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

Ppl pretend otherwise but the original twin peaks did badly in the ratings after the pilot

Inland empire box office not so hot either iirc

Mark frost always blames twin peaks ratings failure on the gulf war, im assuming this will be trump's fault

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I'm sure Lynch is in a blind panic over these numbers, worrying that this project over which he had complete creative control and which is going to be released in its entirety even if no one is watching and which is very likely the last filmed project he'll ever undertake might sour his chances of directing The Fateful Fastening of the Furious. I'm positively smirking.

i dunno, this might be a stretch, but wanting a project to fail (a continuation of one you admit to liking yourself) to spite a sliver of other people who like it in ~not a cool way~ is maybe fucking pathetic and sad

However, it's not too much a cause for concern, and perhaps far more an indication of how viewers choose to consume this kind of work.

Perhaps because it's near impossible to really spoil anything produced by David Lynch, it looks as if the weight of viewership fell on Showtime's on-demand services, with Deadline also reporting the network saw the single biggest day and weekend of signups ever for its streaming service, Showtime Anytime and Showtime On Demand.

"In the world that we live in now, offering original programming that attracts new subscribers is our primary business objective," said David Nevins, President and CEO, Showtime Networks in a statement. "By that standard, the Twin Peaks premiere is the biggest single-night driver we’ve ever had."

would watch a lynch movie called the single-night driver

i came for the Twin Peaks, i stayed for the exquisite selection of softcore

Ha yeah knowing what little I do about showtime's rep in the states I'm kinda surprised ppl are signing up in record numbers rather than just waiting to torrent

I didn't say I wanted it to fail, btw, I was just saying that attention/froth from press/Twitter is out of balance and corny

maybe if not probably that says something more about the press and twitter you choose to consume and follow and says you're a part of the relatively small target demo that this show is attempting to cultivate rather than it being out of balance.

Yes, I definitely feel targeted

And if this is what Showtime thinks of my demo then I feel disgusted

That seems a measured and reasonable reaction.

lol circa

I never had any plans to watch this (never even saw season 2 when it was new) but I am somewhat more sympathetic to Whiney's position after being sent a promo of an album by a band called Dale Cooper & the Dictaphones.

From the orbit of bands that gave us Free Nelson Mandoomjazz

I used to enjoy eating food with a spoon but then that band went and called themselves Spoon and now just looking at silverware makes me throw up in my mouth. What exceedingly-fragile components of my self-identity are people going to demolish next?

Do you just look at the epic bacon mustache zombie threads in mystified confusion?

"I don't understand, bacon is rather epic?"

epic bacon mustache zombie threads

the what now?

get on 77

no

Ppl pretend otherwise but the original twin peaks did badly in the ratings after the pilot

wins is not entirely wrong... the "first" (post-pilot) episode had a big dropoff vs Cheers

http://www.angelfire.com/in2/judesmovies/papers/twpe.htm

Remember when a band called themselves "Twin Peaks" and websites covered them instead of laughing at them

out of all the dumb shit in this thread this one hits me the most. i was pulling my hair out when ppl were treating this band as legit. you cant just name your band twin peaks, fucking idiots!

Isn't one of your American knockers restaurants called that

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

― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 5:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love the original show and i'll see this eventually, but in no hurry. i mean it's been long enough in coming so what's a few more months or w/e? i only got exposed to the original show six years ago so i haven't been waiting as long though.

there was a big thing a bunch of my friends were going to on Sunday to see it open at a movie-screen bar and i skipped it. unconsciously part of the reason probably lines up with whiney's thread-starting issues, where this is basically like the force awakens for a slightly different (but overlapping) lifestyle submarket. but it's also more like, man, there is NOTHING about o.g. twin peaks that says to me "this would be better watched in a crowded, sweaty bar with people cheering over the dialogue when familiar old faces and catch-phrases show up." so much of it is about solitary creepiness and being deeply unsettled by things. not to say that can't happen in something that is also 'entertainment' - that's obvious given the success of the original show! - but the particular culturally-embedded form of entertainment-eventness that we have before us in 2017 just isn't going to enhance my watching of this thing.

Yeah "viewing parties" and pies and whatever are a terrible way to go about things (but are a holdover from 1990 & not really anything to do w 2017 media consumption), but it's like how people dress up to sit in the dark in a cinema: it's not my business if ppl don't know how to watch things (Star Wars sucks for different reasons)

Isn't one of your American knockers restaurants called that

― in a soylent whey (wins)

it is and it confuses me. i would assume there are double entendres for knockers that don't evoke backwards-speaking dwarves.

Do you just look at the epic bacon mustache zombie threads in mystified confusion?

― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, but possibly for different reasons than you might assume.

a middlebrow shitstorm that lets you buy dick joke T-shirts at Hot Topic.

― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 9:11 AM (one month ago)

^ NEVER FORGET

David Bowie

i hope the next generation of privileged hipsters get really into nerd-ass SpazzNoiz rap rock and write thousands of fawning braindead thinkpieces about it and bingewatch middlebrow prestige tv about like, the Anger Management Tour so that Whiney is forced to disavow it

i hear there's a guy named Dougie

There is!

Also, tonight's episode was mind-blowing and maybe the most experimental thing Lynch has ever done and had almost zero explicit reference to the Twin Peaks people were familiar with before this year. Many a Showtime subscription was cancelled on this night, I'm certain.

But for every person who unsubscribed , another five people stood around and pointed and laughed at them

at least two things in this episode made me think whiney NEEDS to see this

Seriously, it's like the scene of the bronies scarfing platefuls of bacon at the RR was written just for him.

if you're all too cool for twin peaks, this episode was the exact opposite of twin peaks, which means you're also too cool for the exact opposite of twin peaks

MOR

You pricks this thread is for the non watchers fuck off

TBF, I am not watching Twin Peaks season 3 at this moment.

am i the only one that is so sick of the teens in hot topic wearing bright green gardening gloves and making Dougie Jones references? Twin Peaks is not a passing fad, teens, this shit is important and should be treated with respect

This too will fold in time into its allotted place in the texture of the living story

Twin Peaks:Whiney Stranger Things:Me

If you like films tho, David Lynch films... are good

I feel like this thread sentiment would have shone as a single post in the garbage thread "things you just don't care about" but I understand that a whiney gets parched and I 100% genuinely endorse the bad sociology

― in a soylent whey (wins), Monday, 22 May 2017 18:53 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

literally just shat an "oh is sportsball on??" tweet onto the rug and mewled up at us expecting a treat

I finally watched Stranger Things. It was cute!