For a supposed "best TV show ever," TWIN PEAKS goes downhill pretty far, pretty fast. Remember the stuff with James and the vixen (which just... ends, as if the writers knew how awful it was and pulled a plug somewhere)? Or super-strength Nadine? Or anything with Josie Packard? The Dick Tremaine/Andy/Little Nicky thing actually comes across as one of the better subplots during the show's worst dry spell, just subsequent to Leland Palmer's death.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
And if you don't think I'm hardcore enough, just read upthread. I am O.G. TWIN PEAKS.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
supernadine was sooooo lol!!!yeah s2 gets really soap opera!i actually never finished it!
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
is because so many different writers, so many different directors, mark frost and david lynch having less direct involvement iirc
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what site am i on again? youtube?
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda wishing you were
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hey fu amateurist!!
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
ok!!! yay!!!
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I've said it before & I'll say it again: Even "bad" Twin Peaks is great camp (& wicked parody of soap-opera-type drama, even in unintentional) and the black lodge storyline segue into wtf finale totally makes up for whatever shitness claims might be directed at the second-season lull IMO.
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Monday, 3 August 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jJSCzAHbXm4/R2YlSUlldOI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/TEvUq0vwBm0/s400/FinderScreenSnapz001.jpg
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
amateurist, i get breathless when josie is on screen. and i suck dick.
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
gay guys love joan chen
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess that i sort of enjoy the descent into campiness. i think the only sub-plot i truly loathe is the one involving the woman and james, but i also hate everything involving james, so that's a given.
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 that subplot. The one I can't quite get with is the Andy/Dick/progeny-o-Satan storyline, but at least that one only lasts a couple episodes.
― ex-juggalist (Pillbox), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll admit that James is, in general, very punchable.
yes, with a brick.
― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 3 August 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
joan chen is a pretty woman, but after the first season all the plotlines with her go nowhere (er, she shot agent cooper why exactly?), and her acting is consistently painful.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
actually, the whole mill/ghostwood thing, on a recent reviewing, is pretty dull from the start.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i love all that local politics shit!
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
when it's purely humorous it's funny, but all the machinations with catherine/ben horne/josie/hank/leo/etc. get pretty dull--and incoherent--pretty fast.
i guess that was their "plot B" all along, but it never seemed worthy to me. (or maybe "plot B" was james/donna, and this was "plot C"--i dunno if they theorized TV like that back in 1990; sure do now.)
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
IMO of course.
you hate pretty much everything about this show afaict
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah why don't you just stfu
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Laura Palmer was on an episode of House recently and it was so strange to see becasue I haven't really ever seen her in anything else.
― ENBB, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
*sigh*
tehresa and roxymuzak, you can read upthread for my more positive thoughts on TP, dating back to 2003 ... as i welcomed you to do a few posts above.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
also, if i'm not mistaken, isn't roxymuzak like a 40-year-old single mom or something? then why is she posting like a 12-year-old who hasn't had her snack yet?
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
because im 29 and havent had my snack yet
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait, you're the one who was at the pilot light in knoxville when i was there. never mind. i get ILX people mixed up.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
no kids btw. why are you being such a bitch today? its just twin peaks dude!
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― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hstencil left ilx, someone had to fill the void.xpost
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
you realize those are by two different people, correct?
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost hahaha
yeah, sorry roxymuzak, i guess tehresa was being more of a pain. but i felt a bit abused. peace.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm sorry my posting style = being a pain.fuck off you gigantic twat.
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
tehrbota
― velko, Monday, 3 August 2009 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
what
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes the SB feels good
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 04:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll say it: James is hot. Minor league hot, but still hot.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Monday, 3 August 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
And, yeah, not much of a fan of season 2.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Monday, 3 August 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"Just You" - Classic or Dud?
― clotpoll, Monday, 3 August 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ONE OF THE MOST CLASSICALLY LOL THINGS IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
that's one of the better moments in the 2nd season, and not surprisingly it's a david lynch-directed episode.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i wouldn't call it LOL (at least, it doesn't make me LOL), it's certainly odd but quite beautiful in its way.
i'm sorry my posting style = being a pain.
your posting style was just asinine. it's telling me to "fuck off" that qualifies you as being a pain. but as a wise man once said around these parts, i don't even know who you are.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
one thing that makes that sequence so odd = do we ever see james with a guitar, or singing, prior to this episode or after it? i don't believe you. it ties in, i suppose, with his whole persona ("wild one"-style biker, hair that hints at an elvis pompadour), but it just announces itself as a conceit so forcefully. why does this out-of-nowhere moment please me so much when others irritate me? i suppose because it doesn't pretend to be of any consequence to the plot.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't believe SO.
sorry for typos! writing fast.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
magical drums from nowhere = lol
xpost shes a sitewide mod! ;)
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 August 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i find it really a pain when people don't check for typos before they post
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i read the phantom drums as a reference to all the musicals with their phantom orchestras playing behind a tap-dancing/singing gene kelly, etc.
lynch is obv fascinated with the ontology of recorded sound -- see the "no hay banda" scene in MULHOLLAND DR, the lip synching in BLUE VELVET, etc.
― amateurist, Monday, 3 August 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link