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

yet you live

man, i got tagged on a facebook thread about twin peaks populated with normal people, and it is crazy to see how almost everyone hates it! like out of about 15 people who have commented, one other person has said they liked it, a couple are still in the middle of watching, and everyone else absolutely hates it! it's a good thread, i guess, because i realize i'm in this bubble where everyone that i interact with loves the show. but in general...no, people don't seem to like it at all

To be fair, it's kind of hard to get into the show if you're not a fanatic of it. Like if your memory of the original show/fwwn is hazy or you don't dive into intense theorizing after each episode, it's tough to really love.

Fan reaction, what I've seen of it, has been fascinating. A lot of people absolutely lost their minds after part 12 (the ep with all the hotel shenanigans & Audrey intro), let alone the finale. I wonder what the audience consensus is, given that almost no "casual" viewers would have bothered to watch this. It's been incredibly warmly received critically and in places I care to look but I do get the sense people are split on it with some people really feeling disappointed or "trolled" or whatever.

There's definitely a sense of "same as it ever was" with this stuff tho - upthread somewhere there's that twitter thread quoting usenet rants from the day after the original TP finale aired & it reads pretty much identically to some posts itt, fire walk with me was famously reviled by many fans at the time &c. (Even before that tbh, people started turning on the show way earlier than is usually acknowledged). I never felt too lonely as an Inland Empire fan but you only have to go a little bit off your regular beat to find sets of ppl among whom it's just a given that that film is a monumental folly, a punchline, and you'd be seen as an utter contrarian to say otherwise.

I'm sure the return looks like a bomb from some angles, but if I were inclined to be concerned about its lasting reputation (which I'm not) stuff like the twitter explosion immediately following part 8 would convince me I could rest assured.

i got tagged on a facebook thread about twin peaks populated with normal people, and it is crazy to see how almost everyone hates it!

My impression is that normal people barely know it happened!

who cares what normies think

not us fucking freaks who watched a tv show

messing with the loser squares by paying extra to hulu for added showtime access

Reaction among Twin Peaks fans (as distinct from fans of Lynch's work in general) was always going to largely fall within the 'neutral-to-negative' spectrum because Lynch was never going to produce a warm & fuzzy nostalgia-fest.

I wonder which tropes will become the iconic objects of fandom's obsessive hyperfocus after the inevitable rediscovery and reassessment of The Return. Expect to see lots of people wearing single gardening gloves and dressing up like teapots at Twin Peaks Fest 2024!

oversized green blazers for all

Can't wait to give the boxset as an Xmas gift. My parents watched the pilot when it aired in 1990 and were astonished. Blue Velvet is the only movie my dad has ever seen two days in a row in a theater, he thought the Twin Peaks pilot was Blue Velvet but better, & obviously groundbreaking in every way we all know. But neither of them kept up even through the first season, primarily because you had one opportunity to watch any given episode each week, & they were busy or just lost interest. But they always talk about how amazing watching the pilot was.

i rewatched the pilot the other night when i cam home drunk from the pub and for reasons i won't bore you with didn't have any internet and precious few dvds on hand. i absolutely loved it and want to rewatch the show again (ok maybe i won't finish season 2). but it did reaffirm for me that i, the dreaded normie, enjoyed rewatching the pilot that I've seen a dozen times more than i enjoyed watching all 18 episodes of the return put together.

I loved the bit where Ed and Normie got together though.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L57AjtzqisE/TgQMoXr5PBI/AAAAAAAALBY/a8XkkaQGwkE/s1600/IAmTheGreatWent2.JPG

I loved the bit where Ed and Normie got together though.

― Alba, Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:08 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too!

Normie's double r (it stands for "requires resolution")

lol

ahahahah that rules

3h of bluray additional material (spoilers, I guess)?

http://bbfc.co.uk/search/releases/TWIN+PEAKS+2017+

I was hopeful when Frost brought it up, but I am by no means holding my breath over the possible inclusion of On the Air.

They're saving that for the Complete Entire Mystery (For Real This Time) box in a couple of years

I've already purchased some of this material three times over at this point. What's a fourth?

This looks like extras for The Return, doesn't it?

I asked my (college) students if they knew what Twin Peaks was yesterday and they asked me if it was a reality show :-/
lol! i told them it's an unreality show and they should look it up.

It kind of is a reality show but not in the way they mean.

Can anyone tell me anything about Ronette Pulaski/Phoebe Augustine's band Cling? Was anything ever released?

...huh. Interesting thread

Fenn confirmed in a recent interview that she cried when she read Audrey's original part, refused to do it, and had Lynch rewrite it.

— Ross Dudle (@RDudle) October 11, 2017

TBF, he should've known better than to try the Mr. Tojamura reveal a second time.

I think as people are commenting it's p obvious that the Sylvia scenes were originally intended for Audrey

wow, good for SF. Having Audrey assaulted by Richard would’ve been insane

and only on screen for one scene? smh

Is the box set definitely coming out on 12/5/17? Not up anywhere to preorder. Assuming it’ll be available for Xmas

I think it would have been entirely in keeping with the themes of the show (and him assaulting his grandma isn't really less insane) but I'm glad they went the direction they did with Audrey (also it gave Jan D'Arcy something substantial to do!)

and only on screen for one scene? smh

Also I assume she had more scenes than Sylvia's 1.5 in the original script, but they couldn't all simply be changed to Sylvia scenes

I actually do think it’s less insane somehow to have that generational remove. But I hated the writing and conception of the Richard part, it was only somewhat salvaged by the performance and his comedy ending.

I think it's more insane. I can imagine someone abusing their mother like that more than I can imagine them doing it to their gran.

I think they are about equally bad and imaginable (no carpet kaiser but I have known dudes like this)

https://gizmodo.com/69-porg-photoshops-that-will-haunt-your-dreams-in-the-m-1819350916

excuse me the show is not called twin porgs

wrong thred lol

There is a twin peaks one in there tho!

Robert -

https://www.discogs.com/Cling-Smitten/release/10036214

Thankyou.

http://mikkeller.dk/2017/10/11/mikkeller-collaborates-with-david-lynch

barf

yeah i hate that lol

lol we spent months reading again and again about how Lynch refuses to pander to coffee-and-pie nostalgia, then he happily assists the launch of a Damn Good Coffee Stout

he has his own line of coffee!

...which is what that stout is made with.

i personally believe that david lynch should approach his coffee and beer ranges with the same fragmented and hallucinatory spirit he approaches his other creative output with.