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Twin Peaks ReWatch Thread

SpookyFrank said:
What bugs me is that the sign in the intro says 'population 51,201' but you only ever see the same two dozen people.

Apparently it was originally supposed to be 5,200 but the network insisted that it should be much higher, because people couldn't 'relate' to such a small town. I can only assume they hadn't read any of the scripts when they made this call, as the whole point of it is that Twin Peaks is a small, tight-knit sort of place.
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That's interesting. I always look at that sign and go "hmm, seems like a much smaller town, but ok" :confused: It shows how far tv has come and how much networks used to underestimate their audiences intelligence.
 
Maybe Twin Peaks the town/village is one thing, and the larger area called 'the county/muncipality of Twin Peaks' surrounds it? So you'd theoretically have a small but dense town centre with only a few thousand people, then scattered around that in the countryside further away you'd get more sporadical clusters of settlements. That's how I like to think of it anyway, although you're right Miss Caphat, it's really annoying when networks underestimates the audience...

The wonderful thing though is that among fans this universe lives a life of its own, and it feels very real to us. So we can just 'decide' that it is the way I describe, and point and laugh at greedy network ececs who forces people to water down their message because of some ridiculous and cowardly notion that 'if we doesn't change this, it would affect our ratings'- bah to them!

(*I agree SpookyFrank Frank, Twin Peaks is probably if anything the archetypal provincial small town... )
 
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krink said:
each episode is supposed to span one day so that might partly explain the school thing.
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Ah, OK... But some details are still a bit puzzling,
like the long story arch later on where James just drive off into the sunset/mist on his motorbike for over a week or so and ends up with the seductive/manipulating older woman? Or is it implied that because he's sort of technically an orphan now since his mother left him and the only one left to care for him is his uncle, his uncle just allows him to do so because he strangely doesn't really think it's inappropiate for James to spend the days driving through the countryside in a leather jacket pretending to be James Dean and smoking cigarettes instead of attending school? I think it's odd that we never see people- apart from Donna, that is- reacting to him running off like that... The school principal should've contacted his uncle and people started worrying by then, but nobody bats an eyelid. It's odd.[ SPOILER]
 
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye! We have now started Episodes 7 & 8.

If you'd like to comment on any episodes after that, please use the spoiler code and if you can remember it, the episode number - thanks!
 
Miss Caphat said:
I love Andy so much. I wish Lucy would stop being so hard on him :(
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Both of these actors play their part in a wonderfully understated way, great character actors. (I can't remember having seen them in anything else... but it could be that they have been in US shows which never got broadcast over here- does anyone know?)
 
maya said:
Both of these actors play their part in a wonderfully understated way, great character actors. (I can't remember having seen them in anything else... but it could be that they have been in US shows which never got broadcast over here- does anyone know?)
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looks like Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) has had plenty of roles http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731927/

and Andy (Harry Goaz) not as many http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323556/ apparently Lynch discovered him while Goaz drove him to a Roy Orbison tribute
 
I am up to the last episode of season two which I will save for tomorrow. I am astounded how little I remembered of the whole thing :oops:

I am also a little irked by the cartoon nature of some of it. I was obviously much more engrossed and less jaded when I was into this years ago. :hmm:

I have still enjoyed the rewatching though. I love the triangles upon triangles of love, deceit, trickery and woo! Very complex and clever. :thumbs:

I also realise that all those years ago, having to wait a whole week and talking about it all the time is really 50% of what made so important. Obvious I know but just saying.

I love to binge watch now but I hate the internet sometimes for allowing me to and making me feel like I have developed ADHD. :)
 
Ok, since everyone seems to have gone pretty far ahead, I'm going to start doing a lot more episodes at once

This week, we can do episodes 1-6 of season 2

unless anyone has a complaint about that, of course :)
 
or should I do like 1-10? let me know, if everyone's done and just wants to discuss freely I guess that could be ok (I would have to avoid the thread though! I'm on 2-6)
 
Okay I have finished. Massive anti-climax but I am sure I was much more engaged, freaked out and disturbed by it first time around.

Still shocked at how much I didn't remember :D

It was obvious that when AC looked into the mirror he would see Bob, 'How's Annie?' :(
 
I love the potential X-Files crossover effect with David Duchovny's character... (would that even work? Very different universes, but plenty of weird- not sure the aliens were evil, tough)
 
Woah! :eek: :D

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krink said:
just realised I haven't ever seen the film. is it any good?
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I thought it lacked the charm and warmth of the tv series. Those who like horror, having parts of the backstory filled in, and absorbing themselves in the black lodge freakiness and other lynch weirdness will find things to love about the film. I lapped up the boatloads of cut footage from it that came with the new blu-ray twin peaks thing, but all the same its hard to compare it with the tv series without being disappointed. It really didn't help that Donna was recast, and the focus was inevitably on so few of the characters that people came to love in the tv series.

I am happy and somewhat nervous about the new series. People have been hoping for it for a long time, especially given the old 'I'll see you again in 25 years' line, amusing to see that come to something. Given my above thoughts on the film, I'm a bit less nervous because it is both Lynch and Frost doing the new one, so that original balance of talents remains. And they haven't got a long, open-ended run to get lost in with fanciful side-stories.
 
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