax, I think Fire Walk With Me addresses a lot of your misgivings about the series's reluctance to acknowledge its more troubling implications, although if you found the Black Lodge sequence in the finale to be tedious, I'm not sure you'll enjoy the more abstract scenes in FWWM.
― one way street, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
does the new one resemble ally mcbeal to the same degree?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
The problem is not surrealism. The dream sequences are amazing in earlier episodes. The appearance of the giant, the reappearance of the lovely hotel porter. But strobe lights and coloured contacts are unbelievably lazy.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
S2 is redeemed by the finale as many have said. I agree with all of plaxico's v common complaints about the second half of S2, and yea maybe in the beginning of the finale there's some of that unresolved bullshit, but windom earle luring cooper into the black lodge only to be rendered completely irrelevant by the super massive forces of the lodge validates his storyline imo, bc yeah he's the reason cooper went into the black lodge & his very sudden erasure shows how useless he was & how powerful the lodge is. that very first scene in the lodge with 'sycamore trees' is my favorite moment in the whole series, return included. cooper frozen in place, eyes wide, lights strobing. just stunning
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
ows otm fwwm is absolutely a film about incestuous abuse that happens to use BOB as a visual representation thereof (the same is true of the series at least until its worst episode, after which the matter is simply ignored)
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
worst episode?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
flappy otm, Sycamore Trees is the best scene in either show, I love everything about that scene so much
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
lol so rude "your very common complaints"
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
your tediously familiar complaints
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
imo the worst ep is the one with Leland's wake, that's the one where Cooper unequivocally says "Leland didn't do these things" (although even then coop has been shown to be wrong about everything), previous to that it was ambiguous but leaning towards it's Leland
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link