yeah, i watched that version that showed up on Reddit a few years back and tbh, even though the missing pieces scenes are important, Lynch was totally correct in that they ruin the flow of the movie and should have been taken out.
Twin Peaks is a really important show to me, but it was a slow burn. the first time i watched seasons 1 and 2, i liked it, but it wasn’t my favorite Lynch thing. at some point between the time that Season 3 was announced until now, that all changed.
anyway, i mostly came here to say that FWWM is one of my favorite films and it always makes me cry and i love Laura so much.
i also don’t want to watch any fan theories because i want to respect Lynch’s belief that you should just go with your gut.
yeah i don’t think twin peaks or any lynch thing is a puzzle box.
even mulholland dr, the thing every fan theorist wants every tv show or movie to be, starts with a first person shot of a head laying on a pillow. it’s not trying to trick anyone
This was actually the place I was least interested to see when I was in washington, cause it was the big tourist place, I’d seen a million pictures of it, etc. but then I ended up going there constantly. It just felt good being there. must of been the negative ions or something.
https://selectbutton.net/t/muwt-2-the-quickening/226/3450?u=the_kyphosis_gamer
ON WINKIE’S DINER & “SKULLFACE”, MOVED HERE BECAUSE I MIGHT AS WELL TALK ABOUT LYNCH STUFF FURTHER:
Every so often I’ll be walking, anywhere, and my eyes track over some bit of a hallway or alley or corner and frame things in such a way that through whatever combination of perspective, geometry, motion, or just short-term prediction, I start to anticipate what’s further down the hallway or alley or around the corner, and I think this deja-vu is tied to some previously-lynch-scorched bit of my limbic system and there’s a chance my brain gets into some feedback loop and my dread escalates from absolutely nothing and all of a sudden I’m terrified, sweating and frozen in place realizing i am in this stupid scene.
It happens once every couple of years. nbd.
It’s dumb to talk about this so gravely but it’s what gives me suspicions Lynch is actually a magician. That’s how I described how I felt to my wife a few years ago (might have said “evil magician”) (the entirety of mulholland made her skin crawl whereas I loved it of course) but I’m now realizing it’s more on the nose than I maybe thought. The skyrocketing tension over three minutes is masterful (enough to where it is living within me a decade later) and the power relationship of DIRECTOR LYNCH vs VIEWER ME has the same gloating menace as MYSTERY MAN (AT FRED’S HOUSE) vs FRED or more recently (and more explicitly involving a “magician”) RED (W/COIN TRICK) vs RICHARD HORNE
i… i resent it! like dan and fred and richard i get to feel fearful, and stupid about it too
Winkie’s Diner is
if I’m walking down a dark street at night, no cars, and someone pulls onto the road behind me, headlights at my feet, and I’m almost about to turn, and maybe I’ll turn before they catch up, close enough to see me, now I’m terrified that they’ll see me, now I have to get out of the light, now I’m obsessed with this fear, it’s pouring in waves as they get closer and closer and my shadow is shrinking, snapping back to my body and away from the night
Is anyone else low key afraid of dumpsters behind restaurants in broad daylight?
Edit: I just realized this is EXACTLY what we are talking about here.
I’ve been watching Twin Peaks with my gf, who had never seen it before. Today we watched the last four episodes of S2. For some reason, I’d totally misremembered the second to last episode. In my mind, the last TWO episodes of the show were great. I thought I remembered all the random storyline-capping bits happening in the second-to-last episode, and thought that the final episode was ALL Cooper in the black lodge. So I kept hyping up that penultimate episode, like, “alright, finally we’re done with bad Twin Peaks and we can enjoy two great episodes!”
Then we were watching Dick Tremayne get a handjob from Lana in the closet of the Great Northern. Whoops.
Final episode totally slays as always though. I’d forgotten how fucking funny that one-second cut to Leo in the spider-trap is. I love how much of the show is just flagrantly unresolved. My gf was totally freaking out afterwards, demanding to know whether Coop was gonna be OK. I can not wait to watch the movie and S3 with her. She’s going to be so pissed at how long it takes Good Cooper to wake up.
I’ll also say, this was my first time rewatching the doldrums in the middle of S2, and though they did get pretty dire, it was still a much more fun time than I’d remembered. It’s dumb as hell, but still entertains throughout, in a goofy soap opera kind of way.
haha man i was gonna say i found the back half of season 2 even more insufferable than i’d thought the last time i watched it. i did not have fun at all with inexplicable confederate imagery or tojamura or even josie doorknob, and boy do i really fucking hate this shit where the whole town rallies around this fucking beauty pageant what the fuck jesus christ
gonna watch it probably one more time when i get this box set in december and then that’s it for me and evelyn marsh
Well yeah, the Evelyn saga, the civil war stuff, and Lana instantly turning every man in the show into a leering creep, that stuff is all totally indefensible. The only redeeming part of that experience was trash talking it.
Almost every episode has at least one bit that’s legitimately fun though. Denise and Dead Dog Farm were surprisingly good, every time Gordon Cole is on screen it’s a great time, and Cooper and Pete are both almost always charming throughout.
It’s actually pretty surprising they never fucked up Pete’s character or gave him a totally idiotic arc of his own.
i remember thinking they even found ways to fart on cooper, though i guess i don’t remember anything specific this minute
pete might have gotten out clean
i hate gordon getting horny for shelly
jesus i had actually forgotten lana, what the hell were they doing
Lana’s whole arc was the worst. She has this magical “curse” of seduction that makes every man instantly fall in love with her, and the show devotes like 3 hours of screentime to two weird horny old men fighting over her.
Her arc was the biggest way the show ever farted on Cooper, actually. There’s a bit in the police station where every dude there is creepily fawning over her, even Coop. It’s completely out of character.
Gordon getting horny for Shelly did make me cringe, but the bit where she’s the only one who he can hear was actually kind of sweet and a fun twist to it? It ends up being less gross than I thought it would be. And it does result in the pretty great line “YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE-QUARTER VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT.”
lana the most beautiful woman alive in a town where audrey and shelly and norma live. get the fuck out of here
I heard that the actress who played Lana had that thought too, like “this is a show full of beautiful women, how do they have me playing this part?” Apparently she tried to compensate for this by putting on a southern accent to try and hit the sexy southern belle archetype. It’s just all bad.
it had been long enough since I saw it that there were some good moments and nostalgia sensations when I rewatched later season 2 for the first time right before season 3 came out, but also I thought okay I’m never rewatching that again. the first time you watch the show it’s not as bad because you just want to stay in the world as long as possible, even this goofy dumb version of it.
but I’m at the point now where I think even the good episodes of the original series never quite lived up to the pilot. There’s moments that come close and I think the best ones are really in early season 2, not season 1, even though the dumb subplots are slowly starting to creep in.
I really hate those two mark frosty explanation episodes of the palmer murder though, after that great ending of cooper and everyone crying in the roadhouse.
i don’t know if you’ve ever just watched the like six or seven episodes that lynch directed but that’s what i did before the return and, like, those are all pretty fucking good
I told my gf that season 3 focuses on Lana, Dick Tremayne, and Little Nicky investigating what happened to Josie.