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Twin Peaks returns to television.

Betsy

Betsy

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'We've waited long enough'


What happened to Dale Cooper? Does Audrey Horne have kids now? With the return of the cult show, David Lynch has a chance to answer all our questions.

We live in an age where every show threatens to return, like one of the corpses on The Walking Dead just lying there until it is hit by a spark and lurches up again, whether we want it to or not.


Finally, it’s happened to Twin Peaks, the beloved ABC show that took forever to solve the murder of Laura Palmer using dancing dwarfs, creepy giants, and an FBI investigator who wasn’t afraid to investigate the darkness inside all of us. The show will return to Showtime in 2016 for a nine-episode limited engagement to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its cancellation. Original writer Mark Frost will write all the episodes and co-creator David Lynch will direct all of them. In typical Twin Peaks fashion, the announcement was made official with a really creepy and cryptic teaser video.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/oct/06/twin-peaks-returns-weve-waited-long-enough

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Hmmm, kind of mixed feelings about this, could be an absolute load of shit. That said Lynch is directing them and if nothing else it'll be good to see him back in the directors chair.
 
I am excited to see what they do with this.

Almost as excited as I was to read this youtube comment under the teaser video Betsy linked to:

Vacuous moronic crap. The world is disintegrating into a catastrophic collapse of societies, and the environment. The oceans are being poisoned, and we're in the middle of a mass extinction, which by the way includes the producers, and viewers of this mindless insipid shlock, but you vacuous nincompoops feel the need to paint your nails, gossiping, plotting, and wasting your lives on this filth, and fantasies about the hunky rich guy, and the mansion on the hill. The collapse of civilization shouldn't surprise us.
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Never change, youtube commenters :thumbs:
 
Vintage Paw said:
I am excited to see what they do with this.

Almost as excited as I was to read this youtube comment under the teaser video Betsy linked to:



Never change, youtube commenters :thumbs:
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If humans and all their machinations are so bloody awful, why does he care that we're all doomed?
 
Meanwhile:

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Now I'm hearing that whole youtube comment in Black Lodge-style 'spoken backwards then played in reverse' speech.

And to the news of Twin Peak's return: :mad:
 
Lynch set free to roam? It's going to be shit like inland island. . . but more drawn out if that's even possible. Wasnt it a bit shit the first time around anyway? The second series sure was at the very least.

Wild at heart was good.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Lynch set free to roam? It's going to be shit like inland island. . . but more drawn out if that's even possible. Wasnt it a bit shit the first time around anyway? The second series sure was at the very least.

Wild at heart was good.
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Do not underestimate Mark Frost, whose quality TV writing is more than capable of preventing Lynch from being too self-indulgent when it comes to storyline and dialogue.
 
This is the best news since the reprints of Grant Morrison's Zenith.

And season 2 had Wyndham Earl, fer crissakes! How awesome was that show? And so influential.
 
If Frost and Lynch are both in, chances are it will be good. More than if it was just Lynch alone.

Biggest problems will probably be getting some of the cast back. Jack Nance, Frank Silva and Don S Davis are gone. Lara Flynn Boyle would probably be vetoed by a lot of the cast (and I'm not sure if she wants to return, anyway). James Marshall had his colon removed and retired from acting. Ontkean, Beymar, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton, McGill, Piper Laurie, Russ Tamblyn and Grace Zabriskie are all around 70 and half-retired, although I'm sure most wouldn't mind acting out a few scenes, particularly as it will be a very short season. Don't know if Heather Graham and Duchovny might be "too big" to squeeze in, but I find it hard that they'd go ahead if Heather Graham was unwilling to star as Annie.

I just wonder if BOB will take the form of Ray Wise. It would be cruel to leave him outside. And I guess we'll have the second, red-headed cousin of Laura Palmer after all :D
 
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Now it occurred to me, James Marshall and Lara Flynn Boyle were half of the dumbass mystery club. I'm sure I could manage their absence.
 
I hope Sheryl Lee will be in it, although both her characters are dead so not sure how they'd get around that...
 
mwgdrwg said:
...The Black Lodge.
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Yeah I was going to edit my post to say that, but you beat me to it! :D :facepalm: :oops:

EDIT: I guess what I meant was that I'd like to see her character out and about in the "real" world of Twin Peaks rather than just confined to the red-curtained room in the Lodge, but... ah, well. We'll see when the time comes.
 
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maya said:
Yeah I was going to edit my post to say that, but you beat me to it! :D :facepalm: :oops:

EDIT: I guess what I meant was that I'd like to see her charater out and about in the "real" world of Twin Peaks rather than just confined to the red-curtained room in the Lodge, but... ah, well. We'll see when the time comes.
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Yeah, let's hope so.

Her performance in Fire Walk With Me was just incredible.
 
mwgdrwg said:
Yeah, let's hope so.

Her performance in Fire Walk With Me was just incredible.
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Yeah, she's such a great actress. Just watched the scene in FWWM with the agoraphobic flower guy, where she half-morphs into a possessed/Bob anger state during the conversation and storms out, so good.
 
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I find it hard to speculate about the cast without having a sense of what the main story they want to tell in the new one is. From interviews its clear they have a very specific story they want to tell and I don't know how they will blend that with keeping fans happy or how many of the original cast are really needed to tell that story in the way they plan to tell it.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Lynch set free to roam? It's going to be shit like inland island. . . but more drawn out if that's even possible. Wasnt it a bit shit the first time around anyway? The second series sure was at the very least.

Wild at heart was good.
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inland empire was excellent
i think he was left smarting by foolish bad reviews and said he might never make another film
looking at this scene from the final episode it seems this 25 year update was always on the cards
he's never put a foot wrong in his entire career - nothing can go wrong with this its going to be wonderful :)
 
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ska invita said:
inland empire was excellent
i think he was left smarting by foolish bad reviews and said he might never make another film
looking at this scene from the final episode it seems this 25 year update was always on the cards
he's never put a foot wrong in his entire career - nothing can go wrong with this its going to be wonderful :)
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I salute your blind optimism. I really hope you're right but I'm very wary about this is going to turn out.
 
billy_bob said:
I salute your blind optimism. I really hope you're right but I'm very wary about this is going to turn out.
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Seriously, Lynch has never made a turkey - it won't be the old twin peaks it will something different and wonderful

*in fact some TP episodes were a bit lame in places - the ones Lynch directed (only 6) are in a different league - he's directing them all according to IMDB - i expect it will be better than the original!
 
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billy_bob said:
Wow, you're serious. You have more faith in him than he has in himself!
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yeah iirc (big IF as im not sure now where i heard it) he really was shaken by the reviews for inland empire - i didnt realise he was so sensitive! You'd think with his rep and outsiderish tendencies he'd brush it off... no one likes bad reviews i guess. anyway i really enjoyed it
 
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