Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

surprised the S2 DVDs don't have an option that skips James altogether tbh

I have decided. To where do i ff

zappi OTM, pretty much all the non-Cooper scenes/plotlines are of no significance (they do vary in quality - as noted above I am fond of Ben Horne fighting the civil war lol)

major briggs tho

Duchovny looks hotttttt

S2 viewing guide: Watch all scenes that contain Coop/Gordon/Major Briggs. Fast forward the rest. Watch the last couple start to finish. Watch the last one over and over.

yeah any scene with Briggs is good

rly fast forwarding through james' sojourn and nadine's teenage phase isn't enough, best find the negatives and burn them.

leo scenes with bobby & shelly then windom earle also worthwhile iirc. the windom earle stuff alternates between hokey and creepy but ties into the coop/briggs so should be watched as well.

also prob need to burn billy zane scenes, billy zane and any record of his existence, just to be safe.

^

that shit was truly the pits

veggie leo is pretty funny

i've been driving around town to the twin peaks soundtrack, where was this cd on all my previous road trips

it's a soundtrack for life

nadine's teenage phase

lol I forgot this altogether

repressed rather

is there no phantom fan edit of season 2 post-murderer-reveal? there should be!

Ive been told that we have to watch it all ;_;

I pretty much enjoyed all of s2.

If it was say a sudden massive increase in weirdness in another show itd be interesting, but as is it's a descent into purgatory at best from the twin peaks of a few episodes back

I found it mostly hilarious, even if a bit silly. Though I think I watched it all after Christmas a few years back, drinking heavily along the merry way.

Ok at least you've given me a template

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.

James nearly single-handedly invents Twilight here.

haha!

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

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."

fact: david lynch is awesome

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.

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.

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.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/553008_10151497635183187_1972470901_n.jpg

Awes

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 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0bpk2Dw6U

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.

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.

the scene where ronette pulaski sees bob running down the hospital hallway scares the shit out of me

season 2 up until the reveal nearly on par with season 1 imo

yep. it's post-reveal that things fall down

Twin Peaks cat toys

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.

wonder how the show comes across 4 non americans

dmac u gotta watch fire walk with me now

Apart from other Lynch movies FWWM is probs amongst the most scariest shit I have ever seen.

Yeah it's on the list. For all my moans during season 2 you can't f/w the series as a whole.

it's not as good as the series but its still a must-watch now that you're done

lynch's contributions to the score are pretty rad imo

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

Miguel Ferrer. Never noticed that.