Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

baritone DGDGBE capo 2nd fret*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_06O8XnJQo

but the original ABadalementi sounds played on a fender baritone jaguar.

*almost the same tuning set-up as LZ "in my time of dying" fwiw.

Gordon Cole kinda kept me going through some of the rough parts of the second season. I love all the FBI characters the most, actually - Cooper, Cole, Albert, Denise Bryson (and Chester Desmond and Sam Stanley, too).

ok so

a friend lent me the dvds and im watching the pilot rn but the disc is scratched. i cant watch anything past chapter 5 but there doesnt seem to be any scene select - how much more am i missing? can i watch the next disc w/o too much trouble?

oh the fbi dude and the sheriff have just finished interrogating bobby - next scene is sum1 poking a hole in a cup w/ a pencil

hold strong, Lamp, I've got my DVD box & am on the case..

There's definitely some raw plot material you don't want to miss going forward. Not to be a purist, but there is some serious magic in the initial run of the first few episodes & u would be shortchanging yrself by fuckin w/ it too much.

Here is a solution to your dilemma.

Shasta, I watched that entire baritone guitar video waiting to see how that dude was gonna play "the weird part." He never did!

yeah, don't skip the pilot. for one thing, it's one of the best things in the series!

Well..if you're interested in not ruining the entire series, skip the end.

I mean of the pilot.

The DVD set has two versions of the pilot - the American version and the European version - and only one of them ruins the entire series. I don't remember which.

you don't want to watch the european version; you want to watch the US broadcast version.

yah i just d/l a torrent. i just finished the 1st season and im not really feeling it - like there are all these component parts that really interest me but the whole doesnt gel - also kinda ashamed that i was so into the cooper/audrey horn thing. kept forgetting she was supposed 2 b a high school senior

fwiw its the euro ending that "ruins" the series - except not really cuz it just moves the backwards talking dream sequence fwd a few episodes

The "pilot," released as such, does not contain the same spoilerish ending as the version of it which was released as a standalone film. One would just have to be careful to make such distinctions.

it reveals slightly more than the dream iirc

tbh i may not rc tho cause i only watched that version once and i was screaming the whole time

xps: lol clusterfuck of redunancy

clusterfuck of redunancy

coincidentally, that's the title of the new U2 album.

yah roxy it does give a little more info abt bob and mike but i think almost every shot in the euro/standalone ending is reused in the next seven eps. almost of all of which is in cooper's dream in i think the 2nd or 3rd episode. it certainly hasnt "ruined" the ending for me. i still have no idea who killed laura

i mean - its p dumb to watch the euro pilot because it makes the dream way less effective/cool/interesting but its not like a major spoiler or anything

okay so: glad i stuck w/this bcuz it got really interesting 2 me right from the start of the second season. that interminable sequence where the old-guy waiter brings cooper a glass of milk and the phone is off the hook and they keep trading thumbs-up is brilliant. and then the giant appears and gives the three clues and i started to really 'get' some of the aspects that werent working 4 me

generally liked the really drawn-out ambling scenes but i do think some of the sloppiness was them making a virtue of their own laziness/uncertainty. whoever sd upthread that no narrative tv show cld get away w/ the unresolved and/or poorly constructed storylines that plagues the 2nd season. the fact that i kinda works doesnt excuse it i guess

also caek otm that the scene where major briggs describes his dream (of the white lodge?) to bobby is incredible. generally loved his character whenever he had to interact w/his son tbh. also really loved the fact that the deaf fbi agent can hear shelly thought their scenes 2gether were the best ones madchen amick did. <3 her tho.

the final episode was ~killer~ too even if it seems 2 resist much analysis

1 last thought: reading this thread kept reminding me of the many little things that were rad about the series (lol that song that james donna & maddy sing) and i think it lost something to have watched it really quickly in isolation w/o having any1 to talk abt the show w/

that interminable sequence where the old-guy waiter brings cooper a glass of milk and the phone is off the hook and they keep trading thumbs-up is brilliant.

probably the best moment of the series! but it's all downhill from here, dude, except for the last episode.

yeah, the opening of the season two premier is my favorite stretch as well. Interesting that Lynch had the "the world's most decrepit room-service waiter" old dude actor basically reprise the character he played in The Searchers w/ the indian whoops & the "Hallelujahs" and such.

The UK version of the 2nd Season and a corresponding UK Gold Box Edition of the whole set finally come out on March 22nd! Hurrah! Good pre-order prices for the Gold Box from the usual places...

old dude actor basically reprise the character he played in The Searchers

!!! I never made this connection wtf

His name is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Worden. I tried to find a clip from the movie, but this is the best thing I could come up with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxUtpg1R44U

probably the best moment of the series! but it's all downhill from here, dude, except for the last episode.

idk lots of season 2 had theses amazing otherworldly moments things that integrated really well w/ the dopey small-town soap stuff imo. things like bobby's teen melodrama melting in the face the major's bizarre and beautiful vision. that was probably the best monologue in series filled w/standouts. or donna showing up at the house where she had delivered the cream corn and finding that the old woman and the magician werent there and maybe never had been.

the final episode was def the best of the series though. the creepy glassy-eyed dopplegangers were legit scary. couldnt disagree more w/toumas fwiw i thought the show was @ its best when it was working with the more mythic/fantastic stuff

now you get to watch fire walk with me! :D

couldnt disagree more w/toumas fwiw i thought the show was @ its best when it was working with the more mythic/fantastic stuff

good rule of thumb not to pay attention to tuomas

Fire Walk With Me is mostly a mess but does have its moments (much like Season 2)

fire walk with me is fantastic

it is a fantastic mess.

fire walk with me is one of my favourite films...

I think Season 2 is pretty awesome all the way up until the main mystery is wrapped up. The Lynch-directed episodes in that stretch are high points of the series.

A friend and I watched the Major Shares Vision w/ Bobby scene literally like 6 times in a row while drunk one night. It's beautiful.

really? sort of cheezy i thought.

Of all the Twin Peaks things to call cheezy...

I really disliked Fire Walk with Me the first time I watched it, completely loved it the second time. Anyone else have that experience?

the more you watch any lynch movie the more you get out of it iirc

A friend and I watched the Major Shares Vision w/ Bobby scene literally like 6 times in a row while drunk one night. It's beautiful.

― circa1916, Saturday, February 20, 2010 8:22 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

this is my favorite TV scene ever

Lucy is in a Burger King tv ad I keep seeing.

That's who that is. I kept thinking, "Man, Victoria Jackson must've had a lot of plastic surgery."

you guys know shelly is on this season of damages right???

Lucy is in a Burger King tv ad I keep seeing.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 8, 2010 1:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah i spotted that. glad she's getting work. her interviews on the series DVD set are great--she's completely no-nonsense.

mädchën amïck is on a lot of series TV, she somehow looks both more traditionally beautiful and less distinctive (i.e. hot) than she did 20 years ago.

wow yr right shes been in everything

i think she just got older and gained weight, right?

no, she's no bigger than before, just different. maybe a nose job? her face seems less angular.

maybe youre right -- looks like it coulda been a chin/nose job actually...

that would be a shame, she did not need it

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