Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

they're not dhamma.org but they're largely non-profit and there's no dogma, there's no isolating practitioners from their families/lives, there's no hierarchies based on abuse, there's no indoctrination etc.

I mean, they're pretty harmless. Complaining that they make money from their activities is legit imo, (if you don't think religions should charge people for things, which I happen to agree with), but again with these types of organization the line between religion and idk "educational" outfit is pretty blurry.

it works for Lynch (obviously) so I don't really gaf personally

Maharishi was always a bit of a suspect figure and anything that has Mike Love as a core supporter is suspect to me.

although if Mike Love showed up on twin peaks as some kind of deranged creature from the black lodge or some woodlands dweller with a basement full of corpses, I'd like him a lot more.

haha yes

Maharishi was always a bit of a suspect figure

not really. the "rumors" that spooked the Beatles have been debunked many times over as being trumped up

he does seem like a weirdo.

but then lots of saddhus are weirdos

(yes I know he was not a saddhu btw)

Mike (Love) and Bob

and he's not like Sai Baba, who faced constant accusations of sex abuse and fraud for years

xp

http://www.suggestibility.org/

I've mostly read this by a former teacher of transcendental meditation. He makes the whole thing sound pretty sinister.

religious gurus are always suspect figures full stop.

Ya'll seen the documentary about Lynch and TM, David Wants to Fly? It'll give you the heebie-jeebies about the Maharishi, and, sadly, Lynch. Also I grew up in the Iowa town the Maharishi university is and I assure you, it is aggressively weird there.

I've practiced tm on and off for 25 years (I wish I could be more consistent with it bc it def works for me) without interacting with Maharishi corp at all (after paying a couple hundred bucks to learn the technique at the beginning). I'm definitely a booster of the technique itself but not all the stuff that comes along with it which is super gross to me.

so is sherilynn fenn back or not? she's been silent on FB, on twitter she said she's back filming "shameless" where it was nice to work with people who treated her professionally; and someone else told her that her temper tantrums weren't helping her career. It's a little unfathomable to me that they would consider the show without her.

If she's not doing TP, it'll be pretty easy to explain what happened to Audrey, since we never found out whether she died in that explosion in the penultimate episode. And I guess they're gonna use the same reason to explain why Pete isn't around anymore.

Yeah but it's be a shame if there was a need to do so. Obv with nance it's unavoidable but if fenn is written out due to ill-feeling that's way more of a bummer than ontkean just not wanting to act anymore, esp given how central fenn was both to the original show and the campaign to get lynch back onboard

She's also pretty much the only person from the show who has aged naturally. I hope that has nothing to do with it.

(speaking of which: any word on Boyle or Moira Kelly?)

I suppose Pete and Audrey could've been mangled by the bomb blast and are now to be portrayed by other actors swaddled in bandages or disfigured beyond recognition.

i'll probably be totally wrong, but i'm not expecting twin peaks II to be a direct, linear successor to the original. i expect that they'll make connections to the old series, of course, and that there will be some continuity with the old characters and what they were doing. but in general i hope that the new series kind of rhymes with the older one rather than trying to pick up where it left off, if that makes sense

Yeah, I think people who are expecting a direct continuation are going to be mighty disappointed. I wouldn't be surprised if, for example, the first episode didn't even feature any of the original characters (a la the opening half hour or so of FWWM).

x-post: totally makes sense to me. and sincerely hope it turns out that way!

Maybe it'll all take place in the Black Lodge.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSVqkqBWwAA7MdX.jpg:large

but in general i hope that the new series kind of rhymes with the older one rather than trying to pick up where it left off, if that makes sense

like poetry?

(otm tho)

is that a leaked set pic? woah

Seeing that picture of what I presume is Evil Dale just made me realize for the first time that Hank probably also took a trip into the Black Lodge at some point, huh?

I dont wanna see set pics tbh

The Daily Mail leaked that set photo, and there's another one that indicates a really promising cast addition, but they didn't recognize the person.

hahaha, uh...

did the shape of the body look promising?

In terms of acting talent.

evil dale has an elvis-impersonator vibe

I dont wanna see set pics tbh

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Yeah, people can go apeshit spoiling Star Wars top to bottom but I'd prefer to go into this one with fresh eyes.

This has me wondering how possible it'll be to avoid spoilers for this. Ideally I'd love to come to it more or less cold, as I really have no idea how they're gonna approach this

c'mon though that's a great pic

I didn't recognize either of those women in those pictures, and neither of them is Sheryl Lee.

whoever leaked set pics is a disgusting savage.

ah, i saw that on twitter, didn't realize it wasn't officially released. i'm sort of out of the loop.

i'm fine with leaked stuff.

i could die before this airs, at least this is giving me a little taste.

shakey turn off images, i did a long time ago and never looked back. i do think it would be cool and solve alot of problems if ilx had that thing where you can't see the text unless you highlight it?

yeah that would be sweet for spoilers. either that or implement rot13 (ugh) or a full-on usenet emulator of some kind. i always want to put in SPOILER SPACE but that doesn't really make sense when the person is still going to have to scroll past the spoiler text to get to the rest of the conversation.

nah fuck that sycophantic behavior keep that shit in star wars land.

it's just then you could post stuff like 'adam driver kills han solo, who's his dad, at the end' and if ppl didn't want to see it they wouldn't have to see it

Wait what.

bogus rumor, lynch has stated explicitly that han solo will be in season 4 also. though i guess he could be a force ghost in the white lodge.

come on we don't need spoiler text just nobody post spoilers itt

oh now i recognize the first woman (after reading the specuation).

I don't think sherilyn is back unless something changes; she was tweeting broken hearts when someone asked and said "there is no word so far"; after allegedly telling people she was shooting in california at the end of October. Something must have happened.