The stars turn: the TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread

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.

https://i.imgur.com/7q1F4hG.jpg

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??

7. I am sad this is over.

also yes

Yeah, my wife and I watched it in real time each week and we were SO BUMMED when it ended, it was like this magical hour we looked forward to.

I'm in a large-ish Twin Peaks FB group, and one of the members is the woman who actually owns the "Palmer" residence. She's the one who actually answers the door in the last episode. She pops up when people post about the house, she seems very nice. She says Lynch was a delight to work with.

wins - is that screenshot from the making of material? i remember laughing so much watching that because he lost his cool so often during that. i'd watch it and think "this is a person that practices transcendental meditation, how could he be this mad all the time... oh right, mike love."

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

you're right! i just saw it was her birthday the other day. she showed up at twin peaks festivals until showtime shut them all down. her imdb shows some pretty terrible shows after 2017 and then nothing much.

Didn't realize until looking at IMDB that Sunny Jim's full name is Sunny Jim Jones.

It is happening again, I just rewatched parts 1 & 2 — blown away again by how perfect these opening hours are, talk about a statement of intent

The glass box is up there with the red room itself as one of the great lynch setpieces. Sam & Tracy are so sexy & funny & eerie and this time round I enjoyed Sam all the more for having a distinct Tim Robinson vibe

Characters so far who sort of seem like they’ve been filmed with lodge-style back masking although obviously they haven’t: Lucy, Otis

Everything about buckhorn: the pilot ep feel, Bill Hastings in his cell rubbing his scalp exactly in time with dean hurley’s music — all of the jail stuff really (inc first woodsman with the floating head)

Love the lengthy shot of a train crossing, feels like the original series interstitial traffic light shots while recalling fwwm & the train car

Ray is such a fucker

The first bit of old school badalamenti stuff (apart from opening credits) is the couple of seconds of Grady tate drums over the Las Vegas establishing shot, this was odd at the time — the scene it introduces is a creepy Patrick Fischler one — but it makes perfect sense once you know where the vegas stuff is going

The log lady appearances are still wrenching. Coulson is clearly in pain; the bit where Margaret says “please let me know what happens” to hawk, who waves his flashlight around until it shines directly into the camera (this is exactly when the good Dale’s story finally starts) feels like the emotional centre of this part of the series if not the whole thing

Some other smartarse must have had this idea in the last 7 years but I was very struck this time by how one of my favourite effects — cooper floating in the box in a very funny Christ pose getting slammed back & forth into smaller boxes — calls to mind the “3 clicks forward, 2 clicks back, 4 forward” of a combination lock (maybe one you’d find on a diary)

is there something in the water or air??? my roommate and i just started rewatching the other day. started cheering when the first glass box room scene started

glass box room scenes are a meta media consumption set piece on the level of club silencio. i love them

...do things appear?

It occurs to me this morning that Laura’s diary opens with a little key and not a combination, to which I say: yeah but still though

I'm doing a Lynch rewatch; next up is FWWM which I'm dragging my heels on a little bit. I like the movie a lot but it's probably the hardest Lynch to get through what with all of the incest and rape and misery. Looking forward to the Missing Pieces which I think I've only seen once, so it should still have some surprises for me. I mainly remember the scenes with Big Ed and Norma parking and Pete explaining something to Josie about lumber measurements.

I started writing lumber dimensions but realized that could be read two ways when talking about Twin Peaks.

I have the diary on audiobook with Sheryl Lee reading it but I haven't been able to make myself start it yet.

We're watching Twin Peaks with my 14 year old and she's digging it. I think we're two episodes away from Leland's big reveal which should be fairly upsetting. We're going to save watching FWWM for a few more years