Drink full: The TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread, part 2

for anyone not wanting to click into the Ebert article

If you are old enough, you will recall this phrase when you went to the movies in the 1950s. That was when during the double-feature era before 1960, movie theatres did not list show times in newspapers. If they did, few paid attention to them. You just showed up and entered the dark theatre while one of the movies was playing. You would wait a few seconds for your eyes to adjust to the dark and then shuffle to empty seats. A few hours later came that memorable moment when you or one of your companions would nudge the others and say, "This is where we came in." Then you'd shuffle out.

This was common. You were not the only ones. It was an ingrained habit to arrive at any old time. Others who came in at some other time did the same thing. People were continuously entering and leaving the theatre. How could we understand the movie's plot while watching it beginning at some scene in the middle on to the end, and then from the beginning to the middle? It now seems crazy but our brains seemed to do mental splicing that did not require much effort. But we really lost something in the experience. When you saw the ending prior to the beginning, you did not gain from the introductory set up of the plot and the characters.

xp get any and/or all signed, I would say

I CAN ONLY BRING ONE THING

The context was him saying he was fine with however people chose to watch it, & obv there's a general point there about how meaning can be constructed from a non-linear text

It would be a p good exercise tbh, & I imagine in the future I might just stick on random episodes, not sure it'd be the best way to watch for the 1st time tho!

Many xps

woah xp! The platters platter imo

kurt - platters for sure!

It'd also be the thing lynch would get most of a kick out of signing I bet

totally, you'll impress him.

I enjoyed that about this season, the non-linear feel that people kept trying to puzzle out, trying to line up dates and occurrences to figure out when the different Coopers were doing things

I like to think that every time we see Jerry, with the exception of the initial scene with his brother, is part of some meandering journey through the woods where he's continually hallucinating, running off in fits of paranoia, and stumbling into the plot

bad binoculars

tbh it feels like i watched this whole show through bad binoculars

we're all Jerry, picked up nude and screaming by the cops and thinking we know what happened

Good example is that scene where Dougie apparently interrupts a wild night out with the Mitchum brothers to go home and play baseball with Sonny Jim for one very brief scene. Made no sense, but it was too deliberate to be a continuity error.

Also did anybody ever parse meaning out of that scene with Andy waiting for somebody? Forgot all about it without figuring it out

JENSEN: What was your favorite Cooper?

LYNCH: I love them all. I don’t know what type of person, but there must be a lot of them that just love Dougie. Kyle did such a good job as Dougie. You want to have a Dougie at home, to take care of and sit with and have cake and stuff.

FRANICH: Quick follow-up question: What is the story with Billy?

LYNCH: [Laughs] [Does not answer]

This! Lynch comments on so little, but here he explicitly dismisses the dullest interpretation of his work:

JENSEN: It seemed like we encountered so much of you in this show. We felt like we saw allusions to other films, implied, implicit. Were you reflecting a lot on your life and your work while you were making this?

LYNCH: No, it was a coincidence. I guess I just love certain things. It was this world of Twin Peaks that was talking. I didn’t think about any other films.

seeing a bunch of his old stuff (and other artists' work) in the new TP isn't really an interpretation

Aw come on, what a bunch of bullshit. Own those refs, lynch
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Where is that interview from?

I mean, I don't see a lot of direct connections to his own previous films, but there are really obvious nods to old movies by other directors

http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/15/david-lynch-twin-peaks-finale/

a popular analysis (even in this thread if I recall?) was Lynch was offering an elaborate comment on his own work and response to it. Which... is boring. Much more exciting to think any similarities were the result of him pouring so much of himself on screen there couldn't help but be overlap

JENSEN: One of many amazing scenes that Gordon had this season was that amazing piece of comedy when the French Lady that he’s entertaining in his hotel suite has to leave. What was the inspiration for that elaborate exit?

LYNCH: Albert. It’s great watching Albert see this mess.

lmao lynch otm

really love how all the gordon/albert/tammy scenes played out, especially when they threw diane into the mix

Most boring explanation was that it was Jesus iirc

Harry Dean Stanton RIP

oomg no

Fuck

what an incredible body of work, much love and respect

He's already been places

I literally just watched the scene with him playing guitar and singing at the trailer park about 10 minutes ago.

I was shocked at how good his voice sounded in that

Noooo ;_;

God dammit. RIP HDS. I'm really looking forward to seeing that new movie he stars in.

Fuck

:'(

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJzJpvIW0AEnlDn.jpg:large

Keep your blood

DAMN

rip Harry, you beautiful man.

RIP

Aww
The life of a repo man is always intense

I love this line in FWWM so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBLpJWETYYo

Singing again, courtesy of Mädchen Amick:

https://instagram.com/p/BZFwkZjnd9v/

head's up everyone: during the vocal bits of "into the night", it's fun to imagine she's singing "soooo-daaaaa", "sooo-daaaaaa", like an ode to soda. insta-lyric switch solo karaoke, it must have been a saturday night

Who can rid me of the My Prayer earworm? Do I want to be ridded? Is it actually an earlocustfrog?

It's a frogmoth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW6yZC9ZzDI

Oh wow

I dreamt Trump had a cameo or two in the old Twin Peaks. Made all the "I'll see you again in 25 years" stuff even more ominous

I dreamt that ZZ Top finally got their cameo, except they were a bunch of janitors who turned out to be musicians, playing in an empty building.

the night before i had an interview last week i dreamt the interview was taking place in the black lodge, with all the confusion that suggests. our psyches are all thoroughly infected, huh

Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a frogmoth, or whether I am now a frogmoth, dreaming I am a man