Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

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.

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.

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.

sherilyn fenn musta been pretty pissed when angelina happened instead huh

xp holy shit he's george clooney's cousin?

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?

oh wait no that was alicia witt

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.

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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".

yeah and waldo/lydecker is from "laura." there's a lot of that iirc.

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)

although looking it up now the latter was actually harry R truman grr

so on this date in 1865 lee surrendered to grant. on this date 23 years ago, twin peaks premiered. looking at you, benjamin!

that whole civil war biz is 2nd season, i know.

http://youtu.be/6_gdHvg87Q0

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

my life has been filled with many bizarre moments that i can never explain fully to anyone else. this is one of them.

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

hahahaha

in retrospect, it was the most obvious of mistakes!

best part is, inland empire right

There was this auction to have coffee and pie with Kyle MacLachlan, winning bid def more spare change than I have lying around

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

In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion.

Listening to Biosphere?

My socks are on fire!

dale and major briggs are v. often my favorite characters