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

this shit is the hipster version of being a furry at this point

http://gothamist.com/2017/05/17/twin_peaks_night.php#photo-1

I don't even own a tv

"this show taught me how to be weird"

http://hottopic.scene7.com/is/image/HotTopic/10868319_hi

well, of course it is

hey whiney did you ever watch a Herzog movie

i look fwd to seeing this series for free someday, but i'd bet most of the costume ppl watch no other weird filmmakers' stuff, just MARVEL movies.

http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/XIU-XIU.jpg

that said if ppl are gonna dress up for shit it might as well be quality

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Watch the New “Twin Peaks” Intro

The show’s iconic title sequence has gotten an update

http://pitchfork.com/news/73645-watch-the-new-twin-peaks-intro/

deputy andy brennan: "i can't put down this ... dang fidget spinner"

Hey, man, have you even seen Marvel movies, they are faaaar out.

Whiney, I will give it up to you on the TP fandom. Hate to be a fun Nazi because god bless if you can eke out some enjoyment in this life, but seriously...fuck off with the cherry pie and the damn good coffee already.

I don't even own a tv

I think you mean "I'm too poor for Quality Cable elitism"

I want to join the party, but I still haven't seen season 2 or the movie.

I mean, this also crosses over into the sickness that is binge-watching, the generational lie that is "prestige TV" and the worst impulses of consumptive-capitialism-as-identity-signaling; all joining forces for a middlebrow shitstorm that lets you buy dick joke T-shirts at Hot Topic.

criticizing the larger culture/market/audience instead of the actual product eh

welcome to the black lodge

this also crosses over into the sickness that is binge-watching

actually they are going with a classic weekly rollout with this new season

what i love is how this isn't about twin peaks

Your critical concerns in that arena have some merit, Whiney, but I wonder sometimes if you remember laughter.

https://media.giphy.com/media/zDblGyoaNqwLu/giphy.gif

i look fwd to seeing this series for free someday, but i'd bet most of the costume ppl watch no other weird filmmakers' stuff, just MARVEL movies.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, May 22, 2017 11:01 AM (fifteen minutes ago)

How much would this bet be, and are you talking Monopoly money or real money?

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

whiney you'd be into this the soundtrack is 90 percent static drones

can't wait to read 700 thinkpieces about it

How much would this bet be

i've seen more Bushwick millennials at close range than you have; trust me

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&ictx=2&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikrcTJ8IPUAhVLRCYKHbbOBpsQPQgD#hl=en&q=%22how+twin+peaks%22

can't wait to read 700 thinkpieces about it

― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 9:21 AM (thirty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree that the context in which this show is airing sucks

it is best to focus on the thing and not the fans, as with Jesus or Fight Club

Just let the resurgent phenomenon die out on its own. The casual fans will drift away as soon as they recognize Lynch's steadfast resistance to giving them what they want.

https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/7TzPMbcPZ2GB0Hr0v2Moy7-qfPs=/fit-in/970x0/2017/03/16/7a165371-3961-4652-b4a4-59792d28b3f3/feliciamst3k2.jpg

https://www.google.com/search?q=rollingstone.com+twin+peaks&oq=rollingstone.com+twin+peaks&aqs=chrome..69i57.3591j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

"I don't want to know anything when I go into a theater. I like to discover it, get into that world, try to get as good of picture and sound as possible, no interruptions – so you can have an experience. And anything that putrefies that is not good."

man, dude not into liveblogging

I'm into that method

i can kind of see where OP is coming from, the marketing and social media aspects of this revival are kind of cheapening it to some degree, but that really doesn't matter when Lynch is given a budget and full artistic control.

imagine if Seinfeld came back and Larry David could do whatever he wanted, people would be psyched. a perfect storm of 90s nostalgia and tv idolization. but it doesn't really matter, it's just marketing, they have always had this for any tv show. it will pass. what does annoy me is people saying "casuals" unironically. as if there is some hierarchy to you understanding Twin Peaks by watching more of it or reading more about it. i don't think that is necessarily the case nor the way Lynch structures the symbolism in his works. he works on a subconscious level, his symbolism is instantly spellbinding on a moment to moment basis, it is not dependent on narrative or linear cohesion. anyone who has seen his last 2 movies would know this. i'm most excited for the casuals who are just bandwagoning tbh.

are you literally posting "what if seinfeld present day" tho

Lunch was, uh, six dollars and thirty-one cents at the Lamplighter Inn, that's on Highway Two near Lewis Fork. That was a tuna fish sandwich on whole wheat, slice of cherry pie, and a cup of coffee. But if you want a good cronut and macchiato, brother

"Diane, it struck me again earlier this morning, there are two things that continue to trouble me. And I'm speaking now not only as an agent of the Bureau but also as a human being. Why were the anime nazis so quick to adopt Pepe, a cartoon frog invented by a liberal cartoonist?"

Also Diane is the memos app on his iPhone

What if it turned out that he sent all of his tapes to the Cheers set and Shelley Long ultimately had to take out a restraining order against him?

so in that alternate universe you would have posted a thread declaring you are not watching the new Seinfeld?

if Seinfeld came back and Larry David could do whatever he wanted

tbf this already happened

I mean, for all of Seinfeld's transgressive and revolutionary things, it was still, for a good five years, one of the most popular television shows on the planet.

Twin Peaks was a cult phenomenon being elevated by time and probably, through no small measure, by the type of traditonally privileged people who inherited all the media jobs. This feels more like if Husker Du reunited and the media went on an all-points bulletin

Smiths would probably be a better comparison

This feels more like if Husker Du reunited and the media went on an all-points bulletin

I look forward to your day job totally ignoring their forthcoming Numero Group box set.

there are some similarities between this thread and the things that it's criticizing

Twin Peaks was a top rated show during its first season. It was not Freaks and Geeks-level cult.

lol also KM otm

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it's also been hugely influential on subsequent shows - X-Files, Sopranos, Mad Men, etc.

but you know all this shit Whiney

(also Seinfeld was garbage fyi)

Thanking u for the information.

it was all because you didn't watch it

*tears bookhouse boys patch off shirt, throws log out window*

sin e an rud nua anois ha? "ratings", ha? pfft

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!