― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
It was eerie and surreal. I like the way the main character (I'm terrible with names), always slept in such a perfect manner. And the dream sequences with the midget were cool.
Show it again, powers that be!
― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Him in general -- hey, even Dune had its moments. But let me confess I still have never seen Eraserhead.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Ed, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
I liked the TP giant who appeared to say: "It's happening again!" And the rude cop, Albert.
― mark s, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
I lived in Seattle for a year, and that year coincided with the year of Twin Peaks' first season. We went to all the joints on the show, the hotel, the waterfall, the diner. Classic.
The second series: If I remember correctly it was a lot longer than the first, and it started off really well and the last episode or two is great as well, but there is this monstrously dull section in the middle where it turns into a tiresome soap opera. Soap operas are not cool.
The film: complete genius. what modern horror is meant to be like.
David Lynch generally: I think he's great.
― DV, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Kris, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― jess, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Re: the second season: yes, the soap-opera bits were atrocious. But in retrospect, I think of them so fondly. That ridiculous part where James leaves town and gets involved in the weird love-triangle with the woman and her abusive husband? And then just comes back to Twin Peaks, as if nothing had ever happened?
― Nitsuh, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
"And Clint Beefsteak as Montana."
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― Ally, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Dan I., Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Whilst still a student I lived with someone who had all the episodes on video. In our third year, due to freak timetabling I finished my exams earlier than everyone else I knew. For three days I sat on my own and watched series one and two back to back, only speaking to stressed flatmates when they came down to make coffee.
By all accounts I was a little odd at the end of it.
I *knew* there would be a Twin Peaks thread on here somewh
― Anna, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
I know what you mean, but seeing as there is no ending it's a bit unfair to pick on it for being a crap one. "Nonexistent" would be better.
Last week I watched episodes of On the Air, the surprisingly sitcommy show Lynch developed after Twin Peaks. Slapstick. Most of it played out like the Twin Peaks beauty pageant. Very torn as to its classicness versus dudness.
― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Queen G, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Classic, of course. I wish David Lynch had the energy to involve himself in each episode, however. The ones he directed are a world apart from the rest of the series.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 19:45 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 19:55 (10 years ago) Permalink
― robin (robin), Monday, 13 January 2003 20:17 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 20:26 (10 years ago) Permalink
The actor who played BOB (Frank Silva) died not long after Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me came out, so no danger of spotting him on the street. The scene where he crawls over the coach to Maddy's horror is terrifying.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:42 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:45 (10 years ago) Permalink
I'll try and chase the second season.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:49 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:55 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:57 (10 years ago) Permalink
Classic. Classic. Classic.
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:07 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
the seldom seen Hayward sisters Harriet (twee and so hilarious - 2 scenes) and her piano playing sister Gersten (awesome boogie woogie retainer speech affect - sadly one scene).
― gygax!, Monday, 13 January 2003 22:15 (10 years ago) Permalink
Ok at least you've given me a template
― gubba hoy hoy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:24 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah, fairly sure upthread there are sections with everyone saying it's shit and me feeling like i enjoyed it anyway, just for what it was.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
James nearly single-handedly invents Twilight here.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 15:47 (2 months ago) Permalink
haha!
― discreet, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 18:38 (2 months ago) Permalink
Whatever else, for me classic, for the
(SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS throughout this post)
one-armed man's speech 'I am an inhabiting spirit ...'
Ben Horne reciting poetry
The white horse that appears before Maddy's murder
The orchid man's suicide scene
― cardamon, Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:31 (2 months ago) Permalink
I dont know where it is, but the Making Of that was featured on the first Season One is wonderful. All the actors sort of trail off into weird asides and stuff. The best part, and probably my favorite explanation of DL's working style, is a story someone tells about a day they were shooting where the power generator kept shutting down. They would do a scene, the power would shut off. They did is again, the power shut off again. This happened a few times and then Lynch calls for a break. He goes to a room and meditates, and when they re-convene, he gives them all new scripts with re-written dialogue. They do the scene and the power does not shut off and it's a success. David Lynch commented "I thought that's what it was."
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 March 2013 20:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
fact: david lynch is awesome
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 21 March 2013 05:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
ah jessu will ye get on with it ffs.
and, though i may have said this already, the sound mix on season two is appalling, most of the dialogue is lost. but i suspect that hasn't mattered tpbh.
― mister borges (darraghmac), Friday, 29 March 2013 00:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
yerman james is some fuckin gawk, his face is a stupid face
i loved all of season 2 pretty much when it originally aired. it didn't hold up for repeated viewings (and I haven't watched the series back to back again in at least 12 or 13 years) or in memory though.
― akm, Friday, 29 March 2013 01:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
I just rewatched season 2 up to the reveal of the killer and it's pretty great up to that point. Super creepy, esp Bob climbing over the couch at Maddy. GOD.
― carl agatha, Friday, 29 March 2013 02:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Friday, 29 March 2013 07:36 (1 month ago) Permalink
Awes
― mister borges (darraghmac), Friday, 29 March 2013 08:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
Classic, but only just. Windom Earle storyline was just staggering levels of bullshit. The supernatural stuff was all incredible ("It is happening again" scene probably my fav) but as others have noted - Nadine being a teenager, Norma's mother the food critic, every single thing involving James... and so on and so on. It wasn't all awful, it just weren;t especially good or enjoyable. This bit though -
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 29 March 2013 10:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
Maybe it's because I watched S2 up through the reveal in two days, but the first time Nadine shows her super strength, when she's in a coma and Big Ed sings "On Top of Old Smoky" and she responds by breaking through the chains restraining her to the bed and claps is pretty effective. I think that's because it happens in the midst of so many other bugged out scenes, like the Giant and Audrey at One Eyed Jack's and Ronette Pulaski's awful flashbacks to the train car and Mike not taking his medicine and getting real freaky. It just seems like one more fucked up, scary thing happening.
Mind you, I'm not defending where that story line goes. Just saying that in context, it didn't initially come across as quite as dumb as it eventually became.
Also adding to the relentlessly elevating creep factor - every time Leland sings a song like that. For me that's a situation where knowing what happens next makes that all the freakier. "I'm back!" Gah, you are, RUN.
― carl agatha, Friday, 29 March 2013 12:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
yes!
season 2 up until the reveal nearly on par with season 1 imo. harold smith storyline almost makes up for the loss of invitation to love.
― discreet, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
the scene where ronette pulaski sees bob running down the hospital hallway scares the shit out of me
― 君ちゃん (clouds), Monday, 1 April 2013 18:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
season 2 up until the reveal nearly on par with season 1 imo
yep. it's post-reveal that things fall down
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 April 2013 18:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
Twin Peaks cat toys
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 14:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
Finished! Thought it tightened up a good bit the last few episodes, tho obv there's a lot of stuff in the way of the 'plot'. Final episode not as scary or satisfying as i'd hoped tbh.
― mister borges (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2013 23:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
wonder how the show comes across 4 non americans
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 April 2013 23:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
dmac u gotta watch fire walk with me now
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:08 (1 month ago) Permalink
Apart from other Lynch movies FWWM is probs amongst the most scariest shit I have ever seen.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
Yeah it's on the list. For all my moans during season 2 you can't f/w the series as a whole.
― mister borges (darraghmac), Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
it's not as good as the series but its still a must-watch now that you're done
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
lynch's contributions to the score are pretty rad imo
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
Will report back.
did we mention the hollywood dynastic thing with lynch? Laura dern, eric da re, i'm assuming the gyllenhall directing the second last episode is related, is the deschanel who plays lara flynn boyle's mother 'a' deschanel, etc
― mister borges (darraghmac), Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
Miguel Ferrer. Never noticed that.
― mick signals, Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
is the deschanel who plays lara flynn boyle's mother 'a' deschanel, etc
Yeah Mary Jo Deschanel is Emily and Zooey's mom, her husband Caleb Deschanel directed a few episodes of the show and I *think* was the show's go-to cinematographer but I don't remember exactly.
― Clay, Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
If don't know much about Ferrer then even a cursory web bio on him could very well blow your mind. Dude has lived an amazing life.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 April 2013 19:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
sherilyn fenn musta been pretty pissed when angelina happened instead huh
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 April 2013 22:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
xp holy shit he's george clooney's cousin?
― mister borges (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 April 2013 22:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure zooey deschanel is also in twin peaks at one point. isn't she lara flynn boyle's little sister who plays piano?
― akm, Monday, 8 April 2013 19:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh wait no that was alicia witt
― akm, Monday, 8 April 2013 19:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
I dunno, seems like that would have been mentioned here? she just talks about being on set as a kid, not being in an episode.
http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/actors/zooey-deschanel-twin-peaks-set/
did not know there was any connection though. weird.
― dmr, Monday, 8 April 2013 19:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
xpost
― dmr, Monday, 8 April 2013 19:47 (1 month ago) Permalink
so here's something I noticed randomly the other night
Gordon Cole is the name of one of DeMille's studio flunkies in "Sunset Boulevard".
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 April 2013 20:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah and waldo/lydecker is from "laura." there's a lot of that iirc.
― dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia & thyme (discreet), Monday, 8 April 2013 21:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm sure this has been pointed out on this or one of the other TP threads but as a native washingtonian growing up in the 80s i think it's a thing of beauty:
d.b. cooper = man who (literally) dropped into rural wa and disappeared
h.s. truman = man who refused to leave his isolated home in rural wa and disappeared (under ash)
― dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia & thyme (discreet), Monday, 8 April 2013 21:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
although looking it up now the latter was actually harry R truman grr
― dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia & thyme (discreet), Monday, 8 April 2013 22:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
so on this date in 1865 lee surrendered to grant. on this date 23 years ago, twin peaks premiered. looking at you, benjamin!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 9 April 2013 14:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
that whole civil war biz is 2nd season, i know.
http://youtu.be/6_gdHvg87Q0
― NI, Friday, 17 May 2013 01:51 (3 days ago) Permalink
WTF?!?!?!
about a year ago i realized that locomotion and the twin peaks theme made sense together, and recorded a crappy mashup of the two:
https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/locomotion-peaks
seriously wtf
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:09 (3 days ago) Permalink
my life has been filled with many bizarre moments that i can never explain fully to anyone else. this is one of them.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:11 (3 days ago) Permalink
ah, i see you tried to eq an acapella whereas you should have gone for a pitch-shifted version of kylie's skin-crawling appearance on the des & mel show in 2004
― NI, Friday, 17 May 2013 02:25 (3 days ago) Permalink
hahahaha
in retrospect, it was the most obvious of mistakes!
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:23 (3 days ago) Permalink
best part is, inland empire right
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:54 (3 days ago) Permalink
There was this auction to have coffee and pie with Kyle MacLachlan, winning bid def more spare change than I have lying around
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 17 May 2013 07:38 (3 days ago) Permalink
nearly finished my first watch through of this (watching it with housemates + never not with a joint)...two moments were completely fucking transcendental
1) bob killing maddy (i have legitimately never in my entire life been so scared by something i was watching. I remember closing my eyes really hard at one point and literally praying for the scene to end. horrific)
2) leland's scene in the cell with the sprinkler system going into overdrive.
FUCK HAROLD SMITH BTW
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:05 (2 days ago) Permalink