Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

Just realized that 9 episodes is basically the length of TP Season 1...was thinking it sounded short but it'll be even longer than that with no commercials, and that first season covered a lot of ground and was incredibly engrossing.

why does anyone like this and why does it exist?

if you're watching HD sports on a giant LCD screen, it improves the experience a lot.

Or anything with little things flying across the screen, like "The Hobbit.'

I have to disagree there. The first dvd I played on the new tv was Return of the King, which I chose because I thought that a modern, visually exciting movie would be a good way to test out the HD and get it set up correctly, but it looked every bit as horrible and cheap as anything else. At first, I thought I just didn't remember what the film was like or maybe the tv was broken, until I finally figured out that I needed to turn off the smoothing.

This feature shouldn't be used for any feature films, it only makes them worse. The only thing I'd ever consider using it for is sports, and even there the results aren't great. Yes, in sporting events, without the smoothing, you do tend to see some pixelation with quick camera moves, but I've come around to preferring that over the weird unreality of the smoothing feature.

Movies should be watched as their creators intended!

pumped directly into your visual cortex by implanted electrodes

Yes! Thank you!

Avant-pop abuse of smoothing feature in 10... 9... 8...

Now there's this too

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/twin-peaks-creator-reveal-characters-741319

If Lynch is even half as enthusiastic about all this as Frost seems to be, I'll be happy.

Frost wrote the Dale Cooper book which was pretty good, so looking forward to this.

When Twin Peaks first aired, I thought of Mark Frost as this old TV veteran (Hill Street Blues! That seemed like TV history) but actually HSB only finished three years before Twin Peaks started and Frost is still only 60. I guess I was young then.

Wikipedia says Autobio of Dale Cooper was written by Mark's brother, Scott Frost.

that's obviously wrong since it was written by special agent dale cooper

like Dennis Perrin i am getting a distinct "X-Files movies" vibe

oops

like Dennis Perrin i am getting a distinct "X-Files movies" vibe

1) from what?
2) have you seen the X-Files movies?*
3) have you seen The X-Files?

* there were X-Files movies?

I've been rewatching twin peaks. I never realized bryan cranston was the actor who played hank until just now. I feel so dumb.

I saw about 4 or 5 X-Files eps, which were fine, but i didn't need more.

yeah, i meant movie, i forgot how colossal a flop it was.

and 1) from excessive enthusiasm and the track record of 20-years-later pickups

(or just 2 years later... I'm sorta fine with the plug being pulled on Deadwood now)

Not sure if the Bryan Cranston comment was serious or not. He didn't play Hank.

I've been rewatching twin peaks. I never realized bryan cranston was the actor who played hank until just now. I feel so dumb.

― dynamicinterface, Friday, October 17, 2014 3:59 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post

ok wait what

the connections btwn TP and x-files are pretty clear imo (TP as Mulder run amok, XF as TP back at headquarters) and i sympathize with "oh this will be bad" feelings of the XF films but like

as a fan

fuck it--my homies are on the TV. i'l turn on my AV Club later.

Also, David Lynch is pretty definitively not Chris Carter.

i'm not sure what that means

wait, there WERE two x-files movies, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe

vindicated

I was gonna bring up Psycho II et al but yes Hitchcock was dead

I've always wondered whether it was intentional or a coincidence that both David Duchovny and Don S. Davis ended up playing similar characters (eccentric government agent, protagonist's military dad) in X-Files as they did in Twin Peaks...

By "David Lynch is pretty definitively not Chris Carter" I meant that Lynch has a pedigree of quality projects whereas Carter basically just has the patchy laurels of The X-Files (and maybe Millennium, if you're feeling charitable) to rest on, so more Twin Peaks feels like a way more solid proposition on paper than another X-Files movie.

aha

Michael Horse pops up in The X-Files also. And Richard Beymer. And Michael J Anderson!

And Bryan Cranston (who plays Hank)!

and Michael Cera (who plays Lucy)!

I can't find confirmation anywhere online, but I swear I remember Kyle MacLachlan playing Dana Scully for at least two or three seasons of The X-Files.

i think that was before the internet

this is especially confusing because bryan cranston was actually in an ep of the x files

rewatching this on netflix. Billy Zane tucks a thick sweater into his pants.

and i'm just like billy. billy billy billy. billy zane. billy billy zane. wat r u doin?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/tucked%20sweater.png

classy

Part of the ongoing destablizing of inside/outside binaries in the series' mise en scene no doubt

so is Laura Palmer actually in the Black Lodge? She shouldn't be, right?

Maybe she was there because Bob killed her and stole her soul

Or something

It's just that Leland talks at length about how Laura wouldn't let Bob in. But your right, I guess you can still end up there.

you're right, even

Doesn't FWWM end (like the Elephant Man, and Mulholland Drive) with an angelic vision? Suggesting salvation, I guess?

oh yeah. I forgot to rewatch that. I don't remember it.

There might have been. Wild At Heart certainly has such a scene.

I was previously unaware of this in the collection of recurring Lynch ideas.