When they set up the wrestling competition, I was hoping for candles to be added. Having been introduced to much US folklore through certain European comics, I felt an otherwise fantastic scene that I was ready to call one of the series' best was utterly ruined by this key ingredient's omission
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― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
*arm wrestling, though a full-on Twin Peaks wrestling tournament would be quite something
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
Nadine vs the Giant
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 03:45 (six years ago) link
The arm wrestling scene gave me flashbacks to The Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlJ6kMWgfI
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 04:15 (six years ago) link
I'd be perfectly happy to never ever see the Fly arm wrestling scene ever again, and I saw it in the theater in 1986. I was already an avowed Cronenberg fan but we walked out not long after. took me many years to see that movie in full.
re: the cheesy action movie feel of the arm wrestling, can't remember where but read a recap/essay about how the whole scene is a spoof/commentary on the conventional action film, including the use of the huge TV screen as if everyone is watching a movie. Did somebody say that here? I don't remember, sorry if so. I'm tired.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 05:10 (six years ago) link
yeah sorry dan didn't mean to offend with the video
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
Julee cruise confirmed on fb that she shows up at some point
― akm, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
almost would've preferred to be surprised
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
the use of the huge TV screen as if everyone is watching a movie.
rewatching episode 8: the white lodge has one of these too! and apparently it's a membrane through which they can transmit laura palmer to earth. ~ cinema is magic ~
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
She's on the cast list xp
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
oh lol i forgot
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
Just wanted to say how much I loved the bizarre conga line music at the start, I initially I thought it might be a stock/generic jingle thing like the 'old school rap beat' but god knows what you'd have to google to end up with that as the first result.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
'Casio demo track after spilling Pepsi into keyboard'
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
sudden lot of murmuring about wanting a season 4, even from showtime. wonder if lynch has it in him though. Fenn even reactivated an FB page she left dormant two years ago and renamed it "we want twin peaks season 4".
― akm, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't mind if, rather than retiring, Lynch feels that he can't top himself anymore and decides to just coast for the rest of his career. Like, season 4 can be his Jack, his 'I Just Called to Say I Love You'.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
18 episodes of Dougie and Truman going fishing, shelly grows fins, nadine becomes president, ben horne eats ashley judd
― akm, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
sudden lot of murmuring about wanting a season 4, even from showtime
mmmm, not exactly
http://deadline.com/2017/08/twin-peaks-no-second-season-showtime-david-lynch-david-nevins-tca-1202144491/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
The showtime guy said that another season is not being considered and that this was always intended to be a one-off, but also said "the door is always open to David Lynch"; I've seen this story reported in different places as "omg no more twin peaks, say showtime" and "omg more twin peaks, say showtime"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
I'll bet Lynch has at least one Fast & Furious movie in him.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
yeah that first headline is misleading and isn't really what they said
― akm, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
It won't happen imo, it just makes sense for this to be the end, but I wonder if showtime would pony up for a different lynch project (and is the door always open for Mark Frost?)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
another project would be interesting. maybe.
― akm, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
I figured this would be the endcap for TP and would be fine with that.
But if Showtime wants to bankroll Lynch projects then that sounds great. Financing has always been rough for him.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
FYI since I haven't seen it mentioned ITT, Frost is apparently angling to have On The Air included as a bonus when the new TP season is released on Blu-ray.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Yeah it was mentioned in the old thread
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
There's definitely some on the air in this show's DNA so it makes sense to include it
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
honestly i hope there's more. i can spend forever in tp.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
I appreciate this thread on its own merits, but it really shines when you compare it to FB discussions and a good chunk of dugpa. I got sick of everything being called "filler." The bar sweeping scene, the looping boxing match, musical acts at Bang Bang, The NIN at Bang Bang: FILLER!
One person on FB called Episode 8 filler.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
it's all filler. delicious filler.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
yah this thread is so good. on another message board they were talking about how dl was trying to one up game of thrones with the arm wrestling scene lol.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6F96Oqmd0c
― maura, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
one thing I was thinking about given how the Dougie arc has gone, and in particular with the confrontation/confession ("thank Dougie") from last ep - is how we're being shown a limited/diminished version of Cooper that is nonetheless still v much a force for good in the world. He may be operating in a fog and in this weirdly blank, reflective way but he is, as in his previous incarnation, having a big impact on those around him - providing solace and comfort to the afflicted, protecting the weak and vulnerable, turning enemies into friends, rooting out injustice and corruption. It's an odd kind of heroism, but I find it moving in the context of the first two seasons.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's a good distillation of his character, which was always far more passive than his sherlockian man-of-action persona suggests. He's navigating the dangers of this world the same way he solved the palmer case - by being receptive to dreams and coincidence & being pulled along by the currents of the text - he just isn't spouting can-do gibberish while he does it
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Of course that Dale Cooper failed, over and over again, which is worrying. I really hope nothing bad happens to Janey or Sonny Jim or bushnell or, now, Anthony, but I have a bad feeling about the convergence of Mr Todd, the Hutches, and the dirty cops upon the starting-to-look-TOO-idyllic jones household
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
hey all Cooper has to remember is "don't die"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
and the Hutches/Anthony seem neutralized as a threat, at least for now. Mr. Todd and the dirty cops (and Mr. C) otoh
I wonder if we are gonna get some kind of confrontation between Mr. C and Dougie that would be nuts
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
seems unlikely given that Mr. C's preoccupied with his coordinates/Jeffries but who knows
also any ideas on what exactly it is that Mr. C has "inside" that Jeffries wants? Garmonbozia? BOB? Or something else? Is it all about Mr. C/BOB not returning to the Black Lodge at the appointed time?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
The hutches are still p dangerous no? I wouldn't mind them being swiftly dispatched as they're not my favourites tbh. Also it's no good coop just remembering not to die, he has a wife and kid and entire ecosystem of goofy bonhomie to protect!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Jeffries (or more likely the person pretending to be Jeffries on the phone) wants to "be with" Bob. Bob is what's inside Bad Coop. Jeffries (or whoever) wants to kill Bad Coop in order to get at Bob.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
The identity of the person pretending to be Jeffries ('cause I don't think it's him) is one of the things I'm most interested in finding out. I think it'll be someone that's already appeared on screen (though maybe not this season). My best guess is Red.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'd thought at first that BOB got removed from the doppelgänger in part 8 but that's my reading too now xp
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
If Windom Earle hadn't been so spectacularly destroyed, I'd suspect him.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
One of the actors who hasn't yet appeared is my bet for faux-Jeffries, going by the voice. He was in one of the few pieces of entertainment I know that Lynch has seen over the past few years.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
Speaking of the cast list, lynch needs to stop fucking with us. I'm all for testing an audience's patience within reason but it's been 13 hours, there are only five episodes left - WHERE THE FUCK ARE JUMPING MAN AND LOUIE BIRDSONG BUDWAY?
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
I keep half-expecting a scene like the one where Richard runs over a kid in the truck where all of the onlookers are guest actors, and that's their only cameo
― mh, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
Unlike the "Las Vegas is an alternate reality" thing, Audrey still being in a coma and her bickering with her husband being a dream actually seems pretty plausible to me.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
I'm still manfully pushing through S2 (Josie has just been turned into a knob) and it strikes me that there are three women in The Return that exemplify the future Audrey envisions in S2 for herself.
When Audrey meets Denise, she is amazed that women get to be agents and you can see for a moment it's her heart's desire. And imagine if she could rescue Coop, like Coop rescued her. Tamara Preston.Throughout S1 and early in S2 Audrey fantasises of the romantic life together with "my special agent". A home and children are in her future dream. Janey-E.After the Civil War Ben, Audrey wants to be a serious woman running the Great Northern with a dad who is a good man, happy, and loves her. Beverley Paige.
"Do you want me to end story two?""What story is that, Charlie? The little girl who lives down the lane?"
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
you guys get some goofy ideas
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
although yr reading of Audrey's various fantasy futures seems correct