Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

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.

The beatific vision in FWWM, as in Inland Empire or Elephant Man, does seem significantly less ironized than those of Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, or Eraserhead.

the birds (robins?) returning at the end of blue velvet an instance of this trope too

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

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:02 PM (6 hours ago)

Guess who plays the angel?

Bryan Cranston?

It's Glinda the Good Witch and it was Sheryl Lee (Laura). Man I think I hate that movie.

It's really awful and offensive too iirc.

"what he needs now is both your understanding, and a confederate victory."

"The bad news is your father's crazy. The good news is he's about to win the civil war."

When the original series was out, I was 13 years old, and a friend and I joined a Twin Peaks discussion group which met in a now-nonexistent bookstore on Southport Ave. in Chicago. We passed around cherry pie and doughnuts and tossed about theories regarding owls, UFOs, the Black Lodge, etc. One day someone in the group (everyone save for Katie and I were over 30) announced that they had the new Playboy with Sherilyn Fenn and proceeded to pass it around. That was my first exposure to pornography, broadly defined.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, January 13, 2003 2:45 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is like the dream adolescence I never had

yeah, no kidding! when the original series was out, i was 8 years old. i remember seeing a bit of it, once, just before i went to bed. i was heading to the kitchen to get a glass of milk and paused behind the couch that my parents were sitting on. i don't remember which season or episode or the scene. i just remember hiding there for a while, watching, and then my dad saying "i don't get it" and changing the channel.

I was a freshman in college and thus at the perfect age and marijuana intake level to have thoroughly enjoyed Twin Peaks when it first came out but I don't even think it was on my radar. One of my life's great tragedies.

I was in middle school when it originally aired and there was a group of us in my homeroom who would discuss each new episode every week. Did TP originally air on Thursday nights? I feel like this was a Friday morning homeroom kinda thing.

Oh man, the first time I saw eps of this was when I was first dating my now wife, pretty sure it was winter and we'd just hole up together and watch a few eps in a row. It was VHS tapes - we borrowed from a friend and he only had the first season so I didn't find out who killed Laura Palmer until years later!

i was heading to the kitchen to get a glass of milk and paused behind the couch that my parents were sitting on.

I am so sorry Karl, but I read this as "the couch that my parents were getting it on."

I was in middle school when it originally aired and there was a group of us in my homeroom who would discuss each new episode every week

yeah similarly I was in high school when this aired and it was def a topic of discussion in next morning's AP english class. I remember there were a few episodes where several of us made the effort to get together and watch at someone's house

I was Karl Malone's age and yet while my family watched a ton of ABC at the time (China Beach, Roseanne, and Civil Wars were big at my house), I don't think we actually saw Twin Peaks. My only memory of seeing it was a 30 minute recap special the network stuck at the end of the TGIF lineup one slow week. Watching a little of that after Family Matters was strange to say the least.

Isn't it a CBS show?

it was aired on ABC, but it's on CBS/Paramount home video. video rights have nothing to do with broadcast rights, generally speaking.

I see. Thank you.

I was 10/11 when TP originally aired in here, and my parents were following it, but they didn't allow me to watch it... I was so jealous of this friend of mine who was a year older, who was allowed to watch it, and who was always talking about how cool the series was. Though by sheer accident I managed to catch a bit of a second season episode when it was on telly, and that bit just happened to be the infamous scene where Bob kills Maddy, it left a permanent mark in my memory.

Then, a couple of years later, they reran the whole series on Finnish TV, the episodes were shown everyday weekday night for a few weeks... By now I was old enough to watch it, and I remember a lot of the kids my high school class were watching it too, most of them were just like me, that their parents had forbidden it when it originally aired, so it was all new too us. And back then kids weren't yet using the internet, so none of us were spoiled with the plot twists, and I remember on every school at the first recess of the morning there were some intense discussions on the previous night's episode, and speculation on what might happen next.

When Twin Peaks first aired, I was 25, in college, and sharing a house with three other college friends. Was already a Lynch fan since first seeing Eraserhead at a disreputable midnight movie. Of course the first season of TP was the greatest thing ever. There was no way I could help it - like some sort of mimetic stuxnet designed specifically the break the brains of everyone in the Telecom household.