The stars turn: the TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread

I absolutely loved this. I still haven’t watched the last two episodes because I wanted to keep something to save for the next rewatch.

That is a level of self-control I cannot even begin to imagine.

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— DAN DEACON (@ebaynetflix) January 1, 2020

BLANK AS A FART

Watched ep 11 before breakfast today, ie Shelley on the hood and Lillard's head exploding

oh that one rules. iirc: the sky vortex

Gordon staring intently at nothing was v good Lynch lols.

should a mod maybe lock this thread after Drink full: The TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread, part 2

no, bcz it goes thru a very specific set of episodes!

Biden is Dougie
Trump is Mr C (and also Dougie)

btw i'm still listening to the Lodgers podcast after each episode, so thx Simon

no, bcz it goes thru a very specific set of episodes!

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 27, 2020 5:01 AM (twenty-one minutes ago)

Watched ep 11 before breakfast today, ie Shelley on the hood and Lillard's head exploding

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:28 PM

Would love a 4th season that is much smaller in scale. Coop and Laura driving around and trying to sort things out.

would def vote for Dougie Jones over Trump

sic never runs out of lame ways to GOTCHA me, no matter how absurd

sic is a pedant, which makes it extra-funny when he's wrong about stuff

Morbs, sic's job is to GOTCHA literally everyone in existence. It's nothing personal.

(Countdown to a 4,000-word refutation of my post.)

Morbs, I thought you might like to be able to read the discussion on the very specific set of episodes that you are currently watching. Apologies if suggesting that it is fun to engage with other people's thoughts caused offense.

I am aware of which episodes are in which thread

also if I read all the posts on each episode it'd be my luck to die right after ep17

thought Cole wd get sucked up to the sky vortex for a minute

I can't load this thread, so I don't know what I posted the first time, but I finished S3. Had to watch the last episode a second time when I was more alert.

Better prepared, it got better. I didn't worry about keeping the tone of 1/2--and even there, there's a split--accepted it as more of a Grand Hotel/Nashville shaggy dog story (reminded me of this bit from Zodiac: "A case that's covered Northern and Southern California, with victims and suspects spread over hundreds of miles..."). E8, conversely, seemed less impressive second time around.

I made peace with Dougie Jones (first time I wanted to put a bullet through my head)--that I'm in the midst of trying to train a puppy was helpful context. The conceit that the people around him don't seem to notice he has an IQ of 10, well, okay, that's the joke, or a big part of it. "What's he done now? He's in a coma!"--that made me laugh. I generally enjoyed his antics, but it was still a major thrill when it was the Cooper I love who reemerged from the coma.

Some of the original cast, I thought, actually gave better performances in S3, led by Dana Ashbrook and James Marshall for starters, who were a little overly method-y in the original. Enjoyed Gordon Cole a lot. The one original character who's totally wasted, I think--probably said the same thing first time--is Sherilyn Fenn. They could have done so much with Audrey. Robert Forster is excellent.

Some supplementary viewing was suggested to me in a different thread, but I just don't have the need or desire to make sense of it all, or anything even approaching sense. As with 2001, the ambiguous circularity is a far as I need to go. Right at the end, Cooper reaching out to take Laura's hand before approaching the old house, that was great.

i was really impressed by dana ashbrook in s3

Managed to load the thread...Not surprisingly, made some of the same points first time around, both pro and con. ILX has a very Twin Peaks circularity to it.

i'll see you in 25 years

(no really, i'll be here)

it is happening again

One of the funny things about Dougie is that he ends up doing all the things that, on paper, a fan service-y return of Cooper would provide: drinking lots of coffee, eating pie, solving a mystery, even a sex scene.

in many ways the point of the character, or at least the point the character makes

it is happening again

I just watched this episode from S2 the other night, and those closing scenes in the Roadhouse hit me hard.

10-year challenge

https://i.ibb.co/G3NPvpn/7-CC5-C3-E4-C142-418-A-B3-EB-00-BD82493-D60.jpg

Miguel and Albert sailed into the stars on 1/19 five years ago.
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The gifts that Twin Peaks has brought to my life are incalculable. Sharing time and space with this marvelous human was a blessing beyond measure. Gone but never forgotten #119 #TwinPeaks pic.twitter.com/uNxveYxREq

— Chrystabell (@Chrysta_Bell) January 19, 2022

Little bit of me wishes I'd seen ep 8 in the moment

Little bit of me hates fanboys

imagining a limited series spinoff on chantal and hutch hutchens

roadhouse scene with charlyne yi/veils gets tougher each rewatch

was rewatching eraserhead and the CROUP HUMIDIFIER IS PHILIP JEFFERIES

The finale aired 5 years ago today.

My wife and I once drove to see the Palmer house when we were in WA and the owner had a TREMOND license plate on her car.

My brother and his wife invited me, last minute, to their house that night. I desperately wanted to watch that finale live and apologized and asked to take a rain check. They said I could just watch it over there with them, despite not having seen any of the season. And I took them up on the offer lol.

Tbf, they had some familiarity with TP, Lynch in general, and I gave them fair warning about how dumbfounding the experience might be, and they still maintained they were on board. I think my brother ended up getting a kick out of the whole thing, dropped into the ~atmos~ and went with the experience despite how bewildering it must’ve been. His wife maybe could’ve done with it being half as long, but seemed to feel similarly.

It was in a totally dark, cozy room projected onto a wall, so there was no option but to sink into it. Was intense. Somehow it didn’t kill the night, we had drinks on the porch for a while afterwards and enjoyed ourselves. They’re troopers for that accommodation.

Have we spoken much about the disappearance of Laura's dead body at the end of The Return? It's not something I'm especially concerned about but I know it almost spoilt everything TP for my partner. We're due to go and see Fire Walk With Me at the South Bank next weekend, and, and I can't really explain it?

Do we just say, oh it's David Lynch. She found it very problematic.

My reaction was "OK then. This show never happened in the first place."

She was yanked out of time in the previous episode so she never died.

Yeah, I don’t really have a coherent theory on those last moments of S3, but that was honestly the most chilling, gut punch way to end the whole thing. The brutally honest “you can’t go home again” theme of the season’s entire enterprise brought home.

The “well, why should I care?” take doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but I guess we watch for different reasons.

If that was the ending: “oh well, she didn’t die!”, I’d be pissed. But she was still a woman in trouble and Dale’s attempt to change the past came across as an act of hubris. There was no happy ending, it’s more like Dale shifted things around but it’s still fucked up.

Some arthouse theater in America has to show this. Doesn't matter if it's over several nights or one marathon.

Finally got around to watching this after finally watching FWWM. Stray thoughts:

1. Liked it a lot overall - well made and more engaging than most TV these days (or in 2017). I enjoyed getting sucked into this world.
2. I think Lynch must have got paid by the minute. Every scene went on for 25% longer than it needed and 100% after the point was made.
3. Michael Cera scene is the most bizarre thing in the series. It was like some freshman high school film class highjacked the production 5 minutes after reading On the Road.
4. It was never not hilarious to me that the Roadhouse, which had a dining area that looked like a defranchised Applebees or Fudruckers, suddenly became this dreampop/biker meccca for five minutes every episode.
5. The english guy with the green superglove was funny and kind of affecting how he saved the day.
6. The end was a bit strange - what was Cooper attempting to do with alternate LP by taking her back to the Palmer residence? Relive that trauma. Congrats, you succeeded apparently.
7. I am sad this is over.

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the ending of this will forever arouse me

yes

7 years later one of the biggest mysteries for me is where did Amy Shiels go??