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Twin Peaks returns to television.

Can we use spoiler tags on this thread where sensible?

I always wondered what sort of freak it makes me that I usually have so little trouble working out whats going on with Twin Peaks - when the original was first broadcast I missed the first season completely and didnt have too much trouble picking up series 2 at all. I didnt find anything in the first 2 episodes of the new series terribly confusing but I did get up at 2am to watch and had the volume down quite low at times so there are a few gaps I need to revisit and I havent watched episodes 3 or 4 yet. Already seen a few mainstream media reviews making a pigs ear of it in places though lol.
 
So far I've found one torrent of S03E01 that's just under two hours long, so I assume that's E02 as well, but can't find 03 and 04...
 
Apso, apparently an understanding of "Fire Walk With Me" is key to the new series, so I may stick that on before I sit down with this.
 
elbows said:
Can we use spoiler tags on this thread where sensible?

I always wondered what sort of freak it makes me that I usually have so little trouble working out whats going on with Twin Peaks - when the original was first broadcast I missed the first season completely and didnt have too much trouble picking up series 2 at all. I didnt find anything in the first 2 episodes of the new series terribly confusing but I did get up at 2am to watch and had the volume down quite low at times so there are a few gaps I need to revisit and I havent watched episodes 3 or 4 yet. Already seen a few mainstream media reviews making a pigs ear of it in places though lol.
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I've just read the book that is supposed to be a primer for this series. Nothing particularly confusing in episode one and I'm enjoying knowing loads of the background stuff that's only in the book.
 
The acting in this is really weird.

And the whole thing is mildly (by which I mean very) disturbing
 
Well I don't know what's going on but it's all beautifully filmed and it's definitely not fallen into the trap of rehashing the original show.
 
It's like most of the characters (the unmurdered ones) are just massively ambivalent.
 
is the guy in the Lodge that asks Cooper if it's the future Windham earle?
 
Who PhD said:
is the guy in the Lodge that asks Cooper if it's the future Windham earle?
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No that is the one armed man, who sold shoes in the original and 'without chemicals he points'. He used to go 'hunting' with Bob but turned to the good side and at some part of that process he cut off his arm. The arm became the 'little man' but in real life the guy who played the little man (man from another place) character went all wrong in the head and accused lynch of raping lynchs daughter. So he has been replaced with a tree in the new series. The evolution of the arm.
 
I suppose it's an obvious guess, but was that
Julee Cruise
at the end? I'm not so sure and can't be arsed to google it
 
elbows said:
No that is the one armed man, who sold shoes in the original and 'without chemicals he points'. He used to go 'hunting' with Bob but turned to the good side and at some part of that process he cut off his arm. The arm became the 'little man' but in real life the guy who played the little man (man from another place) character went all wrong in the head and accused lynch of raping lynchs daughter. So he has been replaced with a tree in the new series. The evolution of the arm.
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Your Twin Peaks Fu is impressive, perhaps you shoudl get a PhD, like me?
 
The following spoilers, which are more opinion than anything, relate to episodes 3 & 4 so watch out.

Man I sure do love episode 3, so pretty and abstract.

The stuff actually set in Twin Peaks has been the weakest bits so far I guess, though some of it is probably taking the piss out of itself. And most of my criticisms could also have been said about the original, including some dodgy acting and dialogue in places. Mind you, Andy & Lucy's son Wally was something else!

Only thing I've been tempted to get genuinely pissed off about so far is the attitude towards women at times. I wasnt surprised that Lynch cast his 'muse' Chrysta Bell in an important role, but I hope she shows more acting ability as the series develops and I could have done without the jokes about his character sleeping with her and them perving at her curves right near the end of episode 4. Like I said Im not surprised and after all Lynch got himself a scene in the original where he kissed Shelly but at least the humour worked better in that old scene than the stuff they've done with Chrysta so far. Rant over.
 
Who PhD said:
I suppose it's an obvious guess, but was that
Julee Cruise
at the end? I'm not so sure and can't be arsed to google it
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End of which episode?

Cruise is supposed to be in the new series at some point but I havent noticed her yet and I'm pretty sure she hasnt performed a musical gig in it yet - from what I can tell the acts featured so far are all groups that were inspired by the original twin peaks and were invited to appear in the new one. Some of them dont look that comfortable performing to me and I'm not picking up anything like as much emotion in the singing, not in Cruises league. But I was rather tired when I watched all 4 episodes so far so I dunno I might be imagining it.
 
I'm not clicking on any spoilers till I've watched 3 & 4. Hopefully that be tonight.
 
Yeah, I love the sound design Lynch has done on the new one but nothing so far leads me to anticipate actually getting some decent new music or songs out of this series. Still a lot of time to be wrong on that.

I'm very happy to see a lynch work at a time where computer effects have come far enough to fit pretty well with his arty stuff. In stark contrast to Josie as a door knob in the original series 2 ;)
 
Lovin' it, lovin' it, lovin' it. Ep 4 tonight. :cool: Are more eps being released next week or are those of us who've watched 3 and 4 not going to have any new Peaks for a couple of weeks?
 
Johnny Vodka said:
Lovin' it, lovin' it, lovin' it. Ep 4 tonight. :cool: Are more eps being released next week or are those of us who've watched 3 and 4 not going to have any new Peaks for a couple of weeks?
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Gonna have to wait till the week after next as far as I know, and I'm loving it so much that I certainly did check. In the meantime there are large chunks of episodes 1-4 that I've been very happy to watch for a 2nd time already.
 
Episodes 3 and 4 make the first one look normal lol.

Felt kinda queasy watching some of it.

The editing of that bit in the beginning of ep.3 was fantastic.
 
Dunno what to make of ep 4. Without the menace of 1 - 3, I liked it a bit less. It's a while since I've seen series 1 and 2 in full - in fact, I've only ever watched them through in full once - but I reckon this feels nothing like TP. It's even further away than Firewalk With Me, which I adore and have seen loads of times. Since many TP fans didn't get on with the film, there must be loads who dislike this even more?
 
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