the movie is kind of critical to season 3. also make sure and watch those deleted scenes when you do see it.
I don’t know if you’ve seen blue velvet but I think of it as basically a dale cooper prequel at this point and usually start any twin peaks rewatch with it. (it’s deleted scenes are also important)
the script to blue velvet even ends with an FBI Man telling Jeffrey “you sure killed a real son of a bitch here”, (it’s all really about the mothers isn’t it) and him being all “but how many more like him are out there??”
Thanks all I’ll track it down.
yes the original run/fwwm/return triangle is crucial
fwwm is not just important as, like, setup for the return, though, it’s wildly great also practically just lynch’s best film
there’s a fanedit that edits in the deleted scenes so they flow with the movie - it’s like 3.5 hours
(booo)
none of those fan edits work right. every one of them tries to add music back into the missing pieces scenes. they completely ruin the new convenience store scene giving it the music from the theatrical version. there’s also a russian fan edit that just rapidly cut between footage from the two versions for that scene and tried to have it both ways, just terrible. and there’s not enough missing scenes to fix the timeline for when jeffries shows up
i’m sure in theory it sounds like watching some quantity of cut content out of context is begging a rediscovery of the 00s fact that all the dvd extras were left out the film proper For A Reason but “The Missing Pieces” was properly cut, edited and released by Lynch so as to operate as coherent supplemental material and doesn’t really benefit from further tinkering
That single tape home video version that tacks episode 17 of the Return onto the end of the pilot
Seriously, it is what it is and trying to come up with some kind of phantom menace after empire sequence is not the way to go. Just experience it.
speaking of which - if you can track down the Blue Velvet deleted scenes, they’re really worth it. i don’t see a lot of people ever talk about them… but they color in a lot of backstory about Jeffrey that aren’t strictly plot related. maybe it’s good for some people that they kept him more of a vague figure in the final movie… but i actually am a bit sad some of those scenes were cut, and i feel like they probably wouldn’t have been if Lynch didn’t have to put the movie out under a certain length.
also RLM just released a long video about season 3 (many spoilers, so don’t watch this if you haven’t seen it):
I expected the season 2 slump to be exaggerated but no. It’s real…
Every storyline sort of drags and the magic is gone. Lana and Windom Earl scenes are the worst and make me not even enjoy watching Coop anymore. I’d have dropped the show long ago if not for the allure of S3 on the horizon.
At this point the character I enjoy the most is Pete, someone barely involved with any other storyline and who just wants to fish for god’s sake
The best I can tell you is that some things in season 2 have excellent hooks in season 3.
gosh is that even true, i can’t think of anything outside of the like four good episodes or whatever
james was always cool
also, wally
There’s a Wally connection in Season 2??!
Edit: oh I know what you mean.
Looks like we’ll be having beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way! Everyone, have a great day!