thread for ppl who aren't watching Twin Peaks Season 3

The show moved from a hotbed of unique, sui generis ideas into a single, monolithic cultural signpost.

It's early but the first couple episodes seem to do a pretty good job of counteracting this.

But as some cultural critics might ask, who gives a SHIT? Lynch certainly doesn't. If the point is that late capitalism is sucking our culture dry then, sure, I'm with you, but I guess I see the lazy referential stuff as more akin to remoras than lampreys.

I'll let it go - I didn't bring it up

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I zung "auteur" talk pretty good iirc

It's ok tho if ultimately this series is not aimed at people who aren't fans of the excellent 21st century films of David Lynch or knowing what words mean

Not to say that Lynch is godhead and cannot be questioned but I think the flaws in the revival will be of his own making, not borne out of a wish to pander to the cosplay kids.

the people having the TP cultural moment problems itt - especially those who haven't seen it yet - need to just wait a couple days. in a few weeks it'll be as much of a hassle for you to deal with as inland empire was in 2006 (which iirc was very little mainstream attention) because this show is more uncompromising than that film, and 6 times as long

tbh I haven't watched any new Twin Peaks because I was watching less haute couture programming being shown binge-style on the SyFy channel

i can't imagine what the clickbait articles will be about in a week or two, other than "13 totally unexplainable things in the baffling return of twin peaks - you won't believe how much we don't understand #6!"

This new thing that barely pretends to be an old thing has ruined my twitter feed!

won't somebody please think of whiney's twitter feed

i fell asleep during Inland Empire tbh. I just want to be entertained. The original Twin Peaks was nice to look at and entertaining. I will eventually watch this update, and hopefully be entertained and have some dope eye candy.

i mean, i kinda get the weariness of seeing it. i am really sick of reading about those spinner toys or whatever

those pogs you like are going to come back into style

Do you think Donald Trump is watching Season 3 of Twin Peaks?

my real intro to lynch was when mulholland drive was at the college town cheap theater, saw it for $2 and again on two-for-one night for $1

imo nothing is going to top that price/value ratio, didn't even need to own a tv or internet connection so even free showtime is over the top

"ruined my twitter feed"

ime the baseline for twitter feeds in 2017 is ruin

does twin peaks feature THE ORB lol

http://store.sho.com/imgcache/product/resized/001/420/583/catl/twin-peaks-log-lady-t-shirt_670.jpg?k=6d97b80e&pid=1420583&s=catl&sn=showtimehttps://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/ee2456ae-675b-465d-a675-1e7989d207cd_1.ccd575a9701f9a15e83cdd6743961928.jpeg?odnWidth=560&odnHeight=560&odnBg=ffffff

https://img0.etsystatic.com/037/0/8945497/il_570xN.542697552_icok.jpg

that shirt is the wild palms to my twin peaks

we'll have forgotten this thread when whiney's making money off the book of dogs dressed like twin peaks characters

It would be cool if that was one shirt.

When I first saw this thread, I thought it would be like this one:

List of people who have recently purchased 'Capital' by Thomas Piketty

keep your wild palms off my twin peaks, buddy

something about max headroom

Is Donnie Wahlberg watching Twin Peaks Season 3?

do you think david lynch incorporated any reference to the fact there's a hooters-knockoff restaurant called "twin peaks" in this new series

man I saw a bit of wild palms, pee-ew

http://www.twinpeaksrestaurant.com/wp-content/uploads/Military-263x300.jpg

Chris Cornell: not watching Twin Peaks Season 3

peasky weaksy

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Peak Ilx for this thread to be longer than the Twin Peaks thread. Esp this coming from the threat starter, notable and esteemed hipster puppy auteur Weingarten. Hot garbage flies 'round for all of us.

We can do it

Is there anyone else besides me, Morbs and Sara who are like "Yeah, I can wait, thanks"

longer than the Twin Peaks thread

non-spoiler TP thread has twice as many answers as this one. Not everyone watched 4 hrs of TV last night (which is what the s3 spoiler thread is for)

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Whiney if it makes you feel any better, based on these first episodes, no one is going to be writing about the new episodes by late June

(I mean this as a compliment to the show)

Shakey, yeah soz, the non-spoiler and spoiler thread feel like the white and black lodges to me now. Dunnae know where to turn tbh.

do you think Chief Keef is watching Season 3 of Twin Peaks?

towards the light iirc

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^^ Music journalists of ILX, plz get on this.

what percentage of the people watching Season 3 of Twin Peaks are "wite ppl"?

light seems fine

https://i.imgur.com/c4jt321.png

50% tumblr wites, 50% world of young people

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Listening to Chief Keef rn.

yah of course tp fandom is fucking corny. mash up culture is fucking dumb duh wow hot take. tp burlesque nights have been happening even before facebook and that shit has always been cringy. but tp is like the best shit ever and this new season is the fucking shit. tp is like the cramps. they are the best band of all time but like 50 million dumb rockabillies are into them big schmeal.

Lux Interior: not watching Twin Peaks Season 3 - I have his autograph somewhere though, R.I.P.

I liked a thing until somebody else liked it wrong
I am pure
I am the one
Alone am I

-Old Lunch, age 14

I'm not watching either, WGW.

And for what it's worth, my argument re: Lynch's auterism (or his failure as such) isn't based on a tightly defined gate to auteurism, but on what I see a tendency to the platitudinous in Lynch himself. His themes, characters, dramatic structure, motifs are to my mind pretty standard, save for their art-school gloss. For a variety of reasons, he seems been allowed more creative control over his work than many of his contemporaries, and that gives him a little more rope than some of his '90s TV-creating peers. In other words, he got to leave in the fun shit that often made it to the cutting room floor on other shows. But the flourishes and fancies that he put into Twin Peaks, plus the VHS cult that rose around it, have lead to a critical overvaluation outsripping the show's actual merits. Which, just to be clear, are ample. But TP's fandom has focused on mythologizing far beyond the confines of the show itself (enabled/extended by Frost/Jen Lynch), in a manner that reminds me of, say, Doctor Who ––but with a veneer of intellectual superiority and insidery ' down the rabbit hole' stuff.

I guess I don't see DL's vision as so singularly his, nor necessarily unique, as much as a through-the-darkened-glass failed American soap opera. Which isn't a bad thing! But it's hardly original. Again - and I actually like Lynch – I just don't think TP is worth the crown of 'visionary.' What I mean to write is that I just don't think he's especially strange or special, no more than a lot of directors, especially when you consider with progenitors like Altman, Waters, Rafelson, Jewison, Hellman, Pollack, Forman. Οὖτις, I agree with you absolutely on the other thread that DL is a 'really this cult-y, insular dude that is still uniquely and thoroughly American,' but it doesn't mean I think he's earned special status.

edit: I just don't think David Lynch, judged on the merits of TP is worthy the crown of 'visionary'

it's weird that you restrict his rep solely to TP, which is not accurate