Halfway through. This should take us to the bittersweet end.
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
SOILER
BOB is a cylon
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
That you can only see if you're high on the drugs.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
What are you talking about, there are no drugs in this season, just a couple of alcoholics
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Few can see him: the gifted... and the daaaaamn dude how much did you take?
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
wow you guys are hilarious remind me to never write a post in 1 minute without thinking it through before a bunch of know it alls jump down my throat
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
fuck me for writing a few sentences about a tv show at lunch time and not being consistent. what a horrible, stupid person i am
Time for a new thread guys
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
We did our best.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
nobody called you horrible or stupid Adam, ppl are just goofin
anyway this show is awesome
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
really wish there were some animated gifs from ep 8 that I could use as a screensaver or something
I made this thread to get off that subject!
I love how much Briggs there was in the last episode. You can feel how much both lynch and frost really love the character. Charlotte Stewart, although she had v little to do in the original series, is part of Lynch's Eraserhead family along with the much-missed nance & coulson, and I remember Dana ashbrook saying in interviews that he always looked upon Stewart and Davis as surrogate parents; this all comes through v strongly in the chair scene. It's also interesting to think that the Briggses are very devout Catholics (this is emphasised again in the missing pieces although it's played somewhat for laughs which is a slight return to the s1 characterisation of garland as the pompous, oblivious parent) - their faith feels key to understanding garland's message, given just before he "died", and Betty's just accepting what she had to have known was a farewell & subsequently keeping the secret till the right time.
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
huh I must've missed/forgotten the Catholic stuff
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
I only know the denomination because the frost book makes a big point of it but their Christianity was in the first season & in the missing pieces he's reading aloud to Betty from the book of revelations at the dinner table(!)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
I didn't realize until embarrassingly recently that that was Charlotte Stewart in Eraserhead (which I've seen at least as many times as I've seen any of the Twin Peaks episodes she was in).
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
he reads from the book of revelation. that's all i remember regarding him and religiosity.
xp. are we considering the frost book as canon? i wouldn't personally
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
I think of Frost's book as another facet of the TP jewel. Its perspective (not to mention some of the pertinent details) doesn't quite jibe with that of the show but it's an intersting alternate take.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
Which is basically Lynch's stated perspective on it, as well, iirc.
Lynch and frost are both like "canon schmanon" which is kinda my attitude too but I think we can get an idea of his conception of the character from the book
In general tho I feel like the log lady introductions and palmer family interview are more relevant than the book even though they can't logically exist in the world of the show
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
thanks to the allure of the ridiculous amazon prime day, I have given in and will be reading the Secret History book this weekend
what have you people done to me
― mh, Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
Yeah this basically. All the books are like different approaches to the same story. Even with fwwm I remember reading that lynch told a member of the crew re discontinuity (hairstyles, locations, weather, you name it) "think of it as a parallel universe"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
I'd just got used to where the tp link was in my list of bookmarks, damn it!
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
important erratum: in the previous thread where we were discussing that Crossroads film which seems like an important influence on the nuke sequence in episode 8, i said that the Terry Riley album that was very similar to his score to Crossroads was Persian Surgery Dervishes, but it's not, I meant to say Descending Moonshine Dervishes. I don't even own Persian Surgery Dervishes. As you were!
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
sorry mr. lynch pic.twitter.com/ZICATyxBwP— Chris Person (@Papapishu) July 12, 2017
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Showtime says the show is averaging around 2 million viewers across all platforms.http://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/twin-peaks-ratings-2017-season-4-game-of-thrones-1201853930/
― Chris L, Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
is that good or bad
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
I think that's very good in terms of the viewership of today.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
I'm picturing Gordon yelling, "These are some good numbers, Tammy!"
― mh, Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
it's not bad from what I know, but I also could not give less of a shit either way, can't imagine there'll be more episodes after this in any case
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
don't really see this as competition with GoT which I would think has a totally different (and stupider) audience
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
just gettin some ad homs in for laffs there
― mh, Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:47 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 13 July 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Seems like Showtime is genuinely pleased, so good enough.
― Chris L, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
I mean on the off chance they greenlight On the Air: The Return.
― Chris L, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
oh yeah game of thrones that reminds me
sky atlantic is gonna simulcast it which means they're not gonna simulcast twin peaks any more, it's gonna be on at 3am instead of 2am :-(
(still gonna watch it then obv)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
I'm on the hook for a GoT viewing at my neighbors' sunday night which means I have to ask my Twin Peaks team to postpone to Monday night
I do not prefer this, needless to say
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
I did not realize GoT was going to be airing at the same time as TP. That seems unnecessarily prickish of HBO.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
Andy and Lucy are really reminiscent of something about the French clowning tradition. On the Air had a lot of the same feel to it, too. Can't put my finger on it--the way they're "funny" instead of actually being funny.
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
shrug, nobody watches tp live anyway as documented above so whatever
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
xp
Was struck by how much they are literally clowns. Andy's paunch is part of the costume, but if you slapped the make up on them you wouldn't have to change their behavior one bit. xpost
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
why would Showtime's competition be concerned anyway? GoT is a juggernaut, i doubt HBO's much concerned about what else happens to be airing at the time.
xpsss
― circa1916, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
pretty sure they're airing it at the same time as the last 6 seasons.
my plan is to watch GoT and then TP, in that order, on sunday nights. it's really hard to do the other way around.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
What shows before TP Sundays on Showtime?
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
the previous week's tp, by the look of it
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
also looks like they're changing the time - starting in august it'll be on an hour earlier. 8pm there, 1am here
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
TP is the first show in ages that I've made the effort to watch as its airing.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Johnny2.jpg
kinda haunted by this shot. happened so quickly i barely noticed the photo.
― circa1916, Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
oops
― Dan I., Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:15 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Dan I., Thursday, July 13, 2017 8:16 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is a great observation. I was trying to think of what was so weird and creepy about goaz's performance here, I think you nailed it. I normally love the a&l scenes in the return but where I think it loses something in this mode is when they go for tenderness. the way he like air-nuzzles her gives me the willies
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 13 July 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
that short has definitely not lost its power.
― current (jed_), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 01:04 (four years ago) link
I watched s3e8 and a bunch of his shorts the other night. I had not seen these since about 14-15 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYJ6gjZOCc&list=PLAqDCLWD9bNNz6gluJN583d_gbCXIjB4A&index=11&t=0s
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
aah well i was trying to post the playlist but here's the short i was hoping to embed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnYJ6gjZOCc
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
back to alleged thread topic
wtf Cockney green-gloved YouTube star
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
I have a theory about him that I will save until you get through the rest of the series, but yeah, he is a whole lot of wtf.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Green glove was originally going to be worn by Jack Nance, but he up and died.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
oh man :( that would have been perfect.
― current (jed_), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
I dunno, it’s so goofily discordant for me that I think I prefer it on this complete sore-thumb character. Though obv we’ve no idea what 2017’s Pete would be like.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
had no idea Gordon Cole's name was a Sunset Blvd ref
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
omg you're so close
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
surprised that one went past Morbz tbh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
I don't think he's even a character that appears onscreen in SB, fer chrissake.
brb gonna stick a fork in the socket
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
Viewing complete.
Final two eps had two of the worst moments of the series, ie (17) fucking Freddy punching BOB's volleyball and (18) the ludicrous Diane-Cooper sex scene.
I did like the resolution, which I interpret as... get ready...
You can't save anybody.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
The scene where they are sitting in the car not saying anything for like 10 minutes is the one that broke me
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
My theory about Freddie and his glove is that it is Lynch's take on Marvel-style superhero films
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
freddie the glove is heroism as bathos
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
That immensely long YouTube piece arguing for the true nature of Twin Peaks as an exegesis of television itself is quite illuminating on those plot elements. I found it pretty convincing overall.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
gotta light link?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
lol
― k3vin k., Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
Maybe that's DoppelDiane instead of Real Diane.― Cannibal Adderley (WilliamC), Monday, July 17, 2017 9:27 AM
Kudos!
Also to Simon's podcast partner who called Diane as Naido.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed the series very much.
And is the case with almost all of Lynch works, 10-20% of it was shit.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
btw when Cooper showed up at Carrie Page's door, she was speaking and acting very much like Kim Novak's Judy (her second incarnation) in her early scenes in Vertigo. I suspect that was conscious.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
What did you make of Audrey by the end of her appearances, Morbs?
― donald failson (sic), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
xxxp it’s at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuMBe warned it’s 4.5 hours but I suppose many folks have time on their hands. I watched it at 1.5 speed over a few days. It’s a little self-satisfied but I was persuaded by a lot of it.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:20 (four years ago) link
jesus fuck
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
why is it so long
what I made of it, sic, is Lynch being cruel to the fans. Audrey is probably institutionalized.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
I guess I was right! though I don't give a shit about anything that wasn't on the teevee.
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/twin-peaks-audrey-horne-truth-revealed-spoilers-1201892814/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
yeah I don’t care about anything in Frost’s books (Jennifer Lynch’s Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer is proper Twin Peaks though)
― donald failson (sic), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:51 (four years ago) link
(and Frost should always be part of TV Peaks)
― donald failson (sic), Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
I agree, but the "explanatory" video has no truck with anything off-screen. I have no idea why it needs to be *quite* that long, but the presenter is anxious to demonstrate that every single thing in S1, S2 up to the reveal and final 2 eps, FWWM, Missing Pieces and S3 can be understood in that framework. I guess it's 40ish hours of material to cover. I was impressed, anyway.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:08 (four years ago) link
i am intrigued, but i'll have to get over my natural distrust of a person who posted a 4.5 hour video on youtube
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:12 (four years ago) link
shoulda done about 20,000 posts instead
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
I have similar distrust of "what's up YouTube" narcissists but the ideas are worth sticking around for
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:46 (four years ago) link
Thanks for listening :)
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 06:43 (four years ago) link
before the return came out i watched a 4+ hour video essay about peaks. lost in the movies' journey through twin peaks iirc? it was remarkable, and i think i was linked to it from here
guy who opens the TWIN PEAKS EXPLAINED video shouting "SPOILER ALERT" is a major dealbreaker
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
yeah no one can really rival Bocko's Peaks scholarship
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I watched the first 15 minutes or so of that YouTube explainer video and I just could not stand the terrible Lynch impression the guy insists on slipping into every time he reads a quote.
― OneSecondBefore, Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
BTW, The Lodgers was the best Twin Peaks podcast by far, y'all should team up again some time.
― OneSecondBefore, Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
Bocko is goodGuy who made TWIN PEAKS EXPLAINED taking four hours to explain that one very very very very obvious lens through which to view twin peaks is the only one is, I’m guessing here, bad
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
y'all should team up again some time
We're thinking about it :)
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
do the works of Tati! :D
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
Felt good that I wasn’t alone upon my rewatch of the original run in thinking that Dick Tremayne is Wally Brando’s father.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 4 September 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
The return of Dick Tremayne is definitely the ace up the sleeve for s4
― Alba, Friday, 4 September 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
Just know Ian Buchanan would be up for it. Me too; call me Chris Kraus, cause I love Dick
― Gab C. Nebsit (wins), Friday, 4 September 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Look, I know he was the only character from the original series to get his own spin-off film, but I still feel like we haven't seen enough of Little Nicky.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 September 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
well formed joke, thank you
― adam, Friday, 4 September 2020 13:37 (three years ago) link
You should license that one out to Megan.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
I've thought about Run Silent Run Drapes every morning for years now (the blinds in my living room are really loud)
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 28 March 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.blindhushers.com/i feel she'd approve
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 28 March 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link