Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

maybe live in the future and hope for new directions from this instead of your early '90s nostalgia, geeks

^ nostalgic for 1890s

co-sign, though I think Lynch could do some interesting things w/ using familiar but aged faces xp

When we get closer to this I'm changing my ringtone to Boyle whisper-sighing "jamessss"

i'm changing mine to "you and i"

But it's cool to see she and Fenn have aged like normal people...

Fenn is still a total fox. Really, she makes me weak at the knees.

lara flynn boyle not looking so great these days

Blame the Bob of the real world:

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would be fine with total absence of James/Donna characters

Oh good, I just did a gis on her. It's no wonder I haven't seen her in anything for a few years.

Oh good Oh god

is this the hot or not thread now or

Not on my part, but it's a shame she became a plastic surgery victim (and I'd feel that way for woman/man/anyone else).

i know we're mainly talking about the revival now but has it been discussed ITT how weird it is that donna slingshots back and forth between episodes without apparent reason between Femme Fatale Cartoon and Angel in Distress?

the whole opening episode of season 2 i was like "what.....happened to donna last night?"

and james even comments on it to maddy at one point like "what's going on with donna, she's different" and then they never really acknowledge it again

badly written character imo

With Lynch, how can you tell?

I'm starting to wonder about the soundtrack, if they'll keep the old tunes or have new versions or something completely original.

My soundtrack prediction is: lots of Rammstein.

^^ Perfect for the '90s.

iirc donna starts doing cartoon femme fatale--the sunglasses, the cigarettes, the absurd pauses--only after maddy shows up? in competitive response to the sudden reappearance-in-form of james' totem, i always thought. trying to be a bad girl like laura, or like someone in invitation to love. "what's going on with donna" is a pretty funny line. she is still inconsistent to the point of surreal, yeah, but it is a surreal show. donna's a pretty thankless role by s2 tho.

I think that veering of donnas was supposed to be deliberately jarring like the fake ass bird in blue velvet.

Or what dlh said

i could never eat a bug

I think Laura's sunglasses are implicated in her behavioral shift.

hope they bring back Donna's sisters too

I'm gonna see this just cos I would see almost anything David Lynch does, but I really thought the end of Season 2 was the best possible way to go out. Always felt like if you needed more you watched FWWM and moved on.

well you didn't really have any other option...

A thing: Even though season two finished in 91, wasn't the whole thing supposed to take place over a month after the pilot, ie. still in 90? SO SHOULDN'T THE SHOW RETURN IN 2015? God dammit, these creators aren't even REAL FANS LIKE ME, are they?

even though the pilot aired in 1990, it actually took place in 91, the first season was a dispatch from the future

It's funny how pretty much all dialog taking place in the Black Lodge is obfuscated nonsense and backwards talk yet this "25 years" thing is meant to be taken literally.

wait aren't u religious

I don't really care who they grab from the original cast just as long as they don't resort to horrible stunt casting like 'Now playing Bob ... James Franco.'

ugh

don't say that

Somehow I can easier imagine Dangermouse, Karen O or Louis CK being stunt casted.

Louis CK as Bob? Yeah fair enough.

the fathers of Zooey Deschanel and the Gyllenhaals directed episodes of the original series, maybe they can call in some favors!

mary jo deschanel was also a regular cast member

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7172/6682269633_57373486a3_z.jpg

one of the sisters was also one of the deschanels, no? or someone. can't remember.

Alicia Witt was the piano playing sister.

oh right

she is also good in one of the two david lynch Hotel Room episodes he directed.

She was also Alia Artreides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E4dYyQA0bo

whoa!

maybe she'll be in the new twin peaks

i could watch an entire movie of sylvana mangano making pained facial expressions

I keep visualizing Peter Bogdanovich (with ascot) or Michael J. Nelson (as Jack Perkins) hosting a one-hour special in the red room summarizing all of Peaks before the S3 premiere

And I hope they do because I'm not sure I can face watching S2 again

If I recall, Audrey had maybe been blown to smithereens at the end of the series.

Yeah, I was alluding to this upthread when I said they had an explanation for why Pete is not there anymore... He and Audrey were inside the bank in the penultimate episode when it exploded, but when Lynch returned to do the final episode, he threw away the script, so inexplicably the bank explosion or Pete and Audrey's fate isn't even mentioned in the finale. The same applies to Ben Horne, who may or may not have been killed by Doc Hayward in a fight, but when the Doc appears later on, there's no mention of the fight or what happened to Ben. I know a lot of people laud the finale as the auteur's return of whatever, and it certainly has its moments, but IMO it was still a shitty thing for Lynch to totally ignore the fate of major characters in favour of 25 minutes of Red Room wankery.

As for the dead characters/actors, I'd say the most obvious choice to play Bob would be Ray Wise, no? That way there's be an excuse to bring him back, and it wouldn't feel so alienating to see Bob with a completely new face. And the could easily explain by saying that Bob like to take the face of his previous victim.

Bank scenes take place in the last episode.

Also:

I'm gonna see this just cos I would see almost anything David Lynch does, but I really thought the end of Season 2 was the best possible way to go out.

Totally. Cooper possessed by BOB was a perfect ending.

seriously hoping for more more Chris Isaak as Agent Chester Desmond. although i guess he's dead iirc.