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
i didn't mean to be rude, they're not tedious, i'm saying i agree with you on almost everything, as do most people. opinions only diverge on the finale. no disrespect xp
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
lol I don't take offense that easily dont worry
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
I don't think it's anything personal; Twin Peaks fans have bonded over our shared suffering through the Evelyn and James subplot for the better part of three decades by now
xxxp
― one way street, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/dale-cooper-go-seahawks.jpg
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
my bf let out a sigh of genuine anguish every time james appeared on screen, p much from the beginning.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
another q re finale, why do they introduce sexually voracious but with car trouble german waitress heidi?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
She was in the pilot
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
In an almost identical scene
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
She is jolly and randy
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Callback to the pilot (the dialogue is repeated verbatim), and a way of gesturing toward an unsettling cyclicality before Sarah Palmer comes in with her otherworldly message; either that, or Lynch just liked the actor and character.
― one way street, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
xxp
― one way street, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
oh ok, I had forgotten her. I guess that is very "Lynch"
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
There are a lot of returns in that last ep, its kind of a theme
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
anyway plax, imagine sitting through the one or two movies James Marshall starred in after TP bcz producers somehow thought he could do that.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
Marshall was boldly cast against type as a pouty lackwit in A FEW GOOD MEN neva 4get
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
xp Cmon how could this fail?
Important brief-case is stolen from the mob boss Vinny. His assistant Kelly must quickly react and he hires two small-time crooks to follow the rival mobster. One of the men is hard core criminal, the other is an amateur.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
all in sheryl lee's and lara flynn boyle's expressions
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
.... that scene is unpopular????
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
Well people hate the Donna character turn (a lot of twin peaks fans have Boyle issues)
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
But those two are incredible in that scene
these are all season two episode one scenes right? so much happens in that episode
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
The song is s2 ep 2
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
ah i figured, those episodes always mix together in my head (s2ep1 maddie screams at the floor, s2ep2 maddie screams at bob who climbs over the furniture toward her)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
(i think, lol)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link