due
― Chris S, Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that Lynch wanted Laura's murder to go unsolved for the span of the series.
― Ghost Oral (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
I love Lynch's metaphor about killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
Yeah it just seems like such a stupid thing to do, to solve it in the middle of a season. I can understand the network pressuring them to do it but I don't see why they didn't put it at the end of the season. At the very least it would give plenty of time to hype it up. It must have been the network's decision to put it that early in the season. Idiots.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
Also, amateurist, I think you may be on to something wrt the plot fugue playing a big role in the declining viewer interest, but I think Lynch more or less abandoning the show to work on Wild at Heart (and I think some other stuff...Industrial Symphony, maybe?) played the bigger role in its demise. The two causes were probably pretty intertwined, honestly.
― Ghost Oral (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
The early resolution was also maybe an outgrowth of it starting from a short first season - if Laura Palmer had been dragged all the way through to the end of Season 2 they might have lost the viewers anyway and we'd be complaining about "that damn Laura Palmer plot that refused to end, while intriguing threads like the murderess Evelyn went undeveloped" or whatever. I mean, killing the golden goose yeah, but how long can you tease a plotline like that without just driving people crazy?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
They should've kept up with "Invitation to Love".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
I sort of know what you mean, Dr Casino, but at least if the creators had been allowed to choose that, then we might not have had stuff that felt rushed or shoehorned in. I will say as well, though, that the first season doesn't seem short to me, really. I know that US programmes do go on for a lot longer than UK ones, but I think that's kind of their big failing. Almost all of the stuff I like lasts for about two British series lengths - so about 12 episodes in total?
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
I have to say I liked Dick.― emil.y
― emil.y
― Nude Gingrich (Leee), Sunday, 4 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
Hey! No fair!
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 March 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Or, wait, is it just me who read that as "taking posts out of context"?
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 March 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
I also don't mind the length of season 1 - in fact, if TP had been done as a string of six-episode miniseries it might have actually worked even better. I just think season one PLUS two as the length to get to Laura's murderer - - that'd be, what, five British seasons? People would be screaming.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
I voted James Hurley on the road, but I do have to say Windom Earle was a huge letdown. When we first hear about him Cooper is petrified and the moment feels really powerful and then he turns out to be kind of pathetic and silly.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 4 March 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I would more or less cosign that; I didn't hate him onscreen and he did seem suitably evil and twisted but he just wasn't quite as terrifying in the flesh as he was as a vague threat coming in from beyond. Always a risk when you set a villain up that much though - "Wait 'til Martin comes!"
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hrm, I guess I should have listed the continuing war between Catherine Martel and Ben Horne, but I suppose that's sort of covered under the umbrellas of some of the others.
My ranking of these -
ACTUALLY WAS INTO THIS AND IT MADE THE SHOW STILL WORTH IT
Cooper and Truman work to solve the murder of Laura PalmerAudrey gets mixed up in the business of One-Eyed Jack's and needs rescuingDonna befriends a shut-in named Harold Smith, with terrible consequencesDonna becomes convinced that there is a connection between her family and Ben HorneCooper, with the help of Dennis/Denise, tries to clear his name after a frame-upWindom and Annie, with Cooper in pursuit, locate and enter the Black LodgeJosie is re-embroiled in the Martel saga as Andrew Packard and Thomas Eckhardt reappearGordon discovers that he can hear Shelly's voice PERFECTLYHarry tries to come to terms with the fallout of the Josie sagaThe Martels and Andrew try to unravel the secret of Eckhardt's puzzle boxEd and Norma attempt to pursue their long-forestalled loveCooper and Truman, with Pete's chess finesse, try to outwit Windom EarleBen Horne becomes obsessed with the Civil War, and tries to turn over a new leaf
...although I'd add that the Donna father thing suffered from it being really obvious where it was all going, while Donna pouted around being apparently too dense to put together the really, really obvious clues. And Gordon and Shelly is a throwaway, but a genuinely amusing one so I don't mind it being in there at all. Josie I accept only because it's crucial to Harry's plotline, about which I gave a shit.
STARTED OUT OKAY BUT DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE AND/OR GOT OLD FAST
The mayor's fiancee exerts a dumbfounding force on all men, for some reasonBobby and Shelly's relationship is strained as they take care of a semi-comatose LeoWindom Earle, using Leo as his pawn, engages in kidnapping and murder in the woodsThe upcoming Miss Twin Peaks contest is on everybody's minds this was fine once it got us to the climax obviously, but all of Windom's clue-dropping and disguise-playing really didn't actually go anywhere.
LIKE NAILS ON A CHALKBOARD EVERY SECOND THAT THIS WAS GOING ON
Audrey gets involved in staging a fundraiser for the Pine Weasel, and falls for Billy ZaneNadine, suffering from amnesia, returns to high school with superhuman strength James leaves town and becomes mixed up in the torrid affair of Evelyn, Malcolm and JeffreyAndy and Dick compete for Lucy's approval as prospective fathers through babysitting, etc.Cooper meets Norma's ex-nun sister Annie and falls in love
Teenage Nadine was maybe okay for the first, like, two scenes. In a way, I think the Billy Zane and Annie plots are the most damaging - I never liked James in the first place, and Andy and Lucy were comic relief from the get-go, but to hitch two of the most interesting characters to these really...really...really unexciting romantic pairs actually made you like the protagonists less, according to the "what does he see in her?" principle. It made Cooper seem way less cool, and Annie's total blandness worked against the idea that somehow getting drawn in by this woman was throwing him off his game and causing him to make mistakes. This is what's wrecking Coop's concentration? With Audrey you at least go, well, she's a teenager (even if you see her at school, like, twice), teenagers fall for good looking bland people. But it still sucked.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
The *only* storyline I absolutely hated was the fucking tedious James story. All of the others were at least okay, and I must confess that I love the Civil War thing.
totally OTM came here to voice this exact sentiment
Spent those sections half-heartedly punching the couch in frustration
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Sunday, 4 March 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago) link
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Dick: “Andy I believe that Little Nicky, incredible as it may seem, may in fact be the devil.”
― ho don't kno I'm bout that skrillex (Pillbox), Sunday, 4 March 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Nadine, suffering from amnesia, returns to high school with superhuman strength
― Eric H., Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
The three I really hated were Nadine back in high school, James' love triangle, and the Civil War stuff. I know many people like the latter--the appeal completely escapes me. I love everything having to do with Windom Earle. I guess I'll register the only Civil War vote.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't the first season pretty short, like 10 eps or something? And the second is more the standard 22 or whatever? I watched season one for the first time recently since the original air date and actually had some trouble with it, but most disturbing was how many memories of the show I had that were from the second season, and not the first.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
So, maybe this belongs in more a general-purpose TP thread, but I just watched the pilot for what I think must be the first time (when I watched the show my roommate didn't have that DVD and just gave me a recap). It's actually really striking how different it is from where the show ended up...I feel like a lot of things changed gradually, just in terms of tone and focus, so that by the time it got to this round-robin goofball show of high school Nadine, Civil War Ben, and Andy/Dick/Lucy antics, you didn't exactly notice where it had all changed. But man - the pilot is damned spooky, brilliantly loose-ended (in the sense of there being no really strong effort to set up plausible murder suspects), almost unrelentingly downbeat, and incredibly human. The opening scenes with people reacting to this horrible crime are really, really affecting...you can see why people would have wanted more of this show! (Audrey notwithstanding, who seems totally unsympathetic and annoying in this iteration.)
I wonder if the ongoing project of exposing all these people as having their own dark secrets and skeletons in the closet actually robs the show of its emotional impact in this way, even more so than making half of them into clowns. Of course the "dark secrets" thing is kind of thematically crucial so it's a no-win. But man, that pilot was great. Long, but really nails the eerie emptiness of being out in the woods in the dark.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, season one is only eight episodes - ends with Cooper getting shot by a mystery assailant in his hotel room.
The pilot is very different in tone--closer to something like River's Edge, but better. Grim and serious. I think of the principal breaking down during his announcement of Laura's death, or (as I remember it, unless I'm thinking of Elephant) the shot of student running past the classroom screaming. I can't remember if the tone changed suddenly, or if it was more of a gradual thing.
― clemenza, Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, student screaming is totally in it. Everybody just seems totally shaken and shattered. Even things like Truman being really short with Andy about him crying, sort of feels out of character based on later developments - or just, Harry's on edge and trying to keep it together himself.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
otm dr. c
I was introduced to and immediately absorbed by the show when i was thirteen or so, right around the same time I had my first real experience w/ the death of a friend. A kid I was friends with died in a car crash & the degree to which that wrenched MY community from within i guess i found some parallel with in the TP pilot & the subsequent reverberation of grief, dread & uncertainty throughout the first & early second season.
― ho don't kno I'm bout that skrillex (Pillbox), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure they didn't set up the killer from day one, but rewatching that pilot when you know who it is, your mind picks up on so many hints. For instance, Leland apparently knows his daughter is dead before hearing it from the police.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's subtle, because it also reads just fine as "he just got this phone call from his wife and can just kind of sense the dread in the air and what Harry's probably about to tell him." I was also really interested in his reaction shots at the morgue when he sees Laura's body.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
Bob is in the pilot, and Bob killed Laura so
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
Also right when he's on the phone with his wife, and she asks if he was with her. The instant he says "No" a police car drives into view, pretty much right into his head the way the scene is framed. He says "Maybe she was with Bobby". Bob. Bobbby. Eh?
Maybe reading too much into this.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 5 March 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just realizing that, despite having seen everything through about the middle of season 2 more times than I can count, I might've only ever seen the last stretch of the season once. On the VHS boxset, before any of TP was available on DVD. I probably should rectify that. That said, I do remember being the most underwhelmed by the James storyline.
― Ghost Oral (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 5 March 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
I think the realisation that a crossbow is far more terrifying than a gun drags Windom across into classic for me.
Also I really should rewatch all of this.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
FYI - it's all streaming on Netflix, if people are into that kind of thing.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Nadine high school
― President Keyes, Monday, 5 March 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that's a pretty big shark jump plotline, jarring in that it doesn't just go against tone or characters but general physics. Maybe if she was later revealed as being possessed by a White Lodge spirit or something it would make more sense.
Gotta say though, it is super nice to see Big Ed and Norma end up together, however briefly.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 5 March 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
1) As someone has suggested, I think TWIN PEAKS would have worked better had subsequent season(s) been short, like 10–11 episodes rather than 22 or whatever. But the current situation where the creators of high-profile shows like MAD MEN can negotiate very short seasons wasn't in place in 1991 (in fact it's really THE SOPRANOS that permits these short seasons, and that wasn't until well after TWIN PEAKS was just a memory).
2) I don't everything David Lynch touches turns to gold or anything, but 75% of what went wrong with this series can be traced to Lynch's lack of involvement. Nearly every episode he directed is a noticeable jump in quality, and even the non-Lynch episodes in season 1 (when at least he was involved in laying out the overall plotlines) are superior to most of season 2. As soon as Lynch jumps back in for the final episode, the series gets a crazy jolt as if the last few--dire--episodes didn't even happen (literally in some cases: Lynch abandons or ret-cons several of the season 2 plotlines in 45 minutes).
3) I can't remember who has said what about this, but I'm pretty sure they knew the dad was the killer from before the production of the pilot. They played a good hand it not letting the audience know, but there is too much pointing to this in retrospect (not just in the show but in the books that came out in the interregnum between the two seasons) for it not to be true. Obviously Lynch really settled on the "themes" he could draw out of this resolution only with the film (TP:FWWM).
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
BTW I wonder how much of the incest/abuse theme Lynch had in mind from the beginning and how much was imagined for TP:FWWM.
In other words, was he forced to submerge that theme heavily in the series and then gave it full play for the (very R-rated) movie? Or did he not really settle on it until the series was over or nearly over?
Obviously in retrospect this theme helps to bind together much of the show, but it also renders parts of the show somewhat thematically incoherent IIRC.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
I mean obviously he wasn't selling the show to networks as "This show about incest and parental abuse as the root of all sadness and evil"! But did he plan on this and just keep his cards close to the vest -- or did he only realize this as a central theme gradually?
Anyway.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Which of the season 2 plotlines gets the abandon/retcon treatment, in your eyes? Not disputing it at all - just haven't watched this in a while and was kind of not paying attention to when one episode ended and the next began.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 March 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
James Hurley by a mile. Some of the others were v stupid but at least fun. Nothing involving Gordon Cole should even be on this list. He is going to write an EPIC POEM about this pie!
― pandemic, Monday, 5 March 2012 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
Given that Twin Peaks was meant to be as much a pisstake of yr average 80s soap opera as it was a murder mystery or anything else, a lot of these still make sense within the context of the show. That says, the James storyline still blows.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
The Andy/Dick/Lucy plotline is quite sweet really.
I don't everything David Lynch touches turns to gold or anything, but 75% of what went wrong with this series can be traced to Lynch's lack of involvement. Nearly every episode he directed is a noticeable jump in quality, and even the non-Lynch episodes in season 1 (when at least he was involved in laying out the overall plotlines) are superior to most of season 2. As soon as Lynch jumps back in for the final episode, the series gets a crazy jolt as if the last few--dire--episodes didn't even happen (literally in some cases: Lynch abandons or ret-cons several of the season 2 plotlines in 45 minutes)
I think people tend to reach a bit with stuff like this. If Lynch was really that anti- a lot of what had been happening over those episodes, would he have turned up playing a recurring FBI agent in a plotline that doesn't really go anywhere?
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think he was anti- anything. i just think his level of involvement in terms of planning out plotlines and so on was pretty damn low.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
So, last night some friends and I were talking about Twin Peaks and I posed the thread question; when the Billy Zane plot came up, one of them told me that they'd heard that this began because Kyle MacLachlan and Lara Flynn Boyle were dating (?! did not know this!) and she objected to the chemistry between Cooper and Audrey. If true, this also leads me to wonder whether the Annie story was also ginned up for this reason: give Cooper the least sexually charged relationship of possibly any couple on the show.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
love this thread. i'm more forgiving of S2 than most people i know), but even i can't deal with jaaaaaames.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
another poll I have no time for bcz RESCREENING is impossible for now. I remember basically none of this after 20 years.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
have some of you watched the whole series 4x or something?
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
2x (once on VHS, once on dvd)
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 16 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure this last one was the 3rd time for me.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
someone mentioned 'Josie Packard' to me recently and I couldn't even guess who she was
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
1st viewing = initial TV runVHS viewings = had dubbed copies of the whole series, showed them to my then-g/f (now wife).DVD viewings = got the Gold Box when it came out, have watched that in it's entirety at least twice, and a few episodes (pilot, last ep, etc) more than that
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Used to have them from when I taped all the episodes off the telly, but no longer have a VCR. So maybe x4 times but not for years and years. I do occasionally watch the "..and it was on that vacation that I shot out Nadine's eye" just for Albert's reaction shot. Oh and "dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells .."
― pandemic, Friday, 16 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I have to admit the pine weasel event, and the weasel-cam shot in particular, is at least as "funny" as all the other Lucy-Andy shit.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
just want to highlight this post in case anyone that's interested in the odd turns that the 2nd season takes missed it upthread:_Also, amateurist, I think you may be on to something wrt the plot fugue playing a big role in the declining viewer interest, but I think Lynch more or less abandoning the show to work on Wild at Heart (and I think some other stuff...Industrial Symphony, maybe?) played the bigger role in its demise. The two causes were probably pretty intertwined, honestly._from reading about this in the books Lynch on Lynch and the biography Beautiful Dark, this seems to be accurate.
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
I think I mentioned it before in one of these threads, but the episode with the pine weasel fundraiser is the only one I saw (in part) when the show was originally airing. It did not quite synch up with my general impression of what Twin Peaks was all about.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
People in this thread keep referring to Nadine getting transformed into having super-strength in season 2 - but didn't she always have super-strength? She's bending the bars on her exercise machine in one of the first episodes.
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
Correct also that p
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
lotline is good
re-watching this as promised (on another TP thread) and I know it's almost a cliche at this point but boy does the back half of Season 2 suck. It's bad enough that it almost makes me not want to see the more recent reboot / season 3 thing (I am typically years late to these, err, events and have somehow managed to avoid spoilers).
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
power through! s3 as you have probably surmised even sans spoilers is a totally different beast
― Simon H., Saturday, 14 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
That's what I've heard! And I love the show so much right up until the Leland reveal, I'm willing to overlook almost anything, but man, this season is worse than I remembered. But since I do plan to spend the post-holiday pajamas-and-cocoa dead zone finally watching Season 3, I've been making it a point to re-watch Season 2 (and FWWM)
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
While I like lots of the second-half-of-S2 stuff (James’ Wild Ride excluded) and love the Diane Keaton episode, as far as preparing for S3 goes you can just skip to the finale and FWWM.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 14 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
and The Missing Pieces of FWWM I would say
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 14 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, December 14, 2019 2:51 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
my ocd tendencies would never permit this. What's The Missing Pieces?
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 14 December 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
The parts of the FWWM screenplay that were filmed but cut from the released film; Lynch edited a sort-of-feature out of them for a DVD bonus feature.
There's also a fan edit that cuts 99% of them back into original screenplay order, which I watched on my pre-season-3 rescreen.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 14 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
I’ve always told people “there’s an episode that ends with an owl flying toward the camera. Stop. Skip to the season finale.”
That said, I remember the three-episode arc with David Duchovny very fondly?!
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
paul I agree that the back half of season 2 has a lot of letdowns, but season 3 might be the best season of TV I’ve ever seen. it is not to be missed
― k3vin k., Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
I liked Denise a lot, and I remember her as redeeming the episodes she was in, though that may just be wishful thinking. My vote for worst plotline would be Cooper falling in love with Annie, just because cringe-inducing terrible dialogue is harder to suffer through when it's Coop delivering it.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
Also touched on wonderfully in S3.
― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
i’m in the middle of another rewatch and every time I get to this part my skeleton leaves my body and I disassociate james is The Worsthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEn-mmFiYDs-
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 April 2024 06:22 (five hours ago) link
and OMG i want to kick Harold and his 2-cent Norman Bates impression into the fucking sunhim and james, into the sea immediately
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 April 2024 06:25 (five hours ago) link
crooner James - not terribleJames & Evelyn - absolute complete dogshit (as evidenced by OP results)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 April 2024 06:38 (five hours ago) link
James is cool Also that scene is one of the best bits of the entire run
― subpost master (wins), Thursday, 18 April 2024 07:21 (four hours ago) link
insanityi hate it so much
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 April 2024 07:37 (four hours ago) link
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― H.P, Thursday, 18 April 2024 09:03 (two hours ago) link
James has ALWAYS been cool!