just want to highlight this post in case anyone that's interested in the odd turns that the 2nd season takes missed it upthread:_Also, amateurist, I think you may be on to something wrt the plot fugue playing a big role in the declining viewer interest, but I think Lynch more or less abandoning the show to work on Wild at Heart (and I think some other stuff...Industrial Symphony, maybe?) played the bigger role in its demise. The two causes were probably pretty intertwined, honestly._from reading about this in the books Lynch on Lynch and the biography Beautiful Dark, this seems to be accurate.
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
I think I mentioned it before in one of these threads, but the episode with the pine weasel fundraiser is the only one I saw (in part) when the show was originally airing. It did not quite synch up with my general impression of what Twin Peaks was all about.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
People in this thread keep referring to Nadine getting transformed into having super-strength in season 2 - but didn't she always have super-strength? She's bending the bars on her exercise machine in one of the first episodes.
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
Correct also that p
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
lotline is good
re-watching this as promised (on another TP thread) and I know it's almost a cliche at this point but boy does the back half of Season 2 suck. It's bad enough that it almost makes me not want to see the more recent reboot / season 3 thing (I am typically years late to these, err, events and have somehow managed to avoid spoilers).
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
power through! s3 as you have probably surmised even sans spoilers is a totally different beast
― Simon H., Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
That's what I've heard! And I love the show so much right up until the Leland reveal, I'm willing to overlook almost anything, but man, this season is worse than I remembered. But since I do plan to spend the post-holiday pajamas-and-cocoa dead zone finally watching Season 3, I've been making it a point to re-watch Season 2 (and FWWM)
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
While I like lots of the second-half-of-S2 stuff (James’ Wild Ride excluded) and love the Diane Keaton episode, as far as preparing for S3 goes you can just skip to the finale and FWWM.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 14 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
and The Missing Pieces of FWWM I would say
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 14 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, December 14, 2019 2:51 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
my ocd tendencies would never permit this. What's The Missing Pieces?
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
The parts of the FWWM screenplay that were filmed but cut from the released film; Lynch edited a sort-of-feature out of them for a DVD bonus feature.
There's also a fan edit that cuts 99% of them back into original screenplay order, which I watched on my pre-season-3 rescreen.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 14 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
I’ve always told people “there’s an episode that ends with an owl flying toward the camera. Stop. Skip to the season finale.”
That said, I remember the three-episode arc with David Duchovny very fondly?!
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
paul I agree that the back half of season 2 has a lot of letdowns, but season 3 might be the best season of TV I’ve ever seen. it is not to be missed
― k3vin k., Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
I liked Denise a lot, and I remember her as redeeming the episodes she was in, though that may just be wishful thinking. My vote for worst plotline would be Cooper falling in love with Annie, just because cringe-inducing terrible dialogue is harder to suffer through when it's Coop delivering it.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
Also touched on wonderfully in S3.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link